Stinky washing machine!?

In order to get the smell to go away, run the clothes (if they are still in there) through a cycle with detergent. Try to use a non chlorine bleach if they are colors and chlorine bleach if they are whites. Once the clothes have finished, remove them and using a bottle of white vinegar as a "washing machine douche" run it through a cycle. Stop the cycle prior to the rinse stage and let the vinegar and water solution sit for thirty minutes. Finish that cycle and check the scent. If the scent remains finish off with a pine-sol wash with preferably lemon or orange scented pine-sol since they both have natural juices that would diminish the scent.

I agree, vinegar is very good for washing the odor out of the clothes. Open all the windows, spray Lysol or any other air freshener/air neutralizer. After the baby clothes are done, fill the washer with hot water, no clothes, add bleach and "wash" the inside of the machine. The odor should go away after that. You are lucky it was just the clothes and water that smelled. Try getting skunk out of the house and giving two big dogs tomato juice baths! Well, good luck and God Bless!

Wash the clothes with vinegar and the warmest water the clothes can handle at least twice. That should neutralize the odor. Some nice smelling fabric softner wouldn't hurt either.

I hate stinky washers and have done almost the same thing you've done before.

Good luck!

best clean the machine out first I would suggest, Run the machine first on a 90ºc adding a cup of bleach, then do the same with a cup of vinegar, With the clothes that have this very bad smell, first rinse with cold water. then put them on a normal wash, If they still smell after this wash them again. but sure once will be enough. After they have been out in the open air ,this should solve the problem. Hope this help´s you

Eeewww yuck :) sorry about the circumstances, sounds like a not so nice surprise to come home to.

I like the idea of washing them with vinegar.... a couple times probably, then wash them again in detergent, might have to do that a couple times too so they smell like detergent ;)

After the clothes are done, wash your washer with bleach-water.

take out the clothes and fill the washer with hot water and bleach then wash the clothes again with hot water.

use glisten in your clothes washer- the stuff you use in a dishwasher to remove stains. Then rewash clothes in cold water baking soda and detergent and hang in sun to dry

Bleach in a a full load (empty) of hot water.

rewash the clothes in vingar

you have no common sense what so ever i mean even if u would have closed the lid and the clothes had washed they still would have mildewed badly i mean who leaves for a trip for a weekend and puts clothes on the wash?????????what is this world coming to??? sometimes i wonder if theres only a few sane people in this world!!!!!