Thank you to everyone who commented on my entry about laundry. Everyone's helped! Thanks for the encouragement!

So maybe, the basics? I'm sorry, but I'm not a shopping person either. Where can you find, uh, washing buckets? And how hard is it to find wringers and such? Are the ingredients for laundry soap easy to find?

Seeing as God has recently shown me that I have way too many distractions in my life right now, this homesteading idea seems more and more appealing to me. May I ask, why did you get into homesteading?

Could someone tell me how to do wash laundry 'the old fashioned way'?
Or, at least links to sites that explain it?
It would be very helpful!

I am a christian, I know what my role is as a woman of God, and yet I don't understand why my mother won't help me. I am in one of the rare cases where I actually want to learn how to cook and clean and my mother doesn't want me to do anything and actively discourages me from learning any household skills. Is she expecting me to just instantly know what to do when I get married? And she gets the shivers whenever I mention this homestead thing. I know that if I tell people that I want a 'self-sufficent' life, they may think I'm really weird. I just didn't expect it from my own family.

I think I'll start a little garden in my backyard.
Hey! You have to start somewhere!

I have wanted to do this for a while now.
I don't east fast food meat because it disgusts me. I recently found out that Taco Bell uses MEALWORM in their meat! I used to find bits of bone in my McDonald's mcnuggets and also chewy unknown substances in their hamburgers. I only eat McDonald's fries and Taco Bell's crunchwraps without meat. I hope to one day ease myself off of them.
And I know most packaged food is bad for you.
Don't even get me started on energy drinks! I won't go near those things!
I guess you could say I'm a picky eater......but can you blame me?!

I guess I like 'basic' food. Fruit. Vegetables. Turkey. Tea. Beans. Rice. Bread.
That's what I could live off of.
Unfortunately, my parents love junk food.
Blah!
I'm really unhealthy because of all that stuff.

*sighs* One day!

Hi!

Well, I'm Meadow Rose, I'm 16 years old, and I'm becoming more and more intrigued with the entire idea of "homesteading" and have recently decided that I one day hope to fully dive into it.
As for now, considering I am only 16 and still live with my parents, I'm going to get into it very slowly.
I will post more about this later.

Yours in Christ,
Meadow Rose