Re: Ice industry ruined.

On 2025-04-01, Janet <nobody@home.com> wrote:

In article <c46cf9fbbccec5d14116e163853b1965
@www.novabbs.com>, ItsJoanNotJoAnn@webtv.net says...
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Thank goodness for refrigerators.  Let's add automatic
washing machines to that list, too.

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   If  I could only have one of those, I'd choose the 
automatic washing machine every time.

I'd rather have a refrigerator.  I can send my laundry out
to be beaten on rocks in the river by someone who needs the
work.

  My grandmother (died in the 1950's) never had either.
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 For food storage she had a pantry with a perforated 
metal meat-safe. Its sole purpose was to keep flies and
rats off the meat.
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 She did  all the laundry by hand  (family of 9),  for
which every drop of water was carried into the house (ice
cold) in a bucket from the cast iron hand pump shared with
neighbours.

My grandmother died in the 2000's.  She had all the stuff, except
maybe a dishwasher (family of four).  Automatic washer, dryer,
plumbing, forced-air heating, maybe even central air-conditioning
by the end.  She even developed a taste for Mexican salsa in her
old age.

My mother and I lived with my grandparents until 1966 (when I
was 9 years old).

--
Cindy Hamilton