Notice you said “back in the day” too!
Now you have to wonder if this younger generation knows to do that? Think about it. Cloth diapers were used generation to generation so mother taught daughter and there was a few grannys helping out too. I’d say by the middle 1970’s cloth diapers fell out of favor due to the ease of pampers. So many women only know the convenience of disposable. Do you see the picture I am trying to paint here? Add that with the public school’s idea of education and I am not at all surprised at anything that could happen at a laundry mat.
LOL! I got cold busted on that a couple of months ago when I took a safety pin and ran it through my hair before putting through the cloth that had to be held together on my great-nephew's vest. My neice looked at me funny and asked why I did that.
Yes, there are skill sets there, as well as anything else.
/johnny
Our two daughters were born in 1990 and 1992 and after the free disposables that people gave us at the showers were gone, both were cloth-diapered (home laundered). Never did dump a soiled diaper in my washer and instead rinsed those things well. It seemed that no one believed that we were going to cloth-diaper and instead of a diaper service gift certificate, they gave us disposables instead. We did use disposables on trips but we think using cloth saved us a lot of money.