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Don't you hate it when you are trying to get something clean in a primative campsite and you drop your soap in the dirt? What a mess! Well here's an old scout tip.

 

Cut off one leg of a ladies stocking, put a small piece of bar soap in the foot and tie a knot in the other end (cut off the excess stocking.) The openings in the stocking allow wet soap to come through and keeps the worst of the grunge off your soap if you drop it.

 

Please note, use only unscented soaps. Scented soaps attract unwelcome attention from animals and biting insects.

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Very true Robin, very true.

 

There's an old scout tale about a boy caught vigourously rubbing his bar of soap against a camp building wall on the last day of a week of summer camp. When asked what he was doing he replied, "If my mom sees that the letters are still on the soap when I get home she will know I haven't had a shower all week!"

 

I thought it quite funny until I caught a boy doing the same thing last year.

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Fscouter,

 

Interesting. In my previous post I was referring to whether the file folder "within" the forum was green or yellow. If green, then new posts have been added.

 

But I also only enter those forums with a lit light bulb. Perhaps I have been missing some posts? I'll have to have a closer look.

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Here's another soap idea. Make a washing station with a gallon plastic jug (I use a auto washer fluid jug or a bleach jug). Punch a hole in the side at the bottom and stick a nail in it. Tie a string to the nail and the other end to the jug handle. Then tie your stocking with the soap in it to the jug handle. With the jug full of water when you pull the nail out and loosen the cap you will get a small stream of water to wash your hands. Just hang it from a tree or a pioneering tripod and you have a wash station.

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