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Fumesucker

(45,851 posts)
6. Looking at your other post about rainwater for gardening I gather you pay 1.6 cents per gallon.
Thu Aug 23, 2012, 07:45 PM
Aug 2012

Hauling five gallons two flights saves about 8 cents at that rate..

If your legs are likely to crap out on the stairs I'd find some other way of doing it, the risk of hurting yourself is fairly high for that small an amount of money.

One thing that occurs to me is to save your rinse water and use it for the next load wash cycle, the washer doesn't care where the water comes from it just uses a pressure switch to detect the water level.


I agree with Curmudgeoness, the off brand detergents work just fine, I usually use Purex.

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