We all know the great feeling of picking up a clean, fresh, good-smelling shirt from the closet. We hate when we find a place and get upset 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 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 that, even today, doing laundry is the job of the woman in the house.
In the past, clothes were washed by hand. Hand washing was a daily chore. Yes, it means bringing dirty clothes, 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 together and hanging them on a wire was the next step. Now the rest of the work is left to mother nature, the wind and the sun will do the rest.
Nowadays, washing our hands is something we don’t do. We have our washers and dryers. Simple soap became sophisticated detergent and we don’t need to wait too long for clothes. Rainy day? No problem, we have the dryer! Mother Nature has no part in the process.
While that’s the way western countries wash clothes on 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 though it makes their life 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 tiring process and they could even use one washing machine for every 100 people, they won’t complain, believe 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 grateful for what you have.