Amazing but true laundry stories!

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You just dump the water down a sink or bathtub drain?

I was wondering if there's a gentle enough soap that I could dump the dirty water in the yard and it would be some sort of weed killer or pesticide reducer. Like soapy water for aphids.

Maybe I need to check out these laundry forums too!

I've got the kitty litter bucket in the bathtub. Every once in a while I go in and do the plunge/rinse dance. Just dumping it down the bathtub drain.

I've always used biodegradable laundry detergent in the machine and I'm using it now in the bucket, which I assume would be fine dumped out on the yard. Not sure if it would nuke aphids, because by the time you've done a bucket of laundry the detergent has pretty much pooped out. (according to my research, if the water is still foamy when you dump, you may have used to much detergent)

Oh, and I learned the hard way that a kitty litter bucket is NOT big enough to wash TWO pairs of jeans at a time.

There is a nice satisfying sense of accomplishment putting away a neatly folded stack of clothes (that smell fabulously clean) which you washed, wrung out, and dried without using any electricity or powered machinery. But again, I probably wouldn't enjoy this so much if I had to do it ALL THE TIME.