Although you use the name, “babushka”, as an endearing term for me, everyone here should know that means, “OLD WOMAN”, or “GRANDMOTHER”. You silly young man.
You cannot be compared to people living in a civilized country. You choose, instead, a bare existence with one exception - you will always have food and security for as long as you live. In an absolute worst scenario of scorched earth, I would rather live near you than any person I know or have read about in fiction or nonfiction. James Wesley, Rawles? He is a playboy compared to you.
/johnny
Ha Ha. I get a kick out of you two yapping back and forth. When I was just a kid, we went into town for wash day with Granny. There was a big building with a whole bunch of wringer washers and tubs.
Outdoors was a huge yard of lots and lots of clothes lines for the customers to use. That was the laundromat of old. Of course some things were washed in between and hung out on the line at home.
Showers were outdoors too. Used a tin sprinkler can. Heated a little water on the stove and mixed with cold water hauled by the bucket fulls from the well. Wet your hands and soap up all over. Then Granny held the sprinkler over you and rinsed all the soap off.
In the winter, there was a big galvanized tub brought indoors and blankets/sheets hung from the ceiling in the kitchen to provide some privacy.
When I first got married, we couldn’t afford to go to the laundromat, so I put all the whites in a big waterbath canner with detergent and when it boiled for a while, then I dumped it into the kitchen sink. Used a designated plunger to agitate the load.
Once it was cooled down enough I worked the clothes by hand as needed. Then wring them out by hand and put in the other sink for rinsing, and hung them outside on the line.
In the winter, I had a foldable gizmo that I could set up in the bath tub to hang stuff from. Hung shirts on hangers on the shower rod.
I washed a load every day hung it to dry in the am, folded and put away in the pm.
Then my aunt loaned me a portable washer. It was a little larger than the water bath canner. Had a motor in the lid that fit over an agitator. Once you had the lid on and twisted to seal it, you just plugged it in for agitation. Then rinse and wring out the stuff and hang it up wherever.
Eventually, we had more stuff to make life easier, but one time our hot water heater went out and we didn’t have the money to fix it for about 6 months. So we went back to the old shower can and used it in the bathtub. It wasn’t a big deal.LOL