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Hanging Laundry in the Fresh Air
Hanging laundry outside in the fresh air says clean and ‘home’. I think it’s satisfying to watch your clothes drying outdoors in the sun. There is something soothing about watching the breeze catch and gently float the clothes. Or to hear the occasional loud ‘flap’ when a strong wind them whips them back and forth. The clothes dryer reliance is largely an American one. In Europe, you will find laundry hung on nearly every balcony of Italian homes. It can be from multiple stationary lines, strung from one side of the balcony to the other. Or ‘Stendibiancheria da balcone‘, a metal frame with lines of plastic covered wire, which juts…
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Laundry – Whites, Lights and Darks
How I learned to sort laundry: whites, lights and darks, one pile for each. I think laundry is among the important things learned through family, specifically mother, grandmother and aunts. Why? Because they were taught the methods that we still use to clean our clothes. From my mother I learned by taking good care of clothing, it will last much longer. Since I am overly attached to everything I wear, this has proven to be very true. Before each of our kids prepared to go off to college, I taught them the same way of sorting and washing. I’m thinking that it was a success since neither of them ruined…
