I DO!!!! Did you do the wash on Monday's? Ironing on Tuesday because the clothes HAD to stay in there overnight????
How about taking in the clothes from the clothesline after school, in the fall when it was cold, and the blue jeans were STIFF? Like they could walk away all by themselves? How about the wringer washer?
What wringer washer? We washed clothes in the back yard. Two galvanized tubs and a huge black "wash pot" with a fire under it. First the clothes were boiled in the pot, then the clothes and hot water was transferred to a tub with a scrub board in it. On that scrub board was a cake of homemade lye soap. Slap garment onto the scrub board, lather well with lye soap, scrub and scrub until the dirt is vanquished. Then wring out by hand and transfer to second tub with rinse (rinch)water. Slosh up and down until soap is removed, ring by hand and hang on clothes line with wooden clothespins. Repeat this for each garment. When finished take wash water to the house and scrub all the floors. Pour the rinch water on all the dozens of flowers on the front porch. Then cook dinner for the farm hands. Biscuits from scratch, fried chicken (after catching, wringing head off, scalding and plucking feathers off, singhing pinfeathers, gutting and cutting up), mashed potatoes, green beans (after picking, snapping and cooking), squash, tomatoes, and homemade apple pie. Wash dishes by hand in a pan set on the wood stove and rinch in second pan. Put leftovers in the warming closet of the stove for supper. Take your needlework and sit on the front porch and count your blessings.