Portable Compact Mini Twin Tub Washing Machine and Spin Cycle w/ Hose, 13lbs. Capacit

[Heidi Mull]

I've seen folks spin water out of small items in a salad spinner.  

Available at garage sales everywhere for cheap. :-)

I have the exact same salad spinner as shown in the video.

There's no way it's gonna spin my sheets, jeans, sweatshirts, etc. Only the small items that are already super easy to wring out on my own. E.g. pillowcases, underwear, socks.

It was doing a load of five jeans that finally broke me into buying the panda spin dryer. And my jeans are relatively tiny.

I have the largest OXO salad spinner, and actually bought it with this possible dual purpose in mind. As an experiment, I got one of my clean pairs of jeans soaking wet and then placed them in the salad spinner. My 00 jeans *barely* fit. After over half a dozen times of pumping it up as fast as it would go and draining the water, by the end of it I was exhausted, no more water was coming out in the spinner, and the jeans would still drip water when you squeezed them.

I'm glad these life hacks work for some people, but IMO the salad spinner trick is specific to less heavy duty items of clothing.