Comments on: Tiny Washing Machine

By: Angela

Angela — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 17:56:22 +0000

you could get an electric wrnger for $70 from laundry-alternative.com

By: Angela

Angela — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 17:54:53 +0000

Even though those products are great i saw a company that sells the washer and a spin dryer for pretty reasonable money. the site is laundry-alternative.com
I think it’s worth it to get all my products from the same company

By: Christina

Christina — Fri, 08 May 2009 07:04:07 +0000

This hand washer is on sale at Lehman’s (www.lehmans.com) for $30.

Lehman’s also sells the Wonder Clean, which looks exactly the same, for $48. The Wonder Clean works great & it’s fantastic! I live offgrid & I’ve washed all my laundry – except heavy blankets – in it for 6 years, sun-drying the laundry. This amazing portable hand washer is a wonderful addition to offgrid & tiny living.

By: Me? Considering Striving for Sustainability?? « The Beginning of the Rest of My Life

Fri, 10 Apr 2009 01:50:22 +0000

[...] handwashing (sorta) our own clothes. Reserving the washer for blankets and sheets. I say “sorta” because I’m considering using the 5 gal bucket + Gamma lid (ala WonderWash: http://tinyhouseblog.com/tiny-furnishings/tiny-washing-machine/ & http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33OHmWckcDc ) [...]

By: Loganenator

Loganenator — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 22:42:27 +0000

The rowdykitten and I own a wonderwash and have used it off and on for a couple years now. From experience, we would urge anyone considering a wonderwash/hand-crank-washer to also consider buying a clothes wringer of some sort. The washer works well given its small size however the factor that makes the whole wash process cumbersome and even arduous is the
wringing of the water from the clothes. This wringing process took so much personal effort we stopped using the washer for awhile. Even Colin Beavan (aka “no impact man”) and Sharon Astyk have cited laundry machines as perhaps the most difficult electrical appliance to part with in going “off-grid”. The laundry-alternative web site we purchased our wonderwash from suggests a small “spindryer” electric centrifuge type machine to alleviate this problem. It seemed odd to us why someone would want a manual hand-crank washer yet choose an electrical wringer. We wanted something we could use off-grid and perhaps even when the power was out. Currently we are considering purchasing a quality clothes wringer from Lehmans. They seem to be the only place we can find a manual wringer meant for clothes (and not mops . However with a price tag of over $200 (after shipping), we will have to save up for it. Even if we did all our laundry by hand it would still take us about a year before the equipment paid for itself.

Cheers and good luck!
Logan and the Rowdy Kitten.