Scrub-a-dub-dub - An old broad and a tub...

Many of you have asked how we do our laundry. Behind our cabana is a laundry area. Many of the tico houses have the same set up, although some of them also have washer/spin dryers. We don’t.

The sink has three sections and is higher in the front so that it drains to the back. None of them have plugs, so you just push a piece of clothing in front of the drain and let the water run. The middle section is deeper, and the two sinks on the side are quite shallow, more like a draining shelf, really. I fill the middle section with soap and water and wash out our things, and then toss them over to another, less deep section. Then I repeat the process only this time I rinse. Lastly I wring the clothing out by hand and hang them up. It takes them almost no time to dry in the heat and sunshine.



We’ve had a young lady doing most of our laundry for us. We’ve had a few snags though. Sometimes it comes back the next day and sometimes not for almost a week. This is particularly funny because we can see from our cabin that she washes it as soon as she gets it. We watch it dry on the line. Then it disappears for several days and then comes back home to us. It amuses me that our laundry also is on vacation in Costa Rica.

She also has a habit of bleaching everything to within an inch of it’s life, so we’ve just sent things to her that we don’t mind losing or being ruined. The rest, like Charles’ shirts or towels and clothing that I’ve bought as souvenirs, I simply wash myself. It doesn’t really take that long.



This week I’ve washed everything myself just to be on the safe side. We are leaving for La Fortuna the day after tomorrow and we thought we’d like to take our underwear with us. Hahaha.