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How to hand-wash clothes?Advice please?

My washing machine broke,the motor went out. I've hand washed clothes before but I do not have a washboard anymore. Is there anything I can use in place of the washboard? I am unable to get another washboard at the moment so any helpful advice on substitutes I can use in place of a washboard, or the most effective wash to get the clothes clean without using a washboard would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

Update:

I forgot to add that I have a clean slop sink next to my washer that I can use for soaking and whatnot...thanks

Update 2:

Can you say I W-O-U-L-D-I-F-I-L-I-V-E-D-C-L-O-S-E-T-O-O-N-E-A-S-S-H-O-L-E

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  • Anonymous
    8 years ago
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    use the bath or kitchen sink , use bar soap or a cheap shampoo, then rinse in fresh water that has white vinegar added , if there is to many stains add a little bleach to the water and soak for a while , then rinse in the vinegar water , weing out and hang to dry

  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    LOL - genital cycle - what a scream!! the explanation clothing is marked 'Hand Wash basically' is as a results of the fact washing them interior the device along with your properly-known clothing will smash them, the two although the lively agitation or the modifications in wash and rinse water temperature or the two. they'd shrink, pill, pull out of shape or the colorations will run. using Woolite, wash sweaters became interior out in chilly and rinse in chilly, using the 'comfortable cycle', making optimistic that the clothing can flow around freely interior the the two the wash and rinse cycles. In different words, if this is somewhat basically a million/2 a load, fill the device as though for complete load, and be optimistic to run the sweaters by an further rinse with a teeny tiny quantity of fabric softener. To dry, you're waiting to flee with tumbling on low, including a great dry towel to tumble with the moist sweaters -nonetheless became interior out- interior the dryer. I commonly carry my sparkling damp sweaters on the railings in one day and tumble then interior the dryer for a quick time interior the morning when I upward push up. while you do no longer say what style of knit your sweaters are, I surely have effectively device washed wool, cotton, silk, ramie, linen, acrylic, polyester and rayon sweaters.

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    Can you say L-A-U-N-D-R-O-M-A-T?

    I just don't get people.

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