Hi, it’s Debra with Traveling Well For Less, today we’re looking at the Scrubba which
is a portable wash bag.
So this means you can wash your clothes anywhere, your hotel room, camping on the beach, in
your RV, trailer, wherever you want to be. You can even wash your clothes at the airport.
This and you can see on the back here [bag rustles].
They’ve got the little ridges. The ridge are inside. You can see the little knobbies.
[bag rustles]
I’m going to get a little closer to the camera so you can actually see. So see the
little, can you see through the packaging? [bag rustling] Maybe you can see in the back.
And see the little knobs. There you go, you can see.
All right.
This is the Scrubba. It’s light. Umh. It weighs 5 ounces. So… superlight. You can
fit it in your carry-on bag or your checked bag, whichever.
So we’re going to experiment with just one item today so I can show you how easy it is
and plus I’m sure you don’t want to see all my dirty underwear.
So today I’m doing laundry instead of hanging out on the gorgeous beach in Danang.
So. I’m using the Scrubba, normally I use the hotel sink but they reached out to me
and say, “Hey, can you do a blog post about Scrubba?”
So, we’re trying it out.
So we’re going to experiment with just one item today so I can show you how easy it is
and plus I’m sure you don’t want to see all my dirty underwear.
So you get the items you want to launder, throw it in your Scrubba [bag rustles]. You
add your wash soap. I only have one shirt so I’m going to add just a couple drops
and I think that will be fine.[clunk]
After you add your soap, then you add your water. [thunk]. You’re gonna. You want to
add it to the fill line. There’s a fill line, the line on the bag it shows you depending
on how many garments you have.
Uh, if you just have one shirt, underwear, and some socks you’re only going to add
a little bit of water. If you have several items you’re gonna add a little bit more
water.
So we’re gonna add some water. [rushing water] [thunk][rushing water]
Okay, to the fill line. [rushing water]
All right. [thunk]
After you’ve added your water to the fill line, let me show you right here.
Then you’re going to squeeze out, uhm, some of the excess air. [bag rustles]
Since I’m kinda doing this in a weird angle, I’m just pressing it against the top.
Now when you fold the bag, you want to make sure you fold it over correctly. There’s
two black lines that you can see. And you don’t fold it over like this because then
your bag will leak.
What you do is you fold the one black, uhm, black line over the other. See what I did
here?
See you have two black lines? You fold one over the other and then you roll down.
You keep rolling until you get to the valve.
Once you’re at the valve, you clip both ends of your bag. [snapping] Like that. Pretty
easy.
And then you open your valve to release excess air. [hissing]
Close the valve or else water will get out everywhere and you don’t want that to happen!
So anyway. So you’ve got your clothes, you’ve got your water, your bag is nice and sealed,
you can turn it upside down nothings going to leak out. [sloshing water]
So since I only have one item I’m gonna, I’m gonna pretend I’m making pizza and
I’m just going to knead it in my hands like this. [bag rustling begins] Because it’s
really easy, it’s really light. You probably can do this with a few items since, if you
wanna get your arm workout in.[bag rustling ends]
But if you have multiple items or things are really heavy, you can lay it on the ground,
a table, uhm, chair, or whatever kind of surface you want and then you knead [bag rustling
begins] the bag like you’re kneading dough if you’ve ever backed bread. Or, uhm, you
know, if you’ve handwashed your clothes before. Use that exact same process.
It only takes you three to five minutes per load of wash. So I’ve washed my one shirt,
I think it’s pretty clean. I think it’s a lot cleaning than washing it in the sink.
Uhm, one, you know you control what you put in your bag so you know your bag is always
going to be clean.
And two, you’ve got the little ridges from the flexible wash, uhm, and so you’re agitating
your clothes and you’re rubbing it up against something so you’re working all those fibers,
you’re getting all the dirt, uhm, and any funky smells out.
What’s also cool about Scrubba here is you can see there’s a little clear panel so
you can kinda see your clothes in there. See how much room you have, see how much water
or see the suds and all that action. [bag rustling ends]I did not put a lot of uh, soap
in here because I only have one shirt and that didn’t make sense.
[bag rustling begins] So after you sufficiently agitated your clothes long enough you gotta
unhook the bag [bag rustling ends] and pour out the water [rushing water]. That was a
wash cycle.
Now we’re gonna do the rinse cycle.[bag rustling starts]You’re gonna add some fresh
water. [bag rustling ends][thunk] Again you’re going to do it to the fill line. Same fill
line you did before.
[rushing water starts] And as I’m filling this, I chose to do this in, uhm, my bathroom.
[rushing water ends] Only wash my clothes when I travel in the bathroom, I use the bathroom
sink but this time I’m using the tub because it’s a lot brighter than the bathroom, uhm,
and it can also capture in case I have any mistakes since this is my first time using
Scrubba.
Uhm, but the hotel I’m staying at is totally packed. Uhm, there’s so many people outside,
lots of kids, I wasn’t sure I wanted to film this outside and have everyone watch
me being the introvert that I am.
Uhm, so I was a little camera shy but you can easily take this with you. You can wash
your clothes out on the beach, camping, you can take it you know if you’re going RV,
on a road trip, whatever.
And one little thing that is kinda cool, if you have young kids, like baby, you can wash
a ton of their clothes, their little spitups, their blankies, all in this thing while you’re
traveling! And you know their garments are so light.
Anyway, so I added the water back to the line. Again you do the same process you can let
your excess air out. You’re gonna fold it over but remember fold one black strip over
the other black strip and then roll. [bag rustling] Roll till you get to the valve.
Clip your Scrubba [snap]
[bag rustling starts] You can let out extra air if you want or you can just leave the
air in this time because now this is the rinse cycle so it’s not so, uh, so important that
there isn’t any extra air in there.
So if you wanna make sure you get all your suds out you get a good rinse, shake it around.
I’m getting some good air workout today! You don’t have to rinse very long. If you’re
done a good job washing. [bag rustling ends]
All right! So it looks pretty good, I can see I got a little bit of dirty water in there
with my suds.
And [snap][bag rustles] you let your water out. [rushing water][bag rustles]
Put the Scrubba right here, blah.
So after you wash your items in your Scrubba, then you rinse out any excess water so you
can hang up your items to dry. Or.
So that now that my shirt is all washed and all the water’s out I’m gonna hang it
outside. So, well I’ll hang it outside once I get one of the hangers.
Well, anyway, nice clean shirt, smells good too! Thanks for watching!