Yes do I ever remember, I hated the time it took to cut. I remember living in the country until I was six and watching my mother wash clothes in tubs outside carrying buckets of water from a well. Boiling then in a big cast iron pot and using soap she hand made every fall when they killed hogs. When we moved to town she bough a ringer Maytag washer and was thrilled. I look back at being a housewife back then as to what it is now and wonder how they ever got it all done. Being a housewife was a hard back breaking full time job.