Pro tip: once in a while put a $5 bill and someone's pocket for your kid to find while they're doing the wash; you'll have more and more kids offering to do wash for ya!

I remember when my great grandmother told me to go hang clothes out in the winter living in Maine, I thought she was nuts. After the clothes had froze on the line she went out and beat it with the broom handle to break the ice off the cloth. Then she brought the clothes in and they were dry. Kinda crazy what grandmother's do

A wringer washer was all we had when I was a kid and .....NO broken buttons. It's great to see this young mom taking care of her family-- also good to see her family helping her :-)

I learned from my mom to turn the t-shirts inside out before washing so when they're drying on the line, the colors won't fade as much from the sun. I'm glad my oldest son picked up this tip and uses it! I didn't realize they still made washing machines like yours. Great job, plus you get exercise built in!

Ok Jonathan, make a temporary platform for the washer. Ashley's back is important 😘 lol....love u guys ❤️

My sisters and I washed clothes by hand and with washboard growing up my nana was gifted a washer and dryer in 86. I feel proud to still be able to wash bluejeans by hand . My grandmother would say ,"your useful and that's beautiful child" "Just beautiful. "

I really admire how a hard working housewife you are. I'd like to give you a little piece of advice here. If you want your family clothes keep their colors longer, turn them inside-out before putting them to sun-dry, and close pants zippers once they are on the clothesline, which, by the way, is really awesome!

A thought: If you raise the washer, you could put a container underneath the washer to drain the water into immediately. Then put the drainage hose off the second container. It drains to your plants while you are on the next step. I really like this video, especially the pros and cons afterwards.

Love the smell of clothes dried in the sun!

After watching you wash clothes, I went out and hugged and kissed my washing machine and told it how much I loved it! And that's how much I like watching your family life! AKA channel, thank you, ALL stay safe

When I was a child my mother had a FANCY clothes washer which was a big tub (no lid) with an electrically powered agitator - lasted a long, long time. Had a wringer attached to one side, and we had a lot of clothes lines. Never did a button, snap or buckle take any damage. One thing we learned was to be sure the t-shirts and pants were turned inside out before hanging up to dry so the sun would not bleach the outside, visible part of the fabric.

I love this way of doing things. I live in a “normal” house with “normal” appliances and just went through the replacement of broken things and the expense is ABSURD Nevermind the hassle

This is “DOING THE LAUNDRY”!! I no longer can use that term for my dump clothes,add detergent, close door, press buttons -- transfer clothing to dryer, close door press buttons---fold or hang! YOU ARE MY HERO GIRL! 💖💖💖💖

Couple things. My mother washed with a Maytag wringer washer all the time I was growing up. Never had a problem breaking buttons. Today we still wash with cold water. Clothes hold the color longer, cuts shrinking & helps stop the stains.

Look into a duvet cover for your quilt, will protect the quilt and easier to wash.

I've owned one of these for a number of years. It's surprising how many pieces of laundry makes a load in this little rascal. Cleans my husbands really dirty jeans better than any autimatic I've owned. And its great for soaking stained, yellowed whites, washing delicates. Naturally it's more work, takes a bit more time, but it saves tremendously on the water bill and electricity. Does every bit as good a job of cleaning as even a front loading automatic.

Honey I used an old ringer washer for years and loved it. If you fold the items with the buttons and zippers to the inside you will have no problem . I also washed my les dirty things first so I could use the same wash water more than once. ALSO IF YOU MAKE YOUR OWN WASHING SOAP YOU WON'T USE AS MUCH RINSE WATER. Hope this helps.

Your clothesline is an Australian invention. They are called a Hills hoist. Our weather is similar and these clothesline are fantastic for drying everything and they hold so much washing. I have never owned a clothes dryer in my life. Air drying is best for your clothes. Greetings from Donnybrook Western Australia.🇦🇺

When I started my Y2K stash in 1998 I got real lucky and found a manual wringer that bolts to a utility sink for $5 and must admit it’s the best five dollars I ever spent. Good for wringing towels and small rugs. I still have a clothesline in my basement for emergencies like a belt breaks on the washer or dryer and you have to wash and dry by hand until you have the money for repairs.

This is a real women!! When I am looking to you, is like I see my lovely grandma ...she was one the hardest working women ,I ever see in my life.💖

I grew up doing laundry this way, and at 70 I've gone back to my grandmother's ways. I am so proud to have learned off grid in the 1950s and 1960s. My grandmother would use her mothers iron kettle to boil water over a fire, our whites were amazing. As a RN I learned cold water is for protein stains. As humans we are protein so cold is good, but boiled is sterilizing, good with infections. There are amazing smells GOD gives us, herbs, humans, animals, ocean and Sun.😊

I love your whole setup, plus the ability to water the trees with the spent water is a huge bonus!

I love it! My mom used to make us wash our clothes on a washing board if we left our clothes everywhere. The punishment didn’t last long because we had fun with the washing board 😅

I love hanging my washing on a line outside, it makes me happy and the clothes smells wonderful when they are dry 😊

My grandmother had one similar to that, at the beginning of the 20th century. I found it in the garage as a kid, and loved to play with it. That old rusty contraption had a rotation crank to agitate the laundry on top of the lid. My granny told me that the introduction of these mechanical hand cranked washers brought such a relief to the housewifes, and I can only agree. I lived off grid for a winter in the 1980s and laundry was extremely hard work, because we had to wring and rinse all by hand. The wrangler is really a great invention, even more important than a washer. I also find that soaking laundry over night gets even the worst stains out. About clothlines: Here in Germany, inspite of the weather, clotheslines are much more common. I went to Claifornia in the 90s and was totally baffled that people with perfect dry weather waste so much time, energy and money on drying their laundry. Recently, electrical dryers start being a trend here as well. Wrong direction to go, I think.

We've been off grid and remote for 8 years. There are 6 of us and I do not miss the scrub board and wringer at all. We finally completed a water line from the creek to our water tanks, got an old washer and dryer we run off the generator and instead of heating water in a 15 gallon pot then lugging everywhere we use a propane on demand hot water heater. Laundry still takes all day but my hands no longer bleed after. I still have my washboard, plunger and wringer but hope I never have to go back to it.

Things sure come full circle. Back in the late 1800's, women used wooden versions of that washing machine. My Grandmother had a wringer washer, but it was an electric one. I remember seeing it in her basement when I was a little girl in the 50's. Clothes lines were the only dryer back then as well. LOL....full circle for sure. Love it.

Future newbie to homesteading/raw land/"life-choice-questioning" living. Enjoyed the honest opinion of this product and living off the land in general. I'll be checking out more of your videos! Jane

@Tiny Shiny Home. A suggestion if I may : If you add clean water to the container you wring the clothes into , you can swish them around and rinse them in there ,wring them out with water draining back into bucket or into machine . Saves double handling and gets it done even faster . And you can use rinse water for next rinse or next wash.

I’m the youngest of 9 kids and our mom taught us early on “Laundry Lady keeps the money 💰” LoL 😂

My Grandparents had a beautiful hand washer. My father (88) and I have many discussions how we wished they wouldn’t have sold their hand washer. I have fond memories of helping my grandmother with the laundry; especially placing it through the double rollers and making sure I would never get my fingers caught or anything else. Many of our neighbors that I grew up also had hand washers and it was the norm to perform laundry the way you are doing it. I do believe the system my grandparents had got my grandfather’s clothes the cleanest and he was a farmer. By the way, I am a HUGE proponent of having that hand washer upon a platform to decrease any back issues. I have permanent damage from medical negligence. Please be proactive now my friends; your body is your life. Love your passion, grace and respect for our planet. God bless✝️❤️

I grew up with a wringer wash , only ran my hand through the wringers once. My mother had the double wringer washer and two rinse tubs. I also love clothes dried outside. Love that washer.

I remember my laundry days when I first married. I had a scrub board and a tub and a wringer. I carried the wash out and hung it up. I did that for 6 months. I was so glad to get an electric wringer washer. I had that for the next 4 years. That was a huge and why it was only done once a week. So happy to have a washer and dryer now.

13:07 washing your clothes in cold water is better for their materials as well, it's gentler (most "fancy" clothes are cold-wash, or dry clean)

This lady is the real world saving heroine .....low carbon footprint and not spouting off about it .....good on you girl I take my hat off to you

ILOVE this idea .Im sure those clothes smell wonderful.I remember how they smelled as a child when my mom would wash and dry sheets outside there was a certain smell that no dryer sheets or detergent can touch.They look wonderful hanging on the line

I remember "helping" my Grandmother on her old wringer machine. Man, I loved that thing. Thanks for the memories!

We used this same washer to do our laundry for twenty years with never a problem. It’s perfect for everything.

My mother had an electric wringer washer. She cut off the end of a wooden broomstick about 18 inches and used that to push the clothes through the wringer.

My stepmom gave me her washer when she moved. It's huge and higher end and I love it. I usually haven't had a washing machine. I saved some money for replacing some things if they break. I just checked Lehman's because the last time I dreamed about this washer it cost $500. Whoa! It's double now! Then I realized a new washer like the one I have would cost the same thing. It's all perspective. When this thing breaks, I'm getting the Lehman's washer with a wringer. I already hang my wash on the line. I would love to put this in the laundry room next to the sink that's there, but I'd rather have it outside in the garden so I can greywater it out to the plants. Great video guys!

Way fancier than a washboard! The wringer is a bonus, too. Love it! ❤

My husband is digging a hole for our Sunshine Clothesline this weekend. I wish we had a post hole auger like Ashley and Jonathan. That clothe line is MASSIVE, I can't begin to stress this. I just got ours this past weekend and it weighs 47 pounds. I have a Speed Queen washer/dryer, however with costs going up, I prefer when it's warm out to use my clothesline. Once you all are able to harvest rainwater, you'll be saving a lot as far as water goes. Speed Queens tend to last for decades. Mine is simplistic: push, turn, pull. It has hot/cold, warm/cold and cold/cold. I have heavy duty, perm press and delicate. I do love my Speed Queen. Mine fits a king comforter pretty easy

I am 74, we didnt have a washer for years. I turned the handle !!!seeing your daughter do this, I had so many good memories, and a tear or two. My gran had 14 kids, she knew how to save, guess she had to. A big Thank you from London

DO NOT forget that the heat of Arizona will dry clothes on a line very very fast. Idea: Build a small washhouse with a pvc pipe to drain the water into a container with a hose attachment system and you can add a platform for the washer to be higher.

Great video. I stopped using a dryer about 10 years ago. I think I saw the figure that one fifth of US home energy use is used to dry clothes. Imagine all the energy the US could save if folks just hung laundry. We have long winters with below freezing most of the time so I was able to find a folding wood drying rack that holds 2 loads of laundry if needed but usually I just do one. My clothes last so much longer by skipping the dryer and no more shrunken clothes! Thanks for sharing this great environmentally friendly idea.

I love lined dried clothes and linens!

Thank you for showing this. I've been looking at the Lehman's washer. The upfront purchase price is steep. When I was a kid -- back in the 1960s, we had a wringer washer. Buttons would pop off if you were a careless kid who didn't pay attention to how shirts were fed through the machine. The solution is to fold the buttons to the inside of the garment and most flat buttons would go through fine. My mother's work sweaters had to be wrung by hand because the wringer would break the dainty post-style pearl buttons no matter how you folded them. With that said, the old-fashioned top loading washing machine used a LOT less water than a modern automatic. At our house, the water was heated in a "zinc" tub on the wood cooking range and then moved in buckets to the washing machine. (Baking was done the same day while the stove was hot.) The cleanest items were washed in the machine first: well-rinsed (often pre-boiled) dishrags and tea towels, then all our underwear and bed sheets. Next was any white shirts or other white clothing. By the time those loads were done the water was cool enough for colored shirts, blouses, and dresses, followed by blankets if necessary. Finally, heavy work clothes such as jeans and overalls were washed, followed up by anything super dirty, such as rugs. We had a rinse tub that sat beside the washing machine. If the water in the washer got too dirty, or if there was an extra big washload, the washer could easily be emptied and refilled with fresh water, or the water from the rinse tub could be reused. When I started high school, and my grandmother was getting older, Mother bought an immersible water heater, the kind used for stock tanks, and heated the water in the washing machine using that. Since powered wringer washing machines are now almost impossible to find, Lehman's is a good option. Thiey want a pretty penny for their machines, but you only have to buy them once, and you don't have to pay for electricity to run them. Besides, just think how much you are saving on gym subscriptions with the workout that agitator will give. :)

This is awesome machine. I wish we have this growing up 30 years ago. We do laundry by hand even for big blankets then hang it on a clothesline then watch and wait until the clothes are dry and imagine laundry is a whole day work. So much fun. I didn’t know we call it off grid living lol. Now I realize I live off grid for 25 years lol.

I remember watching my Grandma doing laundry in a similar unit when I was young. They had 7 kids, my Mom was the eldest. Grandpa built a small room on the back of the house for the washer. They grew all their food, kept chickens for eggs and meat and a cow for milk. They lived in town on city water, had an extra lot for the garden.

I've had more than one European friend tell me over the years that no one in Europe washes their clothes in hot water because cold water gets more dirt out. I experimented with my laundry and found this to be true. I only wash in cold now. What a treat to stumble upon your channel. Many blessings on you and yours.

I love the level of clean that washing this way achieves! Loved this video

What a great job you did on covering all the Pros and Cons. I'm going for it. Thanks

What a great system! I always wash everything in cold water to prevent shrinkage and wear. Really great to see the kids always pitching in and helping. Can't wait to see a video next week to see what you've been working on!

I live in a house, on the grid, use a washer, and always use cold water. I have a dryer and still hang most clothes on a couple of racks. Love this video❣️😊

I have SO many years of using the wringer washer and hanging up clothes outside at home when I was a kid and later as an adult. I found out that not using rinse/static prevention products eliminated the attention of bugs, flies and other undesirables. Sunshine will dry things faster than the next load is ready to hang up.

You guys are awesome!!!! I would do it myself as well!! I also only use cold water for all my clothes. I would love my kids helping out!! My kids are poops!!!! They are mostly grown !!!! I have 4. Ages 34, 22, 17 & 14. Keep rockin this property kiddos!!!! Ashley you ARE KICK ASS!!!! Sending you all Love, Peace and tons of Joy!!!! 😁

Takes me back to my childhood many years ago. We were a family of 9. Mom always started with whites then moved on to print to darks. Washing was done and hung up in hour or so.

Thank you so much for making this video. We are also off grid over in the Appalachain mountains of Virginia. Ive been doing laundry in 5 gallon buckets and trash cans. It does the job fine but its not the most efficient. I squeeze some water but mostly let things drip dry on the line, just takes a little longer. Ive been looking at this lehmans washer/wringer for a while. Hearing yalls pros and cons was great in helping me decide how to move forward with our laundry set up so thank you! -Ash

That was time well spent, watching this video!!! Thanks for sharing!

We love this idea. Thanks for sharing 👍

You could put a double hose extender on the drain, an run two hoses in two different directions!👍

Watching you brought back memories of doing laundry with my mom and grandma and THE SMELL! I had a smellory( memory trigger from Watching)!!

Great video. You are doing what is best for your situation.

Delightful and informative. Glad to have found your channel.

Love your laundry setup and that big capacity dryer! We're off-grid solar in Maine and do have a washer which drains into the house perimeter drain which waters our comfrey patch which we use in our compost making. Phew! Plus we hang our clothes outside on the line year round which is a pulley line from our back deck to a maple tree which is high enough off the ground to be above the winter snow. 🙃❤

Watching someone do laundry could never be as enjoyable as this🤩

I remember hanging clothing on a clothesline when I was about 13 yrs. I hung out many a diaper,my brother was a baby at the time. By the time I got everything hung out it was time to start taking them down. Clothes dry fast in the California sun with a breeze .

I had to pop over and check out Lehman's! Very cool! This reminds me of helping my Mom as a kid to do laundry in the basement with her wringer washer and the two concrete tubs, one with a built in washboard.

I have used wringer washers off and on through my life (regular electric) and always liked them. Love the fresh smell of air dried clothes. Beats dryer sheets and scent beads. Love what your family is doing.

I used my wringer until 1989 when I finally broke down & bought an automatic washer. Always started with light colors to darks. Could get 4 loads out of 1 fill. Turn buttons to the inside to avoid breaking A double utility tub works great to rinse. I'd take from washer & wring into 1st utility tub. Soak & swish then run thru wringer into 2nd tub repeat process then final wring thru and hang. Thankfully, my wringer allowed me to reposition it other then over the " washing" tub.

Oh yea Thank you for sharing your family with us 🌻😊

So glad you brought up building it up. All that bending is over use, cumulative damage. I’ve seen Amish use these washers with those over the elbow rubber gloves in the winter. Using Dr Bronners and reusing the gray water for gardens EXCELLENT! I’m building a solarium of sorts with a fire place and using two of these machines: Washing, wringing, rinsing, wringing, second final rinse wring and hang. We turn clothing inside out, zippers and buttons closed, and we start with whites, colors, darks last. The water gets progressively dirty but keeps the whites bright not dingy from dyes. Any items requiring a capful of bleach are washed separately on a different day to avoid mixing with other clothes. Baby cloth diapers for example. After wastes are rinsed out they are placed in a bucket of hot water and a 1/4 cup of liquid or powdered bleach. We use a rubber toilet plunger to agitate throughly then allow to soak for a good hour before rinsing. I rinse three times to ensure any residual bleach is out. Dry on the line or in front of a fire and drying rack in the winter. Hope someone invents a kinetic off gird washer and tumble dryer. That would be fantastic.

When I was a kid(60's) we used a wringer washing machine. Once my finger got caught in a belt loop and pulled my arm through to almost my shoulder before I stopped the machine. It didn't really hurt but scared the crap out of me lol.

I have one of those washing machines and love it. I use it as long as it’s now winter freezing temps. I mounted mine on a rolling platform and bracketed it to the rolling base. So I can move it around to put away when finished.

I fulltime in a travel trailer and finding decent laundromats is my biggest challenge! I will be getting a portable washer I can use outside. Love this episode!!

First time watching this family. Love that they try to explain good and bad and thing they do. Help explain how things are made or just what ever they are talking about. Which I. Really we appreciate how they try to say everything in detail. Plus we want to do what they are doing. We live in southern az also. 🙌

Looks like a cool machine. May have to get one and make my kids do their own laundry. LOL

Good idea to ring them out first before rinse cycle! Just like a regular cycle where it spins out the soapy water! 👍🏻

I just discovered you today and loved watching your methods. As an Arizona resident for 54 years (but in the city), your channel will be especially useful for me as I try to be prepared for the possibility of needing to go off grid in an apartment... LOL. When you were talking about drying clothes on a clothesline in the Arizona summer, I was glad to hear you confirm what I remember from over 20 years ago when we were in a house with a clothesline in the back yard. You're right... when we finished hanging up a load across the 2 or 3 long lines, it was time to start back at the first end and start taking things down that were already dry.

My Mom had an old Maytag wringer washing machine for years. It was electric, but that thing got clothes so clean. I was little, but I used to help her on laundry day and she had no dryer, so she hung things out on the line here in IL. all year round. In the winter they would freeze and we would go out, bring them in after they had been on the line for about 2 hours and she had a drying rack in the kitchen that folded up and we would put the clothes on that. When they started thawing out, the whole house smelled like fresh air and sunshine. I have always hung clothes on the line since I first got married. Had three kids and used cloth diapers. Best disinfectant is sunshine. I still hang them out unless I just simply have to wash something and it's raining, then I wash and use my drier. I am 73 years old, but I can tell you right now, I might just check into this machine! I know it will get the clothes a lot cleaner than my "new front loading washer with low flow water". I don't like it at all. LOL. Seriously, I would much rather have an old fashioned wringer washer!

Ashley, thanks for the pros and cons. This reminds me of a video Andrew Millison did. He interviewed a woman in India whose family lives in a city but uses rainwater almost exclusively. She used a laundry/washing stone to rub her clothing against. It was outdoors on a patio or balcony-fairly large like an endtable-the water drained away to water plants. Amazingly simple and handy.

This reminds me of helping my grandma with laundry. This was a fun video!

Excellent tips, very cute and funny!! We are just planning at this point, quite sure the time will come. Thank you!!

I love Lehman’s items. I’ve been there and it’s so cool they still make simple items. I’m so proud of ya for doing your laundry like this. Simple and cheaper! Keep going guys. I so enjoy watching you and the kids.

My husband hooked up a little petrol motor to an old side agitator and then had 2 ringers like yours attatched to a double trough to rinse we rinsed twice as we have skin allergies and always air dry. Blessings to you all from down under. Thought you are right in needing to raise your machine.

Love your set up. I’m with you on raising it a bit! The solar dryer is perfect!! We are in Yuma in a 396 square foot casita. I have a washer and dryer but the dryer doesn’t get used very much at all. I love to just let them dry solar style. ;)

My mom only ever had a wringer washer. Went something like: the girl's bras, underwear, socks were washed first, then shirts, casual clothes, then the guys underwear, towels were in there somewhere, ended with the really dirty work clothes. I believe she used the same water through all the loads or se may have changed it out once half way through. Started with hottest water and water cooled as the loads of clothes were washed. We had a well, had to conserve water. She had a system and it took her an entire day to do laundry. Washer was electric. We helped with the rinsing, hanging outside, taking down, folding, putting away. Wow, am I ever so grateful!!!

Love that washer!! I agree on the platform😊 Thank you for pointing out how you hold your fingers so they don’t go on the ringer, when I was little my grandmothers was similar to yours but electric and I accidentally ran my arm into the ringer almost up to my elbow before she got it stopped, I can never forget that.

Well I used a wringer washer for years with 4 kids...mind you it was electric. Got the clothes really clean too. Always used cold water except for whites and diapers. I would gladly have used your little washer. All my laundry was dried outside even in winter. Would bring in the clothes frozen stiff and throw them on a rack. Dried soft and smelled so fresh!

Dasher washers have been around for a very long time. They work very well, we had an old wood dasher washer growing up that mom would clean rugs in.

I remember doing laundry at my husband's grandparent's place in New Mexico in June. By time I got it all hung up the first line was dry and bleached. I remember never having to use hot water while showering or washing my hair because the water never got cold. Came out of the tap tepid. Their house and the house next door where we stayed were built entirely of handmade adobe bricks. The wooden forms they used to make the bricks were still on the front porch in case any rebuilding needed to be done. They had electricity and running water but it was still like a throwback to the 30s. Best vacation ever.

Thank you for this video. Bless you & your family.

Two washers side by side! One for wash, One for rinse. My mom did seven loads with the same water! Cleanest to Grungy last. The wash water would look like chocolate milk at the end.

Suggestion, put everything on a scrap wood platform to save your back. Great job!😀

Wow they are so lucky to have all your hard work to bring back their lawn!

Now..that is one amazing video....thank you for posting.

Love it, I wash all my clothes in cold water as well. I hang my clothes out on the line too.I live in Texas so I only need my dyer only certain times of the year ,I also have my dyer where I can recycle the heat back into the house during the winter .I also found when hanging my pants I crease them seam to seam in the leg they take up less room on the line and they come out nice and creased for wear .I also had a pvc line built all pipe ,you drill holes for your hangers and you can hang your shirts to dry then simply hang them up when dry .Y'all have a great set up loved your video thanks for sharing it.

Speaking as someone who is now waiting 2 weeks for a new washing machine, I wish I had one of those. I used to do laundry like that in a similar machine when we went camping as a kid. I hated the ringer, smashed fingers❤️✨

What a great invention that is! We had problems with our water system here in Hawaii and I had to wash dishes and clothes in a bucket for a while but I didn’t have that cool machine. Thanks for sharing your video and much love to your heart today mama... you rock!

Very, very good. You do exactly right.