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To: Daffynition

Do you really understand how beating the daylights out of something can actually get it clean? I’ve read about some road warriors’ makeshift washers (a new plunger stuck through a hole in the top of a bucket of water w/detergent in it), but just physical force? What happens to one’s delicates? I’ll think about that tomorrow.


596 posted on 03/17/2013 3:06:35 PM PDT by Silentgypsy (I must be all here, because everyone keeps telling me I'm not all there.)
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To: Silentgypsy

I used the plunger and bucket method of washing clothes for three years while the late Igor and I were Camphosts for the USFS. It was a fun gig, and I didn’t mind washing a few things at a time. I could hang them up and let the mountain/desert air dry them.

The delicates survive, since they don’t need the badgering that Levis need.


599 posted on 03/17/2013 3:10:41 PM PDT by Monkey Face (In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is freedom, in water there is bacteria. ~ Ben Franklin)
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To: Silentgypsy
You're just being an agitator. I would not like the chores of a Blue Monday. :)


604 posted on 03/17/2013 3:14:13 PM PDT by Daffynition (The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. — D.H.)
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To: Silentgypsy; Daffynition
"Do you really understand how beating the daylights out of something can actually get it clean? I’ve read about some road warriors’ makeshift washers (a new plunger stuck through a hole in the top of a bucket of water w/detergent in it), but just physical force?"

If vehicles are involved in your lifestyle, placing the clothes in a tub or two with water and detergent, and taking them for a ride on a bumpy road will provide all the agitation you'll need. Then it's a rinse or two and hanging them out for the fusion-powered clothes drier.

Wringer washers may or may not be available, but the same type of wringer is used for mop buckets.

Come the (rest of the) apocalypse, I expect all of you to have your appropriate Plans B and C in place, and your vestments looking spiffy.

606 posted on 03/17/2013 3:19:00 PM PDT by NicknamedBob (Going viral -- Put your faith in your Church, and your doubt in your Government's "Good Works".)
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