I’m gonna do a bit of camping this weekend and try out this new wash sink I got sent to me. Here’s a sneak peak at it. Full video should be ready sometime this upcoming week.
Hands-Free Water in the Woods: Ultra-Light Compact Sink
One thing to be aware of when it comes to us traditional Appalachians is that we come from a long line of storytellers. It is our heritage. This means you rarely get just straight facts within any story we’re relating to you. We do use actual truth to create the overall structure for our tales, but then also weave in lots of exaggeration, superstition, fantasy, boasting, lore, and outright fabrications. This is part of the joy of it all.
This might create a situation at times where modern listeners could feel disappointed, or lied to, if finding out that certain details of a story were not completely true. (People desperately WANT to believe, for example, that Daniel Boone really did all of the legendary, impossible things that he is reported to have done. But on some level, we all know that in reality, a lot of those stories are founded on something real that happened, but then exaggerated.)
An example of me pulling this dirty trick on all of you can be seen in Ep 172 Horrifying BIGFOOT ...
The most recent episode featured a highfalutin camp sink that costs over $200 on Amazon. My conscience has been beating me up about that. Although it is a very nice sink setup, I personally would never pay hundreds of dollars for such a thing, and I wouldn’t recommend anybody else spend that much, unless you’re just rolling in spare money. (The sink I showed off was sent to me for free, otherwise I wouldn’t have it.)
So I’ve felt like I owe it to the audience to come up with an equally-effective, possibly-simpler solution that offers the same conveniences and luxury for around $20-$30.
You might be happy to know that I ran out to Walmart tonight and collected a few simple things for about $10, and I think I’ll have a really fun video for everybody over the upcoming days that fits the “practical” aspect of The Practical Woodsman a lot better for this sort of gear item.
