Then and Now
Now that the party's over and my company has gone home, I had a good bit of laundry to do, --towels and sheets. It made me think about when I was first married and had a good bit of laundry to do on some occasion. I started out with a wringer washer and an outdoor clothes line, or hanging clothes in a spare room in the winter.
Today I might feel like I had a lot of laundry to take care of, three loads, but when I remember what it was like when I was first responsible for doing the laundry, I realize that today's job was nothing.
I would have to stay with the wash until the clothes were all washed, rinsed and wrung out and then I'd have had to put them on the clothes lines outside till the lines were full and hope to get them all dried by taking down the dry ones and hanging up the wet ones. But then, I'd have had to yank the damp stuff off the clothes line and bring them inside when it started to rain. But when it quit raining, I could have hung things out on the line again to finish up.
Doing the laundry today wasn't a big deal after all!
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