I went to visit a friend of mine. I noticed that there was a portable washing machine in her kitchen. There were hoses that were attached to her kitchen sink. I asked exactly what it was...she confirmed that it was a washing machine. I asked why and how it works. My friend told me that it saved her some money rather than going to a laundromat and the time to hall her loads of laundry. She said it worked pretty well. After washing clothes, she would detach the hoses and store the washing machine away.
I thought I'd ask if any other moms out there have used one before. Thanks in advance.
I had one back in my renting days and it was great. It is cheaper and easier to just hook it up to the sink.
Yes! I picked one up at a garage sale or something when I lived in an apartment.
It easily wheeled up to the kitchen sink and I washed my clothes like anyone else. I was going to school and did a lot of my work over night when it wasn't safe to go to the laundry room.
I have never seen them sold in the store and I haven't seen one again. It has been a long time.
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Here is a really manual portable washer which looks like it would be great for hand washables or emergency loads.
My cousin had one when she was living in her last apartment and it worked out really well for her.
Wow! This takes me back!
When we were kids my Mom was working on her masters degree so in the summer we would spend the day at our baby sitter's house (we called her Nana) (this was the 1960's I was about 6 yrs old - Nana was in her 60's and I think the wash machine was something from the 50's).
Her house was tiny - had no basement - just a dirt root cellar that you got into through a trap door in the bathroom floor.
(She kept her jars of canned veggies and fruits down there.)
Anyway - she had this portable washer (it was round and white, was on wheels and had a wringer) that she kept in a closet.
When it was wash day, she'd wash the toilet, and wheel the washer into the bathroom.
The water intake hose was attached to the bathroom sink faucet.
The water drain hose was snaked down the toilet past the U bend.
She washed small loads and when they were done she fed the clothes through the wringer (which dripped the water back into the wash tub) and the damp clothes would go into a wash basket which she then took to hang out on the line in the yard during warm months or she had lines strung out in her enclosed porch for winter/rainy weather.
When finished, she'd detach/retract the hoses and the machine wheeled back into the closet.
We weren't allowed to use the wringer.
To help, when it was time to hang clothes on the line I could hand her the clothes one at a time from the basket and the clothes pins so she could hang them on the line - I was too short to reach it and it saved her from lot's of bending over.
The machine looked something like one of these:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ite...
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Classic-MAYTAG-Wringer-Washer-LOC...
