Laundry in a Bucket

Have you ever tried washing your laundry in a bucket? Sounds like a boring and kind of a difficult way. I must say that it’s actually kind of interesting. Plus you save more money on your water utility. In Mexico approximately more than half of its people wash their clothes on a cement laundry tub. My parents come from that same culture and even though I live here in the United States, my family still washes clothes by hand and in buckets. This is my family own and unique way of doing our laundry than the American culture.
First of all, I go around to every room to get everyone’s dirty clothes and put them in a laundry basket. Once I have all the dirty clothes together, I begin separate them by colors. I make sure to put all the laundry in six different piles. Each of those laundry piles are separated according to their color. For example, all the whites together, light colors, dark colors, jeans, delicates, and work clothes all separated. After I’m done separating the clothes into each pile I take them in laundry baskets to the garage. In the garage I get four 5 gallon buckets. Each pile of clothes has to be washed using the correct type of water for example; whites are to be washed with hot water. For the rest of the clothing the water is used differently; light colors are to be washed with warm water, dark colors with cold water, jeans with cold water, delicate with cold water, and work clothes with hot water.
Second, I start to fill up all of the four buckets with the same amount of water. In the first bucket I add the detergent. If it is a full load I use 1 cup of detergent. If it is half the load I use ½ cup of detergent. In the first bucket I throw in the first pile of clothes. I start to hand wash it by rubbing the clothes with my hands and making sure there aren’t any spots or stains. I then wring it out and throw it in the second bucket filled with