How to Do Laundry in a Bathtub

4/14/2026|Updated: 4/14/2026

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Too few people today have any notion of how clothing gets washed. They think there is some magic electric box into which you pour detergent and it magically comes out clean and ready for the second magic box called a dryer. These are all relatively new contraptions. In the before times, people knew how to wash clothes and they did a darn good job of it.

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Jeffrey A. Tucker

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Jeffrey A. Tucker is the founder and president of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press, as well as 10 books in five languages, most recently “Liberty or Lockdown.” He is also the editor of “The Best of Ludwig von Mises.” He writes a daily column on economics for The Epoch Times and speaks widely on the topics of economics, technology, social philosophy, and culture. He can be reached at [email protected]