I was in denial
For months now, the washing machine has been acting up. Sometimes it works great for a week and then the motor overheats and it shuts down. If I don't turn it off then, it blows the circuits on my house. It didn't happen all the time and usually if you turned it off for an hour, you could turn it back on and all would be well.
No longer. So a repair person (probably a man) is on the way to replace the motor. $100 labor plus $150 to $200 for a new motor. Still cheaper and less wasteful than a new washer, but I hate it. I hate that we do at least one load of urine soaked clothes everyday - on a bad day it could be two loads and we can add bowel movement to the mix.
In the old days, I used a laundromat. Once a month I would load up my clothes in my little-old-lady laundry cart and drag it two blocks to the laundromat. Then I would read for an hour while my clothes swirled in soapy water. It was great people watching drama: husbands and wives bickering, children whining and on cold winter nights people with no place warm to go just reading the newspaper and defrosting.
When the load finished, I'd load the wet clothes back into the cart, take them home and hang them on the line to dry. The next day I would take the clothes off the line, fold them and put them away and I was DONE! Done with laundry for another month.
These days the first load starts by 7 AM and at 10 PM I'm folding the last of the day's laundry. I guess in the olden days, old people just wore their dirty clothes.
No longer. So a repair person (probably a man) is on the way to replace the motor. $100 labor plus $150 to $200 for a new motor. Still cheaper and less wasteful than a new washer, but I hate it. I hate that we do at least one load of urine soaked clothes everyday - on a bad day it could be two loads and we can add bowel movement to the mix.
In the old days, I used a laundromat. Once a month I would load up my clothes in my little-old-lady laundry cart and drag it two blocks to the laundromat. Then I would read for an hour while my clothes swirled in soapy water. It was great people watching drama: husbands and wives bickering, children whining and on cold winter nights people with no place warm to go just reading the newspaper and defrosting.
When the load finished, I'd load the wet clothes back into the cart, take them home and hang them on the line to dry. The next day I would take the clothes off the line, fold them and put them away and I was DONE! Done with laundry for another month.
These days the first load starts by 7 AM and at 10 PM I'm folding the last of the day's laundry. I guess in the olden days, old people just wore their dirty clothes.
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