Tell that to the timeworn tokens of Monopoly: the shoe, top hat, wheelbarrow, clothes iron, battleship, race car, thimble and Scottie dog.

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Clothes shops will start selling the drip-dry, non-iron stuff they flog in the rich world.

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And once per week, my poor mother, now 79, would have to make sure she wasn't wearing her nice clothes as she squeezed past that ancient hunk of Detroit iron to get to the garbage cans.

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