@Catherine **********
Thai people often depend on street food, you go buy what you want, put it out on the table, family style, and dinner is served. The only cooking implement you need is a microwave. They often have a kettle and a rice cooker, but we buy food and rice already prepared on the street, is cheaper than cooking. I have a big old apartment with an old-fashioned, two tub wash machine, and there’s a set up to hang the laundry out the window under an awning. When I lived in a small room, I washed all my clothes by hand. The building has coin machines downstairs, but I never use them.