Bo liao post - laundry bags

a friend once commented that i should use laundry bags for my office shirts. "it prevents the fabric from being pulled forcefully," she said.

"just dump the shirts into the bag, and the bag into the washing machine and voila!" 

sounds like a miracle invention if you ask me, since my office shirts do not exactly come cheap. why risks it when a bag can cost as low as SGD2 from Daiso.

so i googled the word and at least 10 pages of laundry-bag-related stuff came up. (hey, this is promising)

heck, they even have online stores providing personalized laundry bags services. 

(wow... guess this product must be damn good, since a cottage industry can actually be created out of a bag that's full of holes).

but umm... i dun get it.

i mean, how will putting shirts in a bag make them clean? wouldn't the bag restrict the fabric from rubbing against each other (thereby rubbing off any dirt)? i'm no washing machine expert, but if you think about it, that should be the case, no? 

and when i looked again at the pages of links that i googled (ok, maybe just the first 3) , none of them actually state how laundry bags can effectively clean clothes. none. zilch. nada. 

most are links which sell laundry bags.

others are links which lead to other links (duh) that sell laundry bags.

which bring us to the main question - do laundry bags actually work in getting stuff clean anyway?

coz if not, what's the point of using them? why use them when they can't perform the primary function of cleaning stuff?

perhaps having such bags is not about cleaning stuff. 

perhaps it's about convenience. 

perhaps it's about not losing one's socks (or anything else that comes in pairs, come to think of it).

who knows?

but if they are not useful in helping to clean whatever-that-are-in-them, then it must be one of those bo-liao inventions that linger in our lives for the wrong reasons.

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in the mean time, i've just bought 8 laundry bags and they (each with a shirt, of course) are now happily spinning in the washing machine, while i carry on satisfying my alter ego as a weekend blogger. 

guess i now know why laundry bags are invented after all - so that people can have more time on hand to do even more bo-liao activities.