"laundry day is here!" on the roof....wow! what an opener. (and your music selections are great)...love your smiles and the information you're sharing...thanks again.
I remember those days well. I spent every week in our basement with my mother doing laundry on our Maytag wringer washer , and a No. 2 washtub for rinsing clothes. Then outside to hang on T pole clothesline. For a family of 7, it took almost all day to do laundry. The next day ,it was ironing day! Thank you both for sharing your videos. 😀
@@siouxsiesiouxwilson7247 my mom said she spent much if her youth ironing and taught us to buy clothes that don't need ironing. When I was a travel nurse I used a steamer; no creases. Still use it occasionally
Yep, same with me, only ours was in the garage so carried buckets of water to copper boiler over a 2 burner gas stove. Then carried all the cold water buckets for 2 rinses. I had the job of all the wringing. Hung on line and brought them in frozen stiff at end of day. We did this all my life until I moved away.
It’s so amazing to see SO many people devoted to a simpler way of life! And the fact that you share it with the rest of us freely is such a huge blessing 🙏❤️🙏 Thank You immensely
Build a ‘wash room’ with a small wood burner and room to hang the clothes. 👍 For washing in the winter but the washroom would work for rainy weather in other months. 👌
In our cabin in interior of Alaska we had a removable clothes line in main room. We'd all take baths then add hot water and soap. Had a glorified plunger made of metal. Had a wringer I still have & we all worked together. School clothes hung closest to wood stove.
one of the best things about your videos.... we can see the love and kindness you have for each other. Warms a heart to see ! God Bless and keep them coming our way.
I love my “solar dryer”. Have always lived in cities, but I have always used a clothes line to dry my clothes. LOVE the smell of sun dried bed sheets. And textiles last longer.
I'm in stiches watching you two!😂 We Don't watch any t.v, we watch our dvd's wholesome and educational only aloud in our home. We LOVE the Doug and Stacy show! God bless you two.
I used a wringing washier for years.... adjusted the head so it wrings the water back in the tub and you aren't standing in it. I had a long garden hose on mine draining into the asparagus or flower patches. Also do a separate rince cycle gets more soap out
we load whites first (while water's hot) along with full soap measure, fill 2 rinse tubs while washer is agitating... then move wringer to side (over rinse tub)...wring everything into 1st rinse... add colored clothes to empty washer along with half the amount of soap... let colored agitate while pulling whites from 1st rinse, into 2nd rinse tub (keep tubs close so you can just move wringer over them).... from second rinse to basket for hanging... hang whites, colored will now be ready for rinse 1... as soon as coloreds are in rinse 1, darks to washer along with half soap again... repeat, This takes from an hour to an hour and a half to two hours, depending on how long you agitate, but you are busy all the time and everything is rinsed twice and hung when you are done. It was killing me to see you rinse one item at a time.... do the whole load so you can get the next one washing... okay....that's my two cents, and that's all it's worth, but I wanted to get in the video and help you so bad.... sorry.... of course, I do not mean to insult or hassle you... but something tells me your mother didn't wash in a wringer washer.
When we were living in Lanagan, Mo when I was 17, Daddy didn't get a washer so I scrubbed the clothes in the tub with a metal scrub board and a glass scrub board for our delicates. I squeezed everything out by hand. Towels, blankets, and jeans KILLED my hands! Then I hung them out on the line to dry. In the winter I had a nail on one wall and a nail in the other. On wash day, I stretched the line from one wall to the other in the side the pot belly stove was and I would get the fire burning hot so the clothes would dry. I did laundry for 9 people every other day. Couldn't let it go any longer than that or else I'd have never seen the light of day again. 😂 If I had it to do over, one of these old washer/ringer jobs would have made life so much easier. 😥😭
I'm 46 years old now but this reminds me of when I got married, I was 19, going to college and working at my mother's bookstore in town but living in the country, there were no such things as laundromats in my town and my parents whom had washing machine lived about 30-45 minutes away, I did laundry by hand on a wooden washboard with castile soap and had to hang our clothes in a line up the hill where we lived, no fun when it rained lol While it was a lot of work and back breaking at times, I look back now and think of how simple life was then. No, I don't want to do it again, but if I had to I wouldn't have a problem.
I have been off grid for over 30 years and have always done laundry in a bucket with a hand made plunger made from a shovel handle or broom handle and a plastic bottle with the bottom cut off. I don't like to wring out stuff so I use two five gallon buckets with a piece of plastic lattice over the top to drain the laundry between wash and rinse cycles. I rinse two times though because I like to get all the soap and dirt out and found the second rinse does this. I count pumps when I am doing the laundry. 200 for a wash, 200 for first rinse and 100 for second rinse. I have gone to the laundromat from time to time for big stuff, but can do sheets and afgans in the large buckets like you use for rinse.
In 1960 my Dad went to England (from NZ) for 6 wks. He used to hop in the shower in his shirt and underwear, wash the shirt first then take it off. He would take off his undies and socks to wash them. I actually think Mum told him how to manage without her. Most men back then didn’t do women’s work so didn’t know how to. He lived to 93 years and never did the washing again.
All well & good with one or two people but a family of 7 with all the towels n bedding and all clothes takes every day hours and hours.....the electric auto washing machines are a God send to many many woman who were tied to the laundry every day.
Neena Me, no one would dispute that to you... there comes a point when you have to choose sanity over money savings in some instances. When the kids are older they can help even with automatic washing. Many hands make the chores go much faster, and I think kids appreciate their clean cothes much more when they have been involved in the process. 😊 You're a trooper! I grew up with 2 girls, 1 the oldest of seven, and 1 the oldest of 8. Their Mom's were worn out, burnt out, and mentally exhausted all the time...the parents didn't train their kids to help and there was always kayoss. I remember how both Moms would lock themselves in their bedrooms & the Dad's would have to come home from work and make huge meals for everyone. You're right to do what keeps things running smoothly in your household. Especially laundry, and especially if it's not a favorite chore. I love doing laundry but I hate vacuuming and scrubbing floors due to a lower back unjury. It's different for everyone, & whatever works for you, is, ok. 💜
Neena Me...i have a family of 7. I do all our laundry in 5 gallon buckets in the tub. We hang bedding and towels in the line and spray wash those. It all depends on what you want to do. But it is very doable.
I have a reinforced drum with 3 wings welded in it, that are hooked up to an exercise bike. Works great! If all else fails, I have a scrub board. I bartered 2 smoked hams to the welder to have it made. 😁😁😁 As for soap... I make all of my soaps 100% homemade, weather I'm home, or on the road. No store bought soaps at all.
YOU need to do a video! I'd love to see your set up! I'm picturing Gilligan's Island and Gilligan riding the bike to power the eashing machine that the Professor had concocted!
You all are so very funny and I love your videos!! I have learned so much across so many subjects. Love your enthusiasm, good humor and the love between you. Thank you for sharing your wisdom.
I would be calling it the "Grub & Suds Shack", definately since its outdoors its shelterd from the cold winter wind,& heat from the stove that does an all day burn to cooking stews ect. and provides a nice place to do the maytag washing of your clothes. Since being raised growing up my family up bringing was always doing the out door cooking in a shack next to our clothes line f/drying them in the summer that shack also was our out door kitchen/shower bath house as well providing a good heated area to bathe up in and not be too cold in the winter months. Of course it was an alternative thing to do being outside away of mere steps from the main house. But in the summer heat an out door kitchen sheltered from the rain was the cheese in being the thing we did. But in the winter,maybe we spent more time out door kithen/bath house/laundry room than we did in the mainhouse were we as kids stayed away from the parents that might find us another chore to do...lol. But if something ever came up they needed? It wasnt hard to find us all outside in the grub'n'suds Shack doing our own little things like school work to craft projects to just playing cards or any other types of board games and a good area we had set aside to having alot more room to having guest over to have them congragate there of course. My mother made cushions for providing a comfortable seat no dought. But when we had guest over to knowing in advance they were coming over? those cushions disappeared into a locked closet. Later in life I asked my dad why he had locked up those cushions for? He said,"Getting guest to comfortable?" REALLY? "Why they might be so willing to staying longer than we really wanted them too?" lol. But I just know My dad in particular always wished they would be welcomed back to staying longer next time...Go Figure. Well no vistor left with any empty stomach I know everyone ate even seconds and we as kids never was ever permitted to takening the last bread roll if only a couple was left at the end of our meals. Those were always up for our guest to have. So, Growing up and being now 6'10"tall, well my excuse was always 1st at the meal table and being the last to leave. We kids always learned to doing the sewing and cooking prep or other in everything else we did. And today Being 58 years old still single I find Im a better rounded out than most squares I find so rigid being at least a woman to knowing the basics other than MacDonalds or other fast food dives they all seem to wants in a waisted drive to having an excuse to go to town for any reason than staying out here where I have my solitude of peace and quite & Working my horses to having my best in companion an helper Dog. Never complains and always willing to please. & Thats basically the simple truth of it all. Thank you guys for your world as you share it and I enjoy seeing somethings never change being its about the best way I lived to knowing it is anyways. C-ya! ;)
52 and counting would love this way of life,don't like the city. good point most women too busy worried about breaking a nail or how thier hair looks and a ton of makeup goin out to dinner and wasting money .I'd rather deer steak and side of garden grown lettuce and potato.mention putting a worm or leech on a hook and most scream personally I think it's funny.gotta love country living and off grid.
In the early 50’s we lived in a shed the size of a single garage and I small caravan for 3 yrs while Dad built the house in the weekends. Our bathroom/laundry was a tin shed with a dirt floor. Water was heated in a copper boiler, clothes and soap added and stirred with a stick.The clothes were hocked out by stick into 2 concrete wash tubs with a hand wringer in the middle. Whites all first, colours, darks, extra dirty it was like a production line.The boiler water had to be topped up and the rinse water was changed, Sheets, towels Etc were done another day. Baby nappies were done every day separately and put back into clean water in the boiler to boil after being washed and rinsed. With 4 kids there were always nappies. An old cast iron bath filled with buckets of water heated in the boiler was fun with all us kids in together, the bathroom was cosy with its little fire burning for the boiler and sack mats on the floor. We had a long drop out house in the orchard. Finally we moved into the house when the last baby was one and Mum got a spin washer and indoor plumbing and electricity at last.
This video takes me back to my childhood. We had an electric wringer washer on the back porch for laundry. Drew up water from the cistern to fill it. Hot water on the wood stove when we needed warm water. Pinched my fingers in those wringers more than once! Hung clothes on line to dry all year round. In the winter they freeze-dried! LOL
I have a Speed Queen wringer washer from 1959 from my grandma I use to this day every week i use it. It's been overhauled New rolls and agitator post but other then that all original and I live it!
When my husband was in the Air Force, I stomp washed all his fatigues in the tub, and during the rinse, I would put powder starch in and then hang them on the fence to partially dry before Ironing.
I used to have a wringer washer , it had a stainless steele tub ! But , my granny used to wash her clothes in the creek in the summer! She had a rubber bottom ladder back chair and a big wash tub she would sit down in waist deep water , she use a scrub board. She made her own lye soap. My aunt and myself would go up creek from her soapy water and we rinsed the piece and wrung it out by hand! They didn't have electric until I was 15 in1960 ! Winter we done the wash in the kitchen with two tubs ! Guess you could say we really lived off grid !
I just watched this and I was laughing soo hard at Doug in the pond and Stacy beating the towel on the rock! Great tips with the type of washer. Thank you for doing this!
When I was growing up, my mom had a wringer washing machine. She started out doing the white clothes and put all the clothes from washer thru wringer , letting water drain back into washer (for next load of light colors). Put clothes into rinse water, run thru wringer (saving that water also for next load to rinse). And so on, ending with dark colors. Do you use the same water for all your clothes? Or most all? Doug that was a funny bit you did. Can't believe you actually did that!
I loved your version Doug, you're a riot. lol Stacy, how did you ring out that big red item...looked like a blanket maybe? And how do you wash in the cold wintery weather? Plus what happens to your washer's grey water? Is it good for the gardens in warmer months? Bugs don't like soap, I know. I'd probably water trees with it. We spray our fruit trees and bushes with mild, natural dish detergent to deter bugs.
I love the smiles you have on both of you...good living...i love seeing your grounds and the hard work....the property is beautiful....lots of goodness there ...such a great team...love you guys
If you have a Boy Scout troop they remove their socks. Weigh them wet and then weigh them again after they use the ringer. Then try different methods of folding it to see if they can extract more water with the ringer. It is amazing what they come up with to make work fun.
This summer I did hung out my washing i was surprised if it's full sun out in a half an hour it's all dry and it smells like evergreens...herbs ....grassy...outdoors...new to me
I love my wringer washer over my front load new one. Used it all the time my 4 youngins were growing up. I'm 73 now and am making a summer kitchen 8n my one garage bay and yepper. Brought up my wringer washer again. Love ur videos. Never stop making them. ❤
I loved the wringer washer. The great outdoors is where to use it. The water slop in sub zero temp in the old shed, is something I want to forget. We washed everything, even the rag rugs.
Love the video. Yes I did laugh. There is no way my wife is gonna do offgrid without her washer and dryer. Hey, I'm just 6 months away from doing a Homestead situation. I can't wait.
I’ve been making my own laundry soap for yrs. People say it’s too much trouble to make it & can’t believe it cleans because there’s no suds. I still hang my clothes outside & by the wood stove . What a difference it was in the light bill.
OMG lol when I was a kid in SW Va my mom had washer just like that. I caught my arm in the rollers several times. Seem l had problems keeping my hand out of it, lmbo. Brings back memories for sure. I think I will keep this video.
I have been watching your channel for at least 6 yrs. I remember this video. I try not to buy electric appliances, whether it be an instapot, airfryer, or whatever the rage is. Thank you for sharing your skills of living off grid.
I don't live off grid, I'm in a large apartment building. Sometimes I don't want to spend money in the laundry machines down the hall, so I'll save some money by washing my clothes in some 5gal buckets in the bath tub. I use the Mobile Breathing Washer and most of the time I make my own detergent. I can make so much more detergent using just 4 ingredients for a lot less money than buying a box of powdered or liquid Tide. I usually use the Fels-Naptha as part of the detergent. I feel it cleans very well and I like the lemon scent it has. I have tried the Zotes, but that is really hard to find in my area, but it costs about the same as the Fels. But I didn't care for it as much. If I can find the Kirks (haven't seen that stuff in a long time) I'll give it a whirl and see how it preforms. I'm not afraid of the Borax, the concept of using it doesn't bother me. I can think of worse things to use. I'm sure commercial detergents have worse things hiding in them than borax. I have a spin dryer and it's great! It pulls more water out of the clothes than a modern top load or front loading washing machine can pull out in it's final spin. I hang my things up on plastic coat hangers on the shower curtain rod and on another spring loaded tension rod I put in the kitchen to dining room area door way. I never worry about drips since using the spin dryer. I have found that I like doing laundry that way in winter because hanging the clothes in doors helps put some moisture in the air when the air is very dry due to the forced hot air from the furnace. My clothes are often dry the next day, including hard to dry socks and jeans. Some of my thinner shirts can get dry in just a few hours after spinning them in the spin dryer.
*LDS* S. we live in a "first class" township. Our neighbours watch what we have, ect to make sure we are "following the rules". I didn't ask about chicken since I don't want anyone in our business. We lost the birds. Trying to figure a way to hook up our well water without them knowing. It's only farm use if you have city water.
Totally get it. As a student at university many moons ago, I didn't have the change to operate the machines, so I washed my clothes in the sink with soap and dried them with my roommate's clothes. lol
I love love love your video using the wringer washer! I've used Maytag wringer washers since I was a little girl. Three are so many advantages to making your own wash powders and using a wringer washer. Less chemicals, no allergic reactions, cleaner clothes, less cost, less water usage, and the leftover water can be used to water plants, depending on detergents used. My Favorite part is being able to do laundry outdoors. Thank you for sharing!
when you guys did the laundry mat scene, you should have had Stacy wear some shades, and she could look around, like as if she wasn't wanna get caught.. LOL
Doug, have you ever thought of building a fishing pier out to the center of the pond? That would be a game changer. As a landscape dude, you would know that water scapes draw people in. Plus it's a calming effect for the bodies well being.
We had a wringer when I was a youngster, and ended up with one as a young mom. I loved it! Only difference was that as the clothes were being put through the ringer, the water ran back into the tub...and was used for the darker load. We were using it in the basement, so we were careful that no water escaped the tub. Loved my wringer!
I hung my laundry out one day, came back to find it on the ground and my clothes pins were missing! Come to find out the crows love to play with clothes pins. Silly crows.
Found your channel few days ago and enjoy it. I prefer goat milk soaps and shampoo and more. HUGS and blessings for ALL. Pond scene hilarious. 👍🔥🤣😂👣. Giggles
My grandmother used a old washing machine like that on the back porch I remember the sound it made it had a gas engine you started with your foot cool thank you for your videos 👍
My grandmother, my mom, and I all had wringer washing machines. We never had a " laundry day. " Every day that the sun was out we did laundry. That's how we could make it through the bad weather days. We always used our machines inside the house so even when it snowed we could wash clothes. On those days we hung our clothes on the back porch to dry. We did quilts and bedspreads coats, and everything in our wringer washer.
I wondered how you managed to get a washing machine outside, and how you dried it in the depths of winter when it's weeks of either rain or snow, I can hang stuff out on a morning and by afternoon it's still just as wet. I use a clothes horse but I have radiators. Can you see a time when you might build an extension to your dinky house?
This takes me back to the 60's and my Mom bringing us to the basement while she did the wash in a wringer washer. I'd have loved to use one, especially when all our kids were still home, but it wasn't to be. Great video! ❤
My mom hand washed her clothes until she died at age 89. When we first married I did our wash in the bathtub including baby cloth diapers. With diapers you rinse them, put them in a pail of water and hand wash them each morning. (do not buy the prefolded) When you are young you can do that, but as you get older you find it is harder. Doing hand laundry you have to put a stop to the kids changing clothes constantly. Kids should have play clothes that can be worn several times as well as their better clothing/school clothes. Underclothing is what touches their skin. I see no problem with going to a laundromat to do the heavy items or to have a washing machine. Even with an automatic washer you can recycle your water. If the kids have to hand wash their own clothing, bet you won't be finding clean clothes thrown in the dirty clothes bin. Yes, we need to know how to be completely off grid should our life come to that, but we have to pick and choose our battles. At 72 I choose to do one load of wash a week, recycle my water, hang the clothes to dry so I can use my time and energy to continue to work in my garden and sew. Doug and Stacy you are living the life we did up until 20 years ago, you really cut down on those clothes when you are hauling your water. LOL enjoyed the video (go to Living on a Dime she has great money/time saving ideas for everyone on or off grid)
I hand wash most of my clothes but for sweatpants, sheets, etc. My washer may never wear out. I line dry and may look into slat dryer that pulls up to the ceiling. I liked your funny illustrations of how one might do laundry.
SO MUCH FUN! 🤣🤣🤣🤣 My preferred method is Doug's way 🤣🤣🤣🤣 You guys are AWESOME😍🤗👊👍💖 Thank you for the laundry share 👚👖👕👗🌞☀️ I do love my clothes line as well. The only way to do it. It's not a chore to hang my clothes. I enjoy it so much!😉😍😎💖 Love and God bless you so much 💖
We love your videos! We are without a washer and dryer. On a very limited income, when modern things fall apart, we don't have money to replace them so we figure out a way to do it ourselves by hand.
I do my washing different ways depending on time, i did a video a year or 2 ago like this, with my wringer washer, i also have the sq tubs and wringer between them, and for bedding and large items i have a old bathtub on a stand and wash board, in the winter i use 2- 5 gal. buckets and a plunger =)
consider modifying a rocker washer so that its a treddle system, that way you can mend or whatever with your hands.... while your feet are busy. Also I grew up using a washer like the one you have, but we had a "wash house" where we worked. It had a small pot belly in the building that Mom would heat up when it was winter & she also had a clothes line inside it for winter drying. The room had a concrete floor. Maybe that would salve the problem. (It doubled for summer months as a "cooler" space.
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Who needs cable TV when we have Doug and Stacy! You two are the greatest!
"laundry day is here!" on the roof....wow! what an opener. (and your music selections are great)...love your smiles and the information you're sharing...thanks again.
Yup!
I remember those days well. I spent every week in our basement with my mother doing laundry on our Maytag wringer washer , and a No. 2 washtub for rinsing clothes. Then outside to hang on T pole clothesline. For a family of 7, it took almost all day to do laundry. The next day ,it was ironing day!
Thank you both for sharing your videos. 😀
I gave up Ironing when i was 21! I'm 51! I FEEL SO LIBERATED! X
@@siouxsiesiouxwilson7247 my mom said she spent much if her youth ironing and taught us to buy clothes that don't need ironing.
When I was a travel nurse I used a steamer; no creases.
Still use it occasionally
@@siouxsiesiouxwilson7247 I've never ironed. I'm 48!
Yep, same with me, only ours was in the garage so carried buckets of water to copper boiler over a 2 burner gas stove. Then carried all the cold water buckets for 2 rinses. I had the job of all the wringing. Hung on line and brought them in frozen stiff at end of day. We did this all my life until I moved away.
It’s so amazing to see SO many people devoted to a simpler way of life! And the fact that you share it with the rest of us freely is such a huge blessing 🙏❤️🙏 Thank You immensely
Build a ‘wash room’ with a small wood burner and room to hang the clothes. 👍 For washing in the winter but the washroom would work for rainy weather in other months. 👌
In our cabin in interior of Alaska we had a removable clothes line in main room. We'd all take baths then add hot water and soap. Had a glorified plunger made of metal.
Had a wringer I still have & we all worked together. School clothes hung closest to wood stove.
Love that idea!
Laundry is a never ending story! God Bless ❤️
nothing beats sheets and pillowcases line dried smell. Thanks, reminded me of helping my granny do laundry
one of the best things about your videos.... we can see the love and kindness you have for each other. Warms a heart to see ! God Bless and keep them coming our way.
I love my “solar dryer”. Have always lived in cities, but I have always used a clothes line to dry my clothes. LOVE the smell of sun dried bed sheets. And textiles last longer.
I'm in stiches watching you two!😂 We Don't watch any t.v, we watch our dvd's wholesome and educational only aloud in our home. We LOVE the Doug and Stacy show! God bless you two.
That is awesome!
You guys just don't stop from making me miss my home when I was a child!!! God bless you always.
Also the borax issue with hot water is a great tip!
I used a wringing washier for years.... adjusted the head so it wrings the water back in the tub and you aren't standing in it. I had a long garden hose on mine draining into the asparagus or flower patches. Also do a separate rince cycle gets more soap out
we load whites first (while water's hot) along with full soap measure,
fill 2 rinse tubs while washer is agitating...
then move wringer to side (over rinse tub)...wring everything into 1st rinse...
add colored clothes to empty washer along with half the amount of soap...
let colored agitate while pulling whites from 1st rinse, into 2nd rinse tub (keep tubs close so you can just move wringer over them)....
from second rinse to basket for hanging...
hang whites, colored will now be ready for rinse 1...
as soon as coloreds are in rinse 1, darks to washer along with half soap again...
repeat,
This takes from an hour to an hour and a half to two hours, depending on how long you agitate, but you are busy all the time and everything is rinsed twice and hung when you are done. It was killing me to see you rinse one item at a time.... do the whole load so you can get the next one washing... okay....that's my two cents, and that's all it's worth, but I wanted to get in the video and help you so bad.... sorry.... of course, I do not mean to insult or hassle you... but something tells me your mother didn't wash in a wringer washer.
I actually wrote this advice down. Ty!
Ditto the other commenter. That's great advice- I screen-shot it to keep. Your method makes so much more sense!
Hey!! I appreciate your advice, it sounds like a good method to try!
Same. Mum taught me on a wringer the way you described - lovely memories too :)
When we were living in Lanagan, Mo when I was 17, Daddy didn't get a washer so I scrubbed the clothes in the tub with a metal scrub board and a glass scrub board for our delicates. I squeezed everything out by hand. Towels, blankets, and jeans KILLED my hands! Then I hung them out on the line to dry. In the winter I had a nail on one wall and a nail in the other. On wash day, I stretched the line from one wall to the other in the side the pot belly stove was and I would get the fire burning hot so the clothes would dry. I did laundry for 9 people every other day. Couldn't let it go any longer than that or else I'd have never seen the light of day again. 😂
If I had it to do over, one of these old washer/ringer jobs would have made life so much easier. 😥😭
Tiana Sixkiller 😂 that’s how I did laundry from age 5 to age 17, by hand (not in the US). I hate it, but it was good training.
Wow. Props! 👍
@Tiana Sixkiller when was it ?
I'm 46 years old now but this reminds me of when I got married, I was 19, going to college and working at my mother's bookstore in town but living in the country, there were no such things as laundromats in my town and my parents whom had washing machine lived about 30-45 minutes away, I did laundry by hand on a wooden washboard with castile soap and had to hang our clothes in a line up the hill where we lived, no fun when it rained lol
While it was a lot of work and back breaking at times, I look back now and think of how simple life was then. No, I don't want to do it again, but if I had to I wouldn't have a problem.
Love this video. loved seeing you guys being so goofy 😜 I love hanging my laundry on the line!
The whole country is shutting down as we speak so they can all stop and watch the "Laundry" video!!!!!!!!!
😂😂😭😂😂👍
Very true
Now we are
I was just comin to say that, now we are shut down for real April 27, 2020 11:11 pm
Thats the time of the comment the shut down started like 2 months ago.
You two are so funny!! Doug you had me laughing out loud when you went into the pond! :)
How is the agitator working ? Without power
How cute you two are. Thanks for making me giggle
I have been off grid for over 30 years and have always done laundry in a bucket with a hand made plunger made from a shovel handle or broom handle and a plastic bottle with the bottom cut off. I don't like to wring out stuff so I use two five gallon buckets with a piece of plastic lattice over the top to drain the laundry between wash and rinse cycles. I rinse two times though because I like to get all the soap and dirt out and found the second rinse does this. I count pumps when I am doing the laundry. 200 for a wash, 200 for first rinse and 100 for second rinse. I have gone to the laundromat from time to time for big stuff, but can do sheets and afgans in the large buckets like you use for rinse.
DonnaldaSmolens, You are amazing!
Im thinking your arms are strooooong
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I have learned so much from your videos. Thank you so much.
Your announcing of the laundry video from the rooftop was hysterical.
thank you! i just used the last of my borax and was looking for a recipe that's grey water safe! this is perfect!
Greetings from Ireland. I like Doug's method in the pond, I just have to say that that is true bravery this time of year.
In 1960 my Dad went to England (from NZ) for 6 wks. He used to hop in the shower in his shirt and underwear, wash the shirt first then take it off. He would take off his undies and socks to wash them. I actually think Mum told him how to manage without her. Most men back then didn’t do women’s work so didn’t know how to. He lived to 93 years and never did the washing again.
@@loriscook5231 Thats a great story, one for the grandkids for sure.
@@loriscook5231 It was women's work back then but not anymore lol.
All well & good with one or two people but a family of 7 with all the towels n bedding and all clothes takes every day hours and hours.....the electric auto washing machines are a God send to many many woman who were tied to the laundry every day.
Neena Me, no one would dispute that to you... there comes a point when you have to choose sanity over money savings in some instances. When the kids are older they can help even with automatic washing. Many hands make the chores go much faster, and I think kids appreciate their clean cothes much more when they have been involved in the process. 😊 You're a trooper! I grew up with 2 girls, 1 the oldest of seven, and 1 the oldest of 8. Their Mom's were worn out, burnt out, and mentally exhausted all the time...the parents didn't train their kids to help and there was always kayoss. I remember how both Moms would lock themselves in their bedrooms & the Dad's would have to come home from work and make huge meals for everyone. You're right to do what keeps things running smoothly in your household. Especially laundry, and especially if it's not a favorite chore. I love doing laundry but I hate vacuuming and scrubbing floors due to a lower back unjury. It's different for everyone, & whatever works for you, is, ok. 💜
Neena Me...i have a family of 7. I do all our laundry in 5 gallon buckets in the tub. We hang bedding and towels in the line and spray wash those. It all depends on what you want to do. But it is very doable.
We were the family of 8 ...about theree loads every day
It is a lot of work
What works for one family doesnt work for another everyones needs and wants are differnt
I have a reinforced drum with 3 wings welded in it, that are hooked up to an exercise bike. Works great! If all else fails, I have a scrub board. I bartered 2 smoked hams to the welder to have it made. 😁😁😁
As for soap... I make all of my soaps 100% homemade, weather I'm home, or on the road. No store bought soaps at all.
Brenda Bodwin, that's awesome, you should patent that!
YOU need to do a video! I'd love to see your set up! I'm picturing Gilligan's Island and Gilligan riding the bike to power the eashing machine that the Professor had concocted!
how do make your own soap ?
You all are so very funny and I love your videos!! I have learned so much across so many subjects. Love your enthusiasm, good humor and the love between you. Thank you for sharing your wisdom.
That was a great intro! So funny when the cat took off running too😂 been loving my homemade laundry detergent ❤️
Stacy is one hell of a woman. You are one lucky man Doug.
Can't help but love you guys! I homestead alone and it can be really hard at times even though I love it! It's Awesome that you found each other!
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️👍👍👍👍👍🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗 This video was like experiencing Christmas morning, but not on Christmas morning!
OFF GRID with DOUG and STACY thanks, I knew y'all would make it epic!
I would be calling it the "Grub & Suds Shack", definately since its outdoors its shelterd from the cold winter wind,& heat from the stove that does an all day burn to cooking stews ect. and provides a nice place to do the maytag washing of your clothes. Since being raised growing up my family up bringing was always doing the out door cooking in a shack next to our clothes line f/drying them in the summer that shack also was our out door kitchen/shower bath house as well providing a good heated area to bathe up in and not be too cold in the winter months. Of course it was an alternative thing to do being outside away of mere steps from the main house. But in the summer heat an out door kitchen sheltered from the rain was the cheese in being the thing we did. But in the winter,maybe we spent more time out door kithen/bath house/laundry room than we did in the mainhouse were we as kids stayed away from the parents that might find us another chore to do...lol. But if something ever came up they needed? It wasnt hard to find us all outside in the grub'n'suds Shack doing our own little things like school work to craft projects to just playing cards or any other types of board games and a good area we had set aside to having alot more room to having guest over to have them congragate there of course. My mother made cushions for providing a comfortable seat no dought. But when we had guest over to knowing in advance they were coming over? those cushions disappeared into a locked closet. Later in life I asked my dad why he had locked up those cushions for? He said,"Getting guest to comfortable?" REALLY? "Why they might be so willing to staying longer than we really wanted them too?" lol. But I just know My dad in particular always wished they would be welcomed back to staying longer next time...Go Figure. Well no vistor left with any empty stomach I know everyone ate even seconds and we as kids never was ever permitted to takening the last bread roll if only a couple was left at the end of our meals. Those were always up for our guest to have. So, Growing up and being now 6'10"tall, well my excuse was always 1st at the meal table and being the last to leave. We kids always learned to doing the sewing and cooking prep or other in everything else we did. And today Being 58 years old still single I find Im a better rounded out than most squares I find so rigid being at least a woman to knowing the basics other than MacDonalds or other fast food dives they all seem to wants in a waisted drive to having an excuse to go to town for any reason than staying out here where I have my solitude of peace and quite & Working my horses to having my best in companion an helper Dog. Never complains and always willing to please. & Thats basically the simple truth of it all. Thank you guys for your world as you share it and I enjoy seeing somethings never change being its about the best way I lived to knowing it is anyways. C-ya! ;)
52 and counting would love this way of life,don't like the city. good point most women too busy worried about breaking a nail or how thier hair looks and a ton of makeup goin out to dinner and wasting money .I'd rather deer steak and side of garden grown lettuce and potato.mention putting a worm or leech on a hook and most scream personally I think it's funny.gotta love country living and off grid.
In the early 50’s we lived in a shed the size of a single garage and I small caravan for 3 yrs while Dad built the house in the weekends. Our bathroom/laundry was a tin shed with a dirt floor. Water was heated in a copper boiler, clothes and soap added and stirred with a stick.The clothes were hocked out by stick into 2 concrete wash tubs with a hand wringer in the middle. Whites all first, colours, darks, extra dirty it was like a production line.The boiler water had to be topped up and the rinse water was changed, Sheets, towels Etc were done another day. Baby nappies were done every day separately and put back into clean water in the boiler to boil after being washed and rinsed. With 4 kids there were always nappies. An old cast iron bath filled with buckets of water heated in the boiler was fun with all us kids in together, the bathroom was cosy with its little fire burning for the boiler and sack mats on the floor. We had a long drop out house in the orchard. Finally we moved into the house when the last baby was one and Mum got a spin washer and indoor plumbing and electricity at last.
This video takes me back to my childhood. We had an electric wringer washer on the back porch for laundry. Drew up water from the cistern to fill it. Hot water on the wood stove when we needed warm water. Pinched my fingers in those wringers more than once! Hung clothes on line to dry all year round. In the winter they freeze-dried! LOL
Reminds me of when I was a kid helping my grandmother with laundry! loved the smell of her line dried sheets and towels..
I have a Speed Queen wringer washer from 1959 from my grandma I use to this day every week i use it. It's been overhauled New rolls and agitator post but other then that all original and I live it!
Awesome video....Doug, you are a crazy man! Stacy, you are Wonder Woman! Can't help but love the both of you. Blessings from Louisiana, MO!
When my husband was in the Air Force, I stomp washed all his fatigues in the tub, and during the rinse, I would put powder starch in and then hang them on the fence to partially dry before Ironing.
That was great, you going in the pond was absolutely hilarious!
It was like the nestea plunge! remember that commercial?
Yes! To funny
Lol
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The things Doug will do for a laugh!
I used to have a wringer washer , it had a stainless steele tub ! But , my granny used to wash her clothes in the creek in the summer! She had a rubber bottom ladder back chair and a big wash tub she would sit down in waist deep water , she use a scrub board. She made her own lye soap. My aunt and myself would go up creek from her soapy water and we rinsed the piece and wrung it out by hand! They didn't have electric until I was 15 in1960 ! Winter we done the wash in the kitchen with two tubs ! Guess you could say we really lived off grid !
😁I remember watching this when it first came out! Still makes me smile! Thanks for sharing your insight, great nugget about the borax!
I just watched this and I was laughing soo hard at Doug in the pond and Stacy beating the towel on the rock!
Great tips with the type of washer.
Thank you for doing this!
Easy and doable
When I was growing up, my mom had a wringer washing machine. She started out doing the white clothes and put all the clothes from washer thru wringer , letting water drain back into washer (for next load of light colors). Put clothes into rinse water, run thru wringer (saving that water also for next load to rinse). And so on, ending with dark colors. Do you use the same water for all your clothes? Or most all? Doug that was a funny bit you did. Can't believe you actually did that!
Margaret Hardacre My mom did it the same way!
Everlong8640 so did my grandma 😊
tsx3214 I feel your pain, I got my hand stuck in a 1920's electric washer/wringer as a kid, and I still bear the scars today.
Mine too!.
You can also reuse rinse water for the next wash.
I loved your version Doug, you're a riot. lol
Stacy, how did you ring out that big red item...looked like a blanket maybe? And how do you wash in the cold wintery weather?
Plus what happens to your washer's grey water? Is it good for the gardens in warmer months? Bugs don't like soap, I know. I'd probably water trees with it. We spray our fruit trees and bushes with mild, natural dish detergent to deter bugs.
I love the smiles you have on both of you...good living...i love seeing your grounds and the hard work....the property is beautiful....lots of goodness there ...such a great team...love you guys
You two are amazing! Everything I pray to be! Thank you!
What a beautiful pond! He sure did make me laugh!
I loved my old wringer washer, it's been about 40 yrs ago 😊
If you have a Boy Scout troop they remove their socks. Weigh them wet and then weigh them again after they use the ringer. Then try different methods of folding it to see if they can extract more water with the ringer. It is amazing what they come up with to make work fun.
This is a fantastic video , so fantastic in fact that I am currently avoiding hanging out my laundry by watching you do laundry. =)
This summer I did hung out my washing i was surprised if it's full sun out in a half an hour it's all dry and it smells like evergreens...herbs ....grassy...outdoors...new to me
I laughed so hard I sorted. You going into the pond was epic. I love that machine as an idea for washing clothes.
I love my wringer washer over my front load new one. Used it all the time my 4 youngins were growing up. I'm 73 now and am making a summer kitchen 8n my one garage bay and yepper. Brought up my wringer washer again. Love ur videos. Never stop making them. ❤
I loved the wringer washer. The great outdoors is where to use it. The water slop in sub zero temp in the old shed, is something I want to forget. We washed everything, even the rag rugs.
Love the video. Yes I did laugh. There is no way my wife is gonna do offgrid without her washer and dryer. Hey, I'm just 6 months away from doing a Homestead situation. I can't wait.
Oh my goodness...Doug, your spoof was hysterical!
STACY YOU DESERVE AN AWARD!!! I used to have to do ringer washer laundry for years! But, guess what, now...I have to do it in my bathtub!!!!!
I’ve been making my own laundry soap for yrs. People say it’s too much trouble to make it & can’t believe it cleans because there’s no suds. I still hang my clothes outside & by the wood stove . What a difference it was in the light bill.
😂😂😂 The part where you show what we think your laundry process is!! Soo good!
OMG lol when I was a kid in SW Va my mom had washer just like that. I caught my arm in the rollers several times. Seem l had problems keeping my hand out of it, lmbo. Brings back memories for sure. I think I will keep this video.
My grandmother had one of those! Thank you for the great memories!
I am going back watching some of your older video's and I enjoy very much. You two are so good together.
And Thanks for that Rick!
Peroxide, is awesome, for taking out, any sort of protein stain. Just pour straight on the stain, and then wash. I will share this on my FB pg.
Good, but very hard on the fabric.
@@lisareed5669 wet it first
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So the washer is getting a space in the outdoor kitchen? Nice. I like the bicycle idea.
I have been watching your channel for at least 6 yrs. I remember this video. I try not to buy electric appliances, whether it be an instapot, airfryer, or whatever the rage is. Thank you for sharing your skills of living off grid.
Loved the roof announcing! All the excitement with Stacy running too! Loved it all!
Thank you for posting this!
And, thank you for having fun with this! Y'all are awesome!
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I don't live off grid, I'm in a large apartment building. Sometimes I don't want to spend money in the laundry machines down the hall, so I'll save some money by washing my clothes in some 5gal buckets in the bath tub. I use the Mobile Breathing Washer and most of the time I make my own detergent. I can make so much more detergent using just 4 ingredients for a lot less money than buying a box of powdered or liquid Tide.
I usually use the Fels-Naptha as part of the detergent. I feel it cleans very well and I like the lemon scent it has. I have tried the Zotes, but that is really hard to find in my area, but it costs about the same as the Fels. But I didn't care for it as much. If I can find the Kirks (haven't seen that stuff in a long time) I'll give it a whirl and see how it preforms.
I'm not afraid of the Borax, the concept of using it doesn't bother me. I can think of worse things to use. I'm sure commercial detergents have worse things hiding in them than borax.
I have a spin dryer and it's great! It pulls more water out of the clothes than a modern top load or front loading washing machine can pull out in it's final spin. I hang my things up on plastic coat hangers on the shower curtain rod and on another spring loaded tension rod I put in the kitchen to dining room area door way. I never worry about drips since using the spin dryer.
I have found that I like doing laundry that way in winter because hanging the clothes in doors helps put some moisture in the air when the air is very dry due to the forced hot air from the furnace. My clothes are often dry the next day, including hard to dry socks and jeans. Some of my thinner shirts can get dry in just a few hours after spinning them in the spin dryer.
SpiritBear12 a window fan running will dry them faster too!
Ladonna Steele
Yep, I've done that as well, but I try to keep my electricity usage down as much as possible.
SpiritBear12 good for you and cheaper too!!!
*LDS* S. we live in a "first class" township. Our neighbours watch what we have, ect to make sure we are "following the rules". I didn't ask about chicken since I don't want anyone in our business. We lost the birds. Trying to figure a way to hook up our well water without them knowing. It's only farm use if you have city water.
Totally get it. As a student at university many moons ago, I didn't have the change to operate the machines, so I washed my clothes in the sink with soap and dried them with my roommate's clothes. lol
I love love love your video using the wringer washer! I've used Maytag wringer washers since I was a little girl. Three are so many advantages to making your own wash powders and using a wringer washer. Less chemicals, no allergic reactions, cleaner clothes, less cost, less water usage, and the leftover water can be used to water plants, depending on detergents used. My Favorite part is being able to do laundry outdoors. Thank you for sharing!
Seeing you guys use that washing machine brings back memories that is home my family would do it and I loved watching it work.
I just subscribed to your videos and wanted to say Thank You! You two are living my dream. I love the cabin! Thank you so much for the videos.
Thanks Becky!
Stacy you need a dual wash tub on stand to go with your washer
Wow! Love to find a washing machine like that. My husband and I love you both. We watch every video. Keep up the amazing work!
The pond was hilarious. Just watching all the old videos. Wishing you a speedy recovery.
when you guys did the laundry mat scene, you should have had Stacy wear some shades, and she could look around, like as if she wasn't wanna get caught.. LOL
lol
Billy Earney
Was thinking that's what she was gonna do!
You two are having too much fun; :o) U make this old timer laugh and that's a good thing
Doug, have you ever thought of building a fishing pier out to the center of the pond?
That would be a game changer. As a landscape dude, you would know that water scapes draw people in. Plus it's a calming effect for the bodies well being.
I didn't think they made washing machines like that any longer,my grand mother had one.
When Stacy ran across the screen the cat ran as well.. HAHAHA Classic.
Btw the music sound effect are great! good job guys and gals!
We had a wringer when I was a youngster, and ended up with one as a young mom. I loved it! Only difference was that as the clothes were being put through the ringer, the water ran back into the tub...and was used for the darker load. We were using it in the basement, so we were careful that no water escaped the tub. Loved my wringer!
I hung my laundry out one day, came back to find it on the ground and my clothes pins were missing! Come to find out the crows love to play with clothes pins. Silly crows.
🌟 Thank you So Much for all the great laundry recipe !! 🌟
Found your channel few days ago and enjoy it. I prefer goat milk soaps and shampoo and more. HUGS and blessings for ALL. Pond scene hilarious. 👍🔥🤣😂👣. Giggles
My grandmother used a old washing machine like that on the back porch I remember the sound it made it had a gas engine you started with your foot cool thank you for your videos 👍
My grandmother, my mom, and I all had wringer washing machines. We never had a " laundry day. " Every day that the sun was out we did laundry. That's how we could make it through the bad weather days. We always used our machines inside the house so even when it snowed we could wash clothes. On those days we hung our clothes on the back porch to dry. We did quilts and bedspreads coats, and everything in our wringer washer.
I wondered how you managed to get a washing machine outside, and how you dried it in the depths of winter when it's weeks of either rain or snow, I can hang stuff out on a morning and by afternoon it's still just as wet. I use a clothes horse but I have radiators. Can you see a time when you might build an extension to your dinky house?
LOVE the tractor in the background at 8:40 while Doug's 'washing'! So classic.
That was Doug taking his monthly bath lmbo
This takes me back to the 60's and my Mom bringing us to the basement while she did the wash in a wringer washer. I'd have loved to use one, especially when all our kids were still home, but it wasn't to be. Great video! ❤
Back in the late 60’s I had a green square wringer washer. Loved it.
My mom hand washed her clothes until she died at age 89. When we first married I did our wash in the bathtub including baby cloth diapers. With diapers you rinse them, put them in a pail of water and hand wash them each morning. (do not buy the prefolded) When you are young you can do that, but as you get older you find it is harder. Doing hand laundry you have to put a stop to the kids changing clothes constantly. Kids should have play clothes that can be worn several times as well as their better clothing/school clothes. Underclothing is what touches their skin. I see no problem with going to a laundromat to do the heavy items or to have a washing machine. Even with an automatic washer you can recycle your water. If the kids have to hand wash their own clothing, bet you won't be finding clean clothes thrown in the dirty clothes bin. Yes, we need to know how to be completely off grid should our life come to that, but we have to pick and choose our battles. At 72 I choose to do one load of wash a week, recycle my water, hang the clothes to dry so I can use my time and energy to continue to work in my garden and sew. Doug and Stacy you are living the life we did up until 20 years ago, you really cut down on those clothes when you are hauling your water. LOL enjoyed the video (go to Living on a Dime she has great money/time saving ideas for everyone on or off grid)
A rocker-washer hooked to the rocking chair, do the wash while you eat.
Wishing everyone was as fun as you two!
I LOVE A RINGER WASHER - I had one for a while and loved how it washed. Does the best job!!!
I hand wash most of my clothes but for sweatpants, sheets, etc. My washer may never wear out. I line dry and may look into slat dryer that pulls up to the ceiling. I liked your funny illustrations of how one might do laundry.
karen4you what a slate dryer
@@rachaelgoldstein8091 indoor wooden folding dryer
SO MUCH FUN! 🤣🤣🤣🤣 My preferred method is Doug's way 🤣🤣🤣🤣 You guys are AWESOME😍🤗👊👍💖 Thank you for the laundry share 👚👖👕👗🌞☀️ I do love my clothes line as well. The only way to do it. It's not a chore to hang my clothes. I enjoy it so much!😉😍😎💖 Love and God bless you so much 💖
Lol 😂 love the pond wash 🧼
Thanks for another awesome video! Will add laundry detergent to my list of items I will be making at home! 🙏🏻❤️
We love your videos! We are without a washer and dryer. On a very limited income, when modern things fall apart, we don't have money to replace them so we figure out a way to do it ourselves by hand.
I do my washing different ways depending on time, i did a video a year or 2 ago like this, with my wringer washer, i also have the sq tubs and wringer between them, and for bedding and large items i have a old bathtub on a stand and wash board, in the winter i use 2- 5 gal. buckets and a plunger =)
LOL Laundry day is so fun.☺️ "Oh,the lemon oil works. Thank you."👍👍👍👍👍👍
Patricia Vyce, does the lemon oil bleach out dark colors? Should it only be used on whites?
consider modifying a rocker washer so that its a treddle system, that way you can mend or whatever with your hands.... while your feet are busy. Also I grew up using a washer like the one you have, but we had a "wash house" where we worked. It had a small pot belly in the building that Mom would heat up when it was winter & she also had a clothes line inside it for winter drying. The room had a concrete floor. Maybe that would salve the problem. (It doubled for summer months as a "cooler" space.
Stacy you are a natural at laundry on a rock! UR my super homesteading woman! Thanks for the giggles and laughter Aloha Kim