Washing your clothes by hand sounds like a tedious task — something that should’ve been eradicated from our daily lives when the washing machine was invented. If you don’t have a washer and dryer, ...

Modern-day laundry doers have it pretty easy: Soiled clothes, towels and sheets go into the washing machine and come out clean, job done. But knowing how to launder a garment by hand is more useful ...

Even the most delicate fabrics can often be treated at home, rather than dry-cleaned, and it doesn’t have to be a hassle. By Emilia Petrarca If laundry is a chore, hand washing might feel like ...

Let’s say that somebody in your family has been sick. To make sure those germs are gone, would it be better to scrub your dishes by hand or put them in the dishwasher? If you used water from the ...

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Nicholas Cerveny is a Bend resident who was inspired to start a new business to benefit the community, offering an improved mobile hand-washing station' due to the rise of the pandemic.

A woman in a refugee camp in Bangladesh washes her hands using a prototype for the handwashing station. "... [T]he community is part of the design process," says Oxfam's Enamul Hoque. Photo: Fabeha ...