I’m really getting spoiled by Nictemaw!

I began to use it three weeks ago; and it’s a much faster method of doing laundry than using the James washer. If I set it on the “soft” cycle, it takes only about 30 minutes to do a load; and with the James washer, it took at least an hour and a quarter.

At a commercial laundromat, a cycle takes about 45 minutes; and even when I use fragrance-free detergent, I wind up with my “clean” clothes stinking of everybody else’s laundry products. That makes me furious! I’ll never understand why anyone wants their clothes to smell like that.

The Nictemaw also gets much more water out of things than the wringer of the James washer. In fact, that wringer has been worn out for two years; and I was tired of having to wring so many things by hand.

Of course a sheet or bath towel is too much for me to hand-wring; and I was tired of having dripping things all over the place. I can put down a tarp on the front-room floor; set up my six-foot stepladder; and drape a sheet over it. At least that keeps the dripping water from getting on the carpet; but a bath towel just had to drip on the kitchen floor.

I rather miss the physical workout of using the James washer; but with rheumatoid arthritis affecting my hands, this is probably a wiser method. I miss being able to save all the water, too; but at least I can still save some of it.

The Nictemaw also gets my clothes cleaner than the James washer did; and I like that. Spoiled by Nictemaw? You’d better believe it!