Frugal and Energy Efficient Living

The cheap plungers that are only cup shaped without the fold out rim work better than the more expensive ones, the rim tends to unfold and get in the way while you are plunging clothes in a bucket.

Also a five gallon bucket in the back of the pickup while you drive around works, put the clothes and detergent in and let it stay for a day, the worse your roads and the further your drive the better it works.

I'm not sure of the durability of the newer appliances, efficient they may be but so many things these days are not built as well as they used to be. Cars are one of the few exceptions to this rule I think.