New Yorker Saves By Skipping Laundry for 3 Years, no toilet paper either

[noamnety]

19. I know people (online) who use "family cloths"

instead of TP. They do launder them. But you can get the kind of washer that's handcranked to save electricity - that makes more sense to me than using grey water from a shower to wash clothes.

This stuff doesn't phase me too much, I lived without electricity or running water for 6 months when I was in the army, and my kid spent 10 months last year off the grid. During the summer, I don't think she showered at all, she just went skinny dipping in the lake like the other people in the community.

A post about family cloths from a frugal blog I read occasionally: http://www.pennilessparenting.com/2011/04/cloth-toilet-paper-revisited.html