PHOTO PROMPT © Miles Rost
Going to the laundromat was a dreaded weekly chore. Aimee lugged her tablet and a thermos of coffee, planning to use the time for her research project.
Loading the two washers, she thought about her project: A study of housework in America from pre-colonial days to the present.
“Things sure have changed,” she mused. She browsed the photos she had gathered depicting washdays of old, from rivers or pools to tubs, paddles, and scrub boards; the first wringer washers to today’s “automagic” machines.
Aimee sipped her coffee. “I guess it could be a lot worse!” she decided.
Just Writing! 
But not as good as it’s going to be when the robots arrive
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I sure wouldn’t mind having a robot who could bend over to get the low places and reach long enough to clean the high places 🙂
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Yes I’m sure glad we don’t have to wash like we once did. My Nana had kept her old soap scrubber… was a fascinating discussion
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My mother-in-law used her own lye soap until she could no longer do laundry. Her clothes always smelled so fresh! Wringer washer, too 🙂
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Indeed it could, and it has been!
I love where this prompt took you!
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Thanks, Dawn 🙂
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We forget how lucky we have it!
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Human evolution and technology change so fast these days. Pity we’re not evolving ways to save the earth as fast. Well done, Linda.
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Dear Linda,
In that context laundry doesn’t seem all that bad, does it? We are spoiled.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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I spent the first year of my marriage saving for a twin-tub – it lasted for years!
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It’ll probably get a lot better, but in the meantime, things aren’t that bad!
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I look at that as the universe speaking directly to her. Nice to have a new perspective and it seems like for the moment at least the laundry won’t elicit dread.
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When I get all caught up in feeling down about having to do laundry, vacuum, dust . . . I often snap out of it and realize how lucky I am to have so much. Well written.
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Great perspective. It might suck but it could always be worse.
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One thing I learned from history is once that “labor-saving devices” like washing machines came around, women were held to a higher standard of cleanliness and had to do even more laundry than they did before. They get you coming and going.
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I wonder if men held women to a higher standard, or if the women held themselves toa higher standard 🙂
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yes so very true 🙂
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Not everything in the past was better, quite the contrary. Nostalgia often is a phantasy. Great reminder of our privileges.
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what an irony, isn’t it? the more things change, the more they remain the same. 🙂
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Thank God for modern technology!!!
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Oh, you betcha!
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Yes I’m sure glad we don’t have to wash like we once did. My Nana had kept her old soap scrubber… was a fascinating discussion
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I’ve read Larry McMurtry’s historical take (non-fiction) on the original Texas frontier settlers and cowboys (of which he claimed there were no longer any).
“We need a place with water…and umm… Very little else.” You can buy (Grandma’s) lye soap on Amazon. Settlers made it. And virtually everything else.
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My mother-in-law used her own homemade lye soap. Smelled nice and fresh.
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Laundry is like a never-ending chore haha
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Yes, As long as we wear clothes, we’ll be washing them 🙂
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