What is National Laundry Day?
Benjamin Franklin may have skipped one thing in life: laundry.. On April 15th, we can examine our laundry habits and teach our children how to create healthy ones.
For as long as it has existed, humans have been doing laundry in various ways. With a stick or pounding the grime out of our clothes and bedding, one of the earliest methods was to beat the dust and dirt out of our clothes and bedding, or pounding the grime out against a rock in the river.
From a mixture of animal fat and ashes, early soap was created. ashes are the source of soap. A river washed washingboards and tubs. The grime and stains were removed by scraping the fabric over the washboard's ribs and soap's ribs. Humans also washed their clothes in manual cranked tubs. These tubs eventually became the first automatic washing machine. Alva J. Fisher was granted the first U.S. patent for an electric washing machine in 1910.
We've also used dry cleaning to dry our clothes. Dry cleaning has risen and decreased on the household budget in recent days, as many clothes are wash-and-wear, and dry cleaning has increased and lower on the household budget.
The way we do laundry has also changed. Closures were hanged on a line to dry before commercial washing machines and dryers were invented. Though some people still line dry their washing, few people have clotheslines, and although many people still line dry their laundry. Also, the poorer a person was, the more often they washed their clothes and linens. As noted in several books and nursery rhymes, once a week was fairly normal, and washing day was traditionally on a Monday. This is an example, from a nursery rhyme before the Victorian period, shows that weekly laundry washed on a Monday.
