I imagine that a tablespoon of soap/detergent would suffice. Maybe this gray water could also be used in the garden, on flowers or something non-edible. Detergents often act as a fertilizer, I think. Anyway, brilliant idea. I wish I had thought of it 30 years ago when I was washing diapers by hand.
A tablespoon is what I need for my whole wash in my regular washer, so I used about 1.5 tsp. I’ll drop to 1tsp for future loads. I considered the grey water for the flower beds, but my edibles grow with my flowers and the water was far too hot to pour on plants. I used it for killing weeds instead. 😉
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I love that you are cloth diapering. My baby is 28 this year. I am still cleaning with some of the flats that saw 2 of his brothers use after him. I sewed some of those hourglass shaped diapers and they must have passed on to others but the last 2-3 flats are starting to get holey now and may not see 30 years but they were sure a value packed investment
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Awesome Idea! Now I just have to come up with a cheap and easy DIY spin cycle (that doesn’t involve slinging a mesh bag filled with wet clothing around my head) and we’ll be good to go!
A commercial or heavy duty mop bucket with the attachment for squeezing the water out of the mop works great for both washing and wringing out the clothes. Because the material isn’t actually being wrung, the clothes also last longer. Plus if you use soap nuts, the clothes need not be perfectly rinsed. Not just for camping.
Great idea! As you say, Lesley, it’s not so much the washing but the getting dry that’s the problem. I envisage a spin dryer powered by a bike but I’ve only seen designs for the washing machine bit on the internet.
I found this idea years ago in a book called Roughing It Easy. It does work well! They also said if you are going for a drive, forget the plunger and just toss in the soap, snap the lid on tight, and set it in your trunk. When you arrive at your destination your clothes are clean from the agitation of the car trip! lol
I used to own that book…wish I still had it. As far as suds goes, buy a bottle of that camping/hunting detergent at WalMart called SPORT-WASH. Amazing stuff…you can do an entire washing machine load with a small ONE oz. capful plus it removes all odors in smelling clothes and it does not suds. Use 1/2 capful per gallon of water.
A bottle will last forever…unless you are washing with it daily
I use the plunger on large tubs of handwashing (valuable handmade tablecloths etc and do it in my laundry tub. So glad for this reminder…we are about to set out on a long camping trip and I will take a lidded bucket and do at least the underwear in it while we drive.
My mother-in-law called the plunger used in this fashion an Irish Wash Woman…probably not PC nowadays.
However, the crank system of an old ice cream maker would work. Get a slightly smaller bucket (say 3-gallon) to fit inside the larger one. Not too much smaller, but enough for it to actually rotate. Drill or cut lots of holes. (I’m lazy, I’d use a drill with a large bit.) When it comes time to spin, drain out the excess, attach the crank system (that part I’m still fuzzy on), and start cranking.
That’s an off-the-top-of-my-head, idea… but since my washer is currently broken, and it’s a long drive to the nearest laundromat – and when the heck did they get so expensive! – I may wind up trying this out myself.
Doing a bit of googling, I found the “salad spinner” idea wasn’t… well, -quite- as silly as I had first thought.
$100, though, would probably be better spent on fixing my regular washer. Still, it’s interesting seeing the different ideas out there. There were even plans on Mother Earth News for a wind powered washer!
I saw one mention of using a mop wringer, which should be easy enough to find. Again, I’m lazy, and would find the wringer a bit tedious.
Hmmm. A crank really is a simple mechanism, easy enough to duplicate. The issue comes down to a knob, because while a regular knob or finial would do the trick, it would be better if it rotated separate from the crank, instead of rotating in your hand.
My husband is a homebrewer and we’ve several grain mills here. A handle similar to those, but with smooth wooden rollers instead of the grinders would work great — similar to what my grandmother had on her washing machine when I was a kid. 🙂
A electric router that carpenters use would work good for making holes in the plunger. I would be afraid I would be stabbing my hand if I did what is suggested.
#1 I love the washer idea. #2 Wringing is highly over-rated. If the day is sunny or breezy and the clothes line can handle it you can hang out pretty wet clothes. We went without a washing machine or dryer (I’ve got seven kids) for a while and did the wash by hand out in the back yard. I got sick of wringing real quick. I’d just hang up the fairly wet clothes and they all got dry pretty quick. This method would probably not work on a damp day, but on a dryish day don’t kill yourself with trying to wring everything.
This bucket/plunger washing contraption would probably also work great for the felting of hand knit wool projects, which also requires hot water and being able to control the amount and time of agitation. Anybody else think this might work for that?
One possibility for a wringer system could be a battery operated drill and a larger mixer attachment (can find in lowes or home depot). These mixer attachments or beaters have a longer shaft and fit perfectly into the chucks of most drills just like a drill bit does. My husband uses this method to mix drywall mud. Could wrap the mixer end sections with fabric to ensure clothing doesn’t rip or tear and could do this right in the bucket! Definitely a great idea for camping or vacation homes. And is a great way to teach the children to measure detergent, sort colors, and feel accomplished for helping out. Could even do this in front of the tv or at the table for those children who wait until the last second before bed to Tell you they forgot to wash the outfit they have to wear in the am.
I remember washing the old gym uniform by hand in the sink and then hanging on the line and rinsing with the garden hose. Left to dry = no wrinkles and no ironing of cotton. Worked for me when I was 12-14.
made this today after a quick run to the store for supplies. just finished washing my first load in it and it worked very well…talk about an arm workout! if i keep this up until we get a new washer, i’m going to have very envyable upper arms lol.
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Love the idea! Just a thought – if one has to do a large amount of laundry (when the machine breaks or something)…a second set up to rinse would be handy. Particularly if one has more than will fit together in the bucket. Since I make my own laundry detergent, suds are not a problem for me, and a little vinegar in the rinse water does wonders!
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Washing this way is great! Wringing out is really hard on the hands. I think one of those mop buckets with a wringer would do the job and would be worth the money for me.
I stayed at a hotel for an extended period of time that had a whirlpool bathtub. I washed my clothes in the bathtub with the whirlpool running and hung them on hangers on the shower rod. It pays to keep an open mind and think outside the box!
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Not hot enough for handwashing diapers. Temperature would be fine for t-shirts, etc, but impractical due to the volume of water needed to wash much of anything. You’d need a row of buckets.
You can also use a metal wash tubs and get one of those hand crank wringers to fasten to the side. It saves getting blisters from wringing out by hand.
I guess I`m an old yimer. When my kid were small and in diapers I washed every day in a bucket with a plunger. I hung the diapers out on the line and got a lot of remarks about how nice and white they were. That was about 50
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i remember my grandmother, a Cajun country gal who raised 5 kids and ( lots of chickens), had a small blue rubber plunger with lobes and holes. It looked like the shape of a flower. It was smaller- maybe 18 inches long on the handle and was made to wash laundry in a tub. She also had a wringer washer in the kitchen and we hung clothes out to dry on the back porch or in the yard by the peach trees. She would use some Dreft and wash cloth diapers and delicates in the bathtub with this plunger. It was fun for a little girl to make the bubbles and I never considered any other way. When I had my girl in the 70’s I washed cloth diapers in the bathtub and dried them on a wooden rack in my apartment.
Rhonda, that blue plunger was from Stanley Home Products, and it was sold to wash sweaters and delicates in the bathtub. That’s what I’ve been thinking through this whole thread…been here, done this. 🙂 I love the bucket idea and wish I’d thought about it back in 1969 when I was washing army uniforms by hand in the kitchen sink (too pregnant to bend over the tub) and too poor to go to the laundramat! 🙂
Great idea….I forgot in the days before salad spinners, I would take a clean pillow case full of very wet, just washed lettuce and swing it for all it was worth in the back yard. Got a little wet in the process, but the lettuce was dry enough without being soggy….soggy, wet lettuce is inedible to me.
I know Gaiam Real Goods catalog sells a James washer (essentialy this, but metal, fancy, and expensive), and I think you can buy the wringer seperately. Not sure on the price for that, though!
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wow this is similar to what we used to do in the country in IL, We lived in Hopkins Park IL, and most of the people there live in abject poverty. We didnt have a washer, no laudrymat in town nor a car to get to the nearest one. We used to load the clothes in the bath tub, add some soap and swish the clothes around with an old mop (sans mophead). drain the tub, add rinse water, repeat. We had an old dryer that the last tenants had left behind that we also used to heat the house (no working furnace in this trailer, so we stuck a wad of gum in the dryer part to trick it into thinking the door was closed and let the hot air run, thus heating our home). pull out the gum and close the door to dry clothes. this idea would have been very useful back then, my mom had an old washboard and a metal bucket she would use sometimes.
forgot to mention this was in the mid 1990s. People always think that I am talking about a looooong time ago whenever I mention conditions in Hopkins Park.
My grandfather built one of these for my Mom when I was little. Our cabin doesn’t have a washer or dryer (or shower, tub, tv, internet, or phone) so there was always laundry to do since running around outside was the chief form of entertainment. Mom still mentions this as being the best washing machine she’s ever had.
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Thanks for sharing your handy washer ‘how to’ with us! I plan to grab a large lidded bucket as soon as I can. It is also a great electricity-saving device AND workout for maintaining strong, lean arms!
I plan to teach my family to use it whenever they feel frustrated and cranky to help let off steam. That way more washing will get done without me doing it!
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Some pool chemicals come in buckets that are deeper (larger) than 5 gallon size. They also have screw off lids that are much easier to get on & off than the 5 gal. lids. They are probably thrown away by pool cleaners. If the chemicals are safe enough to put in water that people swim in, after washing the bucket I would think they should be OK for clothes washing too.
Of course you might even try the no diaper route. Never had children but know a great couple who rarely used diapers and really paid attention to how the babies expressed the need to go. Two for one!
Looking forward to making this for my home! For the holes in the plunger, I think I’ll try my apple corer. A piece of wood inside as a cutting support surface should do it.
When you get the plunger, make sure you also get a long screw-in wood handle so you can stand up and use this thing efficiently. As for sudsy water, put vinegar in your rinse water. Gets all the soap out.
This is a great life hack! I was thinking instead of using it as a punishment for bad behavior to use it as a fun thing to do with the boys, and then they will want to have fun with the washing! 😀
Brialliant idea Melissa…well done…I made a similar one for a couple of polo shirts, socks and underwear for when I could not be bothered putting the electric washing machine on…I just sit it in the bath on top of a square plastic milk crate (to save the back), to do the washing. I, like you, might yet, put a couple of extra holes in the plunger bit. I get my buckets from the fish and chip shop…I use them for self watering planters too, but for the purpose of this exercise (despite the shop cleaning them out because they once held mayonaise), gave them a couple more goes of washing out with normal dishwashing liquid. Mine, with the hole in the centre of the lid, works like a dream..prior to washing, put the washing to be done in the same bucket to soak, or have a spare one along side for that purpose, then the mini machine can be ready to go with the clothes washing detergent and water added.
Hi! I would like to propose a couple of steps extra. Get three buckets instead of one. One for washing. One for rinsing. One for wringing. The first two are used as above but one with soapy water and the other with clean water. The lid and plunger can be put on either bucket. The third bucket should have holes drilled out on the lower half and bottom. Then when you take the clothes out of the soap bucket, you place them in the bucket with holes. Then place the soap bucket on top the clothes. The water will be smashed out of the clothes and drain from the holes. The clothes then go into the rinse bucket and plunged. Then clothes go back into the bucket with holes to remove the water again. Then onto the clothesline. I hope I was able to explain myself clearly. This would save a lot of time and effort from wringing. I wish I could remember where I read this but thought I would pass it on. Have a Blessed day!
I love this idea. I have been looking them up for a while because I don’t have a washer/dryer hook up and the laundry mat is killing us! Ok. So I figure for larger loads you could use a flexible style tote and out fit it with a cheap sink basket, a foot of pvp, and a collapsible pool hose! Easy to drain and refill! Thanks for the post!
not sure that this is the proper place to put this, but along the same idea, using no electricity (due to ma y days of no power happening every winter due to storms) I made a “manual pressure” shower. I used one of those pesticide sprayers that you can get at most department or lawn and garden stores ..the kind that has a screw on lid and a handle that you push up and down to pressurize and a hose and nozzle to spray weeds etc. I bought a brand new one for around 15 dollars. In it’s simplest form, I heated a potato kettle of water to steaming, dumped it in and then topped off with cool water, to get the temperature I wanted. screw the lid on, Then I turned the nozzle to the “stream” setting, as mine only had stream and mist. pump it up to pressure and voila! An instant shower…. though a very narrow stream of water. I was able to wash up, shampoo and rinse my hair without refilling it, even though I had the nozzle handle locked in the on position. IF you want to be more frugal with the water, you can turn it on and off by releasing the lock.
I later improved this shower by using the shower head from a battery operated camp shower that I had purchased once for 20 bucks. (it didn’t work well at all as it came). I used the shower head and some plastic tubing that I had. I removed the nozzle from the bug sprayer, stuck the tubing over the end where the nozzle had screwed on. I was able to stretch the tubing over the primer end of the camp shower head. Same process as when using the original nozzle, except now I have a much wider spray and the water doesn’t last quite as long because it comes out faster. but I can still get a decent 5 minutes of continuous water flow. Have to stop to pump the pressure back up once or twice. The total cost was about 35 dollars, but to be able to show up at work freshly showered when nobody has had power at home for days on end is priceless.
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What a great idea! Could have used this years ago for the summer before we got our well hooked up…
Two thoughts: First of all, a cheap and easy way to get a longer handle would probably be to buy a dollar-store broom or mop; the plungers I’ve had have screw-on handles that seem to take the same thread size. Cost would probably be around $3 or so.
So far as the salad spinners go, my mum always used to just put the washed salad onto a clean tea towel, gather it up by the corners, head outside, and swing it around her head for a few seconds. Great fun and very effective (and it made that bit in Mr. Bean where he dries his salad off in his sock extra hilarious; swinging your salad around to dry it may be a British thing, lol). I wonder if it wouldn’t work for clothes, too? One could maybe put one or two items (depending on size; I can’t imagine one would get many into a salad spinner anyways) into a pillow case or something and swing that about for a bit; it’s surprisingly entertaining and I see no reason it oughtn’t work as well as a spinner.
A good way to reduce rinsing is to add vinegar to the rinse water. This is particularly good for diapers because the vinegar cuts the soap film and makes the dry diapers super absorbent and very soft. use about 1/3 cup of vinegar or less with this Hillbilly washer.
I find that that detergent meant for high efficiency washers really works well when I do a camp wash in a bucket so would probably be great for this technique. Really low suds and meant to use a minimum of water. I use the Tide free and gentle pods in my water bucket with excellent results. Might have to see if I can find room for a plunger in my tiny rv.
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Thanks for all the tips, I was looking for an old fashioned dolly posser on line, (that’s what we in England used to wash clothes years ago) now that I can use a plunger with holes in along with a lidded bucket as a washing machine. We are at a campsite with no laundry facilities and washing all our clothes by hand. I must admit to buying an electric spinner which does make life easier, now I can fashion a machine it will be wonderful. In two months the spinner has paid for itself as to take the washing to a laundry it was so expensive, and a long drive.
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Wonderful idea. I love it
I imagine that a tablespoon of soap/detergent would suffice. Maybe this gray water could also be used in the garden, on flowers or something non-edible. Detergents often act as a fertilizer, I think. Anyway, brilliant idea. I wish I had thought of it 30 years ago when I was washing diapers by hand.
A tablespoon is what I need for my whole wash in my regular washer, so I used about 1.5 tsp. I’ll drop to 1tsp for future loads. I considered the grey water for the flower beds, but my edibles grow with my flowers and the water was far too hot to pour on plants. I used it for killing weeds instead. 😉
It’s not only good as a fertilizer, it’s also the best “organic” insect repellant!
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Fabulous idea! Thank you for sharing! Wish I had known about this a few months ago when my washer went out. Very creative!
I love that you are cloth diapering. My baby is 28 this year. I am still cleaning with some of the flats that saw 2 of his brothers use after him. I sewed some of those hourglass shaped diapers and they must have passed on to others but the last 2-3 flats are starting to get holey now and may not see 30 years but they were sure a value packed investment
Very cool way to wash clothes. Thanks for the idea!
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Awesome Idea! Now I just have to come up with a cheap and easy DIY spin cycle (that doesn’t involve slinging a mesh bag filled with wet clothing around my head) and we’ll be good to go!
I read in a blog where she used a large commercial salad spinner to “wring out” the clothes.
A commercial or heavy duty mop bucket with the attachment for squeezing the water out of the mop works great for both washing and wringing out the clothes. Because the material isn’t actually being wrung, the clothes also last longer. Plus if you use soap nuts, the clothes need not be perfectly rinsed. Not just for camping.
Great idea! As you say, Lesley, it’s not so much the washing but the getting dry that’s the problem. I envisage a spin dryer powered by a bike but I’ve only seen designs for the washing machine bit on the internet.
Here is a video on how to wring dry your wash…. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k405br7_Wto
I found this idea years ago in a book called Roughing It Easy. It does work well! They also said if you are going for a drive, forget the plunger and just toss in the soap, snap the lid on tight, and set it in your trunk. When you arrive at your destination your clothes are clean from the agitation of the car trip! lol
that saves money on a road trip! no more need for quarters at the motel laundromat!! Love it!
I used to own that book…wish I still had it. As far as suds goes, buy a bottle of that camping/hunting detergent at WalMart called SPORT-WASH. Amazing stuff…you can do an entire washing machine load with a small ONE oz. capful plus it removes all odors in smelling clothes and it does not suds. Use 1/2 capful per gallon of water.
A bottle will last forever…unless you are washing with it daily
I use the plunger on large tubs of handwashing (valuable handmade tablecloths etc and do it in my laundry tub. So glad for this reminder…we are about to set out on a long camping trip and I will take a lidded bucket and do at least the underwear in it while we drive.
My mother-in-law called the plunger used in this fashion an Irish Wash Woman…probably not PC nowadays.
I did a google search for the book and here is a link to find quite a few new versions of it:
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I have done similar things but have never thought about it as much to actually create a little system like this.. this is good stuff.
Spin cycle? Salad Spinner! Okay, maybe not…
However, the crank system of an old ice cream maker would work. Get a slightly smaller bucket (say 3-gallon) to fit inside the larger one. Not too much smaller, but enough for it to actually rotate. Drill or cut lots of holes. (I’m lazy, I’d use a drill with a large bit.) When it comes time to spin, drain out the excess, attach the crank system (that part I’m still fuzzy on), and start cranking.
That’s an off-the-top-of-my-head, idea… but since my washer is currently broken, and it’s a long drive to the nearest laundromat – and when the heck did they get so expensive! – I may wind up trying this out myself.
I am sorely tempted to experiment with some old wooden rolling pins to make a wringer, if I ever see two I like at a thrift shop. 😉
Nice idea. It’s the crank bit I’m fuzzy on too! Lol.
Doing a bit of googling, I found the “salad spinner” idea wasn’t… well, -quite- as silly as I had first thought.
$100, though, would probably be better spent on fixing my regular washer. Still, it’s interesting seeing the different ideas out there. There were even plans on Mother Earth News for a wind powered washer!
I saw one mention of using a mop wringer, which should be easy enough to find. Again, I’m lazy, and would find the wringer a bit tedious.
Hmmm. A crank really is a simple mechanism, easy enough to duplicate. The issue comes down to a knob, because while a regular knob or finial would do the trick, it would be better if it rotated separate from the crank, instead of rotating in your hand.
Damn, now you’ve got me thinking again…
My husband is a homebrewer and we’ve several grain mills here. A handle similar to those, but with smooth wooden rollers instead of the grinders would work great — similar to what my grandmother had on her washing machine when I was a kid. 🙂
Use a restaurant grade salad spinner to spin dry your laundry. The big orange ones with a crank handle works the best.
http://www.eliterestaurantequipment.com/dynamic-salad-spinner-sd92.html
A electric router that carpenters use would work good for making holes in the plunger. I would be afraid I would be stabbing my hand if I did what is suggested.
#1 I love the washer idea. #2 Wringing is highly over-rated. If the day is sunny or breezy and the clothes line can handle it you can hang out pretty wet clothes. We went without a washing machine or dryer (I’ve got seven kids) for a while and did the wash by hand out in the back yard. I got sick of wringing real quick. I’d just hang up the fairly wet clothes and they all got dry pretty quick. This method would probably not work on a damp day, but on a dryish day don’t kill yourself with trying to wring everything.
Ingenious!
This bucket/plunger washing contraption would probably also work great for the felting of hand knit wool projects, which also requires hot water and being able to control the amount and time of agitation. Anybody else think this might work for that?
I don’t see why not — it might work better for that with more than one item in the bucket, however. 🙂
One possibility for a wringer system could be a battery operated drill and a larger mixer attachment (can find in lowes or home depot). These mixer attachments or beaters have a longer shaft and fit perfectly into the chucks of most drills just like a drill bit does. My husband uses this method to mix drywall mud. Could wrap the mixer end sections with fabric to ensure clothing doesn’t rip or tear and could do this right in the bucket! Definitely a great idea for camping or vacation homes. And is a great way to teach the children to measure detergent, sort colors, and feel accomplished for helping out. Could even do this in front of the tv or at the table for those children who wait until the last second before bed to Tell you they forgot to wash the outfit they have to wear in the am.
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They sell large salad spinners, like for restaurant use, that people have used to pull out excess water from DIY washing methods…maybe worth a try?
I mop bucket with a squeeze function works nicely to squeeze the water out of the clothes 🙂
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I remember washing the old gym uniform by hand in the sink and then hanging on the line and rinsing with the garden hose. Left to dry = no wrinkles and no ironing of cotton. Worked for me when I was 12-14.
made this today after a quick run to the store for supplies. just finished washing my first load in it and it worked very well…talk about an arm workout! if i keep this up until we get a new washer, i’m going to have very envyable upper arms lol.
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Love the idea! Just a thought – if one has to do a large amount of laundry (when the machine breaks or something)…a second set up to rinse would be handy. Particularly if one has more than will fit together in the bucket. Since I make my own laundry detergent, suds are not a problem for me, and a little vinegar in the rinse water does wonders!
do you just empty out the wash water and refil with rinse water and repeat the “plunging” for the rinse? or did you do something else to rinse?
That’s pretty much what I do! 🙂
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Washing this way is great! Wringing out is really hard on the hands. I think one of those mop buckets with a wringer would do the job and would be worth the money for me.
I stayed at a hotel for an extended period of time that had a whirlpool bathtub. I washed my clothes in the bathtub with the whirlpool running and hung them on hangers on the shower rod. It pays to keep an open mind and think outside the box!
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How about pre-filling a black bucket with water & putting it in the sun for hot solar water?
Not hot enough for handwashing diapers. Temperature would be fine for t-shirts, etc, but impractical due to the volume of water needed to wash much of anything. You’d need a row of buckets.
You’re right in most places! I live in Arizona where the water could get dangerously hot!
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Nice. One of these will make a fine addition to my cabin in the woods. Thanks for this post…I love simple solutions to basic needs.
You can also use a metal wash tubs and get one of those hand crank wringers to fasten to the side. It saves getting blisters from wringing out by hand.
Good idea, for sure. Yeah, those hand crank wringers do make things a lot easier.
I guess I`m an old yimer. When my kid were small and in diapers I washed every day in a bucket with a plunger. I hung the diapers out on the line and got a lot of remarks about how nice and white they were. That was about 50
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i remember my grandmother, a Cajun country gal who raised 5 kids and ( lots of chickens), had a small blue rubber plunger with lobes and holes. It looked like the shape of a flower. It was smaller- maybe 18 inches long on the handle and was made to wash laundry in a tub. She also had a wringer washer in the kitchen and we hung clothes out to dry on the back porch or in the yard by the peach trees. She would use some Dreft and wash cloth diapers and delicates in the bathtub with this plunger. It was fun for a little girl to make the bubbles and I never considered any other way. When I had my girl in the 70’s I washed cloth diapers in the bathtub and dried them on a wooden rack in my apartment.
If you need to drive anywhere, just throw the bucket in the car & the drive will help agitate the laundry…
Rhonda, that blue plunger was from Stanley Home Products, and it was sold to wash sweaters and delicates in the bathtub. That’s what I’ve been thinking through this whole thread…been here, done this. 🙂 I love the bucket idea and wish I’d thought about it back in 1969 when I was washing army uniforms by hand in the kitchen sink (too pregnant to bend over the tub) and too poor to go to the laundramat! 🙂
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The wife and I used this idea forty years ago, in Germany, with our new born. For wringing, I used a net-bag, swing the water out!
Great idea….I forgot in the days before salad spinners, I would take a clean pillow case full of very wet, just washed lettuce and swing it for all it was worth in the back yard. Got a little wet in the process, but the lettuce was dry enough without being soggy….soggy, wet lettuce is inedible to me.
Hmm… I might even try this method in my apartment to save on quarters!
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this is an AWESOME idea! I am a felter and THIS will be so much better than running the washing machine for one or to items! Yay! Thank you!
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I know Gaiam Real Goods catalog sells a James washer (essentialy this, but metal, fancy, and expensive), and I think you can buy the wringer seperately. Not sure on the price for that, though!
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wow this is similar to what we used to do in the country in IL, We lived in Hopkins Park IL, and most of the people there live in abject poverty. We didnt have a washer, no laudrymat in town nor a car to get to the nearest one. We used to load the clothes in the bath tub, add some soap and swish the clothes around with an old mop (sans mophead). drain the tub, add rinse water, repeat. We had an old dryer that the last tenants had left behind that we also used to heat the house (no working furnace in this trailer, so we stuck a wad of gum in the dryer part to trick it into thinking the door was closed and let the hot air run, thus heating our home). pull out the gum and close the door to dry clothes. this idea would have been very useful back then, my mom had an old washboard and a metal bucket she would use sometimes.
forgot to mention this was in the mid 1990s. People always think that I am talking about a looooong time ago whenever I mention conditions in Hopkins Park.
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My grandfather built one of these for my Mom when I was little. Our cabin doesn’t have a washer or dryer (or shower, tub, tv, internet, or phone) so there was always laundry to do since running around outside was the chief form of entertainment. Mom still mentions this as being the best washing machine she’s ever had.
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Thanks for sharing your handy washer ‘how to’ with us! I plan to grab a large lidded bucket as soon as I can. It is also a great electricity-saving device AND workout for maintaining strong, lean arms!
I plan to teach my family to use it whenever they feel frustrated and cranky to help let off steam. That way more washing will get done without me doing it!
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Some pool chemicals come in buckets that are deeper (larger) than 5 gallon size. They also have screw off lids that are much easier to get on & off than the 5 gal. lids. They are probably thrown away by pool cleaners. If the chemicals are safe enough to put in water that people swim in, after washing the bucket I would think they should be OK for clothes washing too.
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Of course you might even try the no diaper route. Never had children but know a great couple who rarely used diapers and really paid attention to how the babies expressed the need to go. Two for one!
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Looking forward to making this for my home! For the holes in the plunger, I think I’ll try my apple corer. A piece of wood inside as a cutting support surface should do it.
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When you get the plunger, make sure you also get a long screw-in wood handle so you can stand up and use this thing efficiently. As for sudsy water, put vinegar in your rinse water. Gets all the soap out.
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This is a great life hack! I was thinking instead of using it as a punishment for bad behavior to use it as a fun thing to do with the boys, and then they will want to have fun with the washing! 😀
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Brialliant idea Melissa…well done…I made a similar one for a couple of polo shirts, socks and underwear for when I could not be bothered putting the electric washing machine on…I just sit it in the bath on top of a square plastic milk crate (to save the back), to do the washing. I, like you, might yet, put a couple of extra holes in the plunger bit. I get my buckets from the fish and chip shop…I use them for self watering planters too, but for the purpose of this exercise (despite the shop cleaning them out because they once held mayonaise), gave them a couple more goes of washing out with normal dishwashing liquid. Mine, with the hole in the centre of the lid, works like a dream..prior to washing, put the washing to be done in the same bucket to soak, or have a spare one along side for that purpose, then the mini machine can be ready to go with the clothes washing detergent and water added.
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Hi! I would like to propose a couple of steps extra. Get three buckets instead of one. One for washing. One for rinsing. One for wringing. The first two are used as above but one with soapy water and the other with clean water. The lid and plunger can be put on either bucket. The third bucket should have holes drilled out on the lower half and bottom. Then when you take the clothes out of the soap bucket, you place them in the bucket with holes. Then place the soap bucket on top the clothes. The water will be smashed out of the clothes and drain from the holes. The clothes then go into the rinse bucket and plunged. Then clothes go back into the bucket with holes to remove the water again. Then onto the clothesline. I hope I was able to explain myself clearly. This would save a lot of time and effort from wringing. I wish I could remember where I read this but thought I would pass it on. Have a Blessed day!
What a terrific idea! If you put holes on just one side of the bucket you won’t be washing your feet along with the clothes! lol
I love this idea. I have been looking them up for a while because I don’t have a washer/dryer hook up and the laundry mat is killing us! Ok. So I figure for larger loads you could use a flexible style tote and out fit it with a cheap sink basket, a foot of pvp, and a collapsible pool hose! Easy to drain and refill! Thanks for the post!
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not sure that this is the proper place to put this, but along the same idea, using no electricity (due to ma y days of no power happening every winter due to storms) I made a “manual pressure” shower. I used one of those pesticide sprayers that you can get at most department or lawn and garden stores ..the kind that has a screw on lid and a handle that you push up and down to pressurize and a hose and nozzle to spray weeds etc. I bought a brand new one for around 15 dollars. In it’s simplest form, I heated a potato kettle of water to steaming, dumped it in and then topped off with cool water, to get the temperature I wanted. screw the lid on, Then I turned the nozzle to the “stream” setting, as mine only had stream and mist. pump it up to pressure and voila! An instant shower…. though a very narrow stream of water. I was able to wash up, shampoo and rinse my hair without refilling it, even though I had the nozzle handle locked in the on position. IF you want to be more frugal with the water, you can turn it on and off by releasing the lock.
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What a great idea! Could have used this years ago for the summer before we got our well hooked up…
Two thoughts: First of all, a cheap and easy way to get a longer handle would probably be to buy a dollar-store broom or mop; the plungers I’ve had have screw-on handles that seem to take the same thread size. Cost would probably be around $3 or so.
So far as the salad spinners go, my mum always used to just put the washed salad onto a clean tea towel, gather it up by the corners, head outside, and swing it around her head for a few seconds. Great fun and very effective (and it made that bit in Mr. Bean where he dries his salad off in his sock extra hilarious; swinging your salad around to dry it may be a British thing, lol). I wonder if it wouldn’t work for clothes, too? One could maybe put one or two items (depending on size; I can’t imagine one would get many into a salad spinner anyways) into a pillow case or something and swing that about for a bit; it’s surprisingly entertaining and I see no reason it oughtn’t work as well as a spinner.
A good way to reduce rinsing is to add vinegar to the rinse water. This is particularly good for diapers because the vinegar cuts the soap film and makes the dry diapers super absorbent and very soft. use about 1/3 cup of vinegar or less with this Hillbilly washer.
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I find that that detergent meant for high efficiency washers really works well when I do a camp wash in a bucket so would probably be great for this technique. Really low suds and meant to use a minimum of water. I use the Tide free and gentle pods in my water bucket with excellent results. Might have to see if I can find room for a plunger in my tiny rv.
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Thanks for all the tips, I was looking for an old fashioned dolly posser on line, (that’s what we in England used to wash clothes years ago) now that I can use a plunger with holes in along with a lidded bucket as a washing machine. We are at a campsite with no laundry facilities and washing all our clothes by hand. I must admit to buying an electric spinner which does make life easier, now I can fashion a machine it will be wonderful. In two months the spinner has paid for itself as to take the washing to a laundry it was so expensive, and a long drive.
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