good values for washing up/showering

[dhuff]

Monoprice.com has a few items on their website that might be of interest to nomads:

Collapsible Plastic Laundry Basket / Washing Tub, 9L (about 2.4 gal) capacity for $19.99
https://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=41956

Solar Shower bag, 6.5 gal. capacity for $9.99
https://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=37917

They also sell other camping products, as well as good quality cables, computer & audio/video accessories, etc...at good prices with an excellent return policy. I'm not "sponsored" by this company or anything, just a happy repeat customer.

 

[BelgianPup]

That bag, filled with water, weighs 54 lbs.

Lift it over my head? heeheeheeheehee?

Get the crane out!

 

[crofter]

I like the idea of pumping the shower water out of a bucket. Used to use the solar shower and had it set up with a pulley to raise it if you really like that type of shower. 
-crofter

 

[WanderingRose]

Yep, I would also be concerned about the weight of a 6.5 gallon solar shower.

I use a 2.5 gallon one, and can just hang it without difficulty.

At $9.99, I would also be concerned about quality.

I see one, 5 star review.

 

[nature lover]

Has anyone tried the little battery powered pumps that have a shower handle on the other end so that you put your bucket on the floor or ground and then use the handheld unit? I see them for less than $40. I have been planning to get one.

 

[MrNoodly]

My good value for washing up is a 1 gallon jug of no-rinse perineal & skin cleanser. (About $11 bucks.) It's what they use to bathe bedridden people. You can use it straight, but I mix it about two parts warm water to one part wash. About a half cup will soak a washcloth and clean my whole body.

 

[WanderingRose]

When I am in extreme water conservation mode, for whatever reason, I use one of those disposable washcloths that are mean for bedridden individuals and are fairly inexpensive in packets similar to wet wipes at Walmart.

I take a sponge bath with one of those, which I then can toss rather than using more water to rinse, and then rinse with maybe a half gallon of clean water.

Not a full shower, but works very satisfactorily, and I have a collapsible bin I can stand in for this if I must also conserve tank capacity.

 

[flying kurbmaster]

Has anyone tried the little battery powered pumps that have a shower handle on the other end so that you put your bucket on the floor or ground and then use the handheld unit?  I see them for less than $40.  I have been planning to get one.

I used one for awhile, it was orange, it worked for awhile, a few months, then died, Afterwards I thought of buying a better quality bilge pump and connecting shower head to it but in the end I think using a kitchen pot, dipping it in the bucket works just as well.

 

[Dingfelder]

Has anyone tried the little battery powered pumps that have a shower handle on the other end so that you put your bucket on the floor or ground and then use the handheld unit?  I see them for less than $40.  I have been planning to get one.

Yes.  I got one on Amazon.  Works really great.  Use it with a black 5-gallon bucket I put out in the sun during the warm months.  Only thing I don't like about it is the battery is built-in, so I'd have to buy a new unit when this one fizzles out.  And batteries often fizzle out fairly quickly, especially if you aren't johnny-on-the-spot about watching their charge level.  Which, with an item like this, I would tend not to do in winter. Again, though, they work very well, or at least mine does.

 

[nature lover]

Thanks for the feedback on those little shower units. I’ve been determined to get one for a while so I probably will.