I HATE this fact. I'm not a fan of dishpan hands. Call me a lazy American if you will, and yes I'm not the domestic diva that I wish I could be, but seriously, would you like standing over the sink for at least 45 minutes a day doing yesterdays dishes, sweating as you immerse your yellow rubber gloved hands into the hottest water possible, scraping congealed orange juice off of glassware and cooked on tidbits from pots and pans? Yeah, thats what I thought.
Now get this, my husband told me recently that he didn't even have a washing machine until he was 18!! 18!!! You think you know somebody, and then they tell you something like that! Apparently he had what he calls a "spinning machine" which he described as a massive salad spinner but for your clothes. Whaaaaaaaaaaaaat? Have you ever heard of such a thing?! It sounds like something those Little House on the Prairie people would use. I've never even heard my parents talk about not having a washing machine, and that sounds just like the sort of "when I was your age..." type of shit my dad loves to spew when telling my sisters and I how spoiled we are.
Now you may be wondering just how old my husband is seeing as it sounds like he grew up decades before me.... You must be thinking I'm a gold digger after all his moolah when he kicks the bucket right? Well he's 27.
The thing is, in a third world country you would expect this kinda crap. But England is supposed to be pretty on par with America. So let me just say, respectfully, England...
GET WITH THE PROGRAM!
Oh God !! I cannot imagine myself living without dishwashers and/or clothes dryers. I lived alone last year in a little studio without dishwasher, it was ok (because I was alone) and without washing machine and clothes dryers, it was awful !! The lavomatic was so expensive, and no place at home to hang out the washing !!
ReplyDeleteSo, good luck !!
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I'm so with you on this.
ReplyDeleteWhenever we visit the Pita's mom I cringe. I love HER just not her 1900's home.
The thing I possibly hate most?!?! .... no DRYER!!!!! all my clothing is crispy and hard. yuck.
Hahaha omg! I don't have a dishwasher in my apt. right now, but when I most in Sept. it's a definite necessity!! No washing machine?? That does sound wicked old school! And I'm guessing they all hang the clothes to dry? Ugh! Good luck!! :)
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haha too funny!! I grew up without a dishwasher, but no washer and dryer??? That I couldn't handle...
ReplyDeleteI have a lot of Australian friends, and I swear none of them have dryers. Could be because they live in flats though.
Well. it is time to move back to good old U.SA , or just try to think of the poor people in Haiti and think well I guess it is better than their lives, homeless right now, It will make you appreciate those things when you get them even more too ! I did not have a dish washer when we first got married either but never did I experience no washing machine! UGH!
ReplyDeleteHahahaha - A GIANT SALAD SPINNER?!?! I am living in Asia and even MY house has a dishwasher. From what I hear from my bosses who are from Europe said that a lot of homes keep the appliances light for environmental purposed. But stil....
ReplyDeleteCulture shock always shows up in the most unexpected places.
ACTUALLY in san francisco such appliances are not common either. i do not own a dishwasher OR a washer/dryer. the washer/dryer is an easy fix with something called "fluff and fold"-- they charge you to do your laundry by the pound. but the dishwasher? i think i have to move up in the world before i can afford an apt with that luxury
ReplyDeleteno dishwasher.
ReplyDeleteno washer/dryer.
NO GARBAGE DISPOSAL. (rotten food smell constantly)
things colleen didn't check for when searching for apartments, while making sure it has cute things like fireplaces and crown molding.
signed,
older but wiser