When I lived with my parents, we never had a washing machine, but in the sixties, my mom bought a smart thing in which you put the clothes, there's a handle on one side you turn around and a lid you screw on tightly. I used it a lot to color clothes in. I've still got it.

I remember my granny having a wash board, and she was collecting rain water in buckets. She also had to go half a mile? to get water from a well and then boil it, if she wanted it hot. I used to go and get some buckets for her, like everyone else did.

A washing machine is probably the item I would miss the most if things got back to like they were a hundred years ago. It's really hard work doing it all by hand.