The Anonymous Widower

Men And Washing Machines

There’s an interesting survey about male clothes washing habits going the rounds and it reported in the Daily Mail.

I won’t disagree with the findings, but I always find the instructions on most domestics appliances unfathomable, unless you get out the instruction manual. And of course, you always forget where you have put them.

Most appliances have far more features than you’ll ever use, whereas if I ever designed anything, one of the aims would be to take someone with the intelligence of say a ten-year-old and expect them to work it without instructions, after a brief chat with someone, who understood how it worked.

My washer-dryer is pretty simple, except that the buttons are difficult with my hands and tend to have mind of their own.  But it has got many features, I’ve never used. i also fairly unique in that my mother taught me how to wash clothes by hand.

July 27, 2013 - Posted by AnonW | World | Clothes, Design