My Bloomingdales at White Flint, which has been here since I arrived in 1976 is closing. I dropped by yesterday to see if I could stock up on my Lab Series shave cream, but I guess they really screwed over the employees but good because you could not get waited on in the men's dept. for love or money. So I walked to Lord & Taylor and found that they sell the same stuff so I did not have to worry about driving into Bethesda to buy it at the other Bloomies.
I walked down to housewares where most overpriced stuff was a whopping 10% off in the first week of the clearance sale. There is an alcove where they sell gadgets and other unglamorous items like irons and $800 Miele vacuums. Sitting on the lowest shelf were three boxes of Laundry Pods. One was out of the box. These were gray, but the link shows them in white. It took a lot of turning boxes upside down to find a price, but they were marked a whopping $125.00. It is a square polypropylene tub with a lid that locks onto the top. Inside it looks like a salad spinner. The basket, which is maybe the size of the small GE Mini Basket, has small vanes and is very much of a semi-rigid mesh construction. There is a drain valve and a storage compartment under the tank for the drain hose. On the top is a large upright handle for cranking the mechanism. It is billed as a rotary washing system so I guess you turn it in one direction and then the other. The directions are almost non-existent, but showed drawings of it being used on boats, in camping situations and in dorms--maybe dorms without electricity.
Unlike some other portable laundry devices, this one does extract water, but it is more like a large toy. OH, I almost forgot: it has a 90 day warranty.
I walked down to housewares where most overpriced stuff was a whopping 10% off in the first week of the clearance sale. There is an alcove where they sell gadgets and other unglamorous items like irons and $800 Miele vacuums. Sitting on the lowest shelf were three boxes of Laundry Pods. One was out of the box. These were gray, but the link shows them in white. It took a lot of turning boxes upside down to find a price, but they were marked a whopping $125.00. It is a square polypropylene tub with a lid that locks onto the top. Inside it looks like a salad spinner. The basket, which is maybe the size of the small GE Mini Basket, has small vanes and is very much of a semi-rigid mesh construction. There is a drain valve and a storage compartment under the tank for the drain hose. On the top is a large upright handle for cranking the mechanism. It is billed as a rotary washing system so I guess you turn it in one direction and then the other. The directions are almost non-existent, but showed drawings of it being used on boats, in camping situations and in dorms--maybe dorms without electricity.
Unlike some other portable laundry devices, this one does extract water, but it is more like a large toy. OH, I almost forgot: it has a 90 day warranty.
