Miscellany: Laundry day

Like most people in industrialized nations, I no longer do my laundry by hand. Not that doing laundry by machine gets clothes any cleaner. The reverse is almost certainly true - the old fashioned washboard is probably leagues more effective than some agitator. The problem is that doing laundry this way takes so much time and requires a big bucket and a stool.

The sad thing about laundry day is that you are often wedded to the laundry. Unless you can separate the day into tasks that take less than an hour, clothes will sit in the dryer, idle. This can stretch what should have taken three hours back-to-back-to-back into an all-day affair. Still, this is preferable to the old way, especially when your clothes aren't that dirty.

I wish you a healthy and happy clothes-washing experience the next time you do your laundry. :)