I remember Mondays as wash days and my mother had an iron kettle and 3 wash tubs. We would boil them, then bleach them, then rinse them twice, then hang. I got to build the fire when I got older and tote the water from the well, with a bucket on the end of a rope, down the hole and up and over and pour in a can ang tote to the wash pot and tubs. Miresable in the Winter because of the cold and miresable in the Summer when it was hot. I was tasked to rise those clothes good and wring them as dry as I could and don't drag them on the ground when you hang them.
When I baby brother was born when I was 14 daddy bought mama a wringer washer, what a miracle! AND by now we had running water instead of an open well. Life was wonderful and washing could be done in the kitchen in the winter and on the porch in the summer.......no fire to build, no water to tote!
delma