The smell of a damp basement shouldn’t be the default scent for a $2,000 appliance, but for about three years, that was my life. I lived in this cramped 400-square-foot studio in Chicago where the only way to have laundry was to […]
Tuesday night, 11:14 PM. I was standing in two inches of gray, soapy water in my basement because my three-year-old “smart” front-loader decided to give up on life during a heavy load of bedding. I didn’t cry, but I wanted to. When […]