Washing machines

DavyL200 · Oct 18, 2013

We have a front loader here but it did take the mrs 6 months before she believed me it was much easier but she still insists in sitting in the c/r on a low stool with the lights off happily scrubbing!
Anyway I don't think it matters which way it's done,but whilst she is doing this I get peace. Oh and it does f--k up the elastic with all the scrubbing!

rbrown · Oct 19, 2013

"whilst she is doing this I get peace".......amen brother! haha!

Jack Peterson · Oct 19, 2013

Even with some good deals about Town, I cannot convince Azon to have a machine, I guess it is back to her upbringing, Good enough for her mother and her Lola before, I am firmly believing, she actually enjoys this chore and I have to admit, she complains very little, about the time spent hand washing and I have no, complaints about the results:D

Jack P.

Charlie · Oct 19, 2013

jackpeterson;1851892846 said:

Even with some good deals about Town, I cannot convince Azon to have a machine, I guess it is back to her upbringing, Good enough for her mother and her Lola before, I am firmly believing, she actually enjoys this chore and I have to admit, she complains very little, about the time spent hand washing and I have no, complaints about the result
Jack P.
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Sometimes as the old saying goes, "If it isn't broken , don't fix it".
We all know what opinions are like and everyone has one. What works for one doesn't mean it works for all. This machine business is just a personal choice. Your system seems to be working fine, so might as well let a sleeping dog lay. We'll stick with our 50% machine wash and 50% hand. Whatever works you people personally is what to stick with of course.

Broadside · Oct 19, 2013

I reckon it all depends on how familiar you are with those contraptions. When I moved in to my place, I found one of those washing machine things already installed. It was in its' own room and had a water pipe already connected. I put some clothes in it, closed the lid, and pressed the lever on the side. When I lifted the lid, a load of blue water had flushed all my clothes away. Never used it since. :p

shadow · Oct 19, 2013

Broadside;1851892855 said:

I reckon it all depends on how familiar you are with those contraptions. When I moved in to my place, I found one of those washing machine things already installed. It was in its' own room and had a water pipe already connected. I put some clothes in it, closed the lid, and pressed the lever on the side. When I lifted the lid, a load of blue water had flushed all my clothes away. Never used it since. :p
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I think that particular contraption was meant for your "broadside".

Larry

Jack Peterson · Oct 20, 2013

Broadside;1851892855 said:

I reckon it all depends on how familiar you are with those contraptions. When I moved in to my place, I found one of those washing machine things already installed. It was in its' own room and had a water pipe already connected. I put some clothes in it, closed the lid, and pressed the lever on the side. When I lifted the lid, a load of blue water had flushed all my clothes away. Never used it since. :p
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:D Show me a man that has told you, he has Never done the blue rinse and I will show you a man that has never used a W/Machine

brian ausie · Oct 20, 2013

when I was with my ex b*tch asawa we had 2 helpers, we had a washing machine, but the b*tch didn't like the helper to have any spare time so made her wash by hand which took many hours, its about taking up the day with choirs, many local men wouldn't want their asawa to have spare time also, keep them busy and out of the way, maybe no time to play up

highway_61;1851892831 said:

almost all people I have seen in the Philippines that have a washing machine in their house do so because of the foreign influence of people like us who were brainwashed long ago by the consumer cultures we grew up in into thinking that stuff like washing machines are totally indispensable.

one exception I knew was a woman in Leyte with one kid, quite well off she got seriously ill, recovered, but lost being able to use her hands as well as she did before. This made especially doing the laundry but also even preparing and chopping up vegetables and stuff for cooking more difficult. Her husband was able to help her with the cooking, but drew the line at doing the laundry as well. So they got a washing machine. But they don't particularly like having one. It is not like they think they have 'made it' because they are able to afford to buy a washing machine. It is only because they have no choice, because the woman who had previously done the laundry by hand with no complaint had gotten sick, that they have a washing machine at all in the first place. To their way of thinking the washing machine isn't like this reassuring gurgle in the corner like it is to the western ear, but this artificial noise that they could really do without. It is just a totally different mindset.

another couple I know in Manila, really quite affluent family, can afford big SUV and frequent foreign holidays, could easily afford a washing machine however they do without having one on the basis that they don't need one. Why bother? As well as a driver they have two helpers who can do the laundry by hand better than a washing machine can. Or at least that is what they think. They weren't brainwashed like we were, by all the advertising of the consumer culture when they were really pushing the concept of washing machines into our mindsets, and claiming machines wash clothes better than handwashing does (which they don't), from the 1950s onwards. They missed all that. They may be quite rich but that doesn't mean they make a beeline to the appliance section in the mall for a washing machine as soon as they can afford it. They think clothes are things that are and should be washed by hand, and as they have two domestic servants, that's great because it means that they don't have to do it themselves.

or one more family I know on the Camotes, they have a pension house there, where I have often stayed. I noticed they had a big washing machine in the utility type room they had, but that nevertheless every morning various people - not just staff but family members also, would still do the clothes washing by hand. I asked them why do you do the clothes laundry by hand, when you have a big washing machine. They said the washing machine is just for sheets, pillow cases and bedding, stuff like that, for the pension. Not for our clothes.

it is just a totally different mindset. I'm sure there must be relatively affluent Filipino families where there is no foreign influence, that do buy washing machines, to use to do their clothes laundry, even when it is only a small amount as there aren't all that many of them - like, a couple with maybe just one kid. But I have never seen any. Whereas a western influenced family i.e. one with a kano bloke in it, on the same amount of income, and with only one kid, thinks that a washing machine is indispensable.

I'm a westerner myself. I'm pretty sure that if I had a wife and a kid came along I'd think sheesh we were OK before, but now we're going to need a washing machine. Because I am not immune, I grew up with a washing machine, dryer, later dishwasher and all sorts of other appliances around too and it had an effect. A kid coming along raises the workload a lot. But with just two people, with the kind of light clothes people tend to wear in the Philippines, clothes are so easy to handwash, there would be absolutely no need for me to have one.

compared to us, Filipinos just don't see all that much utility in washing machines. Give them the choice between a washing machine, and a state of the art videoke machine, that are worth the same amount of money, and you just know which one they will likely choose, just as you know hands down, which one a westerner would.
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brian ausie · Oct 20, 2013

we progressed, we use to walk, then rode a horse, then horse and sulky, now motor bikes and cars, boats and planes, so dipping your hands in those chemicals / soap powders is just insane, I want my woman to have soft hands mmmm not some old leathery damaged and cracked hands that you would expect your 90 year old grandmother to have.
Notice the men here ride motor bikes and cars, they are not walking as the past relatives did, they have made things easier with one of those westerner machine contraptions, but to make something easy for their wife or worker would be the last thing.
What we pay the worker P1,500 a month she will work until she drops is the attitude.

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