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Oh come on, you guys, this is basic hygiene! No-one who has any idea actually washes underwear with tea towels - do they?? I can't remember the last time I washed any underwear, sheets, duvet covers or towels etc at anything less than 90deg. All that nonesense about using a lower heat and saving energy is BS, unless you like grubby undies. This is bog standard stuff. If there is no chance of a washing machine, then just heat up water in a large (designated!) pan and boil the grubbies.
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Oi, you, NR! What do you know about my undies? How do you know that I don't go "commando"? (Not a pretty thought)
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If TSHTF here I intend to pop across the road to the local primary school and relieve them of either a large copper they had on display or possibly one of their large steel cooking vessels, alternatively I will nick a beer bsarrel from the club and cut its top off and use that as an inprovised laundry boiler.
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Take a hot water tank from the first empty house you come across, cut it in half, then you will have two
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It is only within very recent times that we have become as clean as we are,.. that's fine, except being as clean as we are has led to us becoming more and more at risk from infections and disease.
Going back a few decades we didn't care quiet so much about clean clothes, and we were in many cases a lot healthier and resistant to many of today's illnesses than we are today
Of course I realise that to go to an extreme, is to risk sever medical conditions, but it wouldn't harm any of us to find a medium where by we again built up resistance to common germs.
We dont really need to shower every day or to just wear items of clothing for one day only, one show or bath a week would do us just as well, and clothes could be left on our backs for a week ,.... in fact the chances are that both these may become the norm after an event anyway
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There was a time when the Elizabethans sewed there clothes on during the winter and used scent to hide the pong. Nelson wrote to Lady Hamilton 'don't wash I'm Coming home'. HUM, HUM. POO. Kenneth Eames.
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Fascinating.
When I saw the thread title - I thought I'd stumbled upon a kind of porn site.
Having said that, when I look at some of the kit in catalogues
it could be thought of as 'Prepper Porn'.
Tally Ho