Eaten by the Dryer and Spit out as Lint

I've got a little waste basket next to my clothes dryer. I put dryer lint into it.

I haven't emptied this waste basket in years. I'm just lazy. Now the waste basket is full of lint.

If I were to put all the lint together, it equals the size of a shirt or pair of pants.

So it seems to me that over the course of these months, I must've lost at least one complete article of clothing to the lint catcher.

Weird.