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  • njjewelry
    njjewelry
    sweet tea wrote: oh my god. there's an aspect of my life ON approves of. someone fetch my smelling salts.

    the haier is a fine machine, and the cats do enjoy climbing the drying rack.
    Does the haier make a lot of noise? In my old apartment, there was a specific no washer/dryer clause in the lease (I guess they are afraid of floods). How portable is it? Could I drag it to my kitchen or bathroom sink, and then drag it back to my closet easily? Does it really clean well?
  • anastasia beaverhausen
    anastasia beaverhausen
    I've been toying with getting one of these, too. I think Haier discontinued this model so if JR had it, get it while you can.
  • carmen
    carmen

    Subject: Re: Do you drop off your laundry?...

    Obamanut wrote: [quote=Carmen]...or do it yourself? Im curious, I feel like the only person in park slope who actually does my own laundry. If you drop it off, who do you use that doesn't throw everything into the dryer on high heat? If my jeans get dried on high I'll never be able to pour my ass back into them, which is the primary reason I haven't been dropping off...
    See, this is one thing I really don't understand about many people who live in New York--what is the appeal of throwing away all that money (and more importantly, TIME) to lug a 45lb bag of laundry somewhere to have someone else do it, or alternatively, to sit rotting in some dingy coin laundry for two hours, when you can do it yourself at home for a fraction of the cost and the hassle??

    All this talk I always hear from people about "my apartment isn't big enough to have a washer" is ridiculous, they make apartment-sized washers like this one that cost less than $200 bucks and can fit in even a regular-sized studio:
    http://www.jr.com/haier/pe/HA_HLP21E/

    All you need is (1) a small washer; and (2) a foldable wood drying rack from Save On Fifth.

    Not to mention, dryers suck because all they do is destroy your clothes in exchange for a (slightly) quicker dry. Ever since I've stopped using an electric dryer, my clothes now look just as new as the day I bought them even a year or two later.

    Seriously, it's just so much easier and cheaper to do laundry at home--I don't understand why so many people are so averse to it.


    I hand wash a lot of stuff because I hate going to the laundry mat- so much so that I only have to do laundry about once every 3.5-4 weeks...however, for things like towels, sheets, bathrobes etc I think having a dryer makes life a lot easier. I don't have the space to hang that much stuff in my apartment without it dripping on something potentially electronic (and a drying an oversized towel on a drying rack would take like 3 days.) Plus its pretty cheap to do it yourself- the most I've ever spent was $9 and that was doing 3 loads and basically washing everything I own short of the bathmats and throw rugs. I just haaaate sitting in there.
  • sweet tea
    sweet tea
    Flexichick wrote: [quote=sweet tea]oh my god. there's an aspect of my life ON approves of. someone fetch my smelling salts.

    the haier is a fine machine, and the cats do enjoy climbing the drying rack.
    Does the haier make a lot of noise? In my old apartment, there was a specific no washer/dryer clause in the lease (I guess they are afraid of floods). How portable is it? Could I drag it to my kitchen or bathroom sink, and then drag it back to my closet easily? Does it really clean well?

    my, uh, FRIEND, the one who doesn't have that kind of clause in her lease, would tell you:

    - not that loud except when it unbalances. like many small washers, it does that more easily than you might think.

    - moving it every time is doable but kind of annoying. you may decide it's less annoying to just leave it in the bathroom.

    - cleans just fine. no complaints -- it has a power wash and a gentle cycle, too. don't use much soap, or you will have a suds-stravagnaza.

    - hook it up to your bathroom sink and drain into your tub for best not-backing-up-your-neighbor's-sink results.

    my friend will admit that she still goes to the laundromat every so often with sheets and towels, because only one queen sheet at a time is likely to fit in there and she has nowhere to hang up anything that big, anyway. but we're talking once every 2-3 months.
  • henryj
    henryj
    thanks for the review, sweat tea. My landlord occasionally comes in to my apartment (if I need her to feed the cats), so I'd rather hide it if I went down that route.

    On another note, how much do you tip the laundry.bz people (if anything), and do you do it on drop off or pick up?
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