Bri Defends Controversial Color Beads Laundry System: “My Brain Does Get Tired”
Below Deck Mediterranean Season 9 stewardess Bri Muller came up with a potential solution for her ongoing laundry struggles on Episode 14: a color beads laundry system.
Bri explained at the time that she learned about said system after seeking laundry advice on a social media page for yachties. Chief stewardess Aesha Scott and Captain Sandy Yawn ultimately agreed that she could implement the method, and the rest was history.
Fast-forward to the subsequent Sept. 2 episode of the Below Deck Mediterranean After Show, during which Bri elaborated about her decision to go with the new color beads system.
“Sometimes my brain does get tired,” she began. “If you ask me to read a book or look at some numbers, that’s not gonna trigger my brain as fast as it would with colors. So, I was thinking maybe colors would be better for me, let’s give that a go. It’s not like it’s ever too late to try.”
Bri continued: “From my experience recently, when I’ve gotten onto other bigger boats, they have systems that [are] already there, so you just have to follow their system. For us, it was like, immediately getting onto the boat having to clean it for the guests […] we didn’t have time.”
What is Bri Muller’s color beads laundry system on Below Deck Med?
Bri’s color bead laundry system is actually quite simple. Instead of looking at the names written inside clothes (Aesha made crew members put their names on their items with a Sharpie at the beginning of the season), Bri decided to use clip-on beads with colors that were assigned to each of her crewmates. This way, she knew exactly which piece belonged to which coworker at first sight and was able to organize accordingly.
uller’s laundry troubles on Below Deck Med Season 9
Fans may recall that Bri’s laundry struggles — coupled with her ongoing drama involving fellow stew Elena “Ellie” Dubaich — nearly got her fired. As Aesha put it earlier this season, “Laundry is Bri’s Achilles heel.”
But for a while, Aesha remained patient with Bri. The way she saw it, “If I can help her overcome that and get the squabbling sorted out, she could be a great stew. Well, a good stew. Well, a passable stew. OK, maybe she would just be a stew, but not a bad one.”
Aesha, however, lost much of her confidence in Bri as the season went on and she continued to lose articles of clothing — even Sandy’s. This is what led to Bri’s near-firing, but thankfully for her, Captain Sandy concluded, “In all fairness, the third stew is entry-level. I’m not gonna fire her for losing a shirt. But this, we have to correct.”
The captain instructed Bri to “develop a system,” and it seems as though that’s exactly what she did.
