We all know the great feeling of picking up a clean, fresh, and great-smelling shirt from the closet. We hate it when we find a place and we get mad every time our kids come home after a few hours of “playing”, more like “acting pigs” with all this mud on them.
Laundry is such an old term. It is a task that every mother knows and accepts. I don’t want you to think that I’m a chauvinist or something because I’m not. That’s a simple fact: women used to do laundry in the past and I wouldn’t be surprised if someone did a survey and found out that, even today, doing laundry is a woman’s job in the house.
In the past, clothes were washed by hand. Hand washing was a daily task. Yes, it means bringing your laundry, a tub, soap and a brush- and you know the rest. That’s an amazing thing to do every day; I can’t even imagine how hard it was for them to do it. Then after washing the clothes and getting them pretty clean, they needed to dry them, and there was no dryer, you know… squeezing the clothes and hanging them on a wire was the next step. Now the rest of the work is for mother nature, the wind and the sun will do the rest.
Today, hand washing is something we don’t do. We have our washers and dryers. The simple soap became a sophisticated detergent and we don’t need to wait too long for clothes. Rainy day? No problem, we have the dryer! Mama nature has no part in the process.
While that’s the way western countries do laundry in sentinel 21, some third world countries still don’t know what a washing machine is or why we don’t have to wait for clothes to dry, and even if they do They don’t have money to buy those machines, even if it makes their lives much easier. They have to be old school, just like I described, just wash your hands. Children in Africa, India, South Asia and other third world countries are used to doing their own laundry, as sometimes their mother can’t do it all by herself. This is a very exhausting process and they could use even one washing machine for every 100 people, they won’t complain trust me.
So the next time you buy a washing machine or say you’re “tired of it”, think about what you read in this article, smile and be thankful for what you have.