# Hand-washing clothes: As effective as a machine?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hand-washing-clothes-as-effective-as-a-machine/413899>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 1, 2007, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hand-washing-clothes-as-effective-as-a-machine/413899 "2007-08-01T00:31:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mr.Goob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c77e96/32.png) [@Mr.Goob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Goob)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hand-washing-clothes-as-effective-as-a-machine/413899/21 "2007-08-03T11:40:06Z")

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I swear by the expensive synthetic socks I bought for walking all day. They wash easily and seem to dry in a minute. Same with a microfiber towel.

Tide makes great little one use packets of detergent, better than Woolite. For drying go to the camping section and look for a nylon line. It has two or three stretchy strands woven together that you can hook a corner of the fabric through and hang anywhere.

[This guy](http://www.onebag.com/) is my hero.

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**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hand-washing-clothes-as-effective-as-a-machine/413899/22 "2007-08-03T11:50:59Z")

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I, also have an upcoming trip to Europe. I travel with three days’ worth of clothing, and do my washing every night (it takes more than overnight for things to dry). I use regular powdered detergent, and it gets things clean enough.

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**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hand-washing-clothes-as-effective-as-a-machine/413899/23 "2007-08-03T14:58:01Z")

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[QUOTE=chorpler]  
It doesn’t matter, because if you stay at a hostel you’ll be carted off to a torture-porn facility and used as a plaything for a sadistic businessman to gut, burn, and murder LONG before you can wash your clothes. I saw a documentary by Eli Roth on the subject.  
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Does Woolite remove set-in eyeball goo?

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