Clothes Washing

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As I was washing clothes today I thought back to when I was a child. We didn’t have the modern wash machines we have today. Back in those days we had a wash machine that agitated the clothes to wash them, but they had to be ran through a wringer to squeeze the water out. We had to hang the clothes on a clothes line to dry them. Windy days were the best since the clothes dried fairly fast. Hot day worked well, too. I can even remember the clothes being hung outside in the winter. They froze but dried anyway. Most of the time they were hung on a clothes rack inside the house on those cold winter days as well as rainy days. I can remember when our neighbor got a dryer. I thought that was the coolest thing ever. Instead of the clothes hanging outside for hours they could be dried in about twenty minutes in the dryer. We eventually bought a wash machine that spun the water out of the clothes instead of having to run them through a wringer. But a dryer didn’t come until several years later. Even after getting a dryer many times our clothes were still hung outside. If it was a nice day and no rush to get the clothes dry, they were hung outside. There are some people who still hang their clothes outside to dry. It saves a good deal of electricity.