You can put your sweater in a salad spinner to drain out the
excess water, then hang it up to dry.
That’s the advice given in a Huffington Post article.
The article caught my attention because I recently bought a
salad spinner, an all-plastic $35 model at Target, for an unusual use.
I had a big yard project that got out of hand. When I
decided to replace rotting weed fabric in my side yard, I raked the rocks into
the dirt and weeds next to the fabric. The rocks got mixed with dirt and bits
of weeds, moss, and straw. It was a big mess.
Buying a leaf blower helped. I used chicken wire to
separate out the bigger rocks, then blew the dirt off. However, I still had to
deal with the smaller rocks – usually sifting them through a piece of plastic screen
door material.
Then, as I was working away, the idea of buying a
salad spinner to separate rocks from the dirt jumped in my head. The results
were pretty good. While
the rocks were too heavy to spin, I could
put them in the basket and shake it, and almost all of the rocks stayed in the
basket. And, when I rubbed them against the basket, all the small dirt clots
broke up.
However, when it started raining and the clay-type
soil got damp, the salad spinner method didn’t work anymore.
Do you have any unusual uses for a salad spinner? If so, let
me know in the Comment section below.
