{"id":211,"date":"2025-09-11T17:58:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T17:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/good-worldwide.go-vip.net\/upworthy\/2025\/09\/11\/mom-realizes-shes-been-using-the-heavy-setting-on-her-washer-wrong-for-years-and-fellow-moms-are-shook\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T17:58:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T17:58:00","slug":"mom-realizes-shes-been-using-the-heavy-setting-on-her-washer-wrong-for-years-and-fellow-moms-are-shook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodinc.com\/qa-upworthy\/2025\/09\/11\/mom-realizes-shes-been-using-the-heavy-setting-on-her-washer-wrong-for-years-and-fellow-moms-are-shook\/","title":{"rendered":"Mom realizes she’s been using the ‘heavy’ setting on her washer wrong for years\u2014and fellow moms are shook"},"content":{"rendered":"

Knocking out loads of laundry<\/a> is a feeling of accomplishment that is unmatched. Depending on what needs to be washed, washing machines<\/a> offer a variety of settings for the ideal clean. But even the most seasoned laundry pros can admit that they don’t fully understand how to use them properly<\/a>. <\/p>

One stay-at-home mom shared her funny and relatable washing machine mistake. Catrina (@granolabarpan<\/a>) got the shock of a lifetime when she realized that she had been using the “heavy” setting on her washer wrong for years.<\/p>

“POV: today years old when it clicks why my blankets are sopping wet!!! I thought HEAVY meant heavy items being washed,” she wrote in the video’s overlay. <\/p>

“Heavy on my machine means heavily soiled,” she went on to add in the comments. “I thought it meant the stuff I was putting in the machine was heavy in weight\/pounds.”<\/p>

Some moms are also realizing this for the first time. “Ok.. so I am 66 years old learning this???!! I always thought that heavy meant weight also ,” one person commented. Another person wrote, “Well I was today years old when I learned what heavy meant too\u2026 “<\/p>\n

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