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WASHING 9/5/2006 3:55:07 PM
I invented an old fashioned automatic wash machine today.
I had a small load of laundry to do, but my regular automatic wash machine was out of commission. Since it was already late in the day, too late to bother going to a laundo-mat, I decided to hand wash it. But I didn’t do it the ordinary way. That is rubbing soap into it and sloshing it around in the sink. Instead I put the items in a bucket, added laundry soap and hot water. Then used my plunger. That’s right. I used my toilet bowl plunger to plunge and splash the water up and down in the bucket, imitating the agitating action of a wash machine. I sat there about ten minutes plunging the contents of the bucket. It’s amazing how much dirt I beat out of those clothes.
Then I dumped the water out and added cold water to rinse. I rinsed it twice before I wrung it out. The clothes came out amazingly clean.
If I had to, I could do all of our laundry this way, although the automatic way is easier. It works quite well doing it this way. Works is the word. You have to provide the energy.
If I had to chose between an old fashioned scrub board and this plunger method I just came up with, I would chose doing it the plunger way.
