permaculture

[Paul d'Aoust <paul@heliosville.com>]

On Fri, 2007-07-09 at 22:25 +0000, Charles de Matas wrote:
> "Trudie Redding" <tredding@mail.utexas.edu>wrote:
>> ... my clothes seems to last a long time too, and I have a grey
>> water line for the sink. ...
> ... Yes, the clothes do last longer. ...

So how do you folks do it? The first time I ever washed any substantial
amount of clothes by hand was this summer (at a PDC, actually), and a
couple of my older shirts disintegrated, whereas they'd been
threadbare-but-intact through many mechanical washes. Is there some sort
of technique I'm missing?

Paul d'Aoust