
The Future of Stuff
Building Tomorrow
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What Is a Blue Monday?
We need to know what life was like before it existed, when women had to wash clothes by hand. We used to think people talk about blue monday because women would do their wash on m Monday. In the early nineteenth century, that was ant automated. Ruth actually tried the old method once at the historical recreation of a farm, which we took to wash ide. And we putitsay a sheet, put it around a tree trunk and twistedit. This was, it was very hard work, and it required both my children and me to do it with a thing as heavy as a sheet. But you're still not done. The clothes might be clean or now, but they're
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