Beloved readers (especially the Bangalore ones), please help. Does anybody know where I can buy the following things in Bangalore? Home Stop and Lifestyle don’t have them, and neither does the Dubai shop on CMH Road.
- A clotheshorse. As I mentioned earlier, drying clothes on the balcony puts them at risk of getting wet again in the rain, or being crapped on by pigeons.
- PVC bins. What I’m looking for is three or four bins with a small footprint, not too shallow and not too deep. The idea here is that when the clothes are dry, me or my maid can separate them into shirts, trousers, and miscellaneous, and store each category of clothes in its own bin through the week until I iron them on Sunday. Right now, everything is dumped into one undifferentiated pile on spread out newspapers, and it’s really quite distressing to look at. If the bins come in different colours, even better.
If you have a better idea for sorting dried laundry than bins, leave a comment about that, please.
Try Jayanagar 4th block – either Super Bazar inside the complex or any of the small plastic shops on the road opposite the Citibank ATM.
Why PVC bins? Why don’t you use those cloth/net type foldable clothes bin(?) that you see these guys peddling at every street corner and traffic signal? As I gather, you need to store the clothes before ironing them, so these bags should serve your purpose. And they come in nifty colours too. 🙂
perhaps you can consider giving clothes to the dhobi everyday?
Mohan: thanks
PGK: I already have two of those. I use them for storing clothes before they’re washed. Since my plan is to use separate ones for small piles, they’ll be too deep for that. Bins will work better, though they don’t need to be PVC.
Sarin: I don’t have a dhobi. I have a maid who comes every day and washes clothes in the house twice or thrice a week. So there’s always inventory. In fact, I’d like to get a washing machine and do away with the maid also.
Bins are a great idea. But I’m not so sure about the sorting into shirts and trousers bit. One slightly deep bin is better than two or three, which would occupy a lot more floor space. I used to keep just one, and when I had people visiting, it used to move into a closet. Quite nifty!
If they’re sorted into three bins it makes it easier in the morning when I have to pick out one T-shirt, one pair of underpants, and one shirt (assuming I didn’t finish the ironing on Sunday).
get married.
try Sancy’s laundrette at koramangala/indiranagar – their charges are not per piece, but per kg of clothes 🙂
Hire a carpenter to make it for you
4 months too late but what the heck- You may want to check the rubbermaid showroom on hosur road (towards madivala, near all those travel companies). They have a good range of plastic and pvc items.
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