Laundry seems to be done every day. It is always hung out to dry for the average Cuban family certainly does not have a clothes dryer. The laundry flaps in the breeze like pennants of flags hung from the fronts of the old buildings. It can at times be quite colorful. It is almost a morning ritual to see women out hanging the laundry on lines strung across their patios. Most Cubans are extremely fastidious about their appearnace and cleanliness.