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The Laundry Room
CellarDweller:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on January 28, 2018, 05:00:41 pm ---Hey, Cellar Dweller who doesn't live in a cellar anymore (while I do now!), Alma would agree with you that line-drying is the best way to finish the laundry!
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It certainly costs less!!!
CellarDweller:
--- Quote from: brian on January 28, 2018, 06:00:10 pm ---I doubt Alma had much choice ;D
I am the same age as Ennis and do remember Mum washing when I was a child. My sister and I were just discussing a cousin who is causing all sorts of problems at the moment because, now aged 89, she has schizoid/paranoia and developing dementia. Apparently Mum never liked her and used to complain that she and her then husband always came for an unannounced visit on Mondays. Monday was washing day. Clothes in the boiler tub, wrung out by hand and carted, still heavy, to the line. I well remember Mum being excited when we got a spin drying machine which was spun by water. I do not know when washing machines became widely available, thankfully by the time I first moved from living at home in 1971. I had 2 rooms at the back of a house with a separate shower/toilet and use of the laundry in the same shed which the owner of the house left for my use on Saturdays.
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I can remember going to my grandmother's house, and among the stuff she had in her hoard was an old washing machine that had the two rollers that you fed the clothes through to get the excess water out.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: CellarDweller on January 28, 2018, 06:28:29 pm ---
I can remember going to my grandmother's house, and among the stuff she had in her hoard was an old washing machine that had the two rollers that you fed the clothes through to get the excess water out.
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It's called a wringer washer. My grandmother had one, too, and she was still using it when I was a child. My grandmother's looked a lot like your grandmother's except I think they were different brands. Those rollers were called wringers, hence the name "wringer washer." Once upon a time those wringers had to be turned by hand, with a crank, but from the photo, it appears this machine has powered wringers, as did my grandmother's.
Notice the machine is on casters so it can be moved to wherever it's water supply came from, or maybe that was because of the drain. I don't remember how the water was drained when the laundry was done.
There used to be a saying that went something like "See you in the wash if I don't get caught in the wringer." That saying was clearly inspired by the washing machine.
In my time I've probably known some speed queens. ... ::)
CellarDweller:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on January 29, 2018, 10:43:04 am ---There used to be a saying that went something like "See you in the wash if I don't get caught in the wringer." That saying was clearly inspired by the washing machine.
In my time I've probably known some speed queens. ... ::)
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:laugh:
There are times that I wonder if that machine would've been worth money. At the time of the hoard cleaning, we were so frustrated about it all, we just threw everything out.
Granted, most of what she had was worth nothing, but I wonder if there were a few buried treasures we missed.
Sason:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on January 28, 2018, 05:00:41 pm ---Hey, Cellar Dweller who doesn't live in a cellar anymore (while I do now!), Alma would agree with you that line-drying is the best way to finish the laundry!
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I love the painting, Lee!
Do you know who the artist is?
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