And Frank? Laundry service really? you rich bastard.
Washing machines were first used out in the country while people in the big cities continued using laundry services until after the second world war. Really, not many urban households in the blue cities had their own washing machines until then.
If one has relatives still living who grew up during the 1910s, 1920s, and 1930s in big cities, inquire if they remember. I'll bet they would.
Up here on the roof of Nebraska where people are so few and the work so much, nobody has a "one job" life; usually there's one's main job, and then a couple of other sorts of occupation on the side. A long-distance truck-driver, for example, on his days off might be an automotive mechanic and deliver the mail. A well-paid, well-dressed, well-coiffered receptionist in a dental office might double as a cleaning woman and raise chickens for eggs to sell during the weekend. A maintenance man at the local golf course might also be a bartender and a welder during the evenings.
We're multi-skilled people out here.
I don't think it's really that one needs the extra income; I think it's more so that without work, without one being productive, life is pretty much pointless.
The woman who has the laundry service is a paralegal for a law firm in the big city and is a writer (NOT self-published; connected with one of the big publishers in New York City) of children's books. She also does ironing and seamstress-repair.
(And I stretched it a little bit here; being a single male, I don't generate a whole lot of dirty laundry. She stops here on her way home only every other Tuesday evening after work, not every week. But if I wanted her services weekly, I'd get them.)
Despite the paucity of people, out here one can always hire someone to do just about any sort of job.
When I get around to winning the Powerball lottery, one person on the staff will be someone to do all my shopping for me, as I personally and privately loathe shopping. And given that people around here like to work, it would probably be easier than strawberries-and-cream to find someone willing to do that.
