MOTHER LODE: In life & laundry, it all comes out in the wash
Cathy Runyon | By Cathy Runyon | Advance Newspapers Email the
author on October 04, 2013 at 1:23 PM, updated October 04, 2013
at 1:25 PM  Among the many things I would miss if my husband
were no longer in my house is finding hardware in the washing
machine. Throughout our married life, I've found a succession of
screws, nails, alligator clips, rivets, wire nuts, other small,
shiny parts I couldn't identify – and washers – left behind in
the washer.  The other thing I find in the washing machine
that's evidence of a man in the house is money – small money,
for the most part, silver and copper and a dollar bill now and
then. It's change that got stuffed into the pocket on the way
out of the hardware store after a purchase too small to bother
with a debit card, or money that got scooped up off the night
table when he got dressed in the morning. We've been money
launderers for nearly 46 years.  The reason for these washday
wonders is that my husband wo