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Agreed. Washing machines have had a huge impact. See [1] for some summary info.

Anecdotally, having a dishwasher seems to simply mean that our house can go through 4x more dishes every day than I would expect…

[1] https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/how-appliance-boom-moved-mo...

Yes, life for housewives and mothers before the washing machine was hell. There are still billions of women in the world slaving away beating clothes on rocks.

In those days you had fewer clothes and wore them longer between washes as well. Something to consider as we dedicate time to fold 7+ full outfits of clothes every week per person today.

And on average families, especially the poorest ones, had 4 kids each.

(Ok, I just made up the number to make a point but you get what I mean)

And kids would actually pull quite a lot of the weight back then too. "Clean your room" more like you are coming to the farm with me today boy and splitting the firewood for mother later.