Learning new ways.........

A couple of days ago, I was complaining to our property manager that the washing machine was extremely slow to fill, when trying to wash in cold water.  I know I should not have been complaining when, after 10 days, the machine was actually working, but I was bold enough to go there.  She just smiled and asked if I had tried filling it with the hose?  Oddly it had never dawned on me to do so.

This is how I wash a load in cold water.  I start the machine filling (mostly a trickle of water), then I add soap and clothes, then I scurry from the bodega (roughly translated means, cellar or storeroom) across the yard, turn on the hose and kink it, then run back to the bodega where the washer is and put the hose into the washer.  It takes quite a while to fill the washer and sometimes the hose falls out and runs water all over the place.  Once it's filled you have to kink the hose again and run back out trying not to make too much of a mess.  However, it is much faster than waiting for the machine to fill on it's own.  The down side to this, is that you have to come back and run the whole routine again for the rinse cycle.

It could be worse, I was talking to a nice family today from Edmonton Canada and she washers everything by hand and hangs it to dry.  I can't imagine.......how lucky I am to have my washer.  The housekeeper that showed me how to work it, fondly refers to it as THE MANIAC! Lucky Me!