My daughter researched online and found this method for washing clothes with a homemade man power washing machine. You buy four big buckets with lids, a pvc pipe gasket and a plunger at the local hardware store. One bucket and lid is used for washing the clothes. You cut a hole in the lid and put a plumbing gasket in it. The stick your plunger through it and put the lid on the bucket. When you get ready to wash the clothes, you put your water and soap in and then put in a load of clothes, put the lid back on and use a churning motion to wash the clothes. We found that putting holes in the plunger helped it agitate the clothes better. I do one round of washing, drain it into the tub, then fill the bucket with water to rinse. I do two rinse rounds before transfering the clothes to the wringer bucket. To wring out your clothes you use one of the buckets without a lid and you drill a few holes in the bottom to allow water to drain out. Inside that bucket you place another bucket with holes in the bottom as well. You fill that bucket with your washed clothes. Then you set the last remaining bucket in on top of the clothes and you put the lid on it. You simply sit on that bucket (I put a cushion on it to make it easier on my rear). When you sit, it pushes the top bucket down onto the clothes which then drain into the bottom bucket and finally out the holes and into the tub to drain. I read while I sit, or wash the next load of clothes. Then I take them into the kitchen where I have my clothes drying rack set up over an old towel and I hang them. It takes about a day and a half for everything to dry (I wring them out a little bit while hanging them because I don't like to sit on the buckets for long).
This is my set up:
My homemade laundry soap is made with:
1cup Borax
1cup washing soda
1cup baking soda
1 grated bar of hand soap (I use Ivory because it's cheap and I do a lot of wash around my place.LOL)
I put all the ingredients in a large plastic tub and stir it together really well. I use an old starch can lid as my scoop.
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