06/18/07, 02:09 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Tennessee
Posts: 2,963
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I used to help my gramma wash her clothes that way. Use an old tub Maytag, then you used the ringer on the washer to get rid of the soapy water. You had your rinse in the washtub and then used the wringer on it to wring out the rinse water. Man, it was hard work to wash clothes in those days, but she would not give that up until the old Maytag finally gave up. I can remember why, too. Her clothes were cleaner and whiter than anything out of an automatic. Gramma used to run the clothes out of the Maytag wringer through a bluing rinse tub first, then into the rinse water with the wringer tub. That was the ticket to bright clothes.
Nice summer days, we'd do it all in the backyard. In winter, we did it down the basement, using the floor drain. Makes me sound old, I know. Heheheh.
Oh yeah, I'm not so sure that's a guy in the pic...but thanks for rekindling the memory of gramma.
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Sweetpea Farms
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