My washing machine is static free

I was doing laundry one day (imagine that!) and when I went to take the clothes out of the washer, I noticed that there were a lot of dryer sheets in with the clothes, and trash. I thought that was pretty odd, but assumed when I'd finished up that container of laundry detergent, that I'd knocked some things around it into the washer. So...I washed the load again and when I went to take it out, again, there were more dryer sheets in the washing machine. Now that was really strange! I pulled them out and started putting the clothes into the dryer, and then reached for a dryer sheet (from my new box of dryer sheets)...only to discover that is was gone....box and all!! Mystery solved! I guess I must have knocked the box into the washer and washed the whole box of dryer sheets, box and all, in that load of clothes! The "trash" was bits and pieces of the box the dryer sheets came in. Good grief!