Childhood Memory
So after delousing the house. And putting all clothes to be done in the morning into the laundry basket. Which I’ll have to spray down good between taking them down to the wash and picking them up from the wash.
Tonight I did my bedding. The washers in my apartments are too small for my comforter. So I took it over to the Laundromat around the corner and used the big family size washer and dryer.
As I was watching the comforter go round and round in the dryer. I started remembering how we did laundry when I was a kid. We didn’t have the luxury of a clothes dryer when I was a kid. Hell we were lucky to even have a washer. We lived in a very old house which had no dryer hookup anyway. We use to hang all of our clothes out on the clothes line.
We had a huge backyard that probably went back a good 300 maybe 400 feet from the house. At the end of the yard was a big tall pole. And we had two pully clothes lines with one end attached to the house and the other end attached to the poles at the end of the yard. And we’d attach the clothes to the line and roll it out a bit and pin some more clothes and so on and so on and then roll them all the way out to the end of the pole for the sunshine to dry them.
Anyway. I started thinking about how much nicer the clothes came out when they were line dried. The white clothes seemed to come out much whiter because the sun would just make them that way. Granted it would take much longer to dry the clothes than it does today with a clothes dryer. And I’ll admit. I love the convenience of a clothes dryer much better. But just the smell of them line dried was even nicer. Back then we didn’t have dryer sheets. We had to catch the rinse cycle of the washer to put the fabric softener in. It was just a nice childhood memory that suddenly had come over me tonight.
Tonight I did my bedding. The washers in my apartments are too small for my comforter. So I took it over to the Laundromat around the corner and used the big family size washer and dryer.
As I was watching the comforter go round and round in the dryer. I started remembering how we did laundry when I was a kid. We didn’t have the luxury of a clothes dryer when I was a kid. Hell we were lucky to even have a washer. We lived in a very old house which had no dryer hookup anyway. We use to hang all of our clothes out on the clothes line.
We had a huge backyard that probably went back a good 300 maybe 400 feet from the house. At the end of the yard was a big tall pole. And we had two pully clothes lines with one end attached to the house and the other end attached to the poles at the end of the yard. And we’d attach the clothes to the line and roll it out a bit and pin some more clothes and so on and so on and then roll them all the way out to the end of the pole for the sunshine to dry them.
Anyway. I started thinking about how much nicer the clothes came out when they were line dried. The white clothes seemed to come out much whiter because the sun would just make them that way. Granted it would take much longer to dry the clothes than it does today with a clothes dryer. And I’ll admit. I love the convenience of a clothes dryer much better. But just the smell of them line dried was even nicer. Back then we didn’t have dryer sheets. We had to catch the rinse cycle of the washer to put the fabric softener in. It was just a nice childhood memory that suddenly had come over me tonight.