Remember that summer job??

lololu
Wed, 08 Sep 2010 16:37:26 +0000

My first job was working as housekeeper for four young nuns who taught at our high school. Mostly it was cleaning, doing laundry, making their lunch (they always had hot dogs and beer in the frig). This was in the early seventies so they were mostly wearing short habits, but they still wore their full habit for formal occasions. A couple times I had to help to iron these habits, including the veil and the wimple. The cool part was that these were CSC nuns, so their wimple included what we always called the Paper Plate (I can’t remember the real name). As I remember we would take a long shaped strip of very heavily starched white material and roll it through a heated metal gadget that would pleat the whole thing. When Sister would put it on it would look like she had looking through a paper plate. Loved that job.