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Laundry 101 Plunger Washers, Washboards & Modern Clothes Wringers

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Here are some great examples of off grid laundry washing. These antique metal plungers and the glass and metal washboards I picked up at antique or thrift stores. They’re a great easy way to do small item in a bucket or tub. The blue plastic one is modern and it was purchased at carolinareadiness.com in waynesville NC . You may be able to find them elsewhere online. They’re not like toilet plungers. The inside is made so that it helps to cycle the water within the plunger head. Unlike soft rubber toilet plungers, these are made of hard plastics. The new made wringer is from a company called Wiseman

This is screenshot of a video I made, but the video is too long to post here. The long grey handled thing with a little blue thing on the right end of it is made for burning holes through landscape fabric to plant bulbs like garlic once the fabric is laid down. I was actually working on a second video for that particular item..
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In case you don’t want to buy a new made clothes wringer. You may want to consider a mop bucket to wring the water out… personally I had not thought about this before, but it is a really great idea because you could also use the plunger just to wash your laundry in the bucket and you take it out and put it in the ringer and squeeze it out and pour that water out and then put in new freshwater to rinse it and repeat!
 
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