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== Cleaning the house ==
=== Cleaning the house, thoroughly, garbi-ikuzia ===
The housewife cleaned the house every day or every other day depending on the conditions and composition of the family. That work involved airing the rooms, making beds, sweeping and dusting. Waxing and shining the rooms was done less often. This work was usually done in the mornings, in some cases in the early afternoon after lunch and certain tasks were kept for the weekend.
The washhouse consisted of a step where the washerwoman could kneel and a slab sloping towards the water was used to pound and wring the clothes. The residents of the farmsteads and those of other farmsteads and streets in the owners that did not have washing facilities were entitled to use the washhouses.
== Washing dishes, harrikoa egin ==
Some places report that in the past, and in the same way as with the laundry, the women would take the dishes and cooking utensils to the river or the washhouse to clean them. Some would lug water home and then wash the cooking pots and dishes used for the meals.
When it came to drying the dishes, people reported that plastic, metal or wooden dish drainers that were placed on the bench next to the sink or hung. In the mid-1980s, dish driers were put in a kitchen cupboard, but were also left on the table or on the kitchen counter on a dishcloth. There were also plastic recipients in which the cutlery was left to drain. The cutlery, frying pans and pots were scrubbed and dried, but not the glasses and dishes as they would sparkled if rinsed with cold water and left to drain.
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