I have lived in Japan for 20 years without a dryer. Hanging clothes outside is what everyone does. If the weather is too damp, I take them to the coin laundry to dry. Actually I prefer that because the towels come back softer, but it’s time consuming and expensive.
But heck, am I the only person who remembers the fun of playing hide and seek with other kids while Mom hung the washing and screeched at us to keep our muddy fingers off the clean sheets?
Another part of Americana childhood lost it seems.
“the fun of playing hide and seek with other kids “.
No, I remember that too. I also remember getting “closelined” by running throught those hanging clothes. Hence the expression.
Well, that part can stay lost, along with hand cranking your car engine and shoveling coal into the basement furnace. I like my electric dryer just fine.
I remember my mother building a fire so she could heat the water she drew from the well on laudry day.
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It would be interesting to have a pro/con list about the Good Old Days like having to use an outhouse on a cold winter night, or the whole ritual of firewood and coal to heat our houses. There are probably more things about the Good Old Days that we wouldn't want to have back than things we miss about them.
Yep a lot of us remember and more and more I realize I do not miss the old ways just my childhood. To wake with no aches or pains and nothing to do.
I remember Mom's reaction when the neighboring farm disked his field on days we had sheets up drying. (and my brother and I playing outside for hours didn't say anything about it)