If I did my laundry in that fashion I would appreciate a drink or two.
@bobyberry8394
5 жыл бұрын
Thats how I clean my place, especially the bathroom 🍷🍷🍾🍾🥃🥃
@bobyberry8394
5 жыл бұрын
@Andro mache definitely in mine 😁
@playingonthephone1469
5 жыл бұрын
@Andro mache all that may be well and true (side eye), but I definitely wouldn't appreciate a meal in prepared in one, how about you?
@MilkyWhite1
5 жыл бұрын
@@playingonthephone1469 I second your side eye. 😂😂😂
@nanonymous9139
5 жыл бұрын
Lol, comment from Jameson himself! 🤣
@the-chillian
5 жыл бұрын
"I have to get my laundry done," I say. "How annoying," I say, as I toss it into a machine, turn the machine on, then walk away for an hour.
@CallieRoseMartinsyde
5 жыл бұрын
Right? The hardest part of doing laundry for me is carrying the clothes up and down the stairs. I'm so spoiled, lol.
@danit5146
5 жыл бұрын
I worked at a dry cleaners for years. It would get so hot in the summer while pressing the clothes I thought I'd melt. Wow, I feel guilty now for thinking it was tough work. I had it so easy compared to those women.
@InshasChoice
5 жыл бұрын
Worse part is ironing and starting on the laundry, it's really satisfying once it's done.
@abirjas1192
5 жыл бұрын
😂
@blackvelvet1350
5 жыл бұрын
I didn't have a dryer for almost 8 months laundry was frustrating, but at least I had a washing machine...
@andersbenke3596
5 жыл бұрын
Now this is a perfect example of why I like the Townsends style of teaching. They let the expert speak. John mostly sits there, speaking only to ask interesting questions. So often, with modern TV and whatnot, you get presenters and other non-experts blabbing on forever, adding nothing to the matter at hand.
@trixieloo
5 жыл бұрын
Agreed!
@Niemer82
5 жыл бұрын
so true! John is a very humble presenter, that is 100% the opposit what most of the TV hosts are today with their big egos
@majcrash
5 жыл бұрын
whatnot always adds nothing. How about using a word that does?
@angiemenapa
5 жыл бұрын
You are so right!
@ayeevizzy8723
5 жыл бұрын
Well said!
@rollmeister
5 жыл бұрын
Now I understand my enraged alcohol fueled laundry sessions.
@edwardthor7763
5 жыл бұрын
HaHa! Good Excuse! Try again...
@chosenlight7289
5 жыл бұрын
🤣😂🤣😂🤣
@jennylynn82173
5 жыл бұрын
😂
@jennylynn82173
5 жыл бұрын
Lol! 😂
@lants8096
5 жыл бұрын
Or laundry fueled alcohol session?🤔
@Tishers
5 жыл бұрын
Thanks to Carol for bringing this part of history to life.
@arthas640
3 жыл бұрын
She did a ok job at it, she did a nice job at the laundry but didn't even get a little drunk. She could have at least down a pint of applejack
@oldasyouromens
5 жыл бұрын
Echoing a lot of people here, I'm not surprised they were always drunk. Remember: no ibuprofen, opium is expensive, you gotta have something to take care of that chronic shoulder and joint pain, or at least the mental stress of it. Crushing poverty and grief don't help either, and if alcohol is your only recourse, you may as well use it.
@krazypipe
5 жыл бұрын
I hadn't thought of all those reasons. You're right, you would need a good drunk after all that painful work.
@bfbvouabeorbvoaervure963
5 жыл бұрын
Grace Law It was also usually cleaner than water
@oldasyouromens
5 жыл бұрын
@@bfbvouabeorbvoaervure963 Most beer and cider consumed for hydration in the period (being cleaner than water) was 'small beer', very low-alcohol--probably 1.5-4% ABV if that, and wouldn't get you super drunk. The alcohol would just be enough to preserve it and kill bacteria. Townsends did a video on it if you're interested. Edit: Townsends says 4% or less, so I'm changing the figure above to reflect that.
@bfbvouabeorbvoaervure963
5 жыл бұрын
Grace Law That’s what I meant. But there would’ve always been people who added more
@SusanLynn656
5 жыл бұрын
Don't forget dealing with menstrual cramps!!!
@55mmartin
5 жыл бұрын
When I was a young mother I would take in ironing from the wealthy women in the area. Man, they were stingy, too! I charged $25 a basket load and they would bring in huge baskets, with clothes stuffed so tight in them they must have sat on them! I quickly learned to charge by the piece so I wouldn't get ripped off. In some ways, the world never changes. Wonderful interview!
@goodgirl140
5 жыл бұрын
So many mundane tasks that seem so simple and routine to us nowadays were really labour intensive in the past. Watching these always makes me feel grateful!
@CommodoreFan64
5 жыл бұрын
Agreed, I was doing laundry the other night after work complaining how long it took me to have to wait for the washer to stop, so I could hang my shirts in the laundry room to dry( yellow pine pollen count is really bad in the south, so can't hang stuff outside very often), and for the dryer to stop so I could fold stuff. I won't complain any longer that's for sure.
@giebbieserah4440
5 жыл бұрын
Most rural population in african countries do their laundry by hand, and have to fetch water from a river that is a kilometre or two away. Or even farther...
@Anna-tc6rz
5 жыл бұрын
@@CommodoreFan64 yup! We forget how horrible life used to be before modern day luxuries. Imagine the days before we even wore clothes!
@DanielFlores-fo1ee
5 жыл бұрын
@@giebbieserah4440 My family in Mexico still used to do it this way up until 2002.
@ReasonAboveEverything
5 жыл бұрын
Given the nature of the work i have zero judgement for them being drunkards and loud. Monotonous, tireing, cold hands, cracking skin... Year after year. Good company and alcohol is what keeps you sane.
@FiXato
5 жыл бұрын
and the complaints when the laundry isn't clean enough.
@optimisticallyskeptical1842
5 жыл бұрын
@Penultimate Hortator Not entirely, alcohol helps the body relax, of course it can be abused like anything else.
@Sheilanagig
5 жыл бұрын
@@optimisticallyskeptical1842 exactly. Alcohol is a terrible coping strategy, but it's also a muscle relaxant. It's quite possible with how hard the work was on their bodies that they needed something to relax those muscles at the end of the day or maybe even while they were on the job. Their lives were hard. It's difficult to pass judgment on them for it.
@ReasonAboveEverything
5 жыл бұрын
Penultimate Hortator Yes, it is a drug after all but If used as such with discipline to let go it is fine. Though the chemistry behind getting used to pleasure from alcohol is the same as getting used to marriage happiness. Dopamine levels rise => dopamine receptors die. When physical pain gets too bad to bear you take painkillers panadol or such. When emotional pain gets too heavy you want to kill that too. Social drinking often is very bad for your liver. You may not get any buzz but your liver will scream nonetheless. 20 years of that and one can get liver cirrhosis. However for people who die at the age of 50 it does not really matter how hard you drink. No chances for early life dementia either.
@Sheilanagig
5 жыл бұрын
@@ReasonAboveEverything In the 18th century there was no Panadol or even commercial aspirin. People had to make do with what they had available back then, which wasn't much.
@JohnSmith-il7jn
5 жыл бұрын
My immigrant great-grandmother took in laundry from rich families in the very early 20th century and yes her husband was an incorrigible alcoholic. So things really didn't change that much from the 18th century to the early 20th century until the advent of electric washing machines in the 1920s and 1930s.
@ALBERT-oj1vn
5 жыл бұрын
John Smith The things that you describe are still the same for India actually. It is far more cheaper for Indian middle class and rich families to send their clothes to be washed by laundry ladies than using an washing machine. Some parts of the world still live in early 20th century. The technology might process rapidly but equal distribution of wealth doesn’t follow the same pace unfortunately for many developing countries.
@briannemorna4268
5 жыл бұрын
My grandmother took in laundry during the great depression to support her family of 3litttle children. My grand father had TB and was bedfast.. she said most nights her fingers bled from the washboard she had to use. Strong people alot of dignity.
@AlexandraLynch1
5 жыл бұрын
You slowly started to see technology helping; first you have the mangles appearing, which let you press the water out (what the spin cycle does now) and which can be adjusted to smooth flat things like sheets under pressure. Then you began to see, about 1880, "washing machines" which churned the clothing in hot water so you didn't have to dollymop them. Now, you still had to fill and empty the machine by hand for each load, and you had to do a little scrubbing where the wear came, but it helped. It really wasn't until the 1950's that we began to have a machine that let you put in the clothes, shut it, turn it on, and walk away. Laundry used to take three and a half days to do: sort, stain removal, and soak the clothes Sunday night, wash on Monday morning, dry Monday afternoon. Tuesday, sprinkle the clothes to get them evenly damp, then iron on Tuesday afternoon.
@annomaly751
5 жыл бұрын
John Smith your poor great grandma what a horrible life she had. She gave everything she had for her family though. She had no choice.
@songyardbird2513
5 жыл бұрын
@@annomaly751 I disagree people always have choices.
@belaayya5094
5 жыл бұрын
Thank you for this. It's rare to get a glimpse of the life of women (especially poor women) through history.
@candycain1001
5 жыл бұрын
BelaayyasMusic ! I’d totally sub to a channel based entirely on that! Everything from high ladies maids doing hair and such and to these ladies doing the hardest of work.
@arthas640
5 жыл бұрын
it was rare for people to record the more mundane parts of life, especially if it mainly concerned the lower classes. We know very little about even everyday parts of life through history, a personal favorite story of mine being garum from ancient Rome. It was a condiment that was eaten daily by every member of society across Western Asia, Europe, and North Africa but we know very little of it even though there were factories producing it in large quantities from Tunisia, to Rome, to Damascus. Until fairly recently people didnt think it worth it to bother talking about something that to them was an obvious part of life that anyone would understand.
@belaayya5094
5 жыл бұрын
@@arthas640 - that's basically what I was saying. I'm an anthropologist married to a historian. Women's history is a rare bit of info. Black history is a rare bit of info. Our historical culture is that of straight, white, Protestant males.
@joestevenson5568
4 жыл бұрын
@@belaayya5094 well thats not true, Catholics, Jews, and Muslims all have perfectly well documented histories.
@organicmachines3225
3 жыл бұрын
@@belaayya5094 It's not that people are just choosing to discriminate them though. The most significant moments of history were made by those white men.
@adamburdt8794
5 жыл бұрын
Dang, that's a nice hat Jon. That bad boy is crisp
@benjamingrist6539
5 жыл бұрын
He sells those hats on his website, and it’s one of the most affordable ones in his shop.
@tess9733
5 жыл бұрын
Hell yeah
@tammyt3434
5 жыл бұрын
His clothes are always on point. Clearly he pays for a skilled laundress.
@SusanLynn656
4 жыл бұрын
What's the practicality of a hat like that? Seems rather a waste of fabric to me. Would love to hear someone's knowledge or comments.
@Maakeys
4 жыл бұрын
@@SusanLynn656 I think it's for rain
@SoulfulVeg
5 жыл бұрын
My mother was the youngest of 11 and was born in the late 1920s. She said just doing laundry was such a major part of her, her mother and sister's lives. Many girls would miss school to keep up with laundry. They finally got a machine in the late 30s with a wringer, and it was a life saver.
@LizT207
3 жыл бұрын
I believe that! Even today with a washing machine and dryer, doing laundry can be an all day affair
@noneofbizorjuliejt6466
5 жыл бұрын
i love her smile at the end. Laundry is one of those necessary everyday kind of things Ive been very interested in I cant wait for more!
@RustyShock
5 жыл бұрын
She's an exemplary actor and writer. I think that I might be Carol's biggest fan.
@sunset6010
5 жыл бұрын
@@RustyShock i definitely picked up that she had stage acting experience ! Right from the start. I bet you she is ACES !
@RustyShock
5 жыл бұрын
@@sunset6010 You should see her in "Maggie Delaney". kzitem.info/news/bejne/y6eFzYukoH5mlI4
@kimfleury
5 жыл бұрын
This reminds me that I have a load in the washer.... I forgot because I've been watching Townsends cooking videos.
@mariejilberia5908
5 жыл бұрын
😂😂😂 I can definitely relate. How time has changed!
@candysantillo3325
5 жыл бұрын
Love,love,love these personal type videos. I love them all with their information but these that shine a light on the people making them seem more real
@jessej7111
5 жыл бұрын
I was so disappointed when it got to the end without a demonstration, but then you said there were more parts coming! Yay!
@emeliea9504
5 жыл бұрын
Same, can't wait! 😍
@caribbeantigress
5 жыл бұрын
Sam Marwick me tooo! Looking forward to it!
@dreddy_g
5 жыл бұрын
Watching videos like this make me appreciate today's conveniences, along with the seemingly small things in life we take for granted. Thank you.
@hazzmati
5 жыл бұрын
we weren't
@nanonymous9139
5 жыл бұрын
I value washing machine more then internet.
@765respect
5 жыл бұрын
@Andro mache I got my Whirlpool washer 2nd hand 25 yrs ago and it is still going strong. It is starting to get a damp smell in it, like wet lint is stuck in it. Not sure how to get to the source of the smell. For now, if I haven't used it in a couple of days, I run it empty with hot water and bleach prior to use.
@joea1433
5 жыл бұрын
To @@765respect - You may have mold growing in the drum. Look online for ways to clean it. It is a common problem especially when the door is kept closed most of the time.
@nancygross4392
5 жыл бұрын
I love how John finds people who are just as passionate about what they do as him. You are being so entertained on this channel, you forget you are being educated as well.
@sunset6010
5 жыл бұрын
CAROL is a GEM ! So well spoken, intriguing !
@arthas640
5 жыл бұрын
she's got a bit of an accent too, and for me it makes it easier to picture her as a colonial laundry woman.
@timadel663
4 жыл бұрын
Her acting is great.. i almost thought that she is really a laundress in the past era
@jimhenry1262
5 жыл бұрын
I was an infant in the early 1950's but I recall vividly my grandmother washing clothes in a galvanized washing tub, using a corrugated washboard, outside in the front yard. She was born in the 1890's in Utah. My grandfather was born in 1880. They had nine children. It was a tremendous work load. God bless her!
@allmigthygoddess939
2 жыл бұрын
By the glory of Satan
@PoptartParasol
2 жыл бұрын
@@allmigthygoddess939 -_-
@userunavailable3095
5 жыл бұрын
Wonderful to see Carol getting this recognition. So blessed to call her my friend.
@DarkAgeDan
5 жыл бұрын
Imagine how stinky life would be without these women.
@FiXato
5 жыл бұрын
if you constantly are exposed to the same stench, you end up no longer noticing it anymore though.
@arthas640
5 жыл бұрын
it would be intense, people back then would use perfume to cover up BO and at parties I've heard of people getting sick from all the various smells. it didnt help that during large parties even the rich people would, uh... "relieve themselves" in hallways and stairways and servants halls during parties if the weather was bad or if it was cold rather then go outside.
@ccaffie1231
3 жыл бұрын
on the bright side, soap could be made by mixing wood ash with water edit: nevermind, that makes lye which is then used to make soap (still close, though)
@karbairusa
5 жыл бұрын
I just can't get enough of this channel. So happy you guys are successful!
@macpduff2119
5 жыл бұрын
In 18th century England many laundresses drowned in the mash rivers because the heavy wet garments they were wearing would pull them down
@Wolfietherrat
5 жыл бұрын
macpduff so sad.
@elainelouve
5 жыл бұрын
I also saw in one documentary that women in general drowned quite often, because they were so tired. One could even drop into a well while getting water. A woman would be the last one to go to bed, and the first one to get up, because of their household chores. Working all day, and only getting to eat after the men in the family. Which is probably part of why poor people had less children, as the women could be too malnourished to be able to conceive.
@kimmcdonagh6756
5 жыл бұрын
Fascinating! I am not even a history buff; I don't particularly like cooking, or laundry... but this channel is great!
@Jisawbam
5 жыл бұрын
I love these more mundane aspects of 18th century life you cover. Please keep it up.
@arthas640
5 жыл бұрын
its shocking how little we know about the mundane parts of life through history. We still know very little about Garum and bread from Roman times even though they were both something you'd eat with nearly every meal, regardless of class, all across Western Asia, North Africa, and Europe.
@ZimVader-0017
5 жыл бұрын
When we were left without electricity for 7 months, people started selling those old wooden planks that you scrub the clothes on. They were selling like hot cakes. There were people who didn't have running water either because the pump worked with electricity so they washed in the river. The whole country went back to the 18th and 19th century in terms of washing clothes. A guy made something similar to the thing Carol is using at 9:05 with a big trash bin and a pair of bicycle handlebars.
@MsAngelique
5 жыл бұрын
Thank you, past inventors, for the washing machine. And thank you, laundresses of the past, for all your hard work.
@mrazik131
5 жыл бұрын
My back and hands hurt just to think about it! What a back breaking job!
@Pommezul
5 жыл бұрын
That's better than any gym :P
@brimykail
5 жыл бұрын
I love your cooking videos but I'd love more of these types of videos. I'd love to learn all I can about this time period. It's cool to watch her do it the way they did back then.
@snorinsnorlaxyo6846
5 жыл бұрын
This explains alot for me, thanks so much for the video! Theres a man name Reverend Walter Colton who came to California in 1846 with the u.s. navy. He was stationed in Monterey Ca, and kept a dairy. Im sure I wont be perfect with his quote, but essentially it said " Of all the wild beasts of California none are as fearsome as the Washerwoman."
@frankjarboe3271
5 жыл бұрын
SnorinSnorlax yo , Carol loves the quote!!! Thanks!
@clarencekennedy2264
5 жыл бұрын
This needs to be put on PBS to show children how things used to be 😂😂😂 🇺🇸
@howtubeable
5 жыл бұрын
Sadly, PBS doesn't do domestic history. They are too busy preaching ideology and politics.
@bfbvouabeorbvoaervure963
5 жыл бұрын
Clarence Kennedy Don’t you mean literally everyone alive today? No one cleans like this, few know how people used to clean. Maybe we need a tv show that teaches elderly to use a computer- oh wait! They can barely put their TV on!
@hotmama9772
5 жыл бұрын
Yup how about that! Instead of showing two male rats getting married on Arthur😒..
@clarencekennedy2264
5 жыл бұрын
HOTMAMA97 😂😂😂😂💯
@songyardbird2513
5 жыл бұрын
@@bfbvouabeorbvoaervure963 speak for yourself d a.
@protruth100
5 жыл бұрын
I tried washing clothes by hand for several months. I learned that it's easier to clean if you soak the clothes in water overnight.
@rosrychaplet
5 жыл бұрын
Yes. Let the water take apart the sediment and oils naturally.
@thetillerwiller4696
4 жыл бұрын
Mona-Britt Folds yeah I’ve heard that they soaked there clothes in urine and other things to get certain stains out ect.
@elenavaccaro339
4 жыл бұрын
@@thetillerwiller4696 Urine breaks down into ammonia, a degreaser.
@schae1298
3 жыл бұрын
Yep my fam has been doing that ever since i could remember! Cheers ✨🧡
@pattijesinoski1958
3 жыл бұрын
@@elenavaccaro339 if that were true, urine filled babies clothes and cloth diapers would not need something else to break down the ammonia that causes rashes on baby's skin. Poor scientific thought on that ammonia.
@emr2425introibo
5 жыл бұрын
They drank to numb the pain
@jessicacanfield5408
5 жыл бұрын
I bet they did
@CommodoreFan64
5 жыл бұрын
Sadly yes they did, and I'm sure that's part of why their life spans where so short.
@fortbumper
5 жыл бұрын
Very nice episode! This lady sounds knowledgeable, makes sense, and is not smart-alec. Anxious to see the episode on laundry chemistry.
@dahveed284
5 жыл бұрын
And now we have machines that are foul-tempered to do the washing. We have it so easy these days...
@adamarens3520
5 жыл бұрын
dahveed284 and often loud too lol, especially on spin cycle.
@magreyeyes
5 жыл бұрын
Ok, i can no longer complain about my laundry. Lol
@KetogenicKim
5 жыл бұрын
I agree ✋☺️
@RonJohn63
5 жыл бұрын
Thank men for inventing washing machines, hot water heaters, automatic dishwashers, vacuum cleaners, looms, etc, etc _ad nauseum._
@765respect
5 жыл бұрын
@@RonJohn63 Where did these men come from?
@stanlygirl5951
5 жыл бұрын
@@RonJohn63 I don't know about the others, but the automatic dishwasher was invented by a woman. It was hand crank.
@haylz27
5 жыл бұрын
This video was over very quickly because I was so captivated by her talking. She is very well spoken and I really enjoy the information she shared with us!
@bent5732
5 жыл бұрын
This is great. Makes you remember these were just people trying to get by like us.
@Susan.Lewis.
5 жыл бұрын
Back in the 1960's, when my kids were very young, I used to take in ironing and charge by the basket. Permanent press was still in its infancy back then.
@witt.1620
5 жыл бұрын
Could the chemicals they used have contributed to their drunken reputation like the mad hatters?
@kimfleury
5 жыл бұрын
That's a good point.
@barbarapugh5662
5 жыл бұрын
Only in the sense that lye soap gives some really painful burns and the sheer physically demanding nature of the work . I think bleach would have been ammonia based so can't think of anything chemical that would produce drunken type symptoms.
@elenavaccaro339
4 жыл бұрын
The stink of the degrading urine into ammonia stinks...
@johnparkhurst825
5 жыл бұрын
I appreciate the level of production of this channel. For instance the background music is perfect in its volume. Absolutely well done!
@RumMonkeyable
5 жыл бұрын
My biggest challenge is to install a shelf above the washer and dryer (underneath the already-installed wood cabinets).😬 I remember in college the 'drudgery' of going to the laundromat! We are so spoiled with being able to choose water temp, type of cycle by fabric, etc. God bless the hardworking laundresses and washer women!❤️️
@outlandishmccandlish3873
5 жыл бұрын
You would definitely own less clothing if you had to wash it by hand and you would be wearing them a lot longer.
@briarrose5208
4 жыл бұрын
Is that "The Irish Washerwoman" playing in the background? My husband calls me that because I'm constantly doing laundry and I swear like a sailor! So thankful for modern conveniences!
@rosemarymorgan336
5 жыл бұрын
I always come away from laundry demos smelling of wood smoke and soap.
@rosemarymorgan336
5 жыл бұрын
@CathreaAna I would like to get the demos at Golandrinas as nice looking as the ones in the video. The last time, we had scores of kids to mind around the fire, and lines who wanted to try out the washing.
@rosemarymorgan336
5 жыл бұрын
@CathreaAna they are always looking for volunteers. The fiber festival is this weekend. You can get more details at golondrinas.org/festivals/spring-fiber-fest/ i will only be there Saterday due to a wedding Sunday. Don't know if i will be on laundry or a loom.
@reinettestreasures6198
5 жыл бұрын
I do 17th hand embroidery speclizing in real goldwork embroidery - i want to demo!!! How could i get started?
@humanitarianharjot402
5 жыл бұрын
Start a channel?
@STho205
5 жыл бұрын
Reinette's Treasures. I take it you wish to demonstrate in person. I might suggest you find a historic home or property near you. You volunteer as a docent. A modern dress guide and hostess. There are often hours of no visitors or waiting for a visitor group to build. You do your embroidery in those times. Often docents chat, and solitary docents may read. You'll be doing something period interesting. Eventually the museum will wish you to do your craft in costume. Let the museum provide the costume. After a year or so, if you still enjoy doing that, then you will assemble your own "kit" (clothing and accessories) and you will have networked with other properties, can travel to those sites as a craftperson exhibitor. Depending on your area, you may not be close to 17th century properties, so you may alter your exhibit embroidery to the period of the property and match your clothing to that era and situation. However at first you are just doing your own thing so the period of your craft is not historically critical.
@nicolemarly6202
5 жыл бұрын
Hello laundry daddy
@AddyDelaMorte
5 жыл бұрын
The legendary Nicole! This comment needs to be further up. I almost gave up looking for you, lol.
@rosemcguinn5301
5 жыл бұрын
Hi unique Nicole! there you are! :) I did not find out about this episode until just a few minutes ago.
@rosemcguinn5301
5 жыл бұрын
@@AddyDelaMorte We need to maybe chitchat a bit to make it rise!
@AddyDelaMorte
5 жыл бұрын
Rose McGuinn Absolutely. Let’s get Nicole to the top! ;p
@rosemcguinn5301
5 жыл бұрын
@@AddyDelaMorte Yes indeedy! Let's do just exactly that! :)
@annaleabrown4588
5 жыл бұрын
Fascinating! Our pipes froze and busted a few winters ago and there was no way to fix it right then. We did have water in the upstairs bathtub. So I hauled all the laundry (and dirty dishes) up to wash them out in the tub. What a workout!
@annaleabrown4588
5 жыл бұрын
@@teamfoco995 I LOVE Townsends! My favorite so far is the canoe
@annaleabrown4588
5 жыл бұрын
@Kuchi Kopi Indiana. It happens.
@pamwaldron2566
5 жыл бұрын
When I was first married, we were desperately poor. Too poor to buy even a leaky second hand washer. Too poor to go to the laundromat. So I did our laundry in the bathtub. I filled it with water, poured in the detergent, then climbed in and kicked, said her and stomped a tub full of dirty clothes clean with my feet. Dragged by the bucket to hang dripping on the line, summer and winter until we could afford a second hand washer. My husband worked as a laborer, so his laundry was always filthy with dirt and salt from his sweat. Hard work for both of us, and don't want to do it again, but I can if I need to.
@annaleabrown4588
5 жыл бұрын
@@pamwaldron2566 Yes! I did the feet thing! Felt like I Love Lucy stomping the grapes. I've seen the things you can make out of a plunger and 5 gallon bucket to do the scrubbing and I have that on my list of things to make, just in case!
@MzClementine
5 жыл бұрын
Imagine doing that always...
@dianagiles9467
5 жыл бұрын
They worked like troopers- anyone living in poverty did what they could to provide for their family -god bless them 💖
@rosescott9299
5 жыл бұрын
Carol is fantastic, can't wait for the upcoming demonstrations!
@kevinbyrne4538
5 жыл бұрын
This video was a revelation -- an aspect of life that is never discussed elsewhere. My father's grandmother was widowed. She had to support herself and her children by becoming a laundress. So this video has special relevance to me -- it's not just abstract history.
@katka8490
5 жыл бұрын
After a long winter, my hands are constantly cracked and bleeding from modern soaps..... ....I'd hate to see the affect of wood ash based lye soaps on my hands from laundry......(imagine the wear and tear of this method on modern poorly made clothing!!??)
@veddylicious01
5 жыл бұрын
Very knowledgeable. Love it!!!
@adamburdt8794
5 жыл бұрын
Any job I would've done in the 18th century would've been prefaced with "the drunk".
@hechetonchieres
5 жыл бұрын
What I like the most about these things is learning about how the people of the past had the exact same problems that we do today, in this particular setting with the husbands being lazy or abandoning the family. That and similar things happen today as well. Makes you wonder how people ever fell into the idea that women were not allowed to have jobs when quite clearly, even back then women had to be the breadwinners. Women certainly have been working alongside men these past 2000 years and more.
@lacyhay5244
5 жыл бұрын
Even though I have a ringer washer machine it makes me very appreciative. It goes to show not even doing laundry was easy work.
@CIorox_BIeach
5 жыл бұрын
We washed clothes by hand as a kid. It's somewhat time consuming, but it's not that hard.
@765respect
5 жыл бұрын
@@CIorox_BIeach I use to wash my bf white naval uniform by hand. They always came out brilliant. I didn't have a washer so I did everything in a small bathtub. This was back in 77. When my boys were little, I continued washing the brights and whites by hand. Now I use a washer that I bought used 25 yrs ago and hang out my clothes to dry, even in the dead of winter. I have a dryer but I'm too cheap to pay for the electricity. Something about hanging out the clothes and spending that time in nature is soothing to me. Plus my little granddaughter loves running through the laundry. Her laughter is delightful!
@CommodoreFan64
5 жыл бұрын
@@765respect My grandmother use to hang laundry in the late summer, and fall months when I was growing up in the 80's and 90's, but in recent years here in the south the pine pollen as been so bad, it's pointless to even try, so I have a long pole from wall to wall in my laundry room, and hang all my shirts, and other things that really should not be put in the dryer, and for me I find that a good compromise, along with having a HE top loading washer, and a HE dryer to cut down some on the water, and electricity usage.
@765respect
5 жыл бұрын
@@CommodoreFan64 My mom would dry her clothes inside her house by putting a fan on them. Depends on what it was they could be dry in an hour. Love your idea of using a long pole in your laundry room.
@CommodoreFan64
5 жыл бұрын
@@765respect Thanks, and yeah I sometimes point a box fan at the clothes I have hanging in the laundry room if they are taking a while to dry, and I need them by the morning for say work, or whatever.
@dimestoreharry3344
5 жыл бұрын
This is why Ma Kettle was such a big, strapping, woman.......
@Dejoblue
5 жыл бұрын
Did they ever do stone washing? I.E. stones in a barrel of lye and then put the clothes in and roll or otherwise turn the barrel over and over again, like a washing machine/dryer?
@Bashfuldoc
5 жыл бұрын
Very interesting history of women who worked very hard for very little. I've done laundry by hand and struggled to wring out jeans. It is a job to dread!
@karenwright6479
5 жыл бұрын
I saw Carol live at our local library doing "Maggie,Indentured servant" several years ago,good to see she's well and still telling stories of this country's past.
@janehall2720
5 жыл бұрын
Carol and I need to get together, I make soap! They call me the Colonial Soap Lady! While I make alot of soap, it is in no way the Colonial way, over a fire, stirring all day. Thanks for another great video!
@Kevinwayne199
5 жыл бұрын
Looking forward to the chemistry portion. How they made soaps, bleaches, etc.
@vn3138
5 жыл бұрын
Same!
@bullthrush
5 жыл бұрын
Looking forward to the rest of the series.
@elizabethharttley4073
5 жыл бұрын
I have done laundry on the rocks and with a wringer washer. I still hang out to dry. I appreciate my washing machine.
@reginaromsey
5 жыл бұрын
To help pay my mother’s college tuition in 1930 to 1934 my grandmother did lady’s delicate laundry.
@sameaston9587
5 жыл бұрын
Now the hardest part of doing laundry is remembering to put the wets in the dryer before the lot smells. Makes me count my blessings.
@4philipp
5 жыл бұрын
You’d think a simple tub 🛁 would be enough to do the wash in, after all our machines are just drums. It reminds me a little of my In-laws who meticulously washes chicken brought from the supermarket - an act of overkill. Bettering houses are interesting, mostly because the idea was to give them something to do. Today people are outraged when we ask for poor people to even apply for jobs. If those kids were alone all day, how did they turn out? I mean where they doomed to be poor and gangsters or what’s the story there?
@ah5721
5 жыл бұрын
Often as soon as they were old enough parents tried to find them work apprentice or other types of as young as 6/7 yrs.
@4philipp
5 жыл бұрын
Amanda H how times have changed.
@VisyVisyTV
5 жыл бұрын
Makes me happy we were not born then; life for the indigent is never easy in whatever century or country you live.
@AleksandraGros
5 жыл бұрын
Similar style of doing laundry is still well and alive in India nowadays. There is class/cast of people called Dhobi (or Dhobi-wallah) that does this job there.
@lauriemclean1131
5 жыл бұрын
The things we take for granted in this age of machines.
@TechWithSean
5 жыл бұрын
Love these videos, it’s great to learn about the real people behind the history 👍
@yemo34
5 жыл бұрын
We live in age of scientific miracles. These videos make me not take those for granted.
@bcaye
5 жыл бұрын
My great grandmother was a laundress, in Wyoming in the 19th century. I don't know a lot of details, she and my great grandfather lived in a sod house, he was a jack of all trades. My grandfather never talked about it a lot. He left home at 15 and did many jobs, saving all he could, eventually was able to get some land on the Missouri River to farm and ended up a very successful man. My grandmother was his second wife, so he was quite old when I grew up, but he had some interesting stories.
@SquatBenchDeadliftz
5 жыл бұрын
imagine cleaning the medieval skids
@ieshaprice1258
5 жыл бұрын
🤢🤮
@AfroChef
5 жыл бұрын
I've always loved the effort and love put into this channel. Another 10/10 informative video
@daveoatway6126
5 жыл бұрын
Thank you for preserving our history and making it available to us! Not just the upper classes, but every class and occupation.
@wife97
5 жыл бұрын
Very interesting interview with Carol. Thanks, John and Carol.
@jss302
5 жыл бұрын
the violin music is really distracting. also the terms like "mangling" I wish would've been elaborated on.
@Marialla.
5 жыл бұрын
I love information about women's lives the best! What they wore, everything about their work, their rights, their routines, their food and their money, their freedoms and restrictions, their habits and entertainments, EVERYTHING! So looking forward to more about the laundresses!
@pipe2devnull
5 жыл бұрын
The clothes washing machine - best invention since clothes.
@rustomkanishka
5 жыл бұрын
Go to Dhobighat, Mumbai, India. They still have hundreds of men who do it by hand, using old school technology. Time hasn't moved forward much in the third world in certain industries.
@10191927
5 жыл бұрын
That’s one thing you never think about in history, who did the laundry?
@kingleoxvii2463
5 жыл бұрын
Or who cleaned the outhouse?
@suem6004
5 жыл бұрын
Love Carol. In the 1990s in Estonia people were still doing family laundry by hand in their big bathtubs. Me too. I did not have to beat and beat the clothing as modernish harsh laundry soap was available.
@j.munday7913
5 жыл бұрын
Speaking as a modern day laundress for 3 very long years of my life.... one could DEFINITELY use a drink after about 2-3 hours XD And I was doing it ezmode!
@covishen
5 жыл бұрын
Like so many other things in the 21st century, laundry has simply become an annoyance with the washing machine and dryer. In the not so distant future I'm betting the machines will be folding the clothes as well. Thank you Carol for doing what you are doing, preserving history before it's lost to the ages, and you as well Mr. Townsend for what you do.
@rosrychaplet
5 жыл бұрын
It's great to see Carol as her Maggie character. I thought I recognized her.
@amazongranny7312
5 жыл бұрын
So if I wanted to come check you out where are you located. This reminds me of Colonial Williamsburg
@h2o270
5 жыл бұрын
It would be nice to see her explain and demonstrate doing laundry.
@rosrychaplet
5 жыл бұрын
He says it's coming soon.
@miekekuppen9275
5 жыл бұрын
These poor women. Thank you for shining a light on them.
@CabinetOfCuriosity
5 жыл бұрын
She was doing mourner at Vincennes this past week, but has done an indentured servant speaking of laundry before. She’s very interesting.
@765respect
5 жыл бұрын
What was she involved in? I would like to see that.
@CabinetOfCuriosity
5 жыл бұрын
765respect They were doing a re-enactment of burial customs, grave robbing, .... It was at Spirit of Vincennes that was Memorial Weekend. She’s usually there every year.
@765respect
5 жыл бұрын
@@CabinetOfCuriosity TY! I just penned into my 2020 to do calendar. This is right up my alley, I love any and all historical reenactments. Lucky me, I live in IN. I've been to Conner Prairie and the OH Renfest and want to expand these experiences. Live history is so fascinating. Makes me appreciate the past as well as the times I live in.
@zappawoman5183
5 жыл бұрын
It is amazing the amount of work that has to be done without automatic, or any type of washing machine. I used to have a "wash-boy" washing machine that wasn't automatic, it had to be filled up on the draining board of the sink and I had to use a spin dryer afterwards. I had to scrub my husband's jeans with a nailbrush first, otherwise they wouldn't be clean. A washing machine is a major blessing. Imagine having to do laundry without rubber gloves! How horrid.
@MS-hs1ew
5 жыл бұрын
Omg I'm here at 2 views
@louc3268
5 жыл бұрын
This video has truly made me understand that I have no reason to complain about *any* housekeeping tasks I have in 2019.
@novad511
5 жыл бұрын
That was awesome! I look forward to seeing more.
@up2223
5 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much ...This really brings history alive educational and relatable
@suzisaintjames
5 жыл бұрын
Can't wait to see the laundry processes and chemistry. ❤🌅🌵
@tammymann6292
5 жыл бұрын
Another great video! Good to see Maggie again!
@GlueChickeN10
5 жыл бұрын
WOW! Just wow! Absolutely fascinating! What great, unfortunately "lost" knowledge... Amazing!
@micheletwilkinson-penningt6940
5 жыл бұрын
I really think the actress that portrays Maggie, should make more appearances! She's great!
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