Eleanor's Laundry Delivery Machine

Eleanor and I talk about machines and this summer she started creating makeshift, pretend machines out of the recycle bin.  Here and there, all very pretendy, nothing attempting functional parts.  But recently she busily went to work making a laundry-in-the-basket machine in her room, so self driven I didn’t know anything about it until I stumbled into one night.  She crafted what were essentially pulleys, but as they were made from corks and cardboard they didn’t really work.  However, the concept was solid and really exciting to see come out of her brain.  Anyway she hooked this elaborate thing up across her room from the top bunk to the laundry bin in the closet (this is the second rigging system in her room, so it’s a bit like a spider’s den in there).  She couldn’t make it work exactly, as you might imagine with just tape and yarn and crappy supplies.  So one afternoon I bought a couple of small pulleys and some strong twine and left them in her room.  Just to see what would happen.  We came back from a date that night and Mikey + Joseph (Laura's boys, they were babysitting) had helped her reconstruct the whole apparatus into a semi-functioning "machine" that delivers laundry from the bed to the hamper.  You'll note from the video that she hasn’t figured out how to get the clothes to reliably fall off the line on cue, so if you have ideas speak up.