We love NYC, but there are definitely things about Florida that we miss. Our family and friends. The temperate February weather. Chick fil-A.
And how deeply do we miss those massive whirring, banging, leaking boxes of metal: our washer and dryer.
When we lived in a 3-bedroom house with a washer and dryer in the garage, I never realized how good we had it. Even though the occasional black widow would be hiding behind our washing machine, I look back upon laundry times with utter fondness.
That’s because none of the 8 apartments that we’ve occupied in NYC have had laundry. For a year and a half, we carried back-breaking bags of clothes to and from the laundromat. For the 6 months that we lived in the Cool One-Bedroom, we also lugged those loads up and down 4 flights of stairs.
Our friend gave us a granny cart last year, and that helped tremendously. The task was still hard, especially in cold or wet weather.
Once Newbie started blowing out his diapers with regularity (and how regular he is!), something had to give. As much as CM loved the social aspects of laundromats, we couldn’t go as much as needed, so CM turned to her superpower, online research.
And she may have found our answer in the form of the WonderWash. It’s a portable, hand-powered washing machine that is made to fit in small places. It was only 40-something bucks on Amazon, so we ordered it, along with some other accessories.
This could be a real gamechanger. Stay tuned as we find out just how wonderful the WonderWash can be.
photo: muffet
How funny, I was JUST looking at the WonderWash the other day! I feel your pain, because we’re also in an apartment without a washer/dryer– and we’re cloth diapering, too! But at least our laundry facility is like 100 feet away. I bet you guys have some amazing biceps now!
Here’s hoping the WonderWash works for you!
I guess slightly bigger biceps are a benefit of all of our laundry lugging! If the WW works for us, then I’m happy to do a few push-ups everyday to make up for it.
Maria–cloth diapers without a washer = amazing!
we will definitely be able to keep our biceps up with the wonderwash–from the reviews, it looks like 5 minutes of cranking is a pretty good workout!
I’m really curious. Did it work, is it working, does it help
We will let you know soon! We don’t mean it to be a cliffhanger; we just haven’t gotten around to doing laundry yet.
Oh my goodness. I’m so intrigued to see how this works. My vote is for a video tutorial please.
we have filmed the tutorial…now it’s being edited. we’ll try to keep it as real as possible. we’ve only done a tiny test load, so can’t give a full review quite yet. so far so good though!
We certainly kept it real (boring). Actually, there are some good jokes in there, and I make a fool of myself, which always helps.
I am waiting with baited breath to hear the outcome of this. You guys are beyond adventurous.
You won’t have to wait long…