Originally Posted by
Roody
Interesting, and shows how exhausting this work was. (Actually I didn't mean "how" they did it literally, I meant how did they find the time and strength to do such exhausting and tedious work?)
They had no alternative and it really wore people out. Modern fabrics and detergents, along with indoor plumbing and sanitation, makes hand laundry easy in comparison. I don't use a laundry plunger myself, but I do hang dry my clothes.