camp shower

[Billnpatti]

Back in the day when we still had small kids, we went camping a lot. Often the places where we chose to camp were very primitive with no facilities at all. We would shower every night by heating water on the camp stove and pouring it into a simple garden sprinkler. I would sprinkle the kids to get them wet and then my wife would lather them up. I would rinse them off and while she was drying that one, I would be wetting down the next one. With a 2 gallon sprinkler, we could shower two kids. When the kids were clean, one of us would strip off and the other would hold the sprinkler and provide the water for the one showering. Just use the old Navy method of wetting down with a minimum of water, lathering up and then rinsing off. For an adult, it only takes about a gallon or just a bit more for a very nice shower. When the sprinkler is not needed, just put it away in a box out of site. You can decide on how to rig up a shower curtain for privacy. The only down side to my method is that it requires two well acquainted people. I suppose a creative mind could figure out a way to hang the sprinkler can by its handle and tip it over to the sprinkle position when water is needed.

 

[Wes/Tex]

The only down side to my method is that it requires two well acquainted people.

Suppose you're right there...."Hey lady, want I should sprinkle yah with me can? Gotta shuck your jumper and knickers first!" Yeah, I can see that leading to potential trouble! :thumbsup: :haha:

 

[satx78247]

FUNNY!!!

yours, satx

 

[satx78247]

That might be a way to find a new "intimate friend".

yours, satx

 

[Wes/Tex]

That might be a way to find a new "intimate friend".

In the county lock-up! :rotf:

 

[satx78247]

That reminds me of a "frat boy" at SMU who was said to walk up to SMU coeds & directly ask each one, "Would you like to make it with me?"

When asked if that didn't get his face slapped a lot, he reportedly said, "YEP but I seldom sleep alone, either."

yours, satx

 

[Alden]

But a Navy shower really is what you need, and I sorta hope that's all we have to all take some day by Residential Order. If someone MADE you boil water from scratch, i.e. from cutting wood onwards, only to pour said water down the drawn really fast, you'd cry!!!

Hit the button in the shower -- you get a minute of water. Hit it two times to rinse off properly after you've done all your washing! Heat lamp in the shower stall ceiling for your comfort. That's it... We really are a wasteful lot!

The sun-baked water bags (black on one side, clear on the other) that heat the water and have a little sprinkle nozzle actually work well enough but are a little flimsy and are one-use a day.

 

[Billnpatti]

Yeah, if you are a "loner", it might be a tough sell. For those whose wives or a close friend accompanies them to these events, life is a bit easier. Of course, it could be the loner who gets lucky. :haha:

 

[crockett]

Maybe I'll head on over on Mockingbird.

 

[satx78247]

Understood. =======> In my long ago boarding-school & college "DAZE", Hockaday School, SMU's campus, The Fashion Mart and the American Airlines Stewardess College in Dallas & later at TWU up in Denton (where "a young man in uniform" might "get tackled & dragged-off into the bushes by a Tessie") were my "favored hunting grounds".
(CHUCKLE.)

yours, satx

 

[nhmoose]

Wouldn't HC/PC be a pond or brook or waterfall?

Or lye soap water and scrap cloth?

 

[Alden]

Period-correct stops at fleas and lice! Oh, and grits.

 

[tenngun]

Good lye soap is good to use, and bio degradable in a creek. Places like turkey foot traders offer some good hc lye based soaps

 

[Treestalker]

My Mother used cornmeal on my hair once when we were traveling the wilds of Texas. It got rid of the grease, but I felt like I had LITTLE CRAWLY THINGS on my scalp the rest of the trip! :shocked2: Gulf Oil Chemical Co. of Port Arthur, Texas used to make a product called Gulf Spray that would probably kill anything that crawled including rabies and the ebola virus, but that was before the EPA and catalytic converters saved us from ourselves. :cursing: Tree. P.S.I understand the U.S. Army later started using the Spray formula in NBC warfare weaponry in Vietnam. :thumbsup: