Ever since I bought the Kamaru sleeping bag, I had been worried how I will be washing it. The first time that I washed it was after P went camping in the tropical Philippines. It was not such a worry to just simply hand wash and hang dry the sleeping bag outdoors since there was plenty sunshine.
I had only hand-washed it once during winter when we moved here early this year. It wasn't that hard to dry it coz the air is dry during winter. I simply washed it in the tub at night and hung it there to drip dry overnight. Then, hung it out again on the laundry drier rack in the room the next day.
We have our new 10KG washing machine now that looks like it can handle such stuff so I took my risk in using it to wash the sleeping bag today. I had given up on searching online for the Kamaru washing instructions (done that before to no avail). I thought that a decent Philippine brand like that would have a decent after sales, even just a wash care instruction. But I was disappointed. The same thing goes with the comforter that we got ten years ago from a mall in the Ph. The only stuff I found to read was 50% polyester - 50% cotton, approximate size 88" x 92" and the item: comforter. A lot of other information were missing, and I did not even see the brand! How crazy is that! I don't think the stuff was that cheap to go brandless. Even non-branded stuff has a company name but this one has none.
So going back to my first guinea pig in washing big stuff in my washing machine, the Kamaru sleeping bag seemed alright after a quick run in the machine. I let it run on quick cycle, and just a small amount of laundry powder since it's made of nylon and can easily be clean I think. It is now hanging on the drier rack, hopefully to dry before tonight. :D
The next on the list would be the brandless comforter and the disgustingly colored-orange Dalmatian-printed comforter. Which one will go first? I've no worry with the orange one coz it's made in Korea and they do wash their comforters in the machine all the time without much fuss. It's the other one that I stressed about without any drier balls to use and crossing my fingers that it will not clump and useful after the tumble. *Sigh...
Oh boy! Am I really living in my own world that just a little sleeping bed washing success made me write five paragraphs about it? Duh! (There might be a part two on how the others turn out. ^^)
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