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  • From: "Don Bowen" <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>
  • To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Simplified life ?
  • Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 10:35:11 -0500

> Who on this list would happily wash clothes by hand?

There is a story told on the Maytag washing machine salesmen. They would
travel to the farm of a likely but hard sell customer. They would make an
excuse such as having to pick up one on the way home and not have room for
it unless they left one at the farm. They would promise to come by in a
week or so and the housewife could use this one all they wanted. They
rarely had to take it back.

My mother still remembers having to use a cantankerous hard to start Maytag
washing machine. She usually waited until my father got the engine started
and would stick around to refuel the engine as needed.

Don Bowen KI6DIU
http://www.braingarage.com/Dons/Travels/journal/Journal.html





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