I’ve been struggling a lot to keep up with the washing – I do a load nearly everyday and sometimes more. We are a family of 4, toilet training, with a 5.5kg washing machine. Hubby suggested maybe we need to get a bigger washing machine, so I started having a look around to see what the options were.
I’ve been thinking about it a bit recently as I do my research on machines, and I thought about updating my facebook status to “a 5.5kg washing machine doesn’t seem big enough for a family!”. But I stopped and had a think about this.
At least I HAVE a washing machine! How many times have you seen the image on TV or on a World Vision/Compassion brochure of women and/or children washing their clothes by hand in dirty river water. Not even close to having a washing machine that does it for you with clean water!
Even in Australia where I live, there are people in apartment buildings with communual washing machines, or those without machines at all who have to lug their clothes, sheets, towels etc. down to a laundry mat in order to wash their clothes. Or next level again, those on the street who don’t have clothes to wash even if they had money to go to a laundry mat to wash their clothes.
How blessed am I!?!? Not only do I have a washing machine, I have a laundry to put it in too!! How easy it is to become complacent over the things we have.
Amen to that! When our washing machine broke and I was forced to go to the laundromat a few times, I realised just how lucky I was when I was normally able to put a load on to wash then do some things around the house. Or likewise, how lucky I am to live in a climate where I am able to hang clothes out on the line and know they’ll dry, rather than needing a dryer because of bad weather. We certainly take a lot of things for granted don’t we!
I love Australia. We are definitely the lucky country.
You are absolutely right. We are so lucky to be able to have access to clothes and a washing machine, but sometimes, just sometimes, I think the nudists have the right idea 😉