๐งบWash, Dry, Repeat: Laundry Culture in the U.S.
๋นจ๊ณ , ๋ง๋ฆฌ๊ณ , ๋ฐ๋ณต! ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ ์ธํ ๋ฌธํ
In the U.S., most people have a washer and dryer in their home. Many houses even have a dedicated laundry room where they can store their laundry essentials. Even though dryers are common, some people hang clothes on an outdoor clothesline. However, it is quite rare for Americans to hang-dry their clothes indoors. Thanks to dryers, doing laundry is usually a quick and convenient chore.
๋ฏธ๊ตญ์์๋ ๋๋ถ๋ถ์ ์ง์ ์ธํ๊ธฐ์ ๊ฑด์กฐ๊ธฐ๊ฐ ์์ด์. ์ง ์์ ์ธํ์ฉํ์ ๋ณด๊ดํ ์ ์๋ ๋ณ๋์ ์ธํ์ค์ด ์๋ ๊ฒฝ์ฐ๋ ๋ง์์. ๊ฑด์กฐ๊ธฐ๊ฐ ํํ๊ธด ํ์ง๋ง, ๋ฐ๊นฅ์ ์๋ ๋นจ๋ซ์ค์ ๋นจ๋๋ฅผ ๋์ด ๋ง๋ฆฌ๋ ์ฌ๋๋ ์์ด์. ํ์ง๋ง ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์์๋ ์ค๋ด์ ๋นจ๋๋ฅผ ๋์ด ๋ง๋ฆฌ๋ ๊ฒฝ์ฐ๋ ๋๋ฌธ ํธ์ด์์. ๊ฑด์กฐ๊ธฐ ๋๋ถ์ ์ธํ์ด ํจ์ฌ ๋น ๋ฅด๊ณ ํธํด์ก์ด์.
Many single people or couples do laundry once a week, while families often do several loads each week. It is also common to separate light and dark clothes before washing them. Since dryers can handle large loads, many people wait until they have a full basket before doing laundry.
ํผ์ ์ฌ๋ ์ฌ๋์ด๋ ๋ถ๋ถ๋ ๋ณดํต ์ผ์ฃผ์ผ์ ํ ๋ฒ ๋นจ๋๋ฅผ ํ๊ณ , ๊ฐ์กฑ ๋จ์๋ ์ผ์ฃผ์ผ์ ์ฌ๋ฌ ๋ฒ ๋นจ๋ํ๋ ๊ฒฝ์ฐ๊ฐ ๋ง์์. ์ธํํ๊ธฐ ์ ์ ๋ฐ์์ ์ท๊ณผ ์ด๋์ด์ ์ท์ ๋๋ ์ ์ธํํ๋ ๊ฒ๋ ์ผ๋ฐ์ ์ด์์. ๊ฑด์กฐ๊ธฐ๋ ํ ๋ฒ์ ๋ง์ ์์ ๋ง๋ฆด ์ ์์ด์, ๋นจ๋ ๋ฐ๊ตฌ๋๊ฐ ๊ฐ๋ ์ฐฐ ๋๊น์ง ๊ธฐ๋ค๋ ธ๋ค๊ฐ ํ๊บผ๋ฒ์ ์ธํํ๋ ์ฌ๋๋ค๋ ๋ง์์.
People who live in apartments or college dorms often share laundry facilities with other residents. In larger cities, laundromats are also common. Many stay open late or even 24 hours a day, allowing people to do their wash at their own convenience.
์ํํธ๋ ๋ํ ๊ธฐ์์ฌ์ ์ฌ๋ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ ๋ค๋ฅธ ์ฃผ๋ฏผ๋ค๊ณผ ์ธํ ์์ค์ ํจ๊ป ์ฐ๋ ๊ฒฝ์ฐ๊ฐ ๋ง์์. ๋๋์์์๋ ์ฝ์ธ ์ธํ์๋ ํํ๊ฒ ๋ณผ ์ ์์ด์. ๋ฆ๊ฒ๊น์ง ์ด์ํ๊ฑฐ๋ 24์๊ฐ ์ด์ํ๋ ๊ณณ๋ ๋ง์์, ํธํ ์๊ฐ์ ๋นจ๋๋ฅผ ํ ์ ์์ด์.
Americans usually wash underwear, socks, gym clothes, and T-shirts after one use. However, jeans, sweaters, and hoodies are often worn several times before being washed. There is even an ongoing debate about how often jeans should be cleaned.
๋ฏธ๊ตญ์์๋ ์์ท, ์๋ง, ์ด๋๋ณต, ํฐ์
์ธ ๋ ๋ณดํต ํ ๋ฒ ์
๊ณ ๋ฐ๋ก ์ธํํด์. ๋ฐ๋ฉด ์ฒญ๋ฐ์ง, ์ค์จํฐ, ํ๋๋ ์ฌ๋ฌ ๋ฒ ์
์ ๋ค์ ์ธํํ๋ ๊ฒฝ์ฐ๊ฐ ๋ง์์. ์ฌ์ง์ด ์ฒญ๋ฐ์ง๋ฅผ ์ผ๋ง๋ ์์ฃผ ๋นจ์์ผ ํ๋์ง๋ฅผ ๋๊ณ ์ง๊ธ๋ ์๊ฒฌ์ด ๊ฐ๋ ค์.
Although laundry isn't anyone's favorite chore, most Americans learn to do it at a young age. Thanks to modern appliances, though, it's a routine that most people can easily manage alongside their busy schedules.
์ธํ์ ๊ฐ์ฅ ์ข์ํ๋ ์ง์์ผ์ด๋ผ๊ณ ๋งํ๋ ์ฌ๋์ ๊ฑฐ์ ์์ง๋ง, ๋๋ถ๋ถ์ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ธ๋ค์ ์ด๋ฆด ๋๋ถํฐ ์ธํํ๋ ๋ฒ์ ๋ฐฐ์์. ๊ทธ๋๋ ํ๋์ ๊ฐ์ ๋๋ถ์ ๋ฐ์ ์ผ์์์๋ ๋๋ถ๋ถ ์ด๋ ต์ง ์๊ฒ ํด๋ผ ์ ์๋ ์ง์์ผ์ด๋๋๋ค. |