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carpets before vacuums existed? were they just perpetually disgusting?
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You had them taken outside and beaten. For small, light, dry spills,you could also use a Bissell sweeper.
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Apr 21, 2022 01:10
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gleebster posted:You had them taken outside and beaten. For small, light, dry spills,you could also use a Bissell sweeper. did carpets that were just part of floors and could not be removed not exist?
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Apr 21, 2022 01:11
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They were nailed down, if they were, with short tacks. They called them carpet tacks.
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Apr 21, 2022 01:13
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gleebster posted:You had them taken outside and beaten. For small, light, dry spills,you could also use a Bissell sweeper. Whoa drat chill man, chill. Your housekeeper will get the soapy bucket, they probably just didn’t know it was carpet day  
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Apr 21, 2022 01:16
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they had anteaters that would snuffle along in perfect lines, making the pattern that modern day vacuums make these days. that's where they got the idea from. and then one of your servants would clean up behind the anteaters They don't call them anteater lines for no reason
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Apr 21, 2022 01:23
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Anteaters, ugh. Filthy disgusting animals.
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Apr 21, 2022 01:26
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Gleebster the loving carpet historian or something
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Apr 21, 2022 01:30
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gleebster posted:You had them taken outside and beaten. Nowadays they call them rugs Everyone had beautiful hardwood floors And sometimes you find an old house with a beautiful hardwood floor covered in a layer of linoleum and then a layer of carpet because carpet was the new awesome poo poo But it's basically just socks on the floor, covered in toe jam
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Apr 21, 2022 01:31
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they call it a carpet yet it is neither a car nor a pet... how curious
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Apr 21, 2022 01:31
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gleebster posted:They were nailed down, if they were, with short tacks. They called them carpet tacks. How interesting. Thank you, friend.
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Apr 21, 2022 01:34
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Probably like this without the modern tools. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRrqLek5OiA
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Apr 21, 2022 01:53
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Too bad your parent didn't beat you like the dirty rug you are op
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Apr 21, 2022 01:57
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Very carefully OP
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Apr 21, 2022 01:59
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You got on your hands and knees and started suckin the floor, OP
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Apr 21, 2022 02:21
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Just throw a match down once it gets too disgusting. Thanks to thermal resistance your beautiful hardwood floors will remain unharmed and pristine
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Apr 21, 2022 02:26
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everyone's immune systems were better back then from rubbing dirt and toenail clippings on their open wounds not like now with the vaccines making our immune systems a bunch of pussies 
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Apr 21, 2022 02:29
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Houses were just much, much dirtier places. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJlrbMHLBd4
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Apr 21, 2022 02:32
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Take off your shoes like a proper japanese.
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Apr 21, 2022 02:34
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thanks fleebster. op, close thread and i'll file it in the archives in the "how the gently caress do you clean" series
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Apr 21, 2022 02:38
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Also click below for a crash course in MORE KNOWLEDGE 
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there must have been some massive loving rugs and carpets in buildings like castles and abbeys. What happened to those?
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Apr 21, 2022 02:47
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How did the Joker get his clothes?
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  Meanwhile from THE HISTORY OF LAUNDRY:  Washing clothes in the river is still the normal way of doing laundry in many less-developed parts of the world. Even in prosperous parts of the world riverside washing went on well into the 19th century, or longer in rural areas - even when the river was frozen. Stains might be treated at home before being taken to the river. You could take special tools with you to the river to help the work: like a washing bat or a board to scrub on. Washing bats and beetles were also useful for laundering elsewhere, and have been used for centuries, sometimes for smoothing dry cloth too. (See 14th century picture left and 16th century painting above.) Long thin washing bats are not very different from sticks. Both can be used for moving cloth around as well as for beating the dirt out of it. Doing this with a piece of wood was called possing, and various styles of possers, washing dollies etc. developed as an improvement on plain tree branches. Squarish washing bats could double up as a scrub board. Simple wooden boards can be taken to the riverside, or rocks at the edge of the water may be used as scrubbing surfaces. (The more sophisticated kind of wash board with ridged metal in a wooden frame came later.) Two other techniques for shifting dirt are slapping clothes or trampling with bare feet. (See below left.) Domestic laundry was often treated like newly woven textiles being "finished". Today we have only vague ideas about how the fabrics in our shop-bought clothes are manufactured, but traditional laundry methods often followed techniques used by weavers, including home weavers. Soaking laundry in lye, cold or hot, was an important way of tackling white and off-white cloth. It was called bucking, and aimed to whiten as well as cleanse. Coloured fabrics were less usual than today, especially for basic items like sheets and shirts. Ashes and urine were the most important substances for mixing a good "lye". As well as helping to remove stains and encourage a white colour, these act as good de-greasing agents. 
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Apr 21, 2022 02:53
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EorayMel posted:THE HISTORY OF LAUNDRY: Mods, name change please. Including the colon.
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Apr 21, 2022 02:58
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Lmfao at just sprinkling them with leaves instead. Those guys were completely checked out
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Apr 21, 2022 02:58
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the carpet isn't brown because it's never been cleaned, it's brown because i also put tea in it
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Apr 21, 2022 03:09
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Mozi posted:the carpet isn't brown because it's never been cleaned, it's brown because i also put tea in it This draws debris to the surface, which is clearly A Good Thing
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Apr 21, 2022 03:11
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super sweet best pal posted:Probably like this without the modern tools. immensely satisfying, and I could enjoy this sort of work, but it was about 20m too long, lol
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Apr 21, 2022 03:13
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They would scrub them by hand with bushes and water to which they salts and scented herbs, then they would dry them by rolling a drum with handles, kind of like a lawn roller, full of hot coals over them.
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Apr 21, 2022 04:08
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Once it got too dirty they would nail an ant eater to it
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Apr 21, 2022 04:24
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They hired someone like me to come through in full leather and lick an suck the carpets from wall to wall. Hard as a rock of course
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Apr 21, 2022 04:43
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blight rhino posted:they had anteaters that would snuffle along in perfect lines, making the pattern that modern day vacuums make these days. Before they did the lines on their own you had to crank the anteaters tail up and down to make the thing work like the god damned Flintstones or something.
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Apr 21, 2022 05:28
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Why is peacock lady attacking giant sperm?
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Apr 21, 2022 05:29
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Carpets were invented by Big Vacuum to sell their products.
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Apr 21, 2022 05:32
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hot cocoa on the couch posted:thanks fleebster. op, close thread and i'll file it in the archives in the "how the gently caress do you clean" series very informative gbs thread like the days of olde
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Apr 21, 2022 05:47
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Roundup Ready posted:Why is peacock lady attacking giant sperm? 
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Apr 21, 2022 06:05
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club soda and some elbow grease, sonny
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And you have to sprinkle some ants first of else the anteater won't work
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