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Sunday, May 13, 2007

Ode to A French Washing Machine

I have been living comfortably in France for several months now and I am completely enamoured with the washing machine in this apartment.

Features of the machine:
  • Tumbles my clothes instead of using that shape destroying spindle.
  • Washes the clothes longer but my clothes don't seem to fade nearly as fast.
  • Uses 40-60% less water (apparently, according to Wifflepedia.)
  • Uses 30-50% less energy (Ibid, but you might want to confirm here.)
  • My clothes are dryer when I take them out.
  • The one in our apartment is not very noisy when I think of the freight train sound box at my mom's house.

Compared with North American machines, I see nothing wrong at all with this washing machine, permit me to incite groans but I would say that it is a total wet dream.


I'm happy to have been acquainted with
a more ecologically-sound, practical,
and efficient machine.

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This is a blog of tips and some practical (and maybe not so practical) advice for any exchange student, especially Canadian, coming to Lyon, France.