Washing day at our home is Monday and Tuesday and Wednesday if necessary! I wanted to share the process.
This is our washing machine.
She sits between the sink and the shower in our bathroom.We know that the machine is female because she works really hard and is not quiet while she works.
The first thing we need to do is plug her into the only outlet in the bathroom, which I might add took more than a minute or two to find, since it is in the medicine cabinet!
Next we open up the lid and then open up the inner chamber to put in our dirty clothes
and then add the soap, I really don't think it matters what slot it goes in because I have yet to figure out how it gets out of there!
Then we close the lid
and try to decide what setting we want. The landlady said that the instruction book is lost and her trying to explain it got me as lost as the book. Do I want the cotton plant or the cotton plant with the bird beak or maybe just the bird beak? After the bird beak we have the shower icon then a circle drawing starting in the middle and going round and round so I think that might be the spin cycle. At last we come to the word we all know, "stop". I think that means that the laundry is done. You will also notice the buttons to the left, one is for 1/2 a load and the other says 95 degrees. I think that means that the water would have to be 95 degrees before it went in the washer which is something we have never seen yet. But then we have only been here four weeks!
We try hard not to wash our hands while the washer is going so we don't electrocute ourselves It takes about two hours to run a cycle and a little longer if we turn off the bathroom light which turns off the power to the washer.
This is when Steve takes over and finds the warmest spot in the house, which is sometimes a long process, puts up the dryer and goes to work. This is why I say that we do laundry on two, and sometimes three, different days. Our dryer is not as efficient as the washer. The mission home did have a dryer but they do not vent them to the outside here in Hungary. The water collects in a container that you take out and empty after each load dries. In the summer we may move our dryer to our small deck if it will fit.
Oh, the memories are flooding back!! At least you didn't have to bring in the water for it from a WELL--in a bucket!! Well, at least not yet!
ReplyDeleteIt's awesome. Bet you just love wearing super stiff jeans. xoxo
I love this post! I'll try to remember to be more thankful next time I do laundry. Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteI needed a good laugh today. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteRemembe wash day at the Nelson's - we had clothes lines all over. WE did hang some stuff out side - when we brought it in it was as stiff as a board. It would then thaw out. thanks you for the dryer. Love you.
ReplyDeleteThis is awesome. So much to write about and so little time. Wow just Wow.
ReplyDeleteIn Brazil our washer was a concrete wash board outside with a big faucet... the soap varied between a big bar that smelled like NOT soap and a powdery substance that didn't dissolve in water. Our dryer was more efficient in South America, however...something about being on the equator makes us closer to the source....but, I still miss it...a lot. I will add the part that the maid did the wash..$5/month. She was the souvenir I wanted to bring home.
ReplyDeleteYes Rose, jeans and towels are my favorite hung to dry, good thing we don;t wear pants very much.
ReplyDelete