It’s a big ‘un
I have a very new, very shiny and very, very big washing-machine. It arrived about an hour late (they told me between 10 and 12, it came about 1). I’m told that it will wash 20 pairs of jeans at one time. My first reaction to that information was “yeah, like I’m ever going to need to wash 20 pairs of jeans!” - my second reaction was “eek, that might actually happen!” 
We got all the packaging off, then discovered there was a screw of some kind in the back of it that we had to remove before installing it. We didn’t have a big enough - oh, I don’t know, whatever the required tool is. It was suggested that Scratchy go ask our neighbour, R, if he has one, but he decided to delay that until the torrential rain eased off a bit.
The instructions say to remove the screw, “making sure it does not fall into the machine”. Scratchy removed the screw. Guess what happened next?
As he removed the back of the washing-machine in an attempt to retrieve the lost screw, he said, “It should be in there.” This wasn’t exactly confidence-inspiring, considering that the last time he said something similar, it took three solid days to get my laptop working again - but in this case, he was right, and a few minutes later we had it all in place and hooked up. An hour or so later, we’d made enough sense of the instructions to be able to actually use it 
Now if only it would stop raining so I could get the stuff dry once it’s clean 
How did our great-grandparents ever manage without washing-machines? 
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I think that might be why people used to have lice…
Yeah, they weren’t exactly so worried about cleanliness
Same clothes for 6 days, then your Sunday best. Swap with your other ordinary outfit for the next week. Everything gets washed on Monday.
I think my standards in respect of clean clothes might drop if I had to wash them all by hand!