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Get the hair off first — vacuum it, shake it outside, or run it through the dryer on air-only and

Flick the brim with a finger before you do anything else. If it sounds hollow, the stiffener inside is cardboard

You don’t, in any sense a washing machine would recognise. A leather jacket is cleaned with a barely damp cloth,

Unplug the blanket at the wall first, then detach the control cord from the blanket itself. Inspect the fabric for

Zip it up, close the pockets, turn it inside out, and wash it in a front-loader on a cold gentle

Check the fibre first. Silk and wool ties are dry clean only. Cotton, linen and knit ties can be hand

Inside out, fastened, cold gentle cycle, mild detergent, no softener. Do not fill the drum — the pile is crushed

Wash linen in lukewarm or cold water on a gentle cycle, with a mild detergent, no bleach, no optical brighteners

Mold in a washing machine lives in four places, and the drum is not one of them. It grows in

A quiet washing machine is quiet because of four things: an inverter or direct-drive motor with no belt and no

Washing machine shipping bolts are steel rods that pass through the rear panel and clamp the outer tub rigidly to

If your dryer keeps shutting off, time it. A dryer that quits at roughly the same point every load is