Wednesday Challenge

For your challenge today, it's time to get your hands a little wet. So, pull out your laundry soap, draw a few buckets of water, and shut off your washer and dryer. Let's do your laundry by hand!

There are washers and dryers available here, but the cost of electricity and water to run them is OUTRAGEOUS. So, almost everyone washes their clothes by hand. It takes a lot of scrubbing and a lot of time, but the end result is a clothesline full of clean clothes.

Here at our house, we hire help to come and wash since we are always so busy and there are so many of us (9 to be exact). So, we bring out our piles on Thursday morning and they're washed and on the line when we get home in the evening. It usually takes a day or so to dry in the heat, but sometimes, they get washed again and again and again when it rains on them and they have to be out longer to dry. A few weeks ago, the laundry was done on Thursday, but it rained Thursday night, so they had to dry on Friday, but it rained Friday night, and finally Saturday allowed them to dry.

So, save on your water and electricity bill this week and give washing by hand a try. I think you'll be surprised how EASY we have it in the States!