05-12-2011, 11:50 AM
Hmmm... at least I'm not the only one. We've been here for almost 2 years. In 2 years I've thrown out like 50 pens. Those pens lasted years and years in calif., but somehow bit the dust when they got here! I do remember, growing up on the east coast of the mainland, going thru pens more - and it's pretty humid there. I don't hang my clothes to dry; I'm too accustomed to the dryer. So it can't be UV and Vog because, in the case of that bathing suit, it was at the bottom of a trunk in the dark for 2 years - like csgray's experience. And yeah, I had some fancy dress-up skirts go pau on me, too! I wore that suit twice -- it never even saw chlorine even, forgot about it, pulled it out of the trunk and found the foam padding disintegrated into dust. This may change as I'm sick of the &^$% electric bill and I know it's mostly from laundry. Still - it IS weird about being more humid and yet the ink drying out.