Wet down bags have a very nasty habit of ripping seams in even the better quality makes. Be extremely carefull removing it from the wash. Drying usually involves tumbling on the lowest and gentlest setting. Toss in a few clean golf balls to break up the clumping. This involves a certain degree of subterfuge in a public laundry. Commercial dry cleaners and wet laundromats hate down. If it rips the downtime cleaning out those feathers is prohibitive. I cleaned my bag in an extremely noisy laundromat with screaming kids, an attendant wearing walkmans with Cindy Lauper leaking out of her earphones and personally leaned against the dryer catching a baseball in my old mitt. Looking upward at the ceiling and talking to God also helps. <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> When my bag's time came I distributed the down to greatfull nesting birds in the spring and bought my Wiggy.