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Tried out the Laundry Pod this camping season.
The price has gone down from when it was first introduced a few years ago. I bought mine for $60 and free shipping. I have been eyeing one for a while and the impetus was when my big house washer broke and I had to spend sweaty afternoon in a laundramat and it took ten days more to get the washer fixed.
I knew I wanted to take it camping, too, so it was not a big decision to buy it and continue to use it for our 3-4 day trips this season. It will really be nice when we can go out for longer trips next year.
I have been using this while camping in my travel trailer, so I have a bit more room to store it, but I would not hesitate to take it tent camping, too. It is a bit smaller than a five gallon bucket - which I also bring for other purposes and use to drain the water into from the pod. It has a built in drain hose and as it spins as part of the cleaning, the clothes end up getting pretty dry by the end.
I bring a bar of Zote soap to use with it, which can be used for other cleaning purposes as well, and takes up little room. It really cuts down on clothing items to bring - theoretically just need two of everything so one is drying on a clothes line and the other is on you.
The pod holds the clothesline, clothes pins, soap etc. when not in use. My trailer has a shower so I just keep it in there, but while I could wash clothes there and drain it in the gray tank, it is easier to use the campsite picnic table and drain it in the bucket and empty the bucket in the waste water containment system in the campground- not all campgrounds have this feature, but the state parks and reclaimed strip mines where we normally camp do have them.This also keeps the gray tank from filling up.
There are plenty of You Tube videos out there on how it sets up and works. What I like is to put in the clothes (holds one outfit, or a few towels), add a gallon or so of water, and a little bit of soap, spin for about two minutes - the spinning is similar to using a salad spinner - and walk away and let the items soak. I have waited for as little as 15 minutes and as long as the next day to soak, and go back and spin it dry while draining into the five gallon bucket. I do two rinses, which each take about a minute of spinning. As with the wash cycle, I can walk away in between each step and do something else.
So, about six minutes of spinning, and a couple of minutes to fill and drain three times. I suppose if I stood there and did it start to finish it would get tedious, but each step can be done in between doing something else such as while I am boiling water for a cup of tea. I like having everything already washed when we get home except for the last day's clothes and dish towels.
Laundry Pod:
https://www.wayfair.com/The-Laundry-...FQgJaQodLIYIpA
Zote soap (I just rub the bar on the clothes. I get mine at Big Lots):
http://www.happypreppers.com/zote.html
The price has gone down from when it was first introduced a few years ago. I bought mine for $60 and free shipping. I have been eyeing one for a while and the impetus was when my big house washer broke and I had to spend sweaty afternoon in a laundramat and it took ten days more to get the washer fixed.
I knew I wanted to take it camping, too, so it was not a big decision to buy it and continue to use it for our 3-4 day trips this season. It will really be nice when we can go out for longer trips next year.
I have been using this while camping in my travel trailer, so I have a bit more room to store it, but I would not hesitate to take it tent camping, too. It is a bit smaller than a five gallon bucket - which I also bring for other purposes and use to drain the water into from the pod. It has a built in drain hose and as it spins as part of the cleaning, the clothes end up getting pretty dry by the end.
I bring a bar of Zote soap to use with it, which can be used for other cleaning purposes as well, and takes up little room. It really cuts down on clothing items to bring - theoretically just need two of everything so one is drying on a clothes line and the other is on you.
The pod holds the clothesline, clothes pins, soap etc. when not in use. My trailer has a shower so I just keep it in there, but while I could wash clothes there and drain it in the gray tank, it is easier to use the campsite picnic table and drain it in the bucket and empty the bucket in the waste water containment system in the campground- not all campgrounds have this feature, but the state parks and reclaimed strip mines where we normally camp do have them.This also keeps the gray tank from filling up.
There are plenty of You Tube videos out there on how it sets up and works. What I like is to put in the clothes (holds one outfit, or a few towels), add a gallon or so of water, and a little bit of soap, spin for about two minutes - the spinning is similar to using a salad spinner - and walk away and let the items soak. I have waited for as little as 15 minutes and as long as the next day to soak, and go back and spin it dry while draining into the five gallon bucket. I do two rinses, which each take about a minute of spinning. As with the wash cycle, I can walk away in between each step and do something else.
So, about six minutes of spinning, and a couple of minutes to fill and drain three times. I suppose if I stood there and did it start to finish it would get tedious, but each step can be done in between doing something else such as while I am boiling water for a cup of tea. I like having everything already washed when we get home except for the last day's clothes and dish towels.
Laundry Pod:
https://www.wayfair.com/The-Laundry-...FQgJaQodLIYIpA
Zote soap (I just rub the bar on the clothes. I get mine at Big Lots):
http://www.happypreppers.com/zote.html
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