wash a sleeping bag? Do you just throw it in the wash or do it by hand or send it to the cleaners? I looked for instructions on a tag, and there was no tag. It's my DH's sleeping bag and he just informed me that the whole time he's owned it, it's never been washed. Hmmm. We've been married 5 1/2 years, were engaged for 1 year, dated for 5 years and he owned it before that. Can we say YUCK!? My poor little 3 year old ds sleeps in the thing in our room when his bed snores too loud (whole new topic).

By Dawnk777 on Friday, January 19, 2007 - 12:57 am:

I've washed sleeping bags, at the laundromat, in the BIG washer! They are fine. They aren't down sleeping bags, though and I don't know if that makes a difference, or not.

By Hol on Friday, January 19, 2007 - 01:19 am:

Ditto, Dawn. I wash them at the laundromat, like a comforter, and dry it there, or bring it home and hang it on the line.

By Colette on Friday, January 19, 2007 - 06:03 am:

If you have a front loading washing machine with extra capacity you can wash it in there and dry it in your dryer or on the line. I just washed one recently and that's how I did it.

By Bobbie~moderatr on Friday, January 19, 2007 - 09:12 am:

Here I found this doing a search...

How to Wash a Sleeping Bag

By Breann on Friday, January 19, 2007 - 10:19 am:

We have the large capacity washer and dryer and we just toss ours in. We unzip it all the way around first.

By Enchens on Friday, January 19, 2007 - 02:12 pm:

Thank you!

By Bellajoe on Friday, January 19, 2007 - 02:21 pm:

LOL, i want to know how his bed snores to loud, that's adorable!