[NicknamedBob]

"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.

[Daffynition]

I know this looks primitive, more so in winter. Let me tell ya what you're looking at....its a rain collection tub that runs water off the roof. A bit of soap, a scrub board and wringer and you've got a poor man's version of wash day...off the grid. I hate it. But it works. In the winter clothes are not washed. It's the apocalypse. Who cares how you smell?;(

[Silentgypsy]

Some of the full-time road warriors do launder their clothing that way. We have an excess of easily-available rough roads around here, but they rattle the daylights out of some of the components. (The inverter really gave us a scare last week—or was it the week before?) I’ll do the plunger thing if necessary. “That which does not kill you....” I appreciate the suggestions! You are a constant source of enlightenment.