Washing Clothes from Antiquity to Present
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Great comments today! I am so captivated by all your fabulous washer stories! ☺☺
My grandmother used to heat up the water in a cast iron cauldron, scrub them on a washboard . Back when women didn't appear in public when expecting a baby , everyone knew the child had arrived by the diapers on the line . Then neighbors would visit and help out with meals and what ever was needed . Great show Sue !
How nice that neighbours would help. I'm perplexed how you don't see pregnant women in those days they would have to shop for the household
That's true - my mother went out and about to run errands, but she didn't go to social events (parties, weddings, etc.) because she considered her "delicate condition" to be something personal and private. I have to admit I was shocked beyond words when pregnant women began wearing skin-tight clothing - all I could think of how mortified my poor mother would be. 😁😁
@@suemeonyoutube there's a lot in modern life that passes for fashion which I don't care for.
Thanks for the memories Sue. I remember helping my Mother washing the clothes in the late 50s early 60s in the electric washing machine. Most important rule my Mother taught me, Keep Your Hands Away From The Rollers.
In 1840s England an ancestor of mine was widowed. She bought a mangle and advertised that she would mangle washing for a penny or two. Neighbours would bring their wet washing to her and, when it was dealt with, they would collect it. Smart lady, kept her family out of the workhouse.
I feel lucky that I have a drying green area in my garden, as I just love to hang my washing out. There's nothing to beat that fresh smell on your clothes, towels and bedding.
Everyone says that. 😊😊
ESPECIALLY the bed linens. Guaranteed good night's sleep ! 🥱😴💤
I also like the smell of clothes hung outside I do it as often as I can
My grandmother, who passed away 15 yrs ago at age 96, always called a load of laundry 'A Rubbing'. She was one of 8 children and the girls had to do the laundry. When they had gathered enough clothes to go to the trouble of heating water and scrubbing them on a washboard or rocks, they had done the 'Rubbing'.
That was probably very descriptive of how they would have had to wash the clothes - rubbing them against the old washboards. 😊😊
Remember grandma's washer board in a metal wash tub and then a wringer washing machine with an electric motor. Must have had a crank earlier before I was born! Always reminded us grandkids to "Stay away from the rollers!"
I used a wash board while living on a boat.
Lol still have a wash board
Sue, Coleman made a wringer washer that ran on a gas motor, so outside was a must, but no fun in a Canadian winter. A doctor friend of mine bought a condo in downtown Vancouver in 1974 and it had a Westinghouse Bendix stacking washer and dryer (state of the art for 'domestic' washers) and a neat GE stove with 2 elements exposed and if you need four you pulled the 'drawer' out and you got 4, also it had a small oven up and a larger oven down. I think there was more innovation back then. Today is so cookie-cutter!
Very true - we are living in a "one size fits all" society. 😏
@@suemeonyoutube Also for manufacturing and servicing it makes for cheaper costs. Whirlpool, Inglis, and Roper are all basically the same machines, just the more you pay the more you play with added options and programs.
In the 1960s and early 70s I washed for 6 people, 4 being children under 5 years of age, using a deep Belfast sink, also used to bathe kids, and a washing board. When my mum bought me an old mangle between child 3 and 4 ,I was in heaven. Blankets were "tramped" In the bath which we had by then, like grapes were trod. Washing was hung out, coming in sometimes 2 days later, sooty, bird pooed, and in winter, like boards with frost. When mum gave me an old boiler I loved it, later her old twintub, wash one side dry the other, and later still a keymatic , a
Machine with a square notched board that selected the programmes. Pillows were emptied of feathers and the covers washed and rubbed all over with yellow soap to wax them, then refilled, obviously less feathers each time. When I left the old folks home where I lived,10 years ago, also known as"abandon hope all ye who enter here" I moved to my present home,I had a full 2 months of hand washing before i saved to buy a washer . Made me a fighter, won't give in!🇬🇧UK
Greatgrandmama. I remember bringing in my Dad's frozen work clothes to finish drying. My fingers would get so 🥶 cold. Thanks for the memories.
@@itsjustme7487 😁👍 it was a relief when my husband agreed to get his pit , ie coal mining, clothes washed at the pit. Cost a little bit , but oh the relief!
🤣😂🤣 I clearly remember my mother bringing in the washing in winter stiff as a board.🤣😂🤣 I was the youngest of 5 kids and regularly got tossed into the Belfast sink, and comfortably fitted into it like it was a bath. Those were the good old days when in wintertime you would get ice on the inside of the windows with those old metal frames. 🥶🥶🥶 How did we survive?
@@maureeningleston1501 I grew up with ice inside the windows too, even 20 years ago ,in my home up North (Scotland). Metal framed windows, in some of my homes too. They don't know how lucky they are nowadays 👍😁😁😁🇬 🇧
@@greatgrandmama I grew up with frost on the windows too. Mom would get upset if we put our hands on the glass to thaw hand prints.
I remember my grandmother’s wringer washer. It was stored away & rolled out when she needed it. My mother made my dad buy her a wringer in the 70s or 80s, think it worked better on sheets & towels for her, for some reason she was not happy with her modern Maytag.
A lot of people preferred the older machines - and they still make them. 😊😊
Wow ! That first photo of washing on stones in the river. In 1976, when in Jamaica, this is how a woman washed mine.
I had a student in my Adult English as a Second Language class that brought her rock from her home country to wash clothes. She used it like a washboard.
Thanks for the memories Sue. My first machine was my husbands Grandmother's wringer, then a twin tub. They both washed better than the current ones and lasted years.
My washer is eating my sheets. And it's not just "my" washer - all the newer models seem to be much harder on clothes than the old ones were. 😒
Hello Sue! Here I am, thinking it was just me! I had a cheap Samsung model for over nine years, after I had to "park" the expensive Bauknecht machine we bought when we moved into our house in the garage (I had it in use for a year, at the time it was too small for my duvet - I am allergic and have to wash the duvets regularly).
About two years ago the Samsung machine went over the rainbow, and I had to reactivate the Bauknecht from the garage. Since then all my clothes (which are partly in my posession for over 30 years without showing too much wear and tear!) start to unravel and the cloth gets thinner rapidly.
I never had this problem before, but it got worse since my decalcifier apparatus went defect. I surmise it may be the calcium and magnesium rich "hard" water we have where I live (Switzerland) in combination with the geometry of the drum and the age of the clothes, but also new ones are unduly affected.
I hate planned obsolescence!!!
Morning Sue! I love reading everyone's comments about their memories!
I remember my Mom using a wash board in the big kitchen sink. I think it was called a country kitchen sink.
She graduated to a wringer washer.
My Mom used to set up her wringer washer in the yard with two pressed back oak chairs. Back in the early 1970's I picked up some pressed back oak chairs. I still have them as my dining room chairs. Also, the wash tubs used to be used for a kitty pool back then. People had way less clothes than we have.
Hello, and they mended them often (shirt cuffs and collars, socks, putting the lesser used inside out after a time). Sadly, most of this knowledge and attitude is lost today.
Oh the memories, as a little girl my mum would always wash our clothes on a Monday, she has a twin tub which was pulled from under the kitchen counter, I remember helping her pull the heavy wet clothes using a wooden paddle from the washing tub to the spin drying tub, I remember the steam, the smell of hot rubber and wet hot wood paddles, we seemed to spend all day in that kitchen listening to the Radio and my mum singing.
I don't know why, but Monday was always wash day... 😁😁
(Judy VanderPloeg)
Years ago, I was on a mission trip in an African country. The ladies from the host church were kind enough to take on our laundry while our team was at the building site.
Their method was much like the first picture and then, they would lay our laundry out to dry on the thorn bushes.
It was very interesting to return to camp and see your laundry hanging out and the Ankole cattle roaming around the clothes.
I had to wait until the cows were moving on, before I could retrieve my bra.
I remember what a big deal it was in the mid 70s when Dad bought Mom a " modern" washer to replace the wringer washer we had up until then. Still had to hang everything on the line though - even in the NY winter. Many times bringing in stiff dungarees and towels to dry on the collapsible wooden rack by the heater when the temperature dropped with the sun before we could get them in.
The wringer washer went to a newly divorced (oh my) cousin just setting up home for her and her 2 kids.
Ah the memories.
Late 50s early 60s, we had a gold wringer style washer (new). Mama would have a washtub of clean water next to the machine and put clean soapy clothes thru wringer into it then from there into clothes basket. Sort of a rinse cycle. :) We girls always handled the clothes coming thru the wringer and must have heard "don't let wringer catch your hands" a million times from Mama or Grandma. It was so good doing chores together, most kids miss out on that today.
I recall my mom spinning that mangle over one of a set of double laundry tubs into clear water to rinse. (Our laundry tubs were huge and cement- joined together with a hole between them in the adjoining wall for overflow) Then putting the rinsed clothes through again and into another tub of clear water. I can't remember how many times she did that before they went into the laundry basket. I do however remember our old dog Queenie used to love to lick the clean wet clothes, I think she loved the soapy taste? haha. I still have one of the old washboards hanging on my laundry room wall. This was great, thank you Sue, brought back memories I have not thought of for years and years!
Informative video! Thanks. As a child, I remembered that when the electricity went out, Mom used a washboard. She had a wash shed.
Biggest change is the parts you can't see. Modern appliances use plastic in place of metal gears and other wear parts. My washer and dryer are from the 90s and still going strong whereas my daughters have had to replace their newer sets already.
I found this video very interesting. I worked for 38 years at a Whirlpool Dryer manufacturing facility. I just retired last year. Over the years the colors changed, the shapes changed, the appearance of the doors and consoles changed. The interior drums went from painted to stainless steel and the dryers became narrower. This video was right up my alley. Thanks, Sue!
That was an excellent video and brought back a lot of memories. My English grandmother had that German machine and as she aged my grandmother would have to keep my Dad home from school to work it. My Canadian grandmother had a machine you overlooked. A 1926 Beatty copper-tub with bell-shaped 'impellers' made of red rubber affixed to a double cam and there were four of them. As the agitator turned the 'pounders' would rotate with 2 up and 2 down pounding the hell out of the clothes. My aunt kept that baby going well into the 70s!!! At a year of age, I managed to get my arm into the wringer of a Westinghouse wringer washer while my mom was out hanging clothes. Luckily it had a safety feature called a "safety sentinel" that was basically an over-load sensor that shut the machine down. Thank God it did or I might be using a prosthesis to this day!!! 😄
The laundry I managed had a old wringer washer for decorative purposes and every day people would tell me the stories of being mangled or almost hurt . Wow , they were many close escapes !
@@lightmarker3146 An aunt of mine got her hair caught in the wringer and the trouble was some went with the lower roller and some went with the upper. Impossible to get out of without partially scalping yourself because your alone.
Fascinating information. I live in a 1950's built house with the washer and drier prominently displayed in the kitchen. My husband offered to move it out and update the house, but I love the period look and feel of it all, so we will leave it up to the owners who come along after we are gone to decide what they want. I sure hope they love the clean simplicity of it as much as we do.
Hey Sue. Them Wringer washers sure brought back memories. When I was around 10 I had my whole arm wrung through the part the wrings your clothes, us kids didn't know you could pop it open, so they wrung my arm back through! I also remember helping my sister-in-law was clothes on Saturdays and some times even Sundays. This was before I married her brother, I had known the family since I was around 12 and was at their house all the time. My mother-in-law had a big family (10 kids) so there was a lot of clothes to wash, using the wringer washer. It was an all day job, we used the washer and filled two tubs with water to rinse them two times. While a load of clothes was washing we were hanging out the last load. I do have to say, those wringer washers did get your clothes clean though, you could let your clothes wash until you thought they were clean. Thank goodness I don't have to do all that work anymore.
It is amazing how little the basics of the washing machines have changed. Thank you for this, so interesting.
Coming from South Africa, we also used to have our washing machines and dryers under the counter in the kitchen. A separate laundry was quite a luxury. Living in Australia now, it seems to be the norm. But my first washing machine when I got married in the early 80’s was a twin tub, and I used to regularly flood the kitchen by being distracted when it was filling!😅
I had a wring top washing machine in 1986, when I had my son. They are the best for washing cloth nappies!! I thoroughly enjoyed this video. Love to you and the "purrfect" Audie. 🌷👋😊🇦🇺
Hi Sue just watched again. I still use my clothes line and iron 99.9% of clothes. I don't like the ironing of fitted sheets or folding them. I find it relaxing & put an old movie on, I love the feel of crisp pressed sheets. Cheers Sue have a great day. I better get to bed it's after midnight & I've got ironing tomorrow 😊
Hello Sue!! Happy Sunday the last day of July. Thank you for another interesting, educational & enjoyable video. I didn't know the # was in the billions but I figured many, many around the world aren't in industrial age nations or have access to indoor washing facilities. I do remember washboards & later my grandmother helped me with an electric washer that had those rollers wringing water out of clothes. I was horrified as more than once the top I was wearing got caught in the rollers, much like the picture of round one you showed . Oh & it used to try to dance across my kitchen floor.
Boy I had no idea what some of the early washers looked like aside from tubs to beer barrels used as drums with things to agitate looking like butter urns ( wrong word I know) to early sewing machine apparatus. I need to stop complaining about having to hand wash clothes with my achy hands & wrists. I will say there are those of us in the boonies without modern washers still using some of old methods you shared. Of course then the laundromats still a day event. Hmm I didn't know front loaders use gravity to help agitate. Always learning.
Nuff said as they say. Best wishes to you, Audie, subscribers and your angels. 💕
That first electric one looked like my grandma's machine!
I lived in menenite country in MO when I had my wringer washer but it moved with me to TX. I heated water on the stove in winter and had it in the kitchen to drain into the bathtub which was off the kitchen. I had lines in the house to hang up in the winter. Nice weather and the washer moved out into the yard next to our lines. I had a stand that held 2 square tubs next to the washer and could swing the mangle to put the washed clothes into the tub which was filled with rinse water, then move the mangle to put the rinsed clothes through the mangle into the empty tub before hanging them up on the line. Depending on how dirty the water was I could decide to reuse water or change it an I decided how long to wash them. Some Amish could use the wringer washers and others couldn't but I know the mennenites did use them. My favorite by far was my front loading washer my ex and I purchased in the late 70's. I moved to the farm with it, when the water would freeze in the winter we couldn't use it no way to get the water into it. When it finally died and couldn't be fixed we got the wringer washer. I will say my small front loader (apartment sized as we lived in a mobile home) did great on my ex's coveralls. He worked in a quarry and came home covered in white dust. I could only do them by themselves in it but it did get them clean for the next day. My daughter's mother-in-law wouldn't hear of a front loading washer when it was time to purchase new, so when this new set needs replacing that is the way my daughter is going to go. MIL is disabled and she doesn't do laundry and we are arguing as to what kind of stove to get next as this one keeps needing repair of some kind. The one MIL wants are slowly being fazed out. We want electric and the glass top she doesn't. She still does some baking and cooking but not much and the ones she likes the new ones don't have the size of ovens she needs. She is the only one not wanting the glass top so I know we will get the one we want.
I remember my grandmother using a poss tub in the 50s. A deep metal tub the size and shape of an old metal dustbin. Water was heated in a kettle and poured in. The clothes were put in with flakes of soap and then prodded vigourously with a poss stick - a bit like a rubber plunger for unblocking sinks - the up and down movement resulted in a suction action and sucked the dirt out. Hard and hot work.
When I was young my Mum had an electric tub out on the verandah with an electric mangle, like the one at 12:00.
It was fantastic! And saved heaps of water (we lived off tank water then too, so water use was heavily monitored).
When I was older and making my own recycled paper I wished I had a mangle to flatten the paper and squeeze out the excess water!
It's good to know the mangle is still being made.
Do you remember in Lost In Space when June Lockhart(?) would do the laundry? She would take the clothes and put them in a little cabinet and a few seconds later it would ding. The clothes would come out folded and ironed to perfection. Sigh! If only….
They also make top loaders now that don’t have the large agitators… just small nubs in the bottom to ‘help’ the water move… friends that knit/crochet use them because they are safe for the ‘hand wash only’ items!
So interesting, Sue. I have a memory of my grandmother, in the 50s, having a round tub electric washer with a crank wringer on top, in her kitchen. It was plumbed. The wringer was fascinating to me, as my parents had a modern washer with spin cycle. My grandparents could have afforded the upgrade, but hey, if it ain’t broke...
When my son was born in 1978 my parents gave me a washing and dryer set - Kenmore from Sears. As you know I bought a house last year, it came with newer laundry set - Whirlpool. The old washer and dryer are being left at the old apt, still gong strong. The new ones were a learning curve, the largest fill setting on the new is much less water than the same setting on the old and there is a push button to start it. The dryer has the same push button. Mind you hubby did a lot of part replacement on the old ones, but those old appliances were built to last 30-40 years. I wonder if the new ones will be the same?
A fascinating vlog, as stated the majority of UK residents have their washing machine in the kitchen but most of us would dearly love a utility room to store our appliances. Thanks again Sue xx
A lot of us in America have them in the garage, closet or on a back porch, if we don’t have a utility room, or basement. We almost never have them in the kitchen.
My grandmother had a green washer with a crank mangle in her basement… I remember being fascinated by it…
Thank you for this one, and all the others too. It brought back memories. I was 13 in 1951, anbd after the death of my mother, I was in charge of laundry. At first it was a one tub type with a mangel, and then it was an Easy: a tub for washing and another attached beside it for rinsing and extracting the water by centrifugal force. We had no drier, but that was OK because I learned to hang up the items so they requuired little or no ironing-- I still do it that way.
Once again, thanks a load, and I particularly enjoy your perfect grammar, which today is an exception.
Hello Sue, I find your series about home appliances very enlightening, but it will take some time to really relish them ;-)
Washing machines are great! I always thought I was only really grown-up when I owned my first washing machine. It was a used Bauknecht model, and when I did the first 95° C run to clean it for use, the foam spilt all over my bathroom floor. I had to empty it with cooking pots, REALLY a grown-up job given the near-boiling temperature of the water...
- Years before that I got a washing device consisting of a enameled barrel on a frame (similar to the wooden model art ca. 9 min in your film) that could be put above the bathtub. The pieces were filled in through a lid, which could be screwed tight, after filling the "machine" with water and detergent. It had a handcrank, and at leisure you could let the wash rest or give it a viscious tumble.
When in the military, I lived in barracks, where we did not have community washing machines, so I took it there and did my washing in my billet. Later I gave it to my brother, who was also in the military, but in the navy, where the expected standards regarding cleanliness of the attire were furthermore upped.
He was envied not only by his comrades for having a washing machine (same situation like me, and he was 1000 km from home, unlike the others he could not bring his washing home so often...), but also by my MOTHER, who fretted about him getting the pieces much cleaner and whiter than herself.
- I know that top loader machines are much easier to repair and more sturdy, but I just LOVE to sit in front of the glass and watch "cat TV". When we had our cat (only two years alas) she always joined me, and there two bad cats would sit and turn our heads in unison.
- My maternal randmother was the first person in the house to have a washing machine AND a stand-alone column-shaped tumbler! The family had five children, and they had experience with appliances, as before the war the family lived in Berlin where they were common.
After the war the family reunited in a small Bavarian town, where women still washed with washboards, or, as my paternal grandmother, had a vast pot assigned only for the laundry. I see still before me my grandmother filling the pot on the wood stove, heating it with the presoaked laundry until it nearly boiled, and after that came rinsing and pre-drying of the clothes/ sheets etc. It was such hard work, I did not get my head around it then, and also now.
- Both women dried the laundry on the line - the first had to mount three sets of wooden stairs to the roof of a shack where firewood was stored (then called "Holzlege") with a giant wicker basket that later was my first bed as a baby (I do not know how she did it, but I witnessed her several times!), while the second at least here had it a little easier with a line in her garden.
- In German cities there were assigned lawnspaces where the washed laundry could be put onto the ground to dry and bleach in the sun. Even today these places bear the name "Bleiche" (as in "Grosse Bleiche" in the city of Hamburg), still denoting their centuries old purpose, because it was often impossible to dry the washing in the then customary small flats housing often several families, sleeping in shifts.
The sound of a washing machine is so soothing to me that I could sleep on one (another benefit of a front loader ;-) ). Washing machines and water closets are my favourite inventions in the household!!!
Thank you for setting off many fond memories, and for letting me ramble. Please keep the series going, it helps to learn much, and I can show my daughter how easy we get it today, and also how blessed we are that we need not go to a river to wash our laundry.
Thank you Sue, and good day to you and darling Audie!
Many housewives I've known swore by the wringer washers, that they cleaned their clothes much better than the modern washers...and I do too!
You really make the oddest things so interesting! Love it! Thank you.
Sue try bamboo sheets, I have a top loader washer and I have used bamboo sheets for over a year and a half they are strong, light weight, antibacterial, dry fast outside. If you need to dry them in the dryer they dry very quickly 😊
🇬🇧 I'm so happy and impressed you included UK!❤❤❤❤
We used to take a washboard, bucket/tub, wheelbarrow to the river to wash.
Sue I think British/European homes just do not have huge amounts of space for appliances like separate laundry rooms or nice finished basements. Certainly no space for the giant refrigerators we now have in many homes in America. I was surprised you did not show the British/Euro machines that both wash and dry the clothes. They are horrible; clothes come out terribly mangled and wrinkled compared with separate appliances. Maybe you could do a sequel on this!
As a small child in the 1960 s, I was petrified of the wringer washer! I must was so fearful and had nightmares of getting g my hand or arm caught in the wringer!
Sue, I have just watched your Just Chattin'. videos, but I saw this and I feel so disheartened, outraged, and disgusted by the constant vitriol, spite, lies of this pair when I saw this I wanted a change to sooth my soul. Thanks for this. I plan to watch your others on household machinery! As a small child my mom did have an electric washer; no dryer so Mom still used the clothesline. Happy memories as my friends and I would play pretend games by making "tent houses" between the sheets on the line like Wagon Train.
This was interesting history of washers. I remember The washer was in the garage you had to agitate it, then run it through the rollers to get the moisture out and I don’t remember how mom drained it.
I also like the fresh smell of clothes drying outside
In Victorian London there used to be communal wringing posts. You wrapped the cloth round and twisted it. Lot less horrible injuries than the mangles😬
I didn’t think I would like enjoy this- WOW I was wrong. Thank you sooooo much.
Good morning Sue, last time we went to England they have an all in one. Dishwasher, Dryer , washing machine. Neatest thing I ever saw. I want that one !
Hi Sue...I'm an avid Just Chattin' fan...thought I would check out this site...EXCELLENT! Thank You! (I'll see you later at Just Chattin')
I would also note that we have too many clothes and they don't need to be washed after one wearing unless stains or oder.. Studies show Europeans do not wash clothes after one wearing.
Do you know the old song "Dashing away with the smoothing iron"? Takes you through the whole week of the washing operation ending up with wearing the nice clean clothes on Sunday.
The machine at 11:40 looks like the machine we had to cut my sister out of. Lesson: if you have a mangle, especially one not hand cranked, tie your hair back. Getting it caught in the mangle is not pleasant.
Disagree with the operation of the twin tub. Wash in tub 1, put clothes in tub two and spin the water back into tub 1 or into the sink, put fresh water into tub 2 using a hose, spin again. If you want repeat rinse.
Water would get reused for a few loads starting from the cleanest to the dirtiest. Once the wash water was too dirty it would be emptied and tub 1 refilled. Very quick way to do the washing.
I think in some cases in Britain the washing machine made its way into the kitchen, before the toilet came inside the house and the bathroom was created. Washing machines needed water. The only water was in the kitchen.
However once there they snapped up the technology. My mother had a front loader in the early 70s. When she took it to Australia and it had a problem, no one knew how to fix it as they had never seen a front loader. Front loaders didn't become a big thing in Australia until about 10 years ago, if that long.
Good morning!
I don't see clotheslines anymore. Thank god I am alive today . I couldn't make it in those days .
A lot of places think it's "unsightly" to have clothes hanging outside. I really miss the smell of clean sheets that were dried outside.
@@itsjustme7487 Someone told me the same thing, I remember seeing underwear hanging on the line and thinking it's funny.
I use my clothes line can't beat that fresh air to dry your clothes don't need all the fancy conditioner fresh air does it for you
@@wandaborowy9400 I used to hang underwear on one of the two middle lines.
(Judy VanderPloeg)
I am surrounded by HOA controlled subdivisions, most of them won't allow clotheslines.
When did people start going to the laundry mat? I have no idea when they started.
Loved the video..thanks Sue.
Please could you research cleaning agents? I think they used to use urine and wood ash in Jacobean times? My grandmother used to grate hard soap into her top loader machine. She used to make soap bars herself with lard and borax or something. I watched a programme that said brick dust was used as a scouring agent. And what was starch?
My mothers arm was pulled into a ringr waher when she was a toddler. right up to the elbow. Split her arm wide open. she still has a large scar at age 75
QUESTION: In the northern states, when there were no dryers and a clothes line had to be used, what they women do on hard winter snowy days?
Massachusetts and my mother used clothes line in cold sunny days but not real cold days
Hi Sue, I have what may be a stupid question, but I’m going to ask it anyway. I see that people washed then wrung out the clothes, then hung them to dry… did they ever rinse them in clean water or did they just wring out soap water and that was it?
(Judy VanderPloeg)
Most of the people I knew, would wring the clothing into a rinse tub.
From there, they would be wrung out, into a lighter weight basket they could be carried out to the clothesline.
My grandma had a double rinse tub.
The whites would be wrung from the washer, into bluing solution and from there into rinse tub.
She would empty the bluing and the rest of the clothes were treated to a liquid softener, rinsed again and then put on the line.
@@johnvanderploeg6707 thank you, I was curious. 😊
I swear, women in the 1950’s must have slept in corsets. That waistline in not humanly possible or we would have them today without the corsets. Young women today are using the corset to get this hourglass figure.
This is interesting 🤔 Love 💘 😻 💜 💛 💚 🧡
From Ohio
At 23:00 You missed an important addition. Post war baby boomers