We got a dryer at a garage sale for $25 two weeks ago. Funny, how, even though I was always raised with working appliances, how easily I've adapted to just not having these conveniences. I don't expect the dryer to last forever, but its kind of amazing how, that after two years of having a non working dryer, that I've completely forgotten how soft clothes out of the dryer can feel. And that I'm amazed that clothes can be completely dry after an hour.
Now, living without a washing machine, that I have also done, but not comfortably. I really don't enjoy hanging out at the in laws just for the use of their washing machine nor did I enjoy the creepiness of laundromats.
I'm grateful to my grandmother for teaching me that, even though she always had a working dryer that she often used the a clothesline anyway. She claimed she enjoyed the smell of the laundry better, and yeah, I can admit to that little vice. It DOES smell nicer after hanging out of doors. The sunshine has also been scientifically proven to kill any bacteria naturally. All a big bonus.
I guess that lame saying is really true: You can take a girl out of the country; but you can't take the country out of the girl.
Learning to make do with what you have is a very important survival mechanism. I'm glad I have that instinct. Guess I should. I come from a long line of farm people.
I really wish my husband had more of that instinct. He's learning. I'm slowly making a good ol' boy out of him, but he wasn't raised the same way I was. Not that he had money, in fact, his family was probably even more poor than mine ever was, especially nutritionally, its just that his family never taught him coping mechanisms or survival lessons. A shame, really. I think that is one of the most important things a parent could ever teach a child.
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