When I was younger we used to have these really antique-looking flat irons which was filled with hot charcoal every time we had to use it. Yeah, it took quite some time before you can finally start ironing your clothes during those days, and the clothes then were almost always starched! Well, not really all of them, but I remember the linens, blankets, and some table clothes had to be starched. My mom said that starching them will keep their “lives” longer. I never really did get to understand that; all I really noticed that time that to iron all our school uniforms and the bedsheets, blankets, and other linens took the whole day! Those days we had helper, then, so we weren’t troubled much with household chores. But when I got older mom wanted us to learn how to do the houseworks so we were “forced” to do them. I tried to stay away from ironing because it took whole day to finish that chore (it was mostly done on a weekend), while with washing the clothes it only took a couple or so of hours … and a back pain. lol. But all that has changed now in my mom’s household. Since they only have one helper there now, the washing and ironing doesn’t take whole day anymore! Yup, they now have a washing machine as well as a couple or so of flat irons!

I can never really say how thankful I am for the benefits these “modern” gadgets bring to our homes … suffice it to say that I am one happy homemaker partly because of them!