Yes, happy Monday, my friends. I was just wondering if you have a housework routine and if it includes doing laundry on Monday?
Also, I wondered how many of you ever used a wringer washer. I remember my mother had a gas powered wringer washer and for the first 4 or 5 years of marriage it was what I used too. ( By then it was an electric one, not gas powered any longer).
Obviously I didn't have much to post about today having had a quiet and mostly uneventful weekend.
We did have a lovely much-needed rain today for which we are very thankful.
Thanks for coming by today. I always like to read your comments so don't hesitate to leave one.
Granny M.
Hi Granny Marigold, I have some basic housework routines but they do vary occasionally. Yes, I usually do laundry on Mondays but I also do some on other days when needed. I always buy groceries on Thursdays which is the first day of the store sale here. In the summer some things vary because I cut the grass and watch the weather for a hopefully cooler day for that!
ReplyDeleteMy Mother had an electric wringer washer, I helped poke the hot clothing through the wringer....watching out for my hands!!
ReplyDeleteI wash a load of clothing just about everyday that way I am almost always caught up:)
Because it's just the two of us know for our laundry routine, we just do it when we need too. Sometimes we do 2 loads a week, often in one night, sometime it's just 1 on a Saturday often when I'm teaching, dh will throw it in. Varies each week. When our kids were small, I often did a load every morning. During the week though. Never on the weekends. It kept it very manageable.
ReplyDeleteRain tonight with thunder storms. I can't sleep so catching up on my favorite blogs!
Have a great week.
X Chy
I used a gas powered wringer washing machine up until the fall of 2006. Most of the time I don't miss it at all. :)
ReplyDeleteUntil about a year ago I used to have Monday as my laundry day. Now I do some laundry every day. It made a huge difference once my husband's work discontinued their laundry service and I had to start washing all his work clothes. Now it seems laundry is a never ending chore.
I don't have a routine. Well my laundry routine is either when the hamper is full or when a good drying day happens, as my choice is to hang them on the clothesline. My mum had a wringer washer, I remember it as a kid. If the weather wasn't good to hang the clothes out, she had a rack that lowered from the ceiling, and a three piece 'clothes horse'. That was a fun thing for making tents with as a kid ;-) She didn't have a dryer until 1976, so not at all during my child hood.
ReplyDeleteThe rain was great but it wasn't enough, and unfortunately it started half way through the farmers market, so a lot of wet stuff to pack up at the end. I sound like a complainer, but if it's going to rain, lets make it a good one! I went out to the garden and found dry earth not too far down.
Ha ha! When did EVERY DAY become laundry day?
ReplyDeleteOur house is dark in the summer (because of where the sun is in June, July, and August and how our house sits) so I must get outside often because turning all the lights on seems silly.
Off to the grocery store . . . have a nice week, GM!
I have clothes in the dryer and washer as I type. :) As you may recall, our family lived in the same home as my parental grandparents. Every Monday was wash day using Grandma's wringer washer and big rinse tubs in the basement. I also remember having to put my grandpap's and dad's pants on those pant stretchers. Do you remember those? We had huge clotheslines that everything was put out on. :) But my favorite part was that Grandma had a mangle iron and when I was old enough (and responsible enough) she would allow me to use it to iron all of the flat pieces. Back then we even ironed the sheets! Thank you for this post...it brought back a lot of memories.
ReplyDeleteI don't recall ever seeing pant stretchers but I did a google search and looked at a little video that showed how to use them.
DeleteI remember pant stretchers! My mother used them on my two brothers jeans. I guess it reduced the amount of ironing?
DeleteI have never used a wringer washer, but I've thought about getting one for the terrible dirty/stinky clothes and coats that come in from the barn work.
ReplyDeleteOn Mondays I always wash the bed sheets and anything else I can get done.
I'm going to plant marigolds today amongst my tomato plants and so I'm thinking of you, Granny Marigold!
Awww! That's sweet of you. I hope they thrive.
DeleteNot too much of a routine, but I do like to make sure the house is pretty sorted on a Friday evening for the weekend xx
ReplyDeleteI remember my mom having a wringer washer.
ReplyDeleteIf its a sunny day I usually do a load of laundry no matter what day it is (except Sunday). Since I don't have a dryer I take advantage of those days.
I don't have a routine, I just do things as they need doing. When my kids were home I did 3-4 loads of laundry a day (three kids times three sports each plus school and play clothes equals a LOT of laundry!) My aunt had a wringer washer and she let me help her with laundry... it fascinated me in a way that it did not fascinate my cousins!!
ReplyDeleteSo thankful laundry is so much easier these days! I do my sheets and towels Monday (or Tuesday!) but the rest is just as needed. I don't have a clothesline but put smaller stuff on drying racks outside when the weather is nice. Love that fresh air smell.
ReplyDeleteI don't have a routine, but I did do some laundry and even hung sheets on the line in the glorious sunshine yesterday. It made me so happy! I also like using the dryer; it makes me happy, too, but in a different way :-)
ReplyDeleteHi Granny Marigold, I sure do remember using a wringer washer! Just when we were first married. Someone gave it to us. Like happy one we don't have a dryer so whatever day is sunny and above 0 I hang wash out.
ReplyDeleteThank you for your kind comment on my blog. I will still keep up with you on yours!
Haha - you're so funny! Housework and Routine ... in the same sentence? Never!
ReplyDeleteAll the days seem the same to me now that I am retired. I wash a load of clothes about every other day. I used to love helping my aunt Berlie wash clothes in her old green wringer washer.
ReplyDeleteMY GREAT GREAT GRANDMOTHER HAD ONE
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