Washing clothes while washer is broken...

[bookwitch]

Hey folks. I have a question.

Our washer is broken. It is the landlord's responsibility to fix it, but hubby doesn't want to call him because we're behind on the rend and the landlord is being nice about that so doesn't want to stress him while we're catching up. (And we ARE catching up, so that's not a HUGE issue)

I take clothes to the MIL's every once in a while, and hubby has done laundry at a laundromat a time or two, but not often because it's friggin expensive. I have fibromyalgia, bone spurs on my spine and two herniated disks so I don't lift a whole lot of laundry at a time to carry it back and forth. I DID wash out a couple of our large plastic containers and I've handwashed some things, but here's what I was wondering. Some of the things don't seem to be that clean, even after I've rubbed the daylights out of the clothes and rinsed them a couple of times. I've even tried soaking them in baking soda water.

Anyone else do handwashing and could give me some advice?

[MissMommyNiceNice]

When we went to the laundrymat, I used the giant machines. It would do a triple load for $3. I'd just shove as much in there as i could and do it on cold - colors be damned.

Sorry, no advice on handwashing. Good luck!

[Jackies Ladybug]

use fels naptha for hand washing, and stomp on the clothes with your feet, no joke. get into the bucket and smash them like grapes, works amazing. i actualy really love "footwashing" my clothes, its very theraputic. i do it in my bathtub so i can get a whole bunch done at once.
i also will wash, rinse, wash again and do a final rinse if they are really dirty. it takes about 30 minutes or so for me to do the equivalent of 3 loads.
pretty dern efficient if you ask me!
good luck, its an adventure to be sure!