Your personal washing machine

This is really fun! I don't think I'll get it, but, it sure is a charming piece. Has anyone seen one of these before?

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This one is a bit cheaper.

Your personal washing machine! ( nope not again,not for me) Been ..there...done that ...used it.............might look like fun and easy No how, No Way............want say how old I am but at least at the time I was tall enough to get my arm in the ringer and should have been washing ...Not playing around !

Do laundry on the road???? What a novel idea!

John Steinbach in his book Travels With Charley mentions putting his dirty clothes in a bucket full of soapy water with a lid and tieing it to a rope attached to the ceiling of the "house" he built on his truck. He would then stop by a stream and rinse the soap out at the end of the days travel.

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you got that wright here is my personal cloth washer





only kidding laddies

Hi Lynn - All these many years, I have always thought I was the only person to get their arm stuck in the wringer ......coarse, I was only 6 at the time....and I would prolly never have figured out my right from my left without the scar....

One would certainly NOT want to confuse the device in Gigi's post with one's chamber pot, now would one!

Roger

Roger,

I just want you to know that I thought of your signature when my manager asked me to write a "brag sheet" to help him with my annual performance review. All of us in our group was asked to come up with how we felt we were a significant contributor to the project. Although I did what he asked, I threw in Franklin's saying. I felt that it was most appropriate for the assignment.

Some people use a bucket to wash their clothes when on extended camping trips. Seems I recall a long ago post about filling the bucket with sudsy water and a few clothes, just prior to breaking camp. Going down the road provides natural agitation of the wash water. Or something like that.

Anyway, it's maybe a nutty connection, but this agitation-in-a-bucket reminded me of something we got for Xmas:

Ice Cream Ball

Mine's "burnt orange" instead of blue, though.

Burnt Ice Cream?

My "Hot Water Heater", a 5 gallon giant spaghetti pot for my shower system, also serves as clothes washer for socks, undies and t shirts on the rare occasion I need to do such items. (I have about 50 spares in the trailer at all times just to avoid this chore )

I boil the items, swish em around with a big old spoon and mosh them in the sink, then rinse and mosh simultaniously.

They don't smell Powder Fresh, but they also don't smell like anything. They are clean.

Jeans and sweatshirts are another story. Jeans, you just have to rinse and hope for the best and a proper washer as soon as you can get to one. I always wear a t shirt or tutle neck under my sweatshirts, so they never come in direct contact with my body stink, so they actually do quite well with a hot rinse and wrestle.

Now for my dust ruffles, I place them all around the outside of the trailer like a skirt, and hitch up. Drive as fast as I can thru big puddles a few times. Power blast.

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Benita, the fella cracked me up when I read in his description that this would be a great gift for the wife or mom. hahahah, I guess we know who does the laundry in his household (if he's lucky enough to have found himself a wife!).

This whole thread reminded me of a few years back when some clothing was being made of paper! True! I bought a whole outfit (skirt,pants,shirt,) in an emergency situation and they were cheaper than TP is today! They also lasted without tearing for 3 days, till I got home. I do have paper coveralls, even today, for some painting and other messy jobs. It seems that it could be a serious industry for selling to RVers, I haven't seen the clothing line anywhere for years but the plans must still be somewhere! Brain in gear!

And yet another, complete with a brief lesson in the science of clothes washing.

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Disposable clothing are still made. Firefighters, the kind that fight forest fires quite often use disposable sleeping bags...they're made of Tyvek. And I have a good friend that's a flight attendant and she purchases disposable underwear at Walgreens...doesn't like packing THAT type of dirty laundry in her suitcase because of security going through suitcases at airports. I've seen the coveralls and even windbreaker-type coats out of paper/Tyvek.

But I think for the longterm, disposable would be very, very expensive. Soap and water are cheap

The one thing I keep forgetting to check into are chamois-type bathing towels. A couple of years ago I met a couple (in the laundrymat) who were full-timing and they were using them. Full-timers are always looking for methods to cut down on costs and these towels worked for them. Each had one in different colors than the other so they didn't mix them up.

Campmor has several different sizes and styles of lightweight towels, which all work very well.

Campmor

If you use one of these newfangled devices to do laundry you miss out on the true adventure of going to the local laundrymat where you will most likely meet all kinds of interesting folks.

yeah right And you also get the pleasure of spending money....the couple of times I've been to a laundrymat...my clothes came out dirtier than they went in. I think I used a washer right after someone did their dogs bedding. And try getting the bubblegum out of a shirt after it's been dried "in"...thanks to some child pitching it into the dryer instead of a garbage can

I see you have seen the laundry here in town fo Hooterville.

Ours isn't actually that bad. They keep it clean. I still have a half sized washer at home that I do my clothes in and hang dry, but the big stuff has to go there.

I dread it...

Ever since we bought our Maytag Neptune Laundry machines, our house has become the local laundrymat for all our friends.

Try a 5 gal bucket with lid. Fill 1/3 full of water, add a little, and I do mean little laundry soap and a couple pieces of dirty clothes. Pop on the lid. Tuck it in the bouncy corner of your trailer and drive to the next stop. It sloshes while you drive. It is ready to rinse and hang up when you get there.
Total investment: one 5 gallon bucket.
Faith