According to Euromonitor, a market research company, sales of semi-automatic washing machines are actually a useful economic indicator: Their “Semi-automatic Washing Machine Index” shows that sales of these home appliances increase as emerging markets grow their middle class.
This example, made by Hyundai, is more typical, standing 3 feet high:īecause they’re so cheap (I paid less than $100 online), and so effective, semi-automatic washing machines are more common in developing countries, including rural China and India, and in Brazil. They might stand as high as your bathroom counter, though I bought a compact model that’s short and squat, only 23 inches (58 centimeters) high and 26 inches (66 centimeters) wide. If you’re used to sturdier, more imposing machines, these contraptions can look like toys by comparison. (The risk of flooding with a semi-automatic is minimal because you fill them from a tap rather than let water flow continuously into them-so any spills would be equivalent to tipping over a bucket of mop water.) I recently bought one because I now live in a pre-war rental building in New York, where fully automatic machines are often banned by landlords nervous about floods. (Recent YouTube reviews suggest the word is trickling out.) Their size and portability make them ideal for RVs, tiny houses, and, with a little MacGyver-ing, apartments. In the US, these machines are completely foreign to most (and “semi-automatic,” unfortunately, is more likely to refer to a firearm), but you can pick one up at Walmart, or through Amazon.
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