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If anything, you're underplaying it. Beating a rug takes far longer than vacuuming or sweeping. Before the washing machine, doing the laundry could easily take
by ascorbic 7y ago
If anything, you're underplaying it. Beating a rug takes far longer than vacuuming or sweeping. Before the washing machine, doing the laundry could easily take a whole day (which is why people wore clothes far longer between washes)
- c3534l 7y agoSure, but even before that we didn't have rugs or floors to clean, we just died in damp caves and made stone blades.