Re: [Ermine] Washing machine

From: Joe Marfice <af289_at_dayton.wright.edu>
Date: Tue 23 Jul 1996 03:47:09 PM EDT
Message-id: <9607231947.AA19559@dayton.wright.edu>

A similarly sized bucket, some (non-phosphate) detergent, and dumping out the water before the "rinse" cycle will also make a nice "hand clothes-washer" --just add real hands :{) . The problem with both of these is that you basically need to work near the spigot, and you generate a large amount of waste water all at once. I've done it in the past, carrying the water to the woods edge, but the water gets heavy, fast.

On a side note, the Historic Costuming List recently pointed out that US soap manufacturers add blue dye, because Americans perceive bluish whites as being cleaner. Certain areas in Europe add red or yellow dyes, for the same deception/perception. I recently needed to salvage several teeshirts from an inkpen disaster, so I oversoaped them (no soap), and--guess what? Blue shirts!

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--+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+--- From: Joe Marfice <af289@dayton.wright.edu> --+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+--- Received on Tue Jul 23 15:47:36 1996