Are you up for a challenge? I bet you won’t be able to guess what this is. But hey, feel free to prove me wrong!

Let’s travel back in time to a world without washing machines or modern plumbing. Can you imagine doing your laundry without the convenience of turning a knob and having water at your disposal? Well, that’s exactly what hand laundry entailed in the past.

The Manual Labor of Hand Laundry

Before indoor plumbing, every drop of water needed for laundry had to be manually fetched from a pump, well, or spring. It was quite a laborious task! The laundry water was then heated over a fire to make washing more effective before being transferred into a tub