Wait a minute. We haven't seen his food yet.
Wait a minute. We haven't seen his food yet.
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here ya go.
http://www.lehmans.com/store/Home_Go...32901100?Args=
They also sell gas powered ones.
I can live without the dryer. I'd think long and hard about the washer. SHTF, you may have more important things to worry about than clean cloths. Take em off at the door, put em back on the next day. Gramps had a shower on his back porch for coming in out of the garden. The clothes were just gonna get dirty again the next day.
Ah - the Speed Queen. I've gotten a finger pinched in the rollers a time or two.
I had one of those eat me all the way to the shoulder one time. If I didn't have such a fat head I'd have been a goner for sure! Ours had a release on top of the wringer but I was too little to figure out high tec stuff. Ma saved me.
Can't live without the dryer around here. It's 11 degrees out there! I like my sheets soft, fluffy and warm not frozen solid like a sheet of plywood.
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We never had a dryer while I was growing up (as I suspect several here didn't) so I know I don't need one. It's nice to have the choice though, and for now, since I am able, I choose to have one.
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Okay slightly off the topic here but I just need to share this with you all.
As most of you would know, if you take you're washing out off the dryer just before its dry and you hang it up it gets barely wrinkled!
Now as for me being a bachelor, I once figured that its the moisture that prevents the wrinkles, so I took a normal household bottle, (one of those that sprays the water in a fine mist) Washed it out and filled it up with water.
Yeah you guessed it, now this bachelor doest iron any of my casual clothing anymore! You stil need to iron your suite& tie but that's something I wear once or twice a year, and that's about the amount of time I spend ironing my clothes (once or twice a year)!
Just take down your washing from the line and fold it up for storage, and whenever you take something out to put it on, quickly cover it with the mist and your wrinkles shall be gone before you leave the house!
Hope you will find this as usefull as I did!
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Do I sense a "101 uses for pee" thread in the future?
Right. I'm about to stick my foot in this tank containing one thousand bloody jellyfish to show you how effective a good whizz is on the sting. This is extremely dangerous and I must be very brave for even attempting it.
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He's gonna be mad, I can tell.
What happened?!
I couldn't find jelly fish. All I could find were electric eels.
Well, at least he whizzed.
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Now where did I leave that jelly fish?
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I don't think hand washing is such a big deal, here is a couple of pic's of DW's "New Fangled washing machine", and "Solar dryer".
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She said it was better than going down to the river and doing the rock beating thing.......
Anyway I got those jeans really muddy hepling out flood victums and she said that she wasn't gonna put them in the machine.
Actually worked pretty good.....according to her....I wouldn't do it...like myself, you know?
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She looks genuinely pleased that she's working and you're documenting everything. Important calling that documenting stuff.
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Hand washing one pair of muddy jeans is different then hand washing for the daily life of a family. How close was access to water? My water has to be hauled from about 10 miles away.
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I hear ya, that was a special occasion, but did confirm that it "could" be done.
When that cabin was built, DW's only requirement was running water, indoor plumbing in general.
I did design the plumbing for a washer and dryer.
Property is located on a river, old temporary camping/living area did/does have a rain water collection system, w/shower. At least a few months a year.
Did tote water for coffee, drinking, in 5gal containers, a JOB in itself.
As far as washing by hand for a large family, I'm guessing it isn't being done by many, and if it is, it isn't to save $20 bucks......Its because it has to be done.
All it takes is once by hand, to determine that alternate way is very important.
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I've washed clothes by hand before. Well, I've actually woke up in the gutter a time or two so that's sorta the same thing. The gutter was wet.
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Hunter, with a view like that off your porch, any chore outside would be a pleasure, including laundry.
Nice place!
Thanks we like it......Took a long time to get there, but hey.
Here kinda what it looks likes in the winter.
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As far as hand clothes washing goes, I/we do a lot of things "The old way" just to see how it was and what our mothers, fathers, and grand parents had to go thru, just doing everyday tasks.
We have it so much easier, but it's still good to know the old ways.........
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