A Hard Day's Wash, Part 1

Built like a tank, but even tanks don't last forever

This newsletter is “mostly urbanism,” as I like to put it. But from time to time I touch on a handful of other topics: food, retail, old tech, consumer issues. and this piece (and next week’s part 2!) touches on a bunch of those.

Over a year ago, our washing machine in our little condo began to leak from somewhere in the bottom. Large loads caused more l…