With all the free time I have, I have started washing my laundry by hand. Well, actually I never wanted to, but there is no washing machine in our apartment. There is a dry cleaning place below us, but they charge an arm and a leg to clean stuff. (For the price of washing all my clothes twice, I could by a washing machine.) So I am now doing it myself, the hard way.
I have some experience hand washing. In Madagascar I did my own laundry, and hung my clothes on my bamboo fence, until I got my neighbor to do it for 5 dollars a month. It’s not that hard, it’s just tedious and hard on your hands. Today I washed all my socks. Socks are pretty easy because they’re easy to ring out. Rinsing is the hard part because of, well, all the “rinsing and repeating.”
As with anything, the main thing is to stay up on it. It’s no big deal (when you’re not working) to do a couple items a day. However, hand-washing and line-drying require an iron (not for socks, but for other items), and while we have an iron, we don’t have an ironing board. I’ll have to jury-rig something up.
December 3, 2010 at 9:24 pm |
I still think you need to learn how to do sudoku’s.
December 7, 2010 at 5:00 pm |
I think I would go crazy.