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Anonymous Sat 08 Apr 2017 06:18:56 No.987177 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>987255 >>987261 >>987270 >>987538 >>987693 >>987827 >>990335

I'm going to be living off grid, in a Travel Trailer, for about 6 months.

The thing that is really going to kill me is showers. I love 'em. I feel grimy waking up, and hate being dirty.
I measured it out, and the shortest shower I can take would fill a 2 gallon bucket.

What are some tips on quick showers? Is there a special soap that cleans well but takes no time at all to rinse off? Like would hand sanitizer clean better and be quicker to rinse off?
Half of my water usage is just rinsing out the soap.

note: i'm poor as fuck and pic is unrelated.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 08 Apr 2017 09:58:12 No.987206 Report

Quoted By: >>987311

Use baby wipes to clean your body, then go into the shower to wash your hair.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 08 Apr 2017 13:56:38 No.987255 Report

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>>987177
BAYWARD pls go

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Anonymous Sat 08 Apr 2017 14:10:40 No.987261 Report

Quoted By: >>987273

>>987177
In the service we had to take sea showers. You quickly wet yourself, turn the water off, lather on soap and shampoo, then turn the water back on, rinse quickly, and done.

Use lava soap bars, available at any Walmart for a few cents, they are gritty and will easily scrub away grime.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 08 Apr 2017 14:40:11 No.987270 Report

Quoted By: >>987451

>>987177
You can't go to a truck stop and take a shower?

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Anonymous Sat 08 Apr 2017 14:43:16 No.987273 Report

Quoted By: >>987276 >>987525

>>987261
lava good shit, we use to use it at this auto place I worked at. I usually just use Irish spring though.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 08 Apr 2017 14:47:35 No.987276 Report

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>>987273
i guess just find a creek our a free shower. truck stop. you don't get real dirty just driving around. our wipes. sleep cool, so you don't wake up a ball of sweat.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 08 Apr 2017 14:51:11 No.987277 Report

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>>987276
our you could get a water tank and just fill it when you can, and wash your hair scrub up a little in your shorts, our naked if you feel adventurous.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 08 Apr 2017 14:55:54 No.987279 Report

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totally doable, creek rivers everywhere with a place to park for fishers.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 08 Apr 2017 15:03:10 No.987281 Report

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that waters gonna be so cold, i do not envy you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EG0wQRsXLi4&t=3s

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Anonymous Sat 08 Apr 2017 16:15:19 No.987305 Report

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>2 gallon bucket

Get a two gallon garden sprayer, fill it with water and leave it in the sun.

Ta da! Warm shower.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 08 Apr 2017 16:25:44 No.987311 Report

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>>987206
you can also clean your hair with baby wipes

OP, all you need to do is visit a washroom and use their paper towels to degrease your head. There's also dry shampoo you can buy which will kill the grease without requiring water.

Learn to love your new, shiny, head

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 08 Apr 2017 16:38:55 No.987316 Report

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Set up a rain collector and a shower bag.

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Anonymous Sat 08 Apr 2017 17:40:54 No.987357 Report

Quoted By: >>987367

i don't even shower on the grid

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Anonymous Sat 08 Apr 2017 18:02:47 No.987367 Report

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>>987357
>fap
>don't wash hand
>shake somebody you hate's hand
small victories

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Anonymous Sat 08 Apr 2017 19:37:11 No.987451 Report

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>>987270

Generally the point of a shower is to become clean...

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 08 Apr 2017 20:26:57 No.987492 Report

Quoted By: >>987754

>>987451
I take it you've never been to a decent truck stop...

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 08 Apr 2017 21:01:52 No.987525 Report

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>>987273

tom bombadil ain't a paddy

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 08 Apr 2017 21:18:30 No.987538 Report

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>>987177

Shower like the nips. Sit on a chair with a bucket of soapy water and a loofa. Soap and scrub then rinse with the soapy water and finish rinse with clean water from a solar shower bag.

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Anonymous Sat 08 Apr 2017 21:41:20 No.987552 Report

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I have an RV.

Off grid for 6 months? So I'm taking it no water or electric hookups? Not sure what you'll do about heat then, travel trailers are usually not very well insukayed, especially if you're living in an older or cheaper one.

A typical travel trailer water tank is 40 gallons. If you take a 2 gallon shower a day, you're not going to last very long. Remember the shower needs power to operate too. You're going to need a generator as well.

Just skip showers a d use baby wipes if you can. If you do shower you just turn the water on to get wet, then turn it off. Lather yourself up, then turn on the water and rinse off.

Why not just park the travel trailer at a campground ? You'll have water and sewer hookups, and be set.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 09 Apr 2017 01:55:03 No.987693 Report

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>>987177
>I'm going to be living off grid, in a Travel Trailer, for about 6 months.
So you're going to working on a pot farm.

>What are some tips on quick showers?
Two 5Gal buckets, washcloth. One bucket is for washing, the other is for rinsing, after you're clean, wash your clothes, do your dishes, then dump the wash bucket, rinse bucket becomes new wash bucket, old wash bucket gets clean water and becomes rinse bucket. You can get by with about 1Gal/day for as long as you need.

You can also dig a big hole, line it with a tarp, cover the bottom with stones, and heat up rocks in the fire that you set on the liner-stones for a hot bath.

Camp showers are also pretty great, but require solar heating and have limited capacity.

Here's a possible solution: Pick up a big roll of 1/4 inch black plastic tubing, coil it into a big disk on some plyboard, top with a thin sheet of plexiglass, attach one end to the bottom of a 5Gal bucket and the other end to a valved sprayer head.

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Anonymous Sun 09 Apr 2017 03:32:17 No.987754 Report

Quoted By: >>987815

>>987492
>decent
>truck stop

Pick one.

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Anonymous Sun 09 Apr 2017 05:29:32 No.987815 Report

Quoted By: >>990426

>>987754
Sorry
Some of them are pretty nice

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Anonymous Sun 09 Apr 2017 06:02:09 No.987827 Report

Quoted By: >>987949

>>987177

If you stop using shampoo for ~2 weeks and wash only using water, the natural oil your scalp normally secretes called sebum (which is what makes animal fur soft and shiny though they don't use shampoo) will regenerate. Shampoo washes it away and makes you dependent on buying more shampoo to achieve what sebum does naturally.

The only downside is that those 2 weeks are miserable, as your hair will get really stiff and gross until your sebum levels are back to normal.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 09 Apr 2017 13:31:24 No.987949 Report

Quoted By: >>987953

>>987827
I havent used shampoo in about 2 years, just dig my fingers into my scalp under warm water. I get compliments on how soft and nice my hair is all the time. It only works with shorter hair though, you just look greasy and unclean if its longer then 1.5 inches or so

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Anonymous Sun 09 Apr 2017 14:01:09 No.987953 Report

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>>987949
Nopoo is a thing yes

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 09 Apr 2017 15:12:27 No.988002 Report

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Just get a towel and a small wash basin, soap up the towel and scrub yourself as normal.
Then rinse the soap out of the towel with water, and use the damp towel to remove the soap off your body.

Then dry yourself.
Not complicated

You can get a 12v immersion heater that can boil a cup of water in a minute so you don't have to worry about cold water either.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 11 Apr 2017 22:59:09 No.990335 Report

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>>987177
You could clean yourself with a cloth, and then shower in a closed system. You get clean and enjoy a shower.
Plus it's a finite volume of water, so it makes the grey water meme actually viable.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Apr 2017 00:26:06 No.990426 Report

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>>987815
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