A typical household washes some 300 loads of laundry per year. Today, a typical washing machine cycle lasts about 40 minutes. That ends up being about 8.33 days’ worth of washing done per year per household. Does that seem like a lot? Consider that before the invention of the electric washing machine, a typical load of laundry took about 4 hours to complete. While laundry wasn’t washed as often before the invention of the electric washing machine, consider how long it would t