Colonial Woman Hand-Washing Clothes in Wooden Tubs

DIY Decorative Clothespins

Vintage Girl Hanging Clothes on the Line ~ Wash Day

"The maid was in the gardenHanging out the clothes..."~ Excerpt from Sing a Song of Sixpense

Vintage Image of Lovely Woman Ironing

Encouragement Cards

Old Fashioned Washing Machine ~ Wash Tubs with Hand Crank

THE WASHING ~ A Poem of Old

They that wash on Monday

Have all the week to dry;

They that wash on Tuesday

Are not so much awry;

They that wash on Wednesday

Are not so much to blame;

They that wash on Thursday

Wash for very shame;

They that wash on Friday

Wash because of need,

And they that wash on Saturday,

Oh, they are lazy indeed!

Mother and Daughter Ironing

Raggedy Ann Hanging on the Clothesline ~ Wash Day

"So Raggedy Ann was pinned to the clothes-line, out in the bright sunshine, where she swayed and twisted in the breeze and listened to the chatter of the robins in a nearby tree..."

Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Read-Aloud Treasury by Johnny Gruelle

Raggedy Ann Clip Art Wash Day Illustration

Woman Ironing with Laundry Label

“I enjoy doing housework, ironing, washing, cooking, dishwashing. Whenever I get one of those questionaires and they ask what is your profession, I always put down housewife. It's an admirable profession, why apologize for it. You aren't stupid because you're a housewife. When you're stirring the jam you can read Shakespeare.”

~ Tasha Tudor

Clothesline "Necklace" Pendant Medal Award

If, as our proverb puts it, “Charity begins at home,” so should criticism; and criticism concerning character had better stop there. There is so much dirty linen in our own house needing to be washed that none of us need to take in our neighbour’s washing. “Mind your own business,” is a command that might have been spoken by Solomon himself, and the apostle Paul was inspired to write to the Thessalonians, “Study to be quiet, and to do your own business;” and he and Peter very sternly condemned those who were “busybodies in other men’s matters.” 

~ Charles Spurgeon

This post may be shared with some or all of the following lovely link-ups: Modest Mom Monday's, Make it Yourself Mondays, Teach Me Tuesday,  Domestically Divine Tuesday, Raising Homemakers, Wise Woman Link Up, and Deep Roots at Home Laundry, Clothesline, Wash Day Clip Art

Laundry Woman Label Picture

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Laundry Woman Clothesline Clip Art

Woman Hanging Laundry on Clothesline

My Clothes-Pins

My clothes-pins are but kitchen-folk,
Unpainted, wooden, small;
And for six days in every week
Are of no use at all.

But when a breezy Monday comes,
And all my clothes are out,
And want with every idle wind
To go and roam about,

Oh! if I had no clothes-pins then,
What would become of me,
When roving towels, mounting shirts,
I everywhere should see!

"I mean," a flapping sheet begins,
"To rise and soar away."
"We mean," the clothes-pins answer back,
"You on this line shall stay."

"Oh, let me!" pleads a handkerchief,
"Across the garden fly."
"Not while I've power to keep you here,"
A clothes-pin makes reply.

So, fearlessly I hear the wind
Across the clothes-yard pass,
And shed the apple-blossoms down
Upon the flowering grass.

The clothes may dance upon the line,
And flutter to and fro:
My faithful clothes-pins hold them fast,
And will not let them go.

My clothes-pins are but kitchen-folk,
Unpainted, wooden, small;
And for six days in every week
Are of no use at all.

But still, in every listening ear,
Their praises I will tell;
For all that they profess to do
They do, and do it well.

By Marian Douglas

Laundry, Wash Day, Clothesline Clip Art