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Negligible cost compared to a real maid in 1825. The washing machine also doesn’t get pregnant by your teenage son and doesn’t run away one night with your silv
by pavlov 10mo ago
Negligible cost compared to a real maid in 1825. The washing machine also doesn’t get pregnant by your teenage son and doesn’t run away one night with your silver spoons — the upkeep risks and replacement costs are much lower.
- ljlolel 10mo agoThey do and will randomly kill people
- emp17344 10mo agoDawg what kind of washing machines are you using?
- michaelmrose 10mo agoSamsung?
- ssl-3 10mo agoIn 1825? Certainly not one that ran on electricity, much less something that had meaningful safety features. I used to play with a Maytag machine machine motor. It had a single cylinder, ran on gasoline, and had a kick-start. It was from, IIRC, 1926. The exhaust would have been plumbed to the outdoors, but other than that the expectation was that there would be a gas-fired engine running in the house while the washing was done.
- interloxia 10mo agoMostly from dryers. I assumed mostly from failure to clean the lint but the following link suggested that that was the cause only 27% of the time. https://www.nfpa.org/education-and-research/research/nfpa-research/fire-statistical-reports/home-fires-involving-clothes-dryers-and-washing-machines https://www.nfpa.org/education-and-research/research/nfpa-re... In the table from the Pdf link failure to clean was the only category that resulted in deaths.
- auggierose 10mo agoIn 1825 both electricity prices and replacement costs would have been unaffordable for anyone, though. Because there was literally no prize you could pay to get these things.