How to do Laundry Without Electricity - Washing Clothes Off Grid Without Power
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- How to do laundry off grid without electricity - Is it as easy as we think? Today, we'll test how prepared we are to be able to wash clothes without power. and do laundry when the grid is down.
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Lesson learned: Do everything in your power to keep Dave alive so he can do the laundry.
😂🤣😂🤣 Tawra you had me laughing out loud! Hilarious one liners! Dave saying he was resurrected was priceless! Jill was cracking me up too!👏👏💕🤣😂
So my thought is it would probably be easier to take the clothes down to the creek and just wash them in the creek instead of hauling water etc. In a real grid down situation it just wouldn't make much sense to do all that extra work.
That's what I would do too. You see photos of women doing their washing at the river in Africa.
I thought the same
I laughed so so so hard. Let’s just say I had to change clothes. 😂 This was the BEST video ever!!! Thanks so much. This also gave me a grand appreciation for my grandparents.
This was hilarious. Can’t wait to show my husband how he’s going to do the laundry. Lol
I watch your show most of the time for the last 4 years and don't generally comment but I think this one was hilarious and you really put a lot of effort into it. Thanks for having a great sense of humor and keeping it real.
My Grandma was one tough woman! She did EVERYTHING from scratch and she was stronger than most men these days. When she’d wash us (in her 60’s) we’d feel like our skin was coming off - Lol! But she kept saying we were still dirty & we didn’t talk back to her (because we didn’t know if we would make it out of the bathtub with our skin still on - Lol!) She just wanted her grand babies 👶 to be clean. ❤
My mum was the same could take skin of at a 100 paces.
I think the bathtub & plunger method would be much less complicated. Hauling the water is the worst part for any job. ❤
The only problem with that is if you 're on a well for water. The pump won't run if there's no power so you wouldn't be able to fill the bathtub unless you hauled the water inside from the outdoors!!
@@vintagehomemaker9338 keep a wash bucket near the well, etc if possible. Then use clean plunger-only for laundry. Yes, water is a source of life but I'm sure you already know all this prepping stuff. 👍😁
My plan is two 5 gallon buckets and plunger dedicated just for laundry. If we leave our 5 gallon buckets outside at all times we should get some rain water to use
Thus no hauling water
What do you think?
@@marendababcock6104 my plan is also 2 buckets and a plunger
I'm ashamed of myself for laughing when you fell in the creek! Love your videos! Dan in Michigan
I've been waiting for this video and you guys didn't disappoint. The lessons learned are immeasurable. Forgive the tears of laughter falling down my face. Best video yet!
What not to do.
Back in the day my brother and I did the family laundry in a wringer washer, then hung it on the line to dry! Lots of work! You guys are too funny! Love ya!
Now people know why I drove 500 miles to help my sister....and why I was so happy to walk her down the aisle and give her away. I could have a blockbuster action horror movie of all the "projects" she talked me into helping her.
Simple way to do wash is not to get your clothes dirty lol. The easiest way to do laundry with no power is to go get 2 yellow mop buckets on wheels with wringers and a laundry only toilet plunger. They sell them at home depot/ Lowes and places like that. The cost is worth it or as a Christmas present, Birthday present, or mother's day present.
We have three 5-gallon buckets, one with holes drilled in that fits inside another bucket, a hole in the lid and a plunger with holes drilled in. The plunger agitates and the third bucket is for holding rinse water. Use the bucket with rinse water to swish water out of the bucket with the holes. There are videos on here. I don't have a wringer yet, but its on my list.
YOU'VE GOT TO DO MORE OF THESE. THEY'RE GREAT 👍 🤣🤣🤣 So educational.
I’m so proud of you! This was totally the best video I’ve ever seen! I may watch it on loop when I’m having a bad day..
love love love this!
Ps… my new catch phrase is when I can’t do anymore “are you still dead Dave?”!! Hahahaha
Ha, ha, that's so funny.
Question ⁉️- wouldn't it be easier just to do all this in the bathtub you could even climb in and stomp on it with your feet?
Then just pull the plug squeeze it and hang it up. I've seen other people do that on TH-cam am I underthinking this? Is that a thing?
We use a Toliet plunger in our 5 gal bucket or wash tub
Our house plans to use Castile soap. You don't have to worry about leftover soap in clothes. It's safe for brushing teeth or bathing and water plants with dirty water.
What a prepper show! You girls are the experts but I couldn't stop laughing. Brilliant!!!
It was great fun watching you guys joke and laugh! It’s just what we viewers need. Mom is so witty! 😆 beautiful and I love that colorful plaid shirt!
I have cleaned clothes in a bathtub. I would soak them and then use my hands to swoosh em around. Then I drained and filled tub again. But only fill till clothes are submerged. Then swoosh again. Then drain again and squeeze. My clothes were clean just as if I used a washer.
You can also get in the tub and stomp the clothes. It saves your arms.
LOL....I wish we were neighbors to see this up close! Forget the washing like in the olden days. Now I understand why my aunt with her 9 kids just had 3 suits of clothes. Oh my gosh!
When I was dating I had the bright idea of testing my date with how she handles stress. So I intentionally ran out of gas. I didn’t know the real test was when I told her I did it intentionally. I never did that again. She married someone else.
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Hate to say it, but that’s funny! 😂 (& if she took it that seriously, you may have been better off that she married someone else…) ❤
Awww 😔
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Good for you. You shouldn't have told her.
I knew this was gonna be a good one as soon as I clicked on it, and it did not disappoint!!! Y'all were cracking me up so much 🤣🤣🤣 This channel is the BEST!
Glad you enjoyed it!
You guys are so funny! I enjoyed watching this video so much. I remember growing up with my mom doing laundry on a wringer washer for our family of seven. The adjustment knob on the top of your wringer should loosen to allow zippers through it. Also, the handle should turn in both directions, so you should have been able to just turn in in the opposite direction of what you were turning it and then feed the clothes so the water would have gone back in the bucket. I have a wringer like that that I bought at a yard sale for $10. I've not had to use it yet, but I would if I had to. We live in the Missouri Ozarks and we had a cistern put in to catch water off our carport roof. It holds almost 2800 gallons of water. We had to send to Canada to get a "frost free" hand pump. We use it to water our garden, but it would be much better than going to the creek to get the water. Tawra, you need to get your rain barrels hooked up to your downspouts so you could get your wash water from there. Oh, about the stopper for the sink----we were poor growing up, even though we didn't feel "poor". One time, the stopper for our bathtub broke and, until they replaced the stopper, Mom just wadded a thin, wet washcloth up tightly and pushed it in the drain hole. It let the tub hold water with very little leakage. I think that's what I would have done. I wish you were my neighbor......no telling what we could get into, just saying! May God bless each of you.
Jewel Gaither - I was thinking the same thing, hook up the rain barrels. The water would be cleaner too! Very entertaining but it did show we must be prepared or it's just going to be that much harder. Love those ladies!
Yes. If she is so "prepared" why are her rain barrels not hooked up, and being used even to water the garden, or for the "Emergency"? And I was wondering why she put the dirty rock into the wash tub. Why she didn't rinse out the tub first? This was sort of funny, but I was thinking an actual video on how to do laundry with no electricity would have been m ore useful. that's what I thought when I clicked the video!! LOL
@@laurieasmus9998 Oh, I had fun watching this. I think they were having a lot of fun, as well, making the video! It's a reminder to all of us to do a little research in our preparedness!
First. . .hilarious! Secondly. . .what a huge job! I would have pulled my hair out and used that for a plug! Seriously, I learned a great deal. Going to put my off grid laundry kit together. I'm going to add some line to hang my clothes on, will pit them on a hanger and then hang from a tree or my line. Hope your arm is better! 🌼
🤣🤣 Best comedy all week🤣
OMG! That was a nasty fall, hope you are doing well. I think I’m prepped for laundry, have my five gallon bucket and plunger. I recently bought an indoor drying rack. Started using it for loads of wash with smaller items. Hang tops, shirts on plastic coat hangers in bathroom rod. Only use dryer for sheets, Jeans or thick towels. Trying to save money for electric bill. Only in the testing part for now, will adjust when the need arises. Great video, thank you for sharing.
Y’all get an A+ for giving me a good laugh 😂. Another A+ for showing us just how hard it would be to collect water, and wash clothes. And a 3rd A+ for all the money you just saved me on buying all those washing items.😊
Thank you Tawra, Jill and family. I live in Australia and have been following this channel for awhile now.
Such common sense tips and ideas that translate to all over the world. 🌏🌎🌍
But this vlog was the funniest and most real you have done, fantastic.
I love doing handwashing and pegging it on the line, looks so satisfying. 👌
Keep up the good work. 💖💖
Throughly enjoyed this informative and hilarious video. Made me laugh. Definitely gotta have a plan.
This was one of my favorite videos that y'all have made...made me laugh!
Me too! 😂😂😂😂
My well ran dry about 2 years ago and immediately I bought 2 275 gallon totes and a Ryobi water transfer pump. One tote for storing water and the other mounting on a trailer to bring in the water and storage too. For laundry a 5 gallon bucket and a washboard. The washboard after soaking I would just push it in the middle of the bucket and twist it. Worked pretty well. Get a top loading washing machine and pump water into it for washing. 25g to wash and 25g to rinse. I use the buckets now for watering trees and garden. Get meatal buckets as the plastic ones don't last very long. Looking forward to part 2 of this experience. 👍
This was so funny! “No Dave you are dead”. 🤣🤣 You falling, not so funny. I hope you didn’t injure anything. After watching this my clothes will be real dirty! I also will take my clothes to the stream. I could never haul that much water! Great video! Lots of laughs now but maybe not one day. 😬
Great video and glad everyone is ok! I use a wringer and do put buttons and zippers through it. I just open the wringer a twist for that part.
🤣 I fell down a flight of steps like that about a month ago. I’m still going to the chiropractor. God has a great sense of humor doesn’t he ❤
A plunger works great! I used one in Germany to wash our clothes. My husband was in the military and in order to save I would do the wash by hand. We took sheets etc to the base pay washers and dryers.
I watch this on my big screen TV.
Hope you are feeling better. I know you went to the Chiropractor.
Funny the older we get we don't bounce like we used to when we fall!
Thank you all for such a great laugh today!!! Y’all are so funny 😆. Thank you for showing us 😂
I have a breathing mobile washer from Lehman's (online). It looks like a plunger kind of but is made for doing laundry in a bucket. It is just under $30 and well worth it. It looks like they have a better handle than when I got mine.
lol So funny! Great to see someone checking their preps and finding the problems before you need them. I love how you're going to the very worst possible scenario - Dave's dead, have to get water from the creek using a rock! You went full-on pioneer! Consider using a pully and coming off the tree at the top of the trail to pull the wagon up. Maybe he'll help you with that if you resurrect him. 🤣🤣🤣
Great ideas to make things easier with more planning.
love this! I'd put a bucket under leaky sink to catch the drips for reuse
Definitely a 2 or 3 day process. I really admire you for collecting and hauling water (day 1). Whew!
I love that you laughed and laughed!! Sometimes when things don't work out well it turns into a great fun memory! Love it!
😂😂😍😍🤣🤣😄😄😂😂😍😍 I LOVE the videos like this you and your mom make - totally "unscripted" and totally real. I laughed so hard because I could see myself and my mom doing the same thing. LOL I thought I was going to die when you fell in the creek! I hope you are okay. I could tell your mom wasn't into doing the laundry especially with her nice, manicured nails. LOL My grandmother used to use a ringer type washing machine.
You two ladies are so funny. You make my day 😘
Yep; I agree on wearing clothes for a long time before washing about 10 minutes into video. 🤣 I just love these videos with the sense of humor and realness.
I loved watching this today! Thanks for being so real!
VERY ENTERTAINING! But smart. Big part prepping is knowledge and skills It is smart to have a practice run. It makes you thankful for modern convenience.
I really enjoyed this video. Tawra, your mom is such an amazing person. She's like a great friend, a wonderful mom, & a good teacher, all in one person. ☺🙋♀️🙏
This was absolutely great! You do all the hard work teaching us:) Bless you, Dave and your mother... this was a heck of a task. You all are such a joy to watch
we put up a clothesline this past spring. It is retractable and we love it
Tawra Jean, you will never cease to amaze me! I felt that fall myself. OUCH! Thank you for all your hard work. When I was a kid, there was a time when we did our laundry in the tub. It is hard work but we had water in the house. Which would be easier, I wonder, doing it outside or bringing the water in and using the tub or sink. Great job ladies!
Tawra you are a real trooper for giving your all to demonstrate this! I used a wringer when I was first married in '73. There is a way to thread the clothes through the ringer and not eat the buttons & zippers. But I was replacing them all the time until I figured it out. I had a double sink so I would wring the soapy clothes into one side of fresh water & do a hand swish to rinse the clothes ( technical term, Hand Swish) . and wring out the rinse water back into the rinse side to re-use the water as long as possible. I never had to haul water thankfully! Hanging outside even in winter does work. I had a good laugh with this episode, LOL.
Thank you both for this video. I smiled all the way through it. Laughing felt so good. Great information which the company of a fab family. Love these type of hands on videos. Also I just want to say you have a beautiful home, garden and surroundings. Very beautiful
I really enjoyed that. Thanks so much.
Love you guys! This video has made my day ❤
Yoy girls are hilarious 🤣🤣I had a good laugh , survival is a lot of work😆
What an awesome video! Love hearing all the laughter. Hope you’re feeling better Tawra
Thanks for a great video! It made me chuckle! You all are awesome! 👍👍👍
I miss using the wringer washers. I would have plugged the sink underneath and used the stopper on the inside. A cheap toilet plunger inside a bucket with a lid works pretty good. You folk got a workout that day.
You did a good job praying for your body to recover quickly i am glad Dave is not dead. I agree I will wear clothes for a week. I am going to get a 5 gallon bucket with a plunger and beat the neck out of my clothes. Loved your wash and wear video. Thanks take a test love you all
I would repurpose two Rubbermaid totes. One with wash water, one with clean water to rinse. I would use a new plunger to agitate the clothes.
I have used Saran Wrap under the stopper. It works. I have had to do it for my kitchen sink when I was preparing beans for the freezer.
Great video!!!! So much fun!
Loved 😍 the Video !!!!!
This was so cute and funny , enjoyed watching this. Lol ," Dave you cant Die " 🤣
Loved it!!
We had a wringer washer in the basement until 1965. I remember helping my mom do the wash and hanging it on the line. Fun times, lol
Loved this video!
Our washer broke last year and we couldn't afford a new one for a month or so. We washed our clothes in the kitchen sink and rinsed them in the. Other sink basin.the hardest part was wringing them out. Finally came upon the idea to use the wash bucket that stings out the mops. That worked great.so glad when we finally got a washer. You guys are so much fun to watch !!
Wrings.
This was the most comical/serious video I’ve ever seen 😁. Thank y’all for showing us just how hard doing laundry can be ♥️
I would use my five gallon buckets with wash board I do have.
This was a great (and hilarious) and highly valuable and necessary video. Thank you!
Oh my , I love it when you two are together and this one was great ! lol ...
Great video!!!😄
My mother had a washboard when she first got married. She really appreciated the modern washer, dryer, dishwasher and air conditioner when she got them.
New rule: Each person has to wash their own underwear.
Yes!! I would wait on rain water. Lol
That was hysterical!!!! God bless.
Such a great video! Good idea to run through things! I need to build some muscle also!
Great raw video. It makes me think I better go get my preps and practice. This is not for the weak of heart.
A bucket and plunger works great to clean laundry. I have used it to wash cloth diapers and they come out clean. Also I would probably set up some kind of rain catchment system so I would have water on hand for washing and even bathing if needed.
That is a good idea. Wyoming doesn't get a lot of rain but every bit helps 😊
I love the music added it’s perfect for the video.
This was great!!!
I moved into our old farmhouse on March 1, 2020. My husband was supposed to fly down on March 18 but his flight was cancelled. On March 19 my well went dry. I'm off grid and only had a generator for power and i didn't have a washer yet anyway. Fortunately I had stored about 400 gallons in a tank and my mom and I had that only for almost 3 months, for everything.
I finally was able to get the well dug deeper, bought a little solar unit for the fridge. It took until October for my husband to finally make it down here.
I didn't buy a washer until early 2022.
If I could do this, you can do this!
oh gosh! I was laughing so hard with you two! haha hoping your shoulder is better Tawra :(
You guys cracked me up!!!! Really funny but informative video. Thanks
Apart from you hurting your shoulder this has got to be the best video you've made! Your personality was shining and I just smiled and laughed thru the whole video.. As for stopping the sink up, I would've just resurrected Dave, he wasn't RIP anyway..lol really great video ladies!
I bought a thing called a washing wand from online. Its great. I used it with a 5-gallon bucket. I need a wringer or spinner now that i no longer have a washer to spin excess water out.
Omg, you were killing me. 😂I laughed till I cried! I can only pray that we have any sense of humor left if the SHTF.
Thank you for showing us a representation of what life off the grid would be like. Water will definitely be precious and we certainly won’t turn the tap on and let it run without giving that some thought. Thank you for your practical advice given with love and HUMOR!
I have a manual little washer for camping that I would use if I have too. A rainbarrel helps also. I have a wooden rack for drying or else a rope to hang them on.
Fun video. Had to come back and watch the end of it.
That was cute! I probably would have just grabbed a dish pan or whatever Rubbermaid bin or clear storage tub. Great job! I can see I need to practice too.
Lol lol lol - you are a great sport Tara ! Made me laugh so hard - thank you for another great video filled with common practical very helpful information 👍
This was the best video I have watched in a long time!! Did you ever think of putting a simple dish pan inside to wash clothes? When we went through Ian, I used my dishwasher pan and did my laundry, I have two old fashioned clothes racks to dry clothes.We did not even have water, had to use my storage water. Most clothes are not dirty, dirty. Do you know you can hang your bras and hook underwear on the side edge of clothes rack!!
This was hysterical. Recently my washer broke and I have been washing my clothes in my kitchen sink, then rinsing and hanging up outside. Made me appreciate my grandmother who had 13 kids and did everything by hand.
I bought a portable washer/spinner for $200 with the thought I can use my solar generator to wash and spin the clothes. I actually love the portable washer but I have to carry 5 buckets to fill, then when I drain I have to fill 4 dish pans of dirty water and dump in the sink. If I have no water to use would have to hope for rain!
Even if my washer hadn't died, I had planned on this portable washer knowing it could be run by my small generator.
I have used a washcloth to block the drain, stuffed in tightly. It holds water in my bathtub for hours. But the rubber stopper is simpler.
Great test for being prepared. If you fold the laundry pieces in half an run through the wringer you can get more water out. Also if you zip the zippers and make sure they are flat when you run through wringer it shouldn't hurt them..
❤ this real life video. It was soo funny, (but real life). I laughed right along with the 2 of you. I watched a video on how to wash clothes un an emergency and they used a plunger and 5 gallon bucket. Anyway thanks, I enjoyed. 😅