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C (P) S
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Re: HAVE ANY OF YOU EVER MADE THIS TO USE???
Jun 7, 2009 1:30 PM
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> Cin,
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> When I was growing we had an old wringer washing machine and we made our own laundry soap. It was one part borax, one part washing soda and one part grated bar soap (ivory) dumped in to a jar and stirred. It worked very well. We were on a farm and had a lot of dirty clothes. One thing I remember is that there was some vinegar in the first rinse water. We had no drier so even in the winter we hung the clothes out on a line - think freeze dry.>
Scott,
I too grew up on a farm......way out in the sticks (13 miles down a dirt road). We didn't even have running water inside the house....until my Dad ran water from the well outside the back door and put a ''hand pump to draw water'' on the kitchen counter by the sink when I was about 6 or so.
My 2-grandmothers made lye soap and that's what we washed our clothes with in a wash-tup with a scrup board, also had another wash tub filled with rince water that had vinegar in it.....then hang them on the lines to dry. Once a week Mom would go into a laundry in town that had the winger-washers and do the laundry that was too dirty to wash by hand...then she'd bring them home and we'd hang them out on the line.
They would shave the lye soap into thin strips and crumble them to desolve into the hot water at the laundry.....at home they would just take the bar and rub it into the clothes and scrup.
Life was tough then.....but we children didn't know it, as all our friends lived the same way. We did not know the Children that lived in town until I got into the 8th grade and was bussed to town for school...boy was that a shock!!!
Because up-until then I'd spent my first 7-years of schooling in a 1-room school house divided by some shutters to make 2-rooms out of it, to have two teachers....1st, 2nd and 3hd was on one side of the room and the 4th, 5th, 6th & 7th were on the other.
I know what your are thinking...NO, we had no indoor bathroom either. We had an out-house (a 4-holer...real up town, hahaha) and used a ''thunder mug'' at night.
When I was 9 years old Daddy plum`ed the house and put running water inside the kitchen and put us a bathroom inside the house.
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Janet S.
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Re: HAVE ANY OF YOU EVER MADE THIS TO USE???
Jun 7, 2009 10:46 AM
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Scott, my mother hung onto her wringer washer for YEARS after everyone in the neighbourhood had switched to a 'regular' washer - she was convinced it did a much better job. She did make the concession of getting an electric dryer - although on the first day of above-freezing weather in the spring, the clothes were back outside on the line to dry (even it if meant trudging out through the snow to get them there).
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scott eggers
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Re: HAVE ANY OF YOU EVER MADE THIS TO USE???
Jun 6, 2009 7:58 PM
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Cin,
When I was growing we had an old wringer washing machine and we made our own laundry soap. It was one part borax, one part washing soda and one part grated bar soap (ivory) dumped in to a jar and stirred. It worked very well. We were on a farm and had a lot of dirty clothes. One thing I remember is that there was some vinegar in the first rinse water. We had no drier so even in the winter we hung the clothes out on a line - think freeze dry.
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C (P) S
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HAVE ANY OF YOU EVER MADE THIS TO USE???
Jun 6, 2009 2:03 PM
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Super Economical Laundry Soap
Items needed:
1 (5) Gallon Bucket (one time purchase)
1 Bar of Hand Soap
1 Cup of 20 Mule Team Borax Laundry Detergent
1 Cup of Arm & Hammer Super Washing Soda (NOT BAKING SODA!!!)
Water
Grate the bar of soap so it looks like mozzarella cheese (do not allow husband to eat it).
Then place the graded soap and 12 cups of hot water into a large pot and turn on heat to low-medium. Stir the mixture occasionally until the soap is fully dissolved.
Add one cup of borax and one cup of washing soda and stir until it thickens. Allow this mixture to cool enough so it will not melt your 5-gallon bucket.
Pour the mixture into the 5-gallon bucket and mix in water until you reach the 4 gallon mark in your bucket.
Stir the mix together and allow it to sit for 24 hours. When it is done it will look like egg drop soup (again…do not allow your husband to eat it).
To clean clothing use ½ cup of mixture for each load.
Borax cost around $6 per box. Arm and Hammer Washing soda cost around $4.5 per box. Hand soap will cost around $7 for a 12 pack...so your 1-bar would be approximately .59 cents. This means that for about $11.09 (plus the nominal cost of the water) you can clean 896 loads of laundry.
That is less than .02 cents per load for soap.
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