Hey!
I run a very clean establishment!
I'm always on the scrounge for old Fel's or Lux soap but can you imagine how shocked I was seeing that auction! Have sit sitting at my computer and seen some daft auctions, but that takes the award gall,running,jumping and standng.
Yes it probably will be pulled, but the man has a decent feedback rating. Have noted his name to make sure one never buys anything from him.
Laundering danties in the shower.
"Good girls" were taught for ages to do this, or launder your underthings in the sink before going to bed. Hence all those scenes in films and such of women's bathrooms showing danties drying over shower rods. Who can forget Richard Dryfeuss in "The Good-Bye Girl", saying in perfect stacatto "I don't like panties hanging in the shower" Woolite and all sorts of fine wash detergents were invented for laundering hand laundry in a basin. Convents,boarding schools, sorority houses any place that had lots of women, one could count on seeing various undergarments dripping dry in showers or near beds.
The rason for all this palaver, is that undergarments due to being worn so close to the body, absorb oils, sweat and other body secretions. Allowing these substances to sit until wash day would cause the yellowing one commonly sees on pillow cases and other items that come in close contact with the body's oils, but are not laundered frequently.
Growing up had a girl in my class from Haiti, and she and her sister were taught the same thing by their mother. This practice is even in the book "Home Comforts"
Now if you really want to get grossed out, remember that until modern sanitary napkins were invented, women used cloth wadded up into pads attached to a sanitary belt. Those cloths were always laundered by hand, by the lady herself. This was usually done in the basement or scullery in secret and some would say shame. Even high born ladies had to do this chore themselves. Oh yes, these sanis were usually made at home, either by hand or machine sewing.
Launderess