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Good decisions come from experience. Experience comes from making bad decisions. Mark Twain
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Most adults will be safe if they watch what they're doing, but I have a cousin with a scar on her arm from sticking her hand in when she was a toddler. I recall that some of the "newer" models had some sort of auto-release if the pressure was greater than the release was set for, but we're talking *really* old info here. I do believe there may still be one in my in-law's basement in Ontario, as Hubby's not cleared out the place, instead renting it to a friend. I can imagine good uses for the mangle if it wasn't 4 provinces away!There's no safety on the mangle to stop the fingers going in there. This makes me terribly nervous!
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Personally, what's kinder to clothes is *not* washing them until they're dirty (I know people who will wash their pants and bath towels after every use - underwear, yes, but pants get warn several days to a week, and bath towels are being used on me when I'm clean!) Also, avoiding a dryer at all costs in favor of a rack or clothesline will make clothing last much longer. I'm personally suspicious that many of these "attitudes" about "whiter than white" is about selling more detergent and more clothing. The clothing industry does not want clothing to last a long time. We're going to fix that!What I'm really interested in is how kind is it to different fabric and seams. The saying in the family is "these new machines are so much kinder to clothing". But is there a difference?
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Wow, stacking functions. I wonder if that would work with Broad Beans.Hans Quistorff wrote:The outstanding memory of ours is that my mother was told that it could shell peas. She blanched the pea pods and then passed them to me and I ran them through the wringer. The peas popped out of the pods and rolled back into a tub and the pods into a tub on the other side.
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Carla Burke wrote:A washing machine repairman once told me to only use 1/3 - 1/2 the amount of laundry soap recommended, too. He said more than that is not only unnecessary, but speeds deterioration of the washer and your clothes, by about the same difference.
Leigh Tate wrote:
We added an outdoor laundry facility when we fixed and expanded our carport.
Dianne Justeen wrote:
Carla Burke wrote:A washing machine repairman once told me to only use 1/3 - 1/2 the amount of laundry soap recommended, too. He said more than that is not only unnecessary, but speeds deterioration of the washer and your clothes, by about the same difference.
That's because most people never bother checking to see what the recommended amount of detergent is in the first place. Whatever "measuring cap" comes with it gets filled, and often then some, for each wash.
Usually that's triple the recommended amount. When I was in college back in the 80's, my lab instructor for organic chemistry was a former chemist for Proctor and Gamble. Nice guy and we were often chit-chatting. This was one of his pet peeves. He assured us that using extra detergent not only didn't get clothes cleaner but made them dirtier from residue. His professional advice was that it's better to use less detergent and more time. Time spent soaking is the far more efficient way to get clothes clean. According to him, they actually worked out optimal amounts to use but "made their money on the people who thought that more equalled cleaner."
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Carla Burke wrote:I'll not say what he said about people who didn't bother to even check on how much the recommended amount was, because it falls into the 'very not nice' category.
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Dianne Justeen wrote:
Leigh Tate wrote:
We added an outdoor laundry facility when we fixed and expanded our carport.
Wow, that's a beautiful set up. Where's the washer from? Looks like you mounted a bought wringer on a galvanized tub and built the set-up. Have you posted about it?
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I used one of those decades ago when I was overseas and although you have to pay more attention to the timing and transfer clothes from one to the other, I agree that from the water conservation perspective they are a great machine to use. When #2 son's girlfriend was moving to a basement apartment with no laundry access, that's exactly what they were looking at to buy. The one I used was smaller and lighter than a regular machine, so it would be easier to move outside for "garden laundry".I’ve used a variety of washing machine types over the years and one of my favourites is still a twin tub.
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denise ra wrote:Polly Oz and Jay Angler, can you post a link to this double tub you're talking about please?
Tereza Okava wrote:With our current water shortage, when my cisterns are dry the only water I can use in my garden comes from my washing machine or from washing dishes. For clothes, we recycle the rinse water from one wash cycle to be the wash water for the next cycle, so the only "free" water is the soapy water.
I don't live in a place where I can just order something on Amazon, and I don't have too many options, and as a result I'm having a hard time determining what I can use. We have one brand of laundry detergent that promotes itself as eco-friendly, but the ingredients are the same as the normal laundry detergent, aside from coloring and $$$price$$$$ (I suspect greenwashing, which is just getting started here). Is homemade lye soap considered biodegradable and less terrible for my garden? I could, if I have to, grate that up and melt it down, but I'm not sure if that is even a good option. Are there any specific ingredients I should be avoiding? the online resources seem to be more "use this brand" rather than "avoid this ingredient for this reason".
(I did definitely get the message to use less of whatever I choose, for which I am very grateful)
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