Laundry again

One more thing that irritates me about doing laundry here--our washer and dryer eat collar stays like Takeru Kobayashi eats hot dogs. I think the machines may be programmed to remove all collar stays and destroy the evidence--come to think of it, there are lots of symbols on the machines that I don't understand, so maybe one of them is for collar stay removal. (Unless, that is, our housekeeper is taking them...tupperware, mismatched socks, missing collar stays, hmmmmmmm.) There's nothing like getting to work and looking in the mirror and realising my collar makes me look like the Flying Nun. I know I can take them out before washing my shirts and then put them back in afterward, but why should I have to? Why, I ask you?