40 Days Until Trek - Laundry

Your wearing pioneer clothing is a big part of the Trek experience. Imagine if you were on the trail for 4 months rather than 4 days. At some point, you would need to wash your clothes. Historically, "wash day" was on Monday. It would be interesting to see if that tradition continued on the trail. 

Laundry Day

“In 1848 Emily Dow Partridge Young, one of Brigham’s plural wives, left a charming and highly romanticized account of ‘wash day’ on the trail: ‘Once a week we stopped for a general wash day. Fires would be kindled here and there, children sent for wood to keep them up; tubs, washboards, and other thing used in washing would be dragged forth from places in the wagons; posts fixed in the ground and where there were not bushes enough, the lines stretched from one [post] to the other; and everyone doing something, if it was only singing a lively song or whistling a merry tune to keep the workers in good humor. In the morning the train of wagons would be off again, clean and neat as such conditions could make them.’”