We Tested the $40 Portable Washer That Cleans UConn Coach Dan Hurley’s Lucky Undies


Dan Hurley is superstitious, wearing the exact same pair of socks and boxer briefs to every game. During the postseason, when his team plays back-to-back matchups on the road without the opportunity to return home, his wife Andrea takes care of laundering those lucky skivvies and socks between games. Dan is a “germaphobe,” she says, so hand-washing them in a hotel sink is a no-go.

For the past year and change, their solution to this peculiar problem has been to use the East Doll Portable Washing Machine, a contraption of dubious origin (the only other thing that East Doll sells, according to its Amazon store page, is a portable potty-training toilet with a built-in bidet) billed as capable of cleaning small or delicate items as needed.

Coach Dan Hurley's wife Andrea Hurley and son Danny seated together.
Andrea Hurley and son Danny in 2018. Photo: Mark Mirko/Hartford Courant/Tribune News Service via Getty Images

If all of that sounds like some pretty kooky rationale for schlepping your own personal laundry appliance to events like the Final Four, Andrea gets it. As she said in a recent phone interview, “I don’t know who else would need a thing like this. Maybe a lunatic.”

After talking to her about the machine and doing some testing of our own, we can say that it’s not entirely nuts to at least wonder if this packable, pastel-hued gizmo—which we’ve also spotted on a few influencers’ Instagram feeds, where they tout it as an on-the-go laundry hack—is the answer to your acute laundry conundrums, like how to keep your clothes fresh while you’re traveling or what the next-best option is if you don’t have a full-size washer and dryer at home.

Even so, with rare exceptions, we don’t think anybody needs a portable washing machine, and this gadget wouldn’t make it loads easier to clean your clothes.



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