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You are joking surely, some people cant hang out a washing.. mine is out the back garden just now and I use it on every dry day there is.. love hanging them out, they smell so good.. and I hardly ever use the tumble drier.
I kid you not. Google "town ordinance cannot hang laundry" and you will find all sorts of laws that different places have or did have at one time. I was unaware though that several states reversed many of those laws.
But, think about all the condo/apartment dwellings and whatnot. There is no room to hang laundry so everyone has a washer/dryer in their unit.
When I was in my early teens, I knew an old man in our very small New England town, who was a machinist. All of his equipment was driven from belts that ran from an early 20th-Century (1900s) single cylinder, water cooled, magneto gas engine, the only one I have ever seen in use. I idolized this man. He is still my "Buffalo Bill" (a poem by EE Cummings):
"Buffalo Bill ’s
defunct
who used to
ride a watersmooth-silver
stallion
and break onetwothreefourfive pigeonsjustlikethat
Jesus
he was a handsome man
and what i want to know is
how do you like your blue-eyed boy
Mister Death"
e.e. cummings and classical literature are nearly obsolete.
Monday mornings when I was growing up the first woman in the neighborhood to get her washing on the line got the prize of the week for being the hardest working housekeeper. It was a matter of cleanliness and pride.
My mom swore the woman next door got up in the night to be the first to get hers out.
How do we even know now whether our neighbors are even keeping their bedding clean?
I'm starting to think I'm in trouble, I use those daily!
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Architectural and engineering scale rulers... I still use one
Perhaps architects still use their scale rulers.
As to engineering scale rulers - I work in a company that has a lot of mechanical engineers. Everything is done on Unix workstations using CAD software.
My company also used to have more than a handful of graphic artists. The last one who actually drew illustrations by hand retired in the early 2000's.
e.e. cummings and classical literature are nearly obsolete.
Says who? They are still taught at the secondary school, undergraduate college and grad school I went to. So is Greek and Latin. I don't know anyone from my secondary school, who majored in the humanities and social sciences in college, who didn't have a good job career, even the very few very rich ones, who didn't need a job to support themselves and became investors/philanthropists.
Somebody said Eyeglasses?? They are more popular than ever. Almost all us over-40's need reading glasses at least. I would've said Contact Lenses, more likely.
I bemoan the loss of tape recorders. I used to have a mini-cassette I used. Oh sure, you CAN record on your phone but somehow its too noisy/not enough memory/not enough power stored up. So it never happens.
We didn't have a dryer in the high desert. It was so dry, we just hung our clothes on strings running across the back room ceiling. Dry in 10 minutes.
I used a disposable camera recently on a rafting trip.
Alas no, that's a common homeowners' association type restriction around here too.
I think that's those HOA's that I keep reading about that they have in the south.
Thank goodness we don't have them around here. No rules! We can hang our laundry out to dry and no one can tell us we can't. Sheets can smell clean and we save on electricity too.
I guess pens and pencils will become extinct if handwriting is gone. Definitely fountain pens and ink are gone. Inkwells in kids' desks, stick pens with nibs.
Monday mornings when I was growing up the first woman in the neighborhood to get her washing on the line got the prize of the week for being the hardest working housekeeper. It was a matter of cleanliness and pride.
My mom swore the woman next door got up in the night to be the first to get hers out.
How do we even know now whether our neighbors are even keeping their bedding clean?
So true... where I used to live it was tenement houses so it was a fight to see who could get the backcourt first and a rope put out...
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