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If P. Dick thinks the clothes washing method in India is severe, he has never come head to head with a Chinese washing machine. These things will shred, stretch and maim! Usually they target your most prized processions: the scarf your sister gave as a going away present, the only bra that truly fits and is comfortable, the warmest socks you brought, or the only jeans that stay at your waist. Not to mention the machine doesn’t truly clean anything. The cycle is maybe a whole 30 minutes, most of which is a whirling dervish of spin cycles that are so violent it often unplugs itself. All of these wouldn’t be so bad if this country had dryers. They would mitigate the stretching and even burn off some of the filth. If you want something machine dried, you have to go to Thailand. Hug your machines and darn it, use the different settings! Go crazy. Use that hot water and switch it up, use the delicate cycle even.