Some ways of saving money are so picturesque. My last post on homemade butter churns up (note the pun) such nostalgic memories of bygone eras; ladies in cute dresses; sitting out in the barn with the cows; mixing that cream again and again in the early morning sunrise. Even a broken dryer can evoke such fond thoughts of hanging the washing out on the line...sun shining through...happy children running in and out of the sheets....it's so beautiful, I think I may have seen it on TV.
However, our washing machine is broken, and nothing about it is romantic. Here's the problem: it fills with water, it rinses, and it empties of water; but the motor is broken and nothing agitates. I hate the thought of lugging the loads of wet clothes home from the laundromat, so I've been filling the tub and scrubbing the stuff by hand for a good ten minutes and then letting it soak and rinse on its own. After one or two loads of being up to my elbows in soapy water, scrubbing up and down, and sweating, I'm really hoping we're done with this soon. I can evoke no romantic memories of ladies from years past with washbasins doing a similar thing. And I can tell you, it's nothing like those sirens in the river from "O Brother Where Art Thou?"
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i'm with you, i washed my clothes by hand for three months and now i never take my washing machine for granted.
Ugh! Our friends, the Moyas, were without washer for a while and she was pretty good about being cheerful about it! Something about her gaining muscles in her arms! Hang in there!! (I'm pretty sure I would be whining/crying!)
This is why you should invest in disposable clothing! I'll send you a paper dress.
The thing that is so funny about those bygone days of hand washing, is that they didn't have many clothes--I would have only purchased brown mottled cloth for my family's wardrobe.
Oh man, that's too bad! Maybe if you have a washboard and tin tub it would be a little romantic... but probably not.
Yucky!
But, here's an attempt to beautify it... What if you took it down to the beach & washed the laundry in the waves, scrubbing with a stone? What a pretty picture you would make.
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