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its marketing and expectations. I soak my clothes soak with soap in a 5gal bucket, rinse in the same bucket by pouring the water out in the tub, and spin them
by convolvatron 5y ago
its marketing and expectations.
I soak my clothes soak with soap in a 5gal bucket, rinse in the same bucket by pouring the water out in the tub, and spin them nearly dry in a motor+drum and hand and dry over the tub. I can easily throw in a little soda or peroxide, and I rinse it until the water is clear.
its sounds terribly manual and regressive but really its very little work, just filling up a bucket and dumping it out. the clothes come out cleaner (no extra soap and lint), and it doesn't really take any more time. the only hardware, the spinner, is cheap and fantastically straightforward.
I think people have been deceived over generations to consider what goes on inside a washing machine as some kind of arduous and complicated magic.
- bityard 5y agoIf I was only doing my own laundry, I would only have to wash a load once a week, and I would never use the dryer since I'm content to air-dry all of my clothes. However, a family of four tilts the balance in favor of the time-saving machines. (That said, we /do/ make our own laundry detergent for pennies a gallon and it has saved us a ton of money over the years.)
- truetraveller 5y agoWhat is the recipe for the detergent, if you don't mind?
- xkfm 5y agoWhat spinner do you use if you don't mind me asking?
- convolvatron 5y agothe panda. mine does have a little bearing noise if it gets up to max speed and is fully loaded. I can imagine making a nicer one, but for the cost and for a few 2 minute sessions a week its great. I live in a multi-unit building so I made a little table of neoprene and plywood layers for dampening.