My washing machine broke while I was doing a load of laundry. It wouldn't drain. I though it had to do with cleaning the filter & over the next month, tried different things to get the washing machine to work on the same load of laundry that it broke on. Turned out the computer that ran the washer was broken & I had to get a whole new washing machine. I did take those cloths out & haul them over to a friends....turned out it was several months of no washing machine & that one load sitting in it while I was trying to figure out what to do. That was just after I started caring for the abused stallions so I had LOTS of dirty cloths that piled up while that one load just hung around in the washing machine because I was too busy to figure out what was going on & would just leave it for days before trying to figure out another way to make it work.

I have a tendency to forget that I have cloths in the washing machine but I never put them in without washing them.....but have left them in way too long after being washed because I forget that they were there.