I am confident you’re not going to figure out what this is. But I hope you can prove me wrong.
Hand laundry entails soaking, beating, scrubbing, and rinsing soiled fabrics. All the water needed for laundry washing, boiling, and rinsing had to be carried from a pump, well, or spring prior to indoor plumbing.
The laundry water would be carried by hand, warmed over a fire to facilitate washing, and then transferred into a tub.
This meant that only a certain amount of warm, soapy water could be used; it would be used to wash progressively dirtier laundry after the least dirty clothes were cleaned.
