90. Handwash your laundry.

Carpe laundry!

Dirty laundry… can generate obsessive hand-wringing. When your hands want to wring something (or someone) regarding your laundry that is dirty, don’t stick your neck out. ‘Handwash your laundry’ by combining that anxious hand-wringing energy with soapy water, mix in last week’s collared shirt and… Wring your worries away. This also solves for wring around the collar. 

To help you ‘Handwash your laundry’ here’s a simple 2-step process:

1. Grab your handheld device to generate a laundry list of local cleaners. 
2. Hand over your hand-me-down clothes to the cleaners so now you've ‘hand-washed your laundry’.   

Your Future You shares less dismay about ‘Handwashing your laundry’ because in the future, hand washing entails a washing machine with robotic hands to get the best of both human and machine cleaning. This frees up your future time and keeps your pretty hands from getting dingy and stuck in the muck. Tell Your Future You to handsome soap to your handsome hands!   

P.S. - It’s been reported that Corporate Housing Companies help ‘Handwash your laundry’ by lending a helping hand…to wash for your laundry in one of our in-unit washing machines. Okay so technically, we’re taking liberties on helping hand spirit of the ‘handwash your laundry’ theme. Ya see, it would be hard to promote fully furnished properties that include ‘a short walk down to the river so you can slap clean your clothes against nearby rocks’.  This could create hearsay stories and people airing dirty laundry in the community. Then more hand wringing…

Why does this ‘Future You’ Series exist? What’s it about?  Vvt is

1. Promote easy, quirky sustainable practices that are NOT preachy, or guilt-ridden and without a focus on the ‘saving the planet’ (hint: the planet is going to survive no matter what we do). 

2. A playful post of simple ways to sorta improve our lives, and the lives of those we love. Also improve our future lives… by taking playful action today. 

3. Still reading? Cool. We think you’re amazing and full of joyful zest. 

This series is based off ‘105 Simple Sustainable actions’ - from Stephane Omsanski’s article in Parade from 2021.

https://parade.com/1300935/stephanieosmanski/ways-reduce-carbon-emissions/

90. Handwash your laundry.

It may sound like a big old pain, but hand washing your laundry uses far less water, energy, and resources than enlisting the help of a washing machine. The average washing machine actually uses 41 gallons per load—not to mention electric! Comparatively, if you handwash, you could use far less... maybe even as little as two gallons.