"Jerry Avins" > wrote in message
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> On Jul 19, 10:33 pm, "jmcquown" > wrote:
>> "Steve Freides" > wrote in message
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>> > Ranée at Arabian Knits wrote:
>> >> Not food, but still recipes, so somewhat OT?
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>> >> Anyway.
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>> >> Laundry Detergent:
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>> >> 1 bar Castile soap (I use Dr. Bronner's baby unscented, but any kind
>> >> will work), grated
>> >> 1 cup washing soda
>> >> 1 cup borax powder
>> >> 5 gallon bucket
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>> > Some of these ingredients are completely unfamiliar to me, e.g., what
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>> > "washing soda", what is "borax powder"? I know I could Google but I'd
>> > appreciate an explanation as to what these are and where one might find
>> > them.
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>> > Thanks.
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>> > -S-
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>> If you ever saw PBS's 'Frontier House' (or maybe read the Foxfire books)
>> you'd know about things like this. Ranee lives like she's Amish. Heck,
>> maybe she is. I don't have any idea where I could find Borax powder but
>> it
>> was common up until the the 1960's. Maybe she shops exclusively from the
>> Lehman's Non-electric Catalog. I'm surprised she doesn't light her house
>> entirely with candles and oil lamps.
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>> I'm not making fun of her, not at all. But I'm sorry... my grandparents
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>> parents made it out of the 1930's Depression for a reason. That reason
>> being to be able to turn on a washing machine. No more washboard, a
>> bucket
>> and 30 Mule Team Borax.
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>> Jill
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> Come on, Jill. I haven't bought borax in the last 10 years (a box
> lasts me a long time) but I saw it not long ago on the shelf as
> Stop&Shop. http://www.20muleteamlaundry.com/
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> Jerry
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Oh, it's 20 mules, not 30. I only have a vague memory of Borax because I
grew up with a washing machine and something called 'Tide"

Jill