Re: Ice industry ruined.

On Tue, 1 Apr 2025 14:44:24 +0000, Dave Smith wrote:

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On 2025-03-31 10:22 p.m., ItsJoanNotJoAnn wrote:

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Thank goodness for refrigerators.  Let's add automatic
washing machines to that list, too.
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I confess to certain lack of sympathy for people who complain about
doing the laundry these days. You sort the stuff, through in some
detergent, select a cycle, push a button and come back to put it in the
dry an hour or so later.  I remember how my mother used to do laundry in
the 1950s when we had a washing machine with a wringer. She had to load
it up, fill it with water and then start it up to let the agitator do
its thing. Then they stuff went through a wringer to remove the soapy
water, then the rinse cycle followed by wringing.  It was a lot of work.
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Same here.  No sympathy for these women, it's always women
who say they do a load EVERY DAY.  It's her, her husband,
and one child and then complain how time consuming it is.
My mother also had a wringer washing machine and although
it beat a scrub board by leaps and bounds, it was still
quite a chore.  Laundry day, which was once a week, lasted
until mid-morning even though she'd start at 6:00 or 6:30
in the morning.
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