I have mondays set aside as 'wash day'. ;)
/johnny
I think you “channel” back to the old days. Every woman knew Monday was wash day. Tuesday was ironing day.
Clothes also got mended, not tossed. My mother sewed all my clothes. I didn't have clothes from a store until I graduated high school and was going to college that fall. They took me to Dallas, to Sanger Harris store, to the clothes department and told me to buy anything I wanted. It was a strange experience because I had never tried on clothes at a store.
My father bought Sun Oil stock the many years he worked for them. That stock money put me through four years of college and there was still plenty of stock left. He was a frugal man who saved.