Food Bank and Laundry
Purpose / Function
The food bank and laundry hold communal supplies and the communal laundry tanks. Most of this is canned goods and various soaps and cleansers. There's also donated items like clothing that's been outgrown, tools no longer needed, fabric that's not been used, toys, cables, cords, and other assorted what nots someone doesn't have a use for that someone else might need.
Alterations
The Food Bank and Laundry are actually two buildings used as one. They're large sheds that were used to store boats and other vehicles, placed side by side with the walls almost touching. During the summer months the doors are usually open, and inside almost all the floor space is taken up by shelves absolutely packed with goods. The one exception is the far west wall of the western building on which a series of live stock tanks filled with water sit. Paddles for stirring the tanks hang on the wall, and a short shelf at the end holds containers of powdered soap.
All of the houses in the Community have wells, but water conservation is a key concern. It takes a lot of water to raise crops and livestock, and you can only tap the creek so much before you jeopardize the salmon run. A couples years without a good snowfall could see some of the most used wells start to run dry. One of the heaviest uses of water in your average home is laundry. To minimize the amount of water used on laundry the community laundry was established. Every other tank of water is loaded with soap and reused until the water is too murky to be used any more. The others are rinsing tanks that get dumped and refilled with every other wash. The stock tanks are large enough to hold extra large loads of laundry, so a family will usually have a maximum of two loads at any time. If the family doesn't have a large enough load to fill a tank they're encouraged to mix their laundry with others rather than wash a small load.
Soap is made from the lye produced at the Smithy and the different vegetable oils produced at the Nursery. Oils make for a soft soap, but animal fat is a precious commodity not usually wasted on soap. The only real exception is for making laundry soap, which has to be shredded and powdered to work effectively. Soap, lye and vinegar are combined with different additives to make shampoos, household cleaners, even lotions and conditioners.
Type
Room, Storage, Warehouse
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