Don¡¯t use washing machine. Washing clothes using a basin, especially during the

washing-off of the detergent, requires us to bend our body. You can maximize this by not

bending your knees as if you¡¯re doing a waist exercise. It helps toning, stretching, and

strengthening your abdominal, waist, hips, thighs, and lower back. The benefits are not limited.

It can improve digestion, bowel movements and sexual health.

This is how we wash our clothes 

Who needs washing machine?

It is a challenge to do laundry in most homes in the Philippines. There are very few washing machines and these are used to spin

the water out of the clothes. I have never seen a dryer. Clothes are hung from the rafters above the front porch or on clotheslines.

Everyone does wash daily even in the rainy season. What is amazing to me is that the children all wear uniforms to school and they

look fresh and clean and everything is ironed. Wash is done in large tubs by hand or by stomping on the clothes with your feet.

There is a place on the street for women to pump water or if they are lucky enough to have space in their CRs (comfort rooms),

then wash is done in this area.

We don¡¯t use dryers in the Philippines. All the clothes are hung to dry. If its rainy, there¡¯s a place in the attic.

This area was actually on the roof top.