I recently got a portable washing machine for my 1BR apartment and it has been great not spending the money to go to the laundromat. The added bonus is that my water bill is incorporated into my rent and fixed, so I don't pay for the extra water consumption, and the cost to run the washer appears to be lower than the cost of what I spent at the laundromat. Yay!
One big issue I am running into is the air dried stiffness. It's not too big a deal, but I am wondering if anyone else is hang drying their clothes as well and has found a good fix for this. The one fix I found, vinegar, might not work too well because a portable washing machine doesn't have a rinse cycle like a standard wash, you put the wet clothes into the spin compartment and just run water over them, then spin it out. It works great, but getting vinegar to actually saturate the load might be an issue.
Are there maybe any detergent alternatives that don't leave so much behind? I read that it's actually a "salt" that it leaves behind, hence the vinegar fix.
edited for derps
December 28, 2016 at 12:42PM
