The Business 9 Women Kept A Secret For Three Decades

[TalkingDog]

This is how it's done.

http://www.dailygood.org/view.php?sid=264

“MaMaw Ruth would read in the paper that someone had died,” Mary Ellen remembered, “and she’d send off one of her special pound cakes. She didn’t have to know the family. She just wanted to put a little smile on their faces. And we started thinking about what we could do to make a difference like that. What if we had a million dollars? How would we spend it?

So the ladies began brainstorming.

“One of the sisters suggested that we should all start doing our own laundry and put the money we saved to good use. I admit, I protested at first. There’s just something about laundering that I don’t like. But I was outnumbered! So among the nine of us, we’d put aside about $400 a month and our husbands never noticed a thing. Their shirts looked just fine.”

And then the women started listening. They’d eavesdrop -- all with good intentions, of course -- at the local beauty shop or when they were picking up groceries. And when they heard about a widow or a single mom who needed a little help, they’d step in and anonymously pay a utility bill or buy some new clothes for the children.

[Sissyk]

1. How remarkable!!

That is truly a wonderful story.

Also, one of the reasons I call Tennessee my home.

[IrishAyes]

2. Stories like that keep me off the ledge.

[loli phabay]

3. nice, hope it comes back threefold.

[malaise]

4. What a wonderful story

Wish I could rec this 1,000 times.
You made my evening

[kelliekat44]

5. Thesea are really heroines. Unsung Why not wall to wall media coverage of this to give

people ideas on how to be real citizens. If you don't want the Federal government giving out help, do it yourselves.

[Orrex]

6. Eavesdropping? Nice police state, ladies. NSA much?

Just kidding! What a wonderful idea, and how amazing of them to keep it quiet for so long!

[JDPriestly]

7. When was this written? Surely before the age of automatic washing machines.

“One of the sisters suggested that we should all start doing our own laundry and put the money we saved to good use. I admit, I protested at first. There’s just something about laundering that I don’t like.

What woman doesn't do her own laundry in our age?

I couldn't save a penny by doing my own laundry.

I suppose there are such women, but who are they?

[TalkingDog]

9. Since they've been at it for 35 years

and they are evidently women of a certain "means", I would imagine they sent their laundry to a laundry service.

30 years ago, when I had a full time job, I would occasionally treat myself and let a local laundry do my clothes. Washed dried folded. Awesome.

[joeybee12]

8. That really is great...knr