As an apartment dweller, this is a game changer. My current apartment doesn’t have a laundry facility and the closest Laundromat about a 30 min bus ride which is just not practical. The mini-washer is a life saver
The panda mini washer hooks up to the sink, is incredibly lightweight (about 28 pounds, so light even I can lift it) and easy to use.
It has a surprisingly large capacity. The basket from the first picture represents about one and a half loads. The jeans took up a whole load while the rest filled the bin only half way.
Here’s the inside. The left is the washer the right is the spin dryer. Yes, it even drys.
Basically you shove your cloths into the washer, fill it up with water and let it go. I use my shower head to fill it up so it goes faster, the sink hook up took about five minutes to fill the whole tub, with the shower head is is down to a minute an a half. I do it in three wash cycles, a five minute rinse with baking soda, a five minute wash with soap and a three minute rinse with water. You have to drain and refill between each cycle so it’s a little more labor intensive than a traditional washer.
That’s the spin dryer. It’s about half the capacity of the washer so one wash takes about two loads to dry. The spinner is much more effective than I was expecting. A three minute spin gets my cloths about 90% dry. I hang them up to air dry for that last 10%.
The machine cost me about 150$. When you factor in two dollars for the bus, five for the machines (per week), the mini-washer pays for its self after only about six months worth of laundry.
I’m not great at expressing emotion, but I’m hoping you can tell how excited I am. Let me just say that the panda mini-washer is great and I highly recommend it to anyone currently using a Laundromat.
So why do we have paramedics/EMTs? We owe that to Black excellence.
In the 1960s, there were no ambulances. Medical emergencies were handled by police, who had no medical training or equipment. But police didn’t want to go to Pittsburgh’s mostly black Hill District. Enter Freedom House.
Freedom House was founded by Dr Peter Safar (the father of CPR) and Phil Hallen, and recruited unemployed black men, training them to provide emergency medical treatment and drive ambulances. Otherwise unemployable men–high school dropouts, alcoholics, drug users, were given a chance to earn a living while providing a valuable service.
Soon, the city of Pittsburgh took over the service, and the Freedom House emergency medical model was applied nationwide.
I was looking at methods of keeping notebooks organised and I came across a really interesting blog post (source) that I want to share with you all. All of the pictures in this post come directly from the original blog post.
Make your entry into your notebook. In the example
photographs, they have recorded a Chinese recipe.
Go to the back of the notebook and add a tag or title, e.g. “Chinese”
on the left edge of the page.
Go back to the first page where the entry was, and on the
same line number as you wrote “Chinese” make a black mark on the edge. You make
this mark so that even when the notebook is closed, the mark is visible. After
repeating this for various recipes, you now have various tags visible on the
notebooks edge.
If you ever wanted to find a Chinese recipe, you simply look
at the index, locate the label, and look along the visible edge which has been
tagged as Chinese. Then just flick to each marked page.
You’re not limited to one tag per page. You
could tag a page 2 or 3 times. So if you jot down a chicken stir fry you could
tag it as “Chicken” and “Chinese”.
Kimchi and Justice 