Comments on: Wednesday Wash Wisdom - Soak Bucket

By: Miguel Tucker

Miguel Tucker — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:37:58 +0000

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By: Diane

Diane — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 13:01:48 +0000

How funny - my latest is a soak sink (no sink in basement by washer - bummer). I just found that OxyClean and a little water directly on the stain, including evil mashed banana, gets anything out. Anything. I envy your washroom sink!!!

By: Elizabeth-The Whole Family

Elizabeth-The Whole Family — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 04:42:09 +0000

I don’t have a laundry sink, so I usually use a bath sink. We get lots of stains too-especially in the summer. I have always used Clorox 2, applied directly to the stain and it almost always comes out! No soaking needed. I’ve also heard that Dish Det. helps get out food/grease stains. I guess it breaks down the grease like it does on your dishes. LOL!

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By: Sarah

Sarah — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 03:28:30 +0000

Oh this is such a good idea. We are currently house hunting and you have just added another “must” to my list: Counter space in laundry area for a soak bucket!

By: pinks & blues girls

pinks & blues girls — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 20:54:31 +0000

What a good idea! I am going to be so good in the laundry department with all these tips I’m collecting from your Wednesday Wash Wisdom!

Jane, P&B Girls

By: JG

JG — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 21:14:22 +0000

Ahhh, … the soak bucket. Does great things, but its just a pain. First you’ve got to remember to put the socks that are filthy from planting some new bushes or from cutting the grass. Then you’ve got to weave through the baskets of laundry littering the floor of the laundry room. Followed by an accurate shot into the bucket - an inaccurate requires more weaving to get closer and then to reach into the sink and redepositing the socks. The other thing about the soak bucket is that its just big enough to occupy most of the deep sink, but not so big that its not possibble to use the sink for other things - so when filling the flower watering jug its not acceptable to use the kitchen sink - and when filling the flower watering jug the soak buckets makes it just hard enough to squeese it into the sink and get the faucet to aim into the fill hole.

But if the soak bucket makes life easier for mdw, then I can live with the weaving and squeezing.

By: bee

bee — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 18:05:53 +0000

I have a this plastic tub thing that my mom forced me to take home from the hospital. It’s become my “soak bucket.” I cannot believe I was actually going to leave that thing in the hospital room!

I use water & Oxyclean to soak my stains in, but it never actually occured to me to keep water & Oxyclean in the tub and just throw stuff in there as I go. Excellent idea! I guess that’s why you’re “Lessons From the Laundry” though!

By: wordgirl

wordgirl — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 15:22:02 +0000

people….sorry

By: wordgirl

wordgirl — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 15:21:47 +0000

I have a big, deep sink in my laundry room, but “other peopl” fill it with plants and other things that make a soak bucket impossible. That said, it’s a great idea and I wish I had thought of it first.

By: mg

mg — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 13:50:37 +0000

Though there’s no room in my laundry room for a soak bucket, I sometimes use my kitchen sink (which is 5 feet from my laundry “room”.
I’ve never used oxy clean.. is it just for whites?
I do squirt a greasy stain with Greased Lightening then launder… works like a charm!