Awesome. I'll have to look up getting one of these in the UK. I'm just about to head there for a student exchange. My university has a partner university there, which means that I am enrolled at my own university, get to pay fees as if they were to my own university (Rather than international student fees, which are far higher), which can be put on my interest-free student loan, I have a chance of getting my airfares paid back in full or in part through the exchange programme's travel grant, and I am eligible to receive Student Allowance (a weekly amount for living costs that I don't have to pay back) as if I were still studying in New Zealand. A pretty Mustachian way to spend five months on the other side of the world, and I have friends there that I can spend the Christmas holidays with.
But the student accommodation has coin-operated washing machines and dryers, so I've been looking up ways to do my own washing by hand. The private washbasin that we get in our dorm rooms would probably work for delicates (no idea why I'd need a private washbasin, but they didn't allocate me a room without one, and it's less silly than a full, space-eating tiny ensuite that I'd have to maintain myself, which was the other option) but I needed to figure out what to do with larger items.
Also, I have read that baking soda can be used as washing powder, I think mixed with powdered washing soap. We have a newspaper columnist who uses baking soda and vinegar for almost all of her household cleaning needs, including haircare (replaces shampoo with baking soda, conditioner with diluted white vinegar in a spray bottle). Apparently there is very little that those two things can't clean, and you can buy them in bulk. She compiled a lot of her old columns into a book, called Pig Tits and Parsley Sauce, which was I think my introduction to a Mustachian way of thinking and doing things.
