Cleaning overland gear

[taliv]

Given that you
- are living out of your rig for weeks/months
- are getting dusty/muddy every day with outdoor activities
- have very limited space

how do you clean living spaces?

with what? dry? chemicals? where do you store the chemicals so they don't leak everywhere? what do you do with rags, etc?


how do you manage laundry? storage space dedicated to piles of muddy clothes until you get to a laundromat? or handwash items every day? use water or something else?

or do you treat it like through-hiking and trail stench is just part of life and you'll clean everything at the end of the trip?

 

[The other Sean]

Those various cleaning wipes are worth their weight in gold. I just used the Armor all cleaning wipes on the interior of my truck after a 2 week road trip of which 1 week was in Moab and 2 weekend trips to the MN north woods and they worked great.

Baby wipes for your person.

For dirty laundry, my wife and I use those free stuff sack backpack things you get everywhere for dirty laundry. They pack to nothing in your clothes bag and once full, then we figure out how/where to clean.