My daughter “helped” with laundry for my wool camping sweaters.
Strangely enough they shrink down to just her size.
Hmmmmm,
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Same on the special care. I wash everything on cold. I only sort out colors if they are brand new and bold. I have a few things I air dry because they will definitely shrink, but other than that, I am crazy low-maintenance with laundry. Then again, I almost never dress up more than jeans or summer capris, so ymmv if you have business-wear!
I didn’t realize there were quite so many symbols!
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I just saw an ad for the “all in one” washer/dryer. Wish I would’ve looked into it before I replaced my washer last year. I assume it works well? Definitely space saving!
As for drying, I always hang my laundry on the lines outside during nice weather - which to me is anything above 60 deg. As long as the sun is shining, or even if it’s cloudy but not going to rain, I hang it up. One, it forces me to go outdoors. Two, it really saves on our electric. Three, I grew up hanging laundry and it’s never been something I haven’t liked doing. Sure, the towels are a little rougher, but the fresh outdoor scent is marvelous! I wash everything on low warm or cold, except whites - I wash them on hot. Maybe I should wash them on cold next time and see if it helps in removing the turmeric stains on our dish clothes. 
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they’re much more common in europe than the US. definitely space savers, but I think they take longer than traditional separate units.
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I love it, because there are no longer those incidents where the stuff is left in the washer and then needs to be rewashed because of how long it’s been damp.
Plus, its so easy to use and is front loading, that i taught the kids to use it when they were little. I haven’t done their laundry in 5 years now.
You can do only washing, in which case you can use it like a front load washer and stuff it full. If you want to wash and dry, you can only fill halfway otherwise there won’t be room to tumble around and dry everything.
It does save space for sure, and doesn’t use gas like our last dryer.
They are common in Japan, which is where i first saw and used them. But i bought mine from home depot. I think they advertise for RVs.
You can play around with the settings. For example, i have a custom setting that i use every time. It take 4 hours and 9 minutes to complete, but i know everything is clean and dry. The washer has a “quick wash,” that takes 2 hours and 18 minutes to wash and dry, but if you have things like towels in there, they won’t be dry all the way, its more for thinner fabrics.
My landlord didn’t know they existed either. She likes it so much that she’s buying it from me and I’m leaving it in the house when i move.
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I wondered if the UK used them a lot. Seems I usually see one unit in most of the kitchens when we watch Escape to the Country or Location, Location, Location. Wonder why it takes a little longer to do a load though? Not that I think it’s weird that it does, just kinda surprised. But does it take longer than if you count the time transferring it from the washer to the dryer?
We used to have an LG set wherein the washer and dryer were hooked up by a cable, where the washer would tell the dryer what type of load had been washed and what the weight of the clothes was. You didn’t have to set the dryer cycle at all, as it got the info from the washer. All you had to do was put the clothes in and press start. The gal who bought our Arizona house wanted the appliances, and since we didn’t have enough room in the UHaul, we sold it to her, thinking we’d just buy another here in Tennessee. But haven’t been able to find that kind since.
The washerI bought to replace my other one that died last year has an auto-load drawer for laundry soap, which will hold a 32oz bottle of detergent. You still have to add any fabric softener and bleach though. I haven’t used the auto load since the beginning of the year because I switched soaps in January, and out of curiosity, wanted to see if I got as many loads as the bottle said it would do, which is 133 loads. So far I’ve done 116 loads and still have about an inch of detergent in the bottle, so I should come pretty darn close.
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I had one when I lived in an apartment that had a weird “deleted second bathroom”, and I realized the plumbing was right there minus a vent to the outside, so I talked the owner into letting me install an LG combo washer and condensing dryer.
The great part was that I didn’t have to go to the laundromat any more. But it’s definitely not something I’d choose if I had any other option. They are tiny, the cycle time is hours, and the drying process is basically trying to evaporate the water out of your clothes with a lukewarm oven connected to an air conditioner. Without the air flow of a traditional tumble dryer, I found that everything came out of it near permanently wrinkled.
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That’s a lot of icons! I’m pretty much like everyone else here. My sister does her own laundry after her husband washed his bullet proof vest (highway patrolman) with her bathing suit 
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Well, you can. Once.
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Just like “can you eat that wild mushroom?”
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One of the fun new features coming to iOS 17 this fall is that the Photos app will recognize these icons and tell you what they are.
Here’s what it looks like in the current beta version:
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I am a living sterotype, however, the wife thanks you. She saw an immediate need.
I expanded the needed icons up to a 15x6 rectangle so she could see it without squinting and it was a huge hit.
The engrave was insane (time wise) so I just default scored it in about 20 minutes. Wife mentioned if any of them become dubious in the future she will just marker in the dots or whatever, but that they looked fine scored.
Thanks for the share (that I didn’t know I needed, heh heh).
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It all strikes me as a lame attempt at international language.
We took a vacation to Bonaire, historically a Dutch colony. Drive on the wrong side of the road, and I was driving the rental car for like 20 minutes before I realized I have no idea what these traffic signs meant. 
, They did have these helpful signs with text along with them that I didn’t understand that said ‘inhalen verboden’. A red circle with a slash through it. I thought ‘No smoking?’ No. It meant no passing. A mild panic swept over me when I realized ‘I don’t even know what a stop sign looks like’. I was not impressed with their graphic representation of it.
No problem, you just follow the other vehicle’s body language without even thinking. If only laundry was so intuitive.
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The IT people used to answer questions about “can I (do dumb things to my work computer)?” with “You can do anything you want on your last day.”
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I remember the first time I visited another country, I was in London and I was trying to puzzle out the signs and road markings. We had dinner with some friends and I said I was really confused by all the different lines on the roads. They said “what’s so hard about it?” I explained that I’m used to seeing yellow lines down the middle, but they have yellow lines on the side. What do they mean? They said “That’s no parking.” Ok, then what about the white zig-zags? They said “I think that’s for no parking.” How about the yellow zig-zags? “You can’t park there.” Double red line? “That’s a really serious no parking zone.”
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The “zig-zag” indicates you’re approaching a pedestrian crossing, where drivers are intended to give way.
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Even Canada has some differences, @beerfaced back me up here, but I think they have flashing greens whose meaning has changed over time.
Originally it was the same as a green arrow here in the states, a protected left turn… but now it’s akin to a pedestrian walk signal, where you have to give crossing pedestrians the right of way.
Either way, I always thought that should be adopted in the states, the cost savings on materials and maintenance would be significant since we’re repurposing an already-necessary light to extend its purpose without more hardware.
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That would be confusing.
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Yes but different provinces have different meanings for those flashing greens, just to make things more interesting. In Nova Scotia a flashing green is an advance left turn indicator. In British Columbia a flashing green indicates a pedestrian controlled light. The pedestrian can change it to a red but as long as it’s green vehicles have the right of way.
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