Laundry

A few people were curious about how we did laundry here in the Harder-Preston Household, so yesterday as I was washing, I took an inordinate number of pictures, Cockeyed.com style.






This is my washing machine. I fill it in the shower.









I love this laundry soap. It is 100% natural and biodegradable. It smells great, and I can refill it from at the organic store up the road. Yay for less waste!















This is how it looks as I do laundry. The water is cloudy from the soap and the dirt that I am washing out!










After agitating for a few minutes and scrubbing the dirty spots, clothes get the soapy water squeezed out and put into another bucket for rinsing.









We rinse in the shower. Typically things get rinsed 2 or 3 times.















Since we hang all our clothes to dry, fabric softener is essential. This is also from the same line of environmentally friendly products.
















Here is the salad spinner that helps dry our clothes.












It's not very big inside!













Here is a shirt in the spinner.







Here are two pairs of socks. I rang these socks out as well as I could before putting them in the spinner.







And here is the water that I spun out of the socks! Look closely!






After all of that, the laundry is hung on various drying racks and chairs and curtain rods. And that is how we do laundry!