wrote on Feb 3^rd, 2007 at 6:01pm:

FB Take that lumped up down sleeping bag put it in the dryer (No heat) with 2 or 3 pair of tennis shoes and let it tumble for an hour.  Good as new/ MagicPaddler

Nice thought but here are the details.
After she washed it with regular laundry detergant, she could not find any tennis balls (what I usually use) so she used some bolts I had around.  She put them in the bag and then put two bags at once in the dryer.  One bag is shot! with the nylon extremely thin and broken zipper.  The other was pulled out after a bit and hung and I rescued it before she put it back in.  I am going to keep the old one and see if I can figure out how to recover the down and use it in something else.  She was trying to help but when she showed me the evidence and saw the look on my face, she felt sooooo bad I could not even start to get mad.