Laundry!

[T-Man 1066]

When I was growing up, we did not have a washer or dryer, so every friday we went to grandma's and washed in her machines. My aunt and uncle did the same thing on tuesdays. So whenever grandma needed to replace a worn out washer and dryer, we usually chipped in and bought it for her.

That being said, my school gym uniform would get pretty ripe after a couple days, so I brought them home and washed them in the sink, like MG described, hung them to dry. Like MG said, gotta keep up on it, would not want to wash 4-5 days worth of laundry in the sink all at once.

[MountainGirl]

Actually, I’m thinking things may not get to “crisis mode” (depending on your definition of crisis). But rather just extended periods of much more frugal living. I’m thinking extended periods without electricity. The easiest way to cause mayhem in this country is to take out electricity and this could be done very easily by bad actors already across our borders. They simply just start shooting transformers and chaos will shortly begin. I’m really surprised that this hasn’t started already. Me! I’d much rather have on clean underwear while I’m shooting starving zombies! LOL

Regarding grid down - PO agrees with you 100%.
And so do I.
Which is why ALL my prep methods - are hand powered.
Even solar can fail. BTDT.

[Prepared One]

I do agree 100% that Grid down is the most likely MO for our friendly neighborhood terrorists. There are perhaps 10's of thousands of the bastards spread over who knows how many sleeper cells already here in the states thanks to Dementia Joe and his handlers. Our grid is highly vulnerable and if they can manage to bring it all down, even for a few months, it will satisfy their lust for high body counts. Like Chiefster, I am surprised they haven't done it already, but I am sure they are working on it.

[Mad Trapper]

On the laundry stuff. Besides a stash of detergent bleach is handy to have. Not just for laundry but for cleaning/disinfecting. It don't store forever but solid Calcium hypochlorite/pool shock stores well.

When the Kung Flu scare was in progress I laid in a store of calcium hypochlorite. Make sure it just contains calcium hypochlorite, not other crap for pools mixed in. Store it in original container, cool dry place, never metal ones even as secondary.

I put mine in big empty plastic coffee containers. Plastic is pretty inert and the containers are not airtight so if any gas is formed they can vent. They hold a few bags/pounds. I just checked my stash from 2020, and the bags are a little sticky on the outside, but the granules are still free in the bags.

Need to know wt% of hypochlorite to make up bleach solutions of known concentration, a scale, and best to use distilled water. Filtered rainwater might be an alternative. Make up only what you'll use.

I had a file for mixing it up but I'd have to locate it. For chemically inclined this will get you started. Commercial bleach is 5-7.5% sodium hypochlorite. Pool shock will be listed as % Ca (OCl)2. The HTH I bought is 52%.

FW Cl = 35.5 O = 16 Ca = 40 Na =23

FW Ca (O Cl)2 = 143

FW Na (OCl) = 74.5

[bigwheel]

There ya go it would take only a few thousand religoin of peace folk with 30 30s and instructions on where to hit on our electrcity switching stations, or the N. Koreans to explode their chicom statellite EMP thing to plunge us back to the good old days so its best to pray to the Lord for a wall of fire and hedege of protection around us and ours.