Laundromats became a place for female socialization, a place for gatherings while women washed, and this fact favored the creation of popular sayings that have reached the present day. It was an intimate place where they explained their things and what happened around them. Over the years, a whole series of words, phrases and sayings have emerged around washing machines. These are the contributions that this work has made to Catalan popular folklore. This activity has left vestiges in the language, such as "do laundry", "do laundry", "lose a sheet in every wash", "Ouch! sir! So many clothes and so little soap», etc.

The women worked in the washers, but they also sang and told each other things about their day-to-day lives. Sometimes the rascal accompanied the mother or the grandmother and took the opportunity to play and do mischief. It was a space of freedom, where they could talk freely, tell each other remedies, stories, gossip or share songs.

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An Argentona

February 15, 2024

Throughout the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, the majority of laundromats or washing machines were built that were part of the urban geography of most towns and cities. In what we could call the first female socialization center. Thus, it went from washing in rivers and bottoms to washing in places specially designed for this purpose, which improved functionality. Some of them were authentic jewels of modernist architecture. And with the construction of laundromats, various public health regulations related to the washing machines and their conditions were also issued, since the hygienist movements associated most diseases with the conditions of the water.

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