We recommend to spot clean your bean bag. If you need to machine wash - follow the instruction on the inside of your bean bag cover. To empty your bean bag:unzip (safety zip) the bottom zippull out the attached liner – leave attachedtip the bean bag cover upside downempty the beans into the linerunzip the linertie up the bag with the ties – put somewhere safeto fill the bag with beans againuntie the linerzip onto the bean bagtip beans into the bag from the linerstuff liner in the bottom of the bagzip up the bean bag