Toilet seat lids just went on sale at Emergency Essentials $7.99 (reg price: $11.95). This is a great price and you can use the lid on a standard 5 gallon bucket that you can buy at Lowe's or Home Depot for ~$3 or go down to your local bakery and get one for free. Here are a couple other items on sale at Emergency Essentials that you might be interested in: Reliance Double Doodie Waste Bags with Bio-gel $13.49 (reg price: $17.95), Iosat Potassium Iodide Tablets $9.99 (reg price: $10.95. Obviously not for sanitation purposes but great to have in your 72 Hour Kits nonetheless. It works by saturating the thyroid with stable iodine so it will block the thyroid’s absorption of cancer-causing iodine released from a nuclear reactor or nuclear bomb. I highly suggest getting this, especially because we live near San Onofre, (these group specials)
Laundry
A friend of mine just less than two weeks ago had a load of laundry running in the washing machine when it started beeping, telling her that the pump was jammed. Ahhh!! She really needed to get the baby's bedding washed so he could take a nap, not to mention the baskets of other laundry to wash. Fortunately, she was used to hand washing her clothes (and cloth diapers!) so she just whipped out her Wonder Wash, and was able to clean a few small loads of laundry until her husband could fix the washer later that evening. Click on the highlighted words like wonder wash above and they you can wath videos of each product.
Prior to moving here she lived in a small apartment, with only a community laundry room with coin-op machines, and paying for laundry was expensive! Some of her friends were budgeting $200/month to wash their family's laundry! She decided to find a way to save money and ended up loving her handy little Wonder Wash which she bought for $40 (basically it's a hand cranked machine. You just fill it with water, add a TBSP of detergent with the clothes, spin it for 60-120 seconds, empty dirty water, and then rinse with clean water and spinning for another 30 seconds). Over the course of a few years she saved oodles of money, and now that she has access to a full size washer and dryer she still loves to use her Wonder Wash on occasion and she loves that she has a way to wash clothing (without killing her hands!) in an emergency.
Emergency Essentials does sell a similar machine called the Wonder Clean (I've read online that it's a knock off of the Wonder Wash, but the reviews look good.)
There are other great options out there too, like this Mobile Washer. It looks like a toilet plunger (but specifically designed for laundry) and it's pretty inexpensive at $14.95 (Emergency Essentials) but watch for when they go on sale and then get one then. This would be great to have in an emergency.
Laundry Kit - Christmas Idea
For those who are creative and know how to take things like this and make them adorable to give as gifts, I would love to see. Please send me pictures and then I
can pass them along to everyone else who are would love some ideas.... LIKE ME.
Supplies Needed:
- 5-gallon bucket with lid (cut hole in middle of lid for plunger handle to fit through)
- Mobile Washer
- Store in bucket:
- Laundry detergent
- Stain remover/stain stick
- Vinegar (add 1/2 cup to rinse water) helps remove soap
- Rope (for clothes line)
- Clothes pins
- Rubber gloves
- Empty contents of bucket.
- Place water, small amount of detergent, and clothes in bucket.
- Move plunger up and down for a few minutes or until clothes are clean.
- Remove soapy clothes and ring them out.
- Dump out soapy water (on your garden or lawn.)
- Place soapy clothes in bucket and fill with clear, clean water.
- Add 1/2 cup vinegar to rinse water.
- Move plunger up and down to rinse clothing.
- Wring out clothes and hang to dry.
NOTE: You could store two 5-gallon buckets, stack one inside of the other. Use one bucket for the soapy water and the other for the rinse water. You may be able to wash and rinse a couple of batches of clothes without changing the soapy water depending on how dirty the clothes are.
Making your own laundry detergent is inexpensive and simple! Here's a link to 10 recipes and other great information and one found on simpleandsavy.blogspot.com:
Homemade Liquid Laundry Soap- yield: 5 gallons
Charlene Hertzberg, May 27, 2009, localnews.coom, Idaho Falls
4 cups hot tap water
1 Fels-Naptha Soap bar
1 cup Washing Soda
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½ cup Borax
Grate bar of soap and add to saucepan with water. Stir continually over medium-low heat until soap dissolves and is melted.
Fill a 5 gallon bucket half full of hot tap water. Add melted soap, washing soda and Borax. Stir will until all powder is dissolved. Fill bucket to top with more hot water. Stir, cover and let sit overnight to thicken. To make it easy to use, pour it into an old laundry detergent container.
Optional: Add 10-15 drops of essential oil per 2 gallons. Add once soap has cooled. (lavender, rosemary, etc.)
¼ cup per load: Top Loading Machine (approx.180 loads)
1/8 cup per load: Front Loading Machines (approx.360 loads)
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They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them:
But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.
Matthew 25:3,4
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