{"id":2999,"date":"2019-02-27T18:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thezakariagroup.com\/how-a-300-portable-washing-machine-makes-new-york-city-actually-livable\/"},"modified":"2019-02-27T18:30:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T18:30:00","slug":"how-a-300-portable-washing-machine-makes-new-york-city-actually-livable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thezakariagroup.com\/how-a-300-portable-washing-machine-makes-new-york-city-actually-livable\/","title":{"rendered":"How a $300 Portable Washing Machine Makes New York City Actually Livable"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"typeset--default\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.apartmenttherapy.info\/image\/fetch\/f_auto,q_auto,w_640,c_fit,fl_strip_profile\/https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/pixtruder\/original_images\/78ea92960ec761568c9c41795d1a5f9368bb4560\"><\/div>\n<p>\n\t   Living in New York City brings its fair share of rewards and challenges. For me, the biggest continuous struggle\u2014even after almost a decade in NYC\u2014was doing laundry (#blessed, I know). When I lived in Brooklyn, my building had a basement laundry room, but it was creepy down there and I learned the hard way that the super locked the room at 9 p.m.\u2014with my wet clothes trapped overnight in a washing machine. Then I moved to Manhattan (and still live there) where most buildings don&#8217;t offer laundry amenities due to limited space and plumbing infrastructure.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t    Many busy New Yorkers deal with not having an in-unit washer and dryer by dropping off their laundry to be washed, dried, and folded. That&#8217;s helpful, but ends up being pricey and you lose quality control over your more delicate items. Let&#8217;s just say it&#8217;s a great way to destroy your favorite sweaters, and forget about bras.\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.apartmenttherapy.com\/portable-washing-machine-for-apartments-267264?utm_source=RSS&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Category%2FChannel%3A+Main\"><strong>READ MORE \u00bb<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\"><small>Powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpematico.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WPeMatico<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Living in New York City brings its fair share of rewards and challenges. For me, the biggest continuous struggle\u2014even after almost a decade in NYC\u2014was doing laundry (#blessed, I know). 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