The Old Fashioned Way

Author: siggy

It was the old fashioned way.  And it did not occur to me until I learned my dryer was not going to be fixed immediately.  It had been out of service for at least a week and the service person had to order a part, which would take over a week to arrive.  I was running out of clean underwear and socks and had become desperate.  I had to improvise.  First I had considered going to the nearest laundromat.  That was twenty minutes away.  Then I remembered I had clothesline so I strung it up.  We were going to hit a good stretch of weather.  It was going to be warm and no rain.  My wife dug up some clothes pins so we were in business.  This is the way people always dried their clothing (before the advent of electricity and driers).  She was thrilled she could air dry her clothing and what did not dry was hung up in the bathroom overnight.  This was the way it was always done at one time.  It certainly was economical.  We had to rediscover it.  She was so thrilled.  And I had clean underwear and socks again.  And other clean clothing.