I’ve often said that one of the last things they could pry my hands off of is the washing machine. Hey…I’d even lug water and pour it in…..if it would just do the spin cycle for me. The old wringers are not fun and they bite! They also break buttons.
I have a 5 gal bucket for prewash sometimes. I have a ‘dedicated for laundry only‘ good “toilet” plunger to slosh/agitate. I stick my arm in the shower and plunge, using the shower curtain to keep the sloshing from spilling out onto floor. Works just fine…if you’ve got extra energy. But wringing things out kills me….weak hands. Often I’ll let something drip dry in the shower until it’s reasonable to hang it on the clothesline. The line is handy, right outside the front door on porch. We don’t use dryer for sox/undies so line is used a lot.
Don’t buy a cheap plunger…you soon have a torn off rubber doughnut.
Clothes pins are one of my favorite multi-purpose items!! I buy good ones…not tiny, cheap things! And oddly, they are the ONLY item my dog still likes to chew up. Everything else she has always left alone when we say “MINE”. But she likes the spring action up and down in her jaws. Weird dog.
Make our own laundry soap…have ingredients in emptied juice bottles. Water proof in a garage that has flooded a few times. Have a big clothes drying rack…heirloom….but house toooo small to set it up anywhere.
OldMtWoman….how many solar amps…volts…whatevers to run an automatic washer?