Madge Bumstead
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Wash laundry in a wringer washing machine...
Name a chore you did when you were little that kids nowadays have never done...
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Milly Robertson
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I wasn't allowed to help with the wringer. My Mum was worried I would get my hand stuck in the wringer.
Putting the blue bag in the rinsing water for the white washing.
Putting the blue bag in the rinsing water for the white washing.
Madge Bumstead
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Same here, Milly, I never put things through the rollers, but everything else was fair game.
Madge Bumstead
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Yes, Milly, Reckitt's Blue!
Not enough and nothing happened... too much and you risked staining the washing (whites)!
Not enough and nothing happened... too much and you risked staining the washing (whites)!
Madge Bumstead
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Fetching moms washboard for her!
When the washing machine gave-out, moms old-fashioned glass front washboard came out!
When the washing machine gave-out, moms old-fashioned glass front washboard came out!
Madge Bumstead
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How about ironing?
Back in my childhood/teen days ironing was a given. I'm sure a select few young ones iron, but I'll bet very few.
Anyone else remember ironing when you were growing up?
Back in my childhood/teen days ironing was a given. I'm sure a select few young ones iron, but I'll bet very few.
Anyone else remember ironing when you were growing up?
Milly Robertson
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I used to enjoy ironing.
I was bought up on a small, family run poultry farm. I used to help grade and pack the eggs. The small family farms are on the whole a thing of the past. They are now big concerns.
I was bought up on a small, family run poultry farm. I used to help grade and pack the eggs. The small family farms are on the whole a thing of the past. They are now big concerns.
Madge Bumstead
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I still enjoy ironing and do it from spring until fall, pressing hubby's collection of button-down sports shirts along with things I wear.
I'm surprised by the vast numbers of housewives/homemakers today that don't even own an ironing board.
Madge Bumstead
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Sure to bring back memories for those who survived the days of old-fashioned cloth diapers/nappies!
Growing up with baby siblings in the home, my days doing this started around age 10, even though I was changing diapers long before that, but by age 10, this big sis was doing the dreaded diaper dunk!
Up and down (again and again) in the toilet while the water swirled, followed by a quick wring by hand, then into the plastic diaper pail the diapers would go! Had to do this when I babysat for moms around the neighbourhood, too, because old-school cloth diapers were alive and well and still the order of the day in most every home!
And OMG... when the soiling escaped the diapers and got into the rubber pants, what a mess that was! Sometimes the elastics never came clean, and the rubber pants would stain pink around the elastic leg holes and on the seat!
Growing up with baby siblings in the home, my days doing this started around age 10, even though I was changing diapers long before that, but by age 10, this big sis was doing the dreaded diaper dunk!
Up and down (again and again) in the toilet while the water swirled, followed by a quick wring by hand, then into the plastic diaper pail the diapers would go! Had to do this when I babysat for moms around the neighbourhood, too, because old-school cloth diapers were alive and well and still the order of the day in most every home!
And OMG... when the soiling escaped the diapers and got into the rubber pants, what a mess that was! Sometimes the elastics never came clean, and the rubber pants would stain pink around the elastic leg holes and on the seat!
Madge Bumstead
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Using a Card Catalog in a library
Madge Bumstead
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Polishing our white shoes!
Madge Bumstead
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In ode to all of the entries related to laundry... hanging baby siblings diapers and rubber pants on the clothesline!
Changing, washing, and folding, too!
Changing, washing, and folding, too!
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Madge Bumstead
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Sewing buttons on/basic mending!
Milly Robertson
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Sweeping the back verandah with a straw broom.
Kate Ellery
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Lit the copper to have a bath …..bucketed water from the copper to the bath
We thought nothing of it ..,….as most did the same thing , you either had a copper or a chip heater …
My aunt had a little hot water heater above the kitchen sink , we thought she was ….rich as
….having one of ….them instant hot water …
Our chip water / bathroom heater was exactly the same as this , our bathroom was a unlined corrugated iron addition on the back of the house
We thought nothing of it ..,….as most did the same thing , you either had a copper or a chip heater …
My aunt had a little hot water heater above the kitchen sink , we thought she was ….rich as
….having one of ….them instant hot water …Our chip water / bathroom heater was exactly the same as this , our bathroom was a unlined corrugated iron addition on the back of the house
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Kate Ellery
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I had one of them till very recently ……sold it when we had a garage sale last November @Madge Bumstead
Milly Robertson
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It was my husband's job to light the chip heater when he came home from school. He would be in deep trouble if he was late in lighting it.
If I had known about the washboard Kate I would have bought it off of you.
These venetian blinds were my Mum's pride and joy.
If I had known about the washboard Kate I would have bought it off of you.
These venetian blinds were my Mum's pride and joy.
Kate Ellery
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We have several junk / antique shops in our area one in particular always seems to. have a few in the shop ( the odd times I have a look )
which is normally for preserving jar lids ….( the owner of the shop attends several farm clearance sales )
Milly Robertson
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We used to regularly attend clearance sales. Not now, we need to declutter.
