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Laundry

When I was young I lived with my grandparents and helped my grandmother do laundry. I was very young but we had a large sink in the kitchen and a scrub board to wash clothes with. It was a lengthy chore.  When her son, my uncle graduated from college he decided against becoming an attorney and was hired instantly at the Postal Service in an executive position because he had a bachelor’s degree from Boston College. He did get married but when he received bonuses he bought his mother a wringer washer and then an actual refrigerator. Before that we literally had an ice box where they came to deliver ice once a week. The washing was a thrill because you could slide clothes into the wringeer and then it would spin. We still had to hang the clothes out, but it was a big step up. With all the cold weather lately, my daughter and I have had to keep the water running since last Thursday to make sure that the pipes didn’t freeze. This, of course, made it impossible to do laundry. At first I tried filling up pans and putting the water in the washer. It didn’t go well. Finally, I did a small load, added the water and detergent and swished them around. Then I spun the clothes, went back to adding water and included fabiric softner. I respun and dried the clothes I could and hung the rest. My next step was all the dark clothes. It being so cold my daughter and I had many dark clothes in need of washing. I decided that the washer would take hours so I bleached my bathrub and rinsed it well. Then I let the dripping water do the work and it filled up. I added laundry detergent and threw all the clothes in. I swished them back and forth. At first I thought I could drain it and then refill. Then I realized it was too time consuming. So I squeezed them out and threw them in my sink. I rinsed with clean water from pans and then had a bucket to dip them into fabric softner. Once I rinsed again I squeezed the clothes and threw them in the washer. I spun dry once more and low and behold they could be dried. Then I had to move on to the kitchen. The dishwasher was full so I began a new process with a large pan of water with dish detergent. I put two pans on the stove and once washed I rinsed them in boiling water. I have one thing to say, I am very grateful that this is not my daily life any more. What do you think?  While the weather is bad everywhere, why not choose a Good Gus e-book for your children to pass the time. Remember yourself with a copy of “Misplaced Trust.” You will be intrigued. The Good Gus Series is available online at Kindle, Nook and Waterstones. Hard copies, personally autographed, are available through our website www.goodgusbooks.com along with past blogs for your reading enjoyment. Now available audio and videos for the Good Gus series on YouTube! Digitizing for all the books are available now on YouTube! “Misplaced Trust” is now available on Amazon in e-book form. It is also available digitally at www.misplacedtrustbook.com. If you are thinking of a Will or a Living Trust, “Misplaced Trust” with a five star rating on Amazon will give you the information you need to make an informed decision. The Good Gus series, books one through four, are now available at the Morgan Mill Mail/UPS.

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