[Mears]

“Housecleaning and laundry were major manual labor in my grandparents’ generation.”

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Yep,my mother washed with a wash board.

Shoveled coal into a coal furnace in the basement.

I am a spoiled rotten senior citizen.

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[gigster]

yep, my mother washed with a washboard. I once asked my mom, who was born in 1923 and passed away at the age of 88 in 2011 what the best invention in her lifetime was remarked the electric clothes washing machine. She grew up in Winnipeg Manitoba where it wasn't unusual to be -30 degrees outside when they went to school.

[Tax-chick]

I remember, in the 1970s, helping my great-aunt do wash in a double-tub setup with an electric wringer. However, back in the 40s, she used to wash for pay using a washer with a diesel motor!

At least we know what real work looked like!