Washing Feather Pillows

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I can understand why someone would cover pillows in plastic, because some people tend to drool on pillows if they sleep with their mouth open, and it does get unhygienic after a while. But it would be very hot to sleep on plastic. Better to just put a towel somewhere between your face and the pillow, maybe under the pillow slip if you’re concerned about it looking nice.
 
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So I have successfully done it once… and then subsequently ruined two pillows. I don’t know what I did right the first time. After ruining two pillows I took my feather pillow and comforter to a dry cleaner after one of my kids puked on them (I was a new mom and thought it would be sweet to let the puking kids come to bed with me. Lololol, I never did THAT again! 😂🙈😷) Anyway, the dry cleaner refused them saying you can’t wash or even dry clean down items. I remember saying “but I will PAY YOU to TRY!!!” No go. I ended up having to throw them away and we didn’t have the money to buy a new one. So sad. Looking back I don’t know why I didn’t TRY washing them in my machine… it worked that ONE TIME…
 
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I’m beginning to think maybe it would be easier to do like the Japanese or like St. Teresa of Avila and just use a wooden neck rest.
 
I don’t have a “My Pillow”, but an “I Love My Pillow.” 😁

I was never particularly picky about pillows before. I can fall asleep in most any conditions (e.g. on the floor, in a chair). But after using an “I Love My Pillow”, I’ve become a pillow snob. 😝
 
I like cheap Walmart pillows for stomach sleepers because the pillows quickly flatten but remain soft. I prefer a soft, flattened pillow.
 
Slept on down pillows all of my life, buying new when the old was super worn. About 10 years ago I became allergic to them. It could be that you are just now allergic to down, and that is sad because nothing supports like a down pillow
 
Yes, I’ve been refused by several dry cleaners as well. Eventually I found out that it’s not that it can’t be done but rather that the process is particularly tedious and fickle so many establishments won’t accept the liability for anything that might go wrong. In the end I took my stuff to the same dry cleaners the parish uses to clean the liturgical vestments. They said sure, no problem—as long as I was willing to accept the risk the articles might end up ruined. Been going there ever since. This place is the dry cleaners to which other dry cleaners send the things they can’t or won’t do themselves for whatever reason. The only thing I know they themselves send out are rugs (those go to a specialist in Paris). Everything else is done in-house by them and they are known as the most skilled dry cleaning operation in the region.
 
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I don’t think I’m allergic to down because I sleep on the down pillows in hotels with relatively no problem. Pretty sure the pillows were just dirty and in the case of the down pillow, too old to be salvaged. I’m generally not allergic to much of anything in general, except some cosmetics.
 
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