{"id":74054,"date":"2017-12-08T20:00:03","date_gmt":"2017-12-08T13:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/generation-rent-why-ill-never-live-in-a-place-i-can-hang-the-washing\/"},"modified":"2017-12-08T20:06:04","modified_gmt":"2017-12-08T13:06:04","slug":"generation-rent-why-ill-never-live-in-a-place-i-can-hang-the-washing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/generation-rent-why-ill-never-live-in-a-place-i-can-hang-the-washing\/","title":{"rendered":"Generation rent: why I\u2019ll never live in a place I can hang the washing"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nThe five en-suite bathrooms are perfect for clothes horses, the decking area for outdoor dryingThere are good chores and bad chores. Washing-up: good. Cleaning fridge: bad. Watering plants: good. Vacuuming stairs: bad. But doing the laundry is a game of two halves. Few things are as pleasing as shoving clothes into the machine. The pile was there and now it\u2019s gone: minutes of work, massive reward. But taking the wet clothes out? That is a bad chore. The worst if, like me, you have no external washing line, only rickety clothes horses that fall over at the first draught and take up valuable space. Plus there\u2019s the three-day drying time if it\u2019s winter.I\u2019ve been thinking a lot about washing machines recently because mine, God rest its soul, has died. This means I\u2019ve been spending a lot of time in the launderette. Waiting, waiting, and asking meaningful questions such as: what does \u201crinse hold\u201d mean? And why are there three compartments: fabric softener, washing powder and\u2026 what? Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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