Doing laundry in the sink FTL.

[DrPizza]

Also, OP, you'd get more drying for your electric dollar by using a fan, rather than heat lamps.

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: DrPizza
Also, OP, you'd get more drying for your electric dollar by using a fan, rather than heat lamps.

This is true. I wonder where our box fan is....

 

[AVAFREAK182]

LOL. ATOT>washer/dryer

 

[looker001]

Originally posted by: Eli

Originally posted by: looker001
Good luck, i got no idea how to wash cloth by hand

Do you also not know how to wash dishes by hand? lol

Nope that is what dishwasher is for

 

[Howard]

Originally posted by: Eli

Originally posted by: DrPizza

Originally posted by: Xanis

Originally posted by: Eli

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
Craigslist FTW!!! You could probably pick up a decent washer and dryer for a couple hundred easily...maybe even less.

Yeah, that's the plan. It's pretty easy to find them on there for cheap, but will have to wait until next pay cycle.

We're excited too, this place has a gas dryer hookup. Never had a gas dryer before, but I've heard they're much better than electric ones.

gas > electric. Also true for stoves.

True for stovetops, but electric > gas for ovens. They actually make hybrids to take advantage of both.

Here in NM is the first time we experienced a gas oven.

They both have advantages. For the stove top, the instant off heat of gas is nice, but the heat control ability of electric is nice.

Whats the advantage of an electric stove over gas? Seems pretty similar to me. I like the gas burners overall though.

The combustion of the gas creates water vapor.

What is this "heat control" you speak of for electric?

 

[erub]

I was in a small village in Azerbajian, and my socks got nasty wet from the snow (in the middle of April), well I didn't have any others with me. I couldnt speak the language, but the lady saw me trying to dry them..she got a bucket and soap and went to town on scrubbing them by hand! Then we dried them over a stove..that was heated with cow dung patties. People do still live like that..what a rough life.

 

[looker001]

Originally posted by: erub
I was in a small village in Azerbajian, and my socks got nasty wet from the snow (in the middle of April), well I didn't have any others with me. I couldnt speak the language, but the lady saw me trying to dry them..she got a bucket and soap and went to town on scrubbing them by hand! Then we dried them over a stove..that was heated with cow dung patties. People do still live like that..what a rough life.

I would probably die first of starvation . How can this people live like that?

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: Howard

What is this "heat control" you speak of for electric?

It seems to me that you can control the temperature of an electric burner much better than a gas one.

Though, like I said, being able to shut the heat off instantly with gas is nice. I like the gas burners overall, though.

 

[NikolaeVarius]

Man, people are too used to the comforts of modern society. When I visit korea, alot of my relatives live in the country side and don't really have modern conveniences. I developed an appreciation for washing clothes by hand. Its pretty easy actually.

 

[looker001]

Originally posted by: tenshodo13
Man, people are too used to the comforts of modern society. When I visit korea, alot of my relatives live in the country side and don't really have modern conveniences. I developed an appreciation for washing clothes by hand. Its pretty easy actually.

To me that sounds like a foreign concept...never seen it done in my life.

 

[tfinch2]

Originally posted by: DrPizza
Also, OP, you'd get more drying for your electric dollar by just letting them hang.

Fixed. I don't even use the dryer that I have.

 

[Leros]

Just go find a laundromat, specifically one with wifi

 

[onlyCOpunk]

There's no wash and fold laundromat nearby? I lived for two months without a washing machine, paying some asian lady 5 bucks a load at the laundromat was much easier then doing them myself.

 

[IGBT]

..I've done it in a 5 gallon bucket.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: Eli

Originally posted by: ironwing
Bathtub - wash
Shower -rinse

I tried that.

I gave up and decided to wash each article of clothing separately. It's hard to agitate a tub full of clothes.

lol

You're supposed to put them on first.

 

[MrPickins]

Originally posted by: IGBT
..I've done it in a 5 gallon bucket.

Sounds like a good method to me.