Washing Clothes By Hand: Week 3

I can't believe I haven't written anything for a week! I am insanely busy with University and all!

Week three was quite a special week for me since I actually finished washing all the dirty laundry that had been lying around the apartment! I washed something almost every day (I skipped one day) and in total I washed 9 sink loads.

So, lets see what I washed.

Socks: 15	Hoody:
Underwear: 10	Shirt: 4
T-shirts: 25	Dress: 4
Towels: 3	Pillowcase: 1
Duvet Cover + Sheet: 1	Tights + jogging pants: 1
Jeans: 1	Skirt: 2
Cardigan: 2	Shorts: 6

I'm not sure what I will write about for week 4 but what I can say is that washing all the clothing in the kitchen sink has really given me a different view on laundry. I actually enjoy doing laundry now. I am as well excited to see how everything will go when I actually don't have all this laundry that I need to do but more just the normal amount of laundry.

You can read all about my hand washing adventures here.

Bisous

P.S. I posted a YouTube video today about cleaning my closet! You can see it right here.

Washing Clothes By Hand: Week 2

I am being late writing this post, my week 1 post can be found here and I did all the washing one week after another (so it isn't like I just finished my second week now)

I have to say that my washing technique has changed a bit and I feel like I am both faster and I feel the clothes are getting cleaner than before!

This week I didn't wash anything for 3 days since I just was too busy to wash. I still managed to wash 7 sink loads. I managed to make a huge dent into all the laundry that has been lying around.

What I managed to wash with 7 sink loads was:

Socks: 38	Sweaters: 4
Underwear: 16	Shirts: 2
T-shirts: 19	Dress: 1
Towels: 2	Pillowcase: 1
Tank-tops: 1	Tights: 2
Jeans: 4	Leggings: 5
Cardigans: 2	Shorts: 1

I am still in such a shock of how much clothing we actually own! I have been very good at removing clothing from the clean stack that I know I am going to donate and as well ones that are damaged.

At the same time out apartment is getting laundry free our tiny closet is getting packed to the brim and I need to start organizing it and really have a big clean out. But that is what March is going to be for!

Bisous

Washing Clothes By Hand: Week 1

I have been giving up on my laundry for some time now, it has been cluttering my apartment and bringing me down. We don't have a washing machine in your apartment and not even in our apartment building. We need to go down the street with heavy bags, wait in the laundromat for 2 hours washing the clothes, we can't leave because people steal the clothes and I can't stay there by myself because I get harassed.

I had no idea what kind of picture I should add with these posts, fountains it will be!

So doing laundry took so much time and both of our times that it just never really happened, and it was just too heavy lugging the bags of laundry back and forth. Then one evening when I was doing nothing I got a great idea! I should wash our clothes in the sink. Now I have washed our clothes in the sink for a week and it is amazing!

So, how much did I manage to wash in a week?

I ended up washing 10 sink loads!

Socks: 61	Hoody: 1
Underwear: 29	Shirt: 1
T-shirts: 16	Dress: 1
Towels: 4	Pillowcase: 1
Tank-tops: 3	Tights: 1
Jeans: 1	Washcloth: 1
Cardigan: 1	Shorts: 1

Certain things shocked me, things like why do we have so many socks? And why does it seem that we never have any socks?

I was as well so surprised by how easy it was to wash the clothes in the sink and how much I actually enjoyed it! I plan on doing it for a month (3 more weeks) and see how I feel about it then.

Bisous