Off the Grid and Laundry

"sixdeadqueens;d-961741" wrote:
I'd like to request that the washtub be made to work "off the grid" so that my Sim can do her laundry at her little camp of sorts. Maybe instead of running on plumbing the washtub water can be changed out with water from the sea or something. Thank you for reading!

Either that or wash clothes in the river with scrubbing board. That's really off the grid.

Your washers and dryers and eletronics, etc.. will work well as long as your lot isn't an Off the Grid lot! I am having a blast living off the grid and doing it the bare necessities way -- bushes to relieve yourself in, grilling pit in the ground, etc... It just makes sense to me that you could wash out the water in the washtub in the sea to continue doing laundry without electricity or plumbing!

Agreed, sixdeadqueens! Although, if you rinse out your washtub in the sea, river, or pond, you'll be polluting your water source. Becoming disabled put an end to my backpacking years ago, so I forget how many feet you have to be from a water source, but iirc it's at least 50 feet, possibly more.

Would fit in really well with the conservation theme if ignorant sims could pollute their water sources with their dumped washwater... :kissing: (that emoticon looks like whistling rather than kissing to me, so that's what I'm using it for!)

I hope they fix Off The Grid. It‘s a great concept, but it needs some fixing

There is a mod that enables you to replace water in washtub.
https://nieswillsneeze.tumblr.com/post/185725408829/sims-4-replace-water-off-grid-mod-nies

I'm just here to back up this idea. I think it's entirely ridiculous that you can't change the water out off the grid, especially when nearly every neighborhood in the game has a river or body of water in it. Why do I need plumbing to tip out a bucket and refill it?

Letting us wash clothes in rivers and the ocean would be cool too.

Another example of EA not thinking it through and not being consistent. No plumbing = taking bucket to nearest water source, filling it, and walking back with said full bucket to whatever you are filling. For drinking/cooking purposes that means fresh water so rivers, ponds, wells, and the waterfall would work. Sea water is good only for washing (with salt water soap). Drinking/cooking = sick at best, dead at worst.

I was able to get my sims to wash clothes in the little tub on the ground and then hang the clothes on the washing line. It took them nearly all night to do it, but they COULD do it.

EA even has a wishing well (Get Together?), though the animation for tossing in a coin won't work for pulling up a bucket of water. As someone suggested earlier (this thread or another), a hand-pump such as the ones you can find at some primitive campgrounds in the National Forests would be ideal. Might take more animating than they consider worthwhile to do, though.

We can water plants, though, so maybe they can use that animation for a 'refill laundry tub' action, the 'carry laundry' animation (which is broken in my game, btw--the bug fix didn't work) but substituting a bucket for the laundry bag, & have us refill at a sink-object that's been redesigned to look like it's a pump. I didn't put that in the correct order, but trust you'll catch my drift. Not that EA will ever read this here, or that the programmers need the suggestion!

Love that idea Tiarella!