Only those who have lived and labored through traditional wash days back then can fully appreciate the miracle of modern-day washing and drying machines. Washing clothes was the most uncomfortable and labor-intensive requirement of life for rural wives/mothers. The traditional way of doing things hung on deep into the 20th century.
Wash day way back when
Now and Then
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