Outlander and doing laundry

I finally figured out why I turn off the modern "chickflicks" and G rated Hallmark type films: Usually a spoiled single gal who lives in an affluent apartment that is spotless (where did she get the money? ) who meets a beautiful affluent guy and falls in love after some artificial problem.

No family except maybe a mom or sibling in one or two scenes, (except where the movie is about the "dysfunctional" family, usually suburban and also affluent, who argue all the time and treat each other like shit). No important job either, or if it is a job, it is a clean office job that takes little time and effort.

Well, my family more closely resembles "my big fat greek wedding", and as a doctor, I was very job oriented: The sick came first, even to the detriment of my family at times.

and no I don't watch "medical shows" at all: too often they are fake, so I end up shouting corrections to the TV so I just don't watch.

Sigh.

So I prefer Outlander, where the heroine is a feisty healer who likes men and can hold her own.

Can you say "bodice ripping romance" children?

I am now "reading" the later books of the series. The audiobooks are at Scribd.

The TV show Outlander season 4 is about their arrival in the southern colonies, but the later books are about putting down roots in the rural Carolinas. This includes a lot of stuff about making medicine, and at one point notes the problem of doing laundry.

No descriptions of spending one's time spinning and weaving cloth for clothing for something that was done in the "spare time" of all women back then.

Presumably they exchange Jamie's whiskey for cloth?

Librovox has Home Life in Colonial days which has a lot of information about the good old days.
ebook here.

But anyway, the BBC has a series on colonial days that I plan to watch

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the dirty little secret is that even in the 1950s caring for a family ws a full time job: What made it possible for women to be "liberated" was the modern inventions of piped in water, wash machines, cheap clothing, and prepared food. And of course, the birth control pill so you could have one or two kids instead of 5.

We are half way there in the Philippines: we have our own pump so don't have to worry when the water pressure is low, and we have electricity and a generator for back up.

Our cook still goes to the market for fresh veggies and meat every day (in the US, we bought a weeks' worth, some fresh but mainly canned or frozen, to cook later). And of course, we don't have to cook stock or soup from scratch. (even our cook uses Knorr).

As for laundry, we have a washer and spinner and then hang it up to dry.. So you have to iron the clothing too if you want to get out wrinkles...and if you want to have dry clothing in the rainy season, it means you iron everything, even underware.

Laundromats are starting in the big cities, but here, a lot of the laundry is still done by hand: sitting on a low stool and washing in a container.