Awaatif Manie, a Cape Town mom of six, turned her loadshedding blues into a stomping good time, sharing her two young boys helping out with laundry duty, old-school style, in the bathtub on TikTok.
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‘Well, it was a last-minute thing and we had loadshedding. It was 5pm on a Sunday and I realised I forgot to wash their school clothes and I was not going to hand wash six children’s school clothes,’ Manie told EastCoastRadio.
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‘So, I called the two youngest kids as they love being messy. I told them in the old days my mom used to do manual washing and made me step on it as I was one of the youngest.’
‘They thought it was fun in the beginning as they got to mess in the water until 20 steps became 50 steps…’
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@aamanie11 #oldschool #backintheday #laundry ♬ original sound – The Manie Mom of 6
She also shared some of her other loadshedding hacks:
- Use lanterns instead of loadshedding lights to keep rooms bright
- Braai for dinner
- Fill five-litre water bottles with water and keep them frozen to help keep meat products frozen during four-hour loadshedding.
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