OP your wife is trying to prove a point - if you don't remove your belongings from your smoulderings they will get soggy. Just be thankful they are not still smouldering on a Monday morning and are at least clean, albeit with soggy pencils.
I use balled up tissues to prove a point - himself tends to have a small forest's worth of tissues in his pockets (for copious blowing of nose) that are never emptied before being placed in the laundry basket, so the clothes get washed with tissues still in them creating a wonderful dandruff-blizzard effect on all his clothes (I am sure it's not that great from the poor machine's perspective though).
My husband is also trying to prove a point - anytime he does the clothes washing, he ensures to put at least 2 white items in with the most colourful items he can find to render them unusable (guess who is the only one who wears anything white in this house) and also ensures to place anything that will be damaged by heat into the tumble dryer at the hottest setting and either melting them or shrinking them to barbiedoll size (guess who is the only one who has delicates that should never be tumbledried). Suffice to say he has been banned from putting on the washing and I have given up making my point, and started removing tissues from his pockets.