I don’t like using disposable products so I thought I would buy myself some wool dryer balls.
I read the directions, and then looked online and read all those directions, and just tossed 3 of them in with a load of laundry. It was nothing special, just some of my microfiber towels, and clothing. Like just about every load of laundry I have. We don’t sort it, because it’s survival of the fittest in our household. If it can’t survive the wash, it deserves to die!
My first impression was the noise. I am glad I am in a house now, because my old downstairs neighbors sure as hell would have complained about the bouncing sound. I could live with that though, if they reduced static. I don’t care about drying time so I didn’t check that at all.
I was a bit excited to see how it turned out when I pulled a towel out of the dryer. It cracked so loudly with static it startled the cat, and my microfiber towel then suctioned itself against my body, and when I pulled it off, it then suctioned itself to the wash machine.
I thought, okay, maybe I didn’t know how to use them, so I went back to the drawing board. I read the directions, went back online, where everyone assured me they take away static.
My second test was no better than the first. STATIC, in big capital letters. I had to put it all back in the dryer with a dryer sheet to get it to stop.
I have since found some debates on if they work. This article discusses how folks didn’t really see much benefit to them.
I feel a bit taken in. In all honesty, I have no idea what a ball of wool or plastic would have as a working mechanism to reduce static cling, but I was hoping.
It’s okay, though, because now the cat has some new cat toys. She loves them.
Dryer rate: 0
Cat rating: 10
Garden Rat 
If it is any consolation, she still loves them. She may not fetch them, but she does bat them around for periods of at time, so here we are 2 days later and still a solid 8 for her.
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