Laundry

Hello MLU-ers

Since it costs alsmost $25 to ride taxi to and from the one and only laundromat in this town, I'm dealing with most essential laundry while living in this motel by rinsing things out in a wee bucket in a tub and hanging things off the shower rod until I can move into my new digs April 1st and get at the washer and dryer there ... doing laundry here also gets me remembering how my Mom, and most others back home, did laundry for years ... a tin washtub and scrubboard, and often in the ringer washer for those who could use them ... folks caught rainwater and/or snow in barrels for wash days and bath water, heating water on the wood and/or oil stoves (tin tub also doubled as bath tub ) ... anyways ... moving right along to something else I keep wondering about, that's in context of MLU and WW2 history ...

HOW DID THE GUYS AND GALS DEAL WITH GETTING THEIR CLOTHES/UNIFORMS CLEANED (when they were able to deal with laundry that is) ??? Living in dirty clothes must have happened a lot ... and I wonder if lice and such were a problem? Clean clothes and a bath must have been godsends sometimes?



Karmen