Thank goodness for washing machines, am I right? Their eternally time-saving convenience comes into crystal clear focus when you take the time to chat with a homemaker from another era, which in my case happened when I learned precisely what my grandmother did to clean the never-ending parade of dirty duds produced by each of her six household members.
Every piece of clothing was laid across an archaic, ridged device called a washboard and vigorously hand scrubbed until spots and stains were sent the way of Lady Macbeth (except that wishful thinking and murderous guilt had nothing to do with it). Can you imagine hand agitating the fibers of an average of 180 pieces of clothing each week?
Smaller items like socks presented even greater scrubbing challenges since they didn’t stay put as easily as shirts and pants, but somehow, my grandmother managed to make it all work, proudly proclaiming that her washboard-cleansed wardrobe staples could be easily mistaken for machine-washed versions any old day.
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