Out of nowhere today came two stories on laundry. One is stranger than the other.
The first advises adding cracked black pepper to your wash to keep your color clothes from fading. The theory is the pepper works as a light sandpaper removing any residual soap from the clothes. I'm not going to try this, you try this.
And there is the non-electric, foot powered, mini washing machine made by Yirego and which won some kind of big award for product design this year. You just have to watch the video on how this works and ask yourself if you'd go to all this trouble. By trouble I mean the things which are not answered. The idea is you can carry this thing anywhere and wash anywhere. You put a few clothes in to the top, add detergent and a couple quarts of water and then press the foot pedal for a couple of minutes and your clothes are done.
However, what I didn't see was how you drain the soapy water if you decided to do this in your living room or kitchen or dorm room or outdoors. Then you have to go and add rinse water I'd assume. It's cute, but it seems like a lot of extra effort for a couple of pieces of clothing. Unless there is a way of draining water into something else which you'd have to empty, I can't see where you would even use this.
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