Speaking about clothes

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Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

> My wife was doing it for sometime in India. I was happy to be in a male

> body. Nice comment anyway. Did your husband allow you to write that?

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> It's a joke. It is better than being cynical.

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> But that joke in itself is non-vedic. Do you know why?

 

Guess: Women were not taught to write? No cant be true, Rukmini were writing

and mother Sarasvati is the Godess of learning.

 

There were no computers in vedic times?

 

Those washing were men? Remembering the washerman who gave clothes to

Krishna and Balarama.

 

Now I have it! It is not written in sanskrit.

Did I win anything?

 

Your servant Gunamani d.d.

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In a message dated 12/4/99 11:10:38 AM US Mountai

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> My biggest problem in really adopting simple living would be to loose my

> washingmashine.

> I have tried the "bliss" of washing on a fire amidst 20 degrees cero,

while

> having three small children. It is not an experience I would like to

resume,

> and it would definately not be up to standard devotee-cleanliness. Apart

> from that all your time is gone getting water, making fire, washing,

drying.

> I also recall using practically all day washing when visiting India with

my

> kids, since I did not like the thought of letting others wash my clothes,

> actually we used most of the nights too, since the boys got very sick, but

> that was at least in a warmer climate.

> Anybody out there being happy doing it the good old way? Any simple

> alternatives to a washingmaschine in cold climates?

> Maybe living by a river is a different experience.

>

> Your servant Gunamani d.d.

> Do you have a windmill? If so cut a tee into the rod that rides up and

down to pull your water up out of the well. Then weld, tie. Bolt. screw

glue, or in someway affix an arm at right angles to that rod at the end of

the rod place an elbow facing 90o down. Place a rod or pipe on that

at the end of the second place two "plumbers friends " or toilet plungers

on the end of the rod. How you do that is pull the stick out of the end of

the plumbers friend and drill or burn or cut a hole where the stick was then

run it up the pipe or rod stick or what ever you have coming down form your

windmill arm. I cut a chunk of plastic pipe larger than the hole about six

inches long and use it as a spacer then slip the last plunger on and then

screw a cap on the end of the pipe or a cotter pin or what ever you have to

keep the plungers from falling off. now slip a (plastic or metal drum

(depending on the size of the your load) under the plunger fill the container

with warm water add laundry soap and go do something else. It usually took

three to four hours on low wind days to complete a load of wash. On windy

days it would only take two hours of sloshing to get my clothes clean. If

you do the light clothes first, you can use the same soapy water for the

really dirty first wash water on your dark clothes. I used an Amway soap

that was environmentally friendly and was low in phosphate. I drained the

wash water to my flower beds (I didn't care if they died or not.) Then I

wrenched every thing in a tub of cold water and ran them through a wringer I

had found in Mexico. They sell them new down there. I then shook out the

clothes and hung them out.

The actual time I was really involved was about one hour including filling

and draining the tubs. Usually I had so many things going I would forget and

take them out of the drum the next day. I always saved my wrench water and

used that to start the next wash. This method is not very elegant, but it

worked trouble free for fifteen years. I did have to change the drums I used

as they rusted out. I also tried using washing machine agitators that I found

abandoned in the desert, they worked really well but I never seemed to find

the agitators when I needed them. But that wasn't a really big hassel.Carol