If you don't launder your new clothes and sheets — yes, even the packaged ones — after bringing them home from the store (or getting them in the mail), you're making a gross mistake, according to Wall Street Journal contributor Heidi Mitchell. Untold numbers of people have touched the item, there may be mold and probably are chemicals like formaldehyde, and the "surprises are even more disgusting," Mitchell tells Tanya Rivero in the video below. After hearing about the possible lice and scabies, you might even consider washing your new garments twice, as Mitchell recommends. Watch and learn. —Peter Weber
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