{"id":9776,"date":"2014-07-24T10:46:49","date_gmt":"2014-07-24T17:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/?p=9776"},"modified":"2015-05-05T14:13:09","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T21:13:09","slug":"moms-story-dish-washing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/2014\/07\/24\/moms-story-dish-washing\/","title":{"rendered":"Mom’s Story: Dish Washing"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just poured and drank\u00a0a glass of orange juice. On finishing I thought to rinse it out, dry it, and put it away. But, too much work. I put it in the dishwasher. Then I came across the following except, again from one of my mother’s letters:<\/strong><\/p>\n

One time when I was allowed to go to someone’s house after school I came home\u00a0and my mother asked me what I had done. I told her I had helped my friend with her mother’s unwashed dishes.\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

That was the thing mothers did in those days, leave the dishes for daughters to do after school. It was probably so the mother could do other things, like sewing clothes for her kids or cooking, or canning fruit,\u00a0or any one of a myriad other things that consumed the mother’s time.\u00a0 Of course girls always hated to have to do dishes, being the most menial of all menial tasks, so it made it easier if a friend could help.\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

My mother half laughed and half scolded me for being willing to do someones dishes but complained about doing my own.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

In those days it was a lot more work to do dishes.\u00a0We would use two dishpans. When we got the second pan full of washed dishes we would SCALD\u00a0them by pouring a teakettle of boiling water over them. Then that pan got full of water. We never heard of a dish rack – don’t think they existed. With no rack, the dishtowels (we called tea towels) would get sopping wet from drying dishes so it took several towels before we were finished.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

In those days a\u00a0popular wedding shower gift was a set of seven dishtowels.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Question: I wonder if the Wedding Registry at Nordstroms gets many calls for sets of dishtowels. (Rather, “tea towels.”)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hummm, should I wash that glass, or put it in the dishwasher? It wasn’t that long ago there was no such choice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9776"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9776"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10671,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9776\/revisions\/10671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}