Apparently these are used to sort laundry while it’s being washed? There’s only one review and it wasn’t very revealing. The product description is also not helpful. I’m thinking maybe you loop the belt through armholes and leg holes to keep different people’s clothes separate in the wash? How can a pair of jeans get washed thoroughly if a leg is all bunched up with a shirt that’s similarly bunched up in a wad?
Someone please 'splain, 'cause I’m not getting it.
I don’t think it’s intended to hold items together in the machine, just to identify and separate different loads from different people, e.g., if you were doing service washes in a laundrette or doing several different peoples’ laundry in, say, a guest house or institution of some sort.
I’d say the product description makes it clear how to use:
using these laundry straps with buckles reduces the hassle of sorting loose clothes in the washer or dryer and minimizes missing items; Clothes dry in half the time and this increases the efficiency as compared to traditional canvas or mesh laundry bags; By reducing wrinkles on clothes, it saves on ironing time as well
Easy Accessibility and Organization: our laundry buckle straps help maintain your clothes in one place during the washing and drying process; This feature ensures quick and easy finding of your laundry;
They replace the mesh bags that are traditionally used to keep laundry sorted while washing. If a mesh bag still lets clothes get clean enough, I can’t see why these things would be worse.
I’m not sure if this only sorts clothes in a laundry hamper or would you throw them in a washing machine with the loop? Seems like they’d separate in the spin cycle.
EASY TO USE: Our premium Laundry Loops have a single latch that will hold up to 10 garments, a drawstring sock snare that can hold multiple athletic socks of different size and thickness, and a writable 4.5" identification area to include a name, sport jersey number, etc. Great alternative to laundry bags including mesh, canvas and over
If you were going to lose your jeans in the wash, I’m not sure putting a strap through the leg is going to fix that. My initial thought was that they might keep longer items from getting wrapped around the center of the washing machine or tangled up in other clothes. However, I think the actual reason is probably meant to make it easier to ID everyone’s clothes in a community situation (at home with family, apartment with roommate etc). It’s odd that they don’t just tell you what it’s for.
However, I think the actual reason is probably meant to make it easier to ID everyone’s clothes in a community situation (at home with family, apartment with roommate etc).
I think that’s the sort of “lose” they are talking about - not lose as in “my jeans disappear from a load that only contains my clothes” but as in " my son/daughter/spouse/roommate takes almost the same size I do and somehow my shirt/jeans ended up in their drawer/closet and I couldn’t find it for months."
Whoever wrote the description is not a great communicator but it does mention
It also comes with an about 5.9 inch writeable identification area for including details such as name, room number, and laundry date, making it a proper alternative to conventional laundry bags
I can see bundling things together to keep them separate while you’re preparing to wash. But this seems to imply that you leave them bundled/strapped together while they’re in the wash. Hence the reference to getting just as clean or cleaner than a mesh bag. This still doesn’t really make sense to me. Has anyone actually used any of these?
I haven’t- but I’m certain they are meant to stay strapped together while in the wash. (Just like the sock clips that are often sold in a set with the straps.) Which is not going to make sense in a lot of situations - I think in most situations where people’s clothes are likely to get mixed up , they are probably doing the laundry separately. I’d be surprised if roommates are using a shared hamper and doing their laundry together. But there are all sorts of other possible situations - like I said earlier , two family members taking similar clothing sizes or a team uniforms being washed by the school I don’t think that example with the belt going through the pant leg would work so well - but it would work fine if you put the belt through one belt loop on each pair of pants or a belt loop on a pair of pants and a sleeve on a shirt to keep each person’s uniform parts together
I definitely don’t see how things can dry properly when they’re bunched up and/or attached to other garments.
Like in the picture on the right:
How can these jeans wash or dry thoroughly with the leg all gathered up like that?? Why would you even need to bunch up that leg. I’m not getting this…
That’s why, (even though I said it was probably the case) it seems like using them as way to ID the clothes doesn’t make sense. First off, that’s absolutely going to be wrinkled, even though it says it helps prevent wrinkling. Secondly, if it’s just to be used as an ID, it could be way smaller and just go through a belt loop*. This, to me, seems like putting a giant, adhesive name tag on your wine glass when a wine charm will work just fine.
*which I now notice those jeans with the elastic waistband don’t have belt loops. But even then, something smaller would work just fine going through the button hole fly.
I don’t think they will wash or dry properly bunched up like that - but while looking for a photo of the strap going through the belt loops, I noticed a lot of advertisements aimed at teams ( which are wearing pants/shorts that are very different from jeans) - and this one mentions that they aren’t recommended for use in residential washer/dryers
Basically if you don’t know what they are for then you are not the customer. It’s for larger operations where the multiple orders are washed in the same load. They deem any any decrease in thoroughness of the deep clean is offset by the need to keep orders from getting mixed up together.
My first thought is that it’s designed for people in some kind of institutional setting. My grandmother lived in a nursing home for her last few years, and while my parents did her personal laundry, many people who lived there wouldn’t have had anyone who could do that, and this would certainly make sorting clothes and making sure they got back to the right person a lot easier.
I work in college athletics and we use something similar – a loop with a buckle, but with a mesh bag attached. After a workout, you thread the strap through the various holes of your shirt/shorts/underwear and buckle it together. Socks or anything else “unthreadable” can go in the mesh bag. It has your name written on it, so you throw it in the bin, the equipment room washes and dries it together with a bunch of other guys’ stuff in big commercial washers and dryers, and then they hang the loop back on your locker with the clean clothes still all buckled together. Keeps all your stuff together and easy to sort.
I’ve never put a pair of jeans on one, but long athletic pants and hooded sweatshirts are no problem. Might not get the same results with consumer-grade washers and dryers.
