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<blockquote data-quote="AppleCori" data-source="post: 732723" data-attributes="member: 16024"><p>Well. I have done canning, as that was common practice in my family when I lived on a farm growing up. I didn’t know people that DIDNT do that, till I got to be ten or so.</p><p></p><p>I did hang laundry out when I lived in the central mountains of Arizona. It was a mild and dry climate (high desert) so things dried fast. I quit when I moved to Kansas, because the laundry room was in the basement and the back deck was off the second story, and it would have just been too much work! Lazy, I know.</p><p></p><p>My mom used to scrub on her hands and knees, strip wax off the linoleum and replace it, and all of that stuff. I just use a swifter or just throw a wet rag down on a spot and wipe it with my foot. Lazy, again.</p><p></p><p>I remember a laundry mat back when I was a kid. Actually, half the building was the laundry mat and the other half was the mortuary. Anyway, we would go in the laundry mat sometimes, and there was this old wringer from back in the day, I guess, and we would wet things and play with it sometimes. </p><p></p><p>I used to iron my X husbands shirts and starch them crisply. Then I started buying the no-iron kind and quit ironing his shirts. And then divorced him. Not related to ironing, though. </p><p></p><p>I will get back to you on the fire-starting, cause I have a story! Maybe not a great one, but a story none the less....</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AppleCori, post: 732723, member: 16024"] Well. I have done canning, as that was common practice in my family when I lived on a farm growing up. I didn’t know people that DIDNT do that, till I got to be ten or so. I did hang laundry out when I lived in the central mountains of Arizona. It was a mild and dry climate (high desert) so things dried fast. I quit when I moved to Kansas, because the laundry room was in the basement and the back deck was off the second story, and it would have just been too much work! Lazy, I know. My mom used to scrub on her hands and knees, strip wax off the linoleum and replace it, and all of that stuff. I just use a swifter or just throw a wet rag down on a spot and wipe it with my foot. Lazy, again. I remember a laundry mat back when I was a kid. Actually, half the building was the laundry mat and the other half was the mortuary. Anyway, we would go in the laundry mat sometimes, and there was this old wringer from back in the day, I guess, and we would wet things and play with it sometimes. I used to iron my X husbands shirts and starch them crisply. Then I started buying the no-iron kind and quit ironing his shirts. And then divorced him. Not related to ironing, though. I will get back to you on the fire-starting, cause I have a story! Maybe not a great one, but a story none the less.... [/QUOTE]
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