You might want to harvest some rain-water.
Rainwater is by definition soft water. It contains no chemicals leeched from the ground because it hasn't entered the ground yet.
Washing clothes takes a lot of water. If we were just talking about shampooing your hair, rain water would be easy. Washing clothes with it takes more of an industrial plan.
What the heck, your downspouts have to dump the water somewhere, right?
By the way, your used wash-water could be sent over to irrigate, (and fertilize, ahem), the garden. It's like organizing your life around having to live on a small planet.
” By the way, your used wash-water could be sent over to irrigate, (and fertilize, ahem), the garden.”
Misread that as “irritate” the garden with the usual mental images that have come to be expected from me.
The image of angry zucchini and rampaging string beans was rather disconcerting.
Why do they tell people not to drink the rain water? I vaguely remember something about “acid rain”. We collect the water from the dehumidifiers and use it in the garden and on outside washing jobs.