Our
Memories Of Days Past
God gave us memories that we might have roses in December. ~J.M. Barrie
I Remember These
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A family of say, two adults and two children might fill
four or five washing machines a week. Sorting the clothes out
into different colours and materials, stuffing them in the machine,
and putting all the powders in might take ten minutes.
Before washing machines became common (in the 1950s and the
1960s for most people, but later for poorer people) washing
the same amount of clothes by hand took hours and hours of hard
rubbing and squeezing.
And whilst the washing machine and after that, its trusty friend,
the tumble dryer is doing its work, people get that most precious
of modern commodities (products) time. Time to do other jobs,
and hopefully time to relax.
