* Save the water and pour it into your soaking bucket in the laundry. Sometimes stains need a good soak overnight. I use one of those food grade white buckets from a restaurant kitchen. Add a small scoop of homemade laundry powder to the saved shower water. Pour into the washing machine with your next load of washing.
* Use the shower warm up water to wash your car. Ok, you might need to save the shower water for a couple of days to suds up the whole car.
* Pour cooled shower water onto pot plants and the veggie garden. Every little bit counts.
* Add a little disinfectant to a bucket of shower water to mop your floors
* Give your bath a good clean with a little Miracle Spray and shower water.
* Rinse out a dirty kitchen sink.
* Wash a window or two using diluted Windex, metho or dish washing liquid and shower water.
* Give your outdoor furniture a good scrub with a stiff brush and the shower water.
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I can add water to my front loader. A part went on the machine and there was a wait to get a new one, with no money coming in going to the laundromat to do washing for us wasn't really an option.
ReplyDeleteFor my machine if I pull out the detergent dispenser, water can me added through there. You need to wait, when you start the machine it does a pump out of any water still in there from the last load, once I hear it trying to start to fill, I add water.
Great post Wendy,
ReplyDeleteYes we( myself and ds2) collect our shower warm up water. We usually use it in the garden or the washing machine.
Now I just need to get DH and ds1 to do the same, hummmmmm
Good ideas, Wendy! It gets a little trickier when the snow flies because so many of the uses are for outdoors, but I hadn't considered using the shower water to mop. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteBlessings, Leigh
A frontloader washing machine can be filled with water not from the attached tap: try using a garden watering can, I have one only for 5 ltrs. of water, because a large one is to heavy for me. It makes watering garden plants easier too and I have half a large plastic oil drum (cleaned thoroughly of course) for rainwater or to fill with tap or "grey" water, I can easily dip and fill my watering can in it. DM
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