Washing your clothes is as easy as loading them in the machine, adding soap, and hitting start. But when there's no power, how are you going to accomplish this task? With a five-gallon bucket, of course!

This is a cheap and excellent solution to the problem of keeping clean clothes in the apocalypse. Clean clothes will make you feel happier, add some normalcy to the situation and the process of cleaning them will give you something to put your mind to in order to burn some of the day away. Of course, you're going to want to store even more water in order to make this method work in the long term. And plenty of soap.