My new dryer Laura gave me for my birthday worked really well. I waited until I got new clothes pins to use it. The bow tie quilt was gifted to Larry by his Grandmother Gladys Houston Garrison.
Growing up at Coin, AR, wash day was an all day job. Momma washed clothes on the back porch. The water was heated on the kitchen stove. Bluing was used in the rinse. We had a wringer washer. We funneled the clothes through the wringer squeezing the water out. Our family was large. The clothes filled the clothes line and then the extras were hung on the fence around the yard. Momma mopped the floors that day after we washed the clothes using the rinse water. She used a rag mop. It was a contraption that slid open and an old towel could be clamped in it. The next day we ironed. The clothes were sprinkled with water and rolled in a basket🧺 then ironed. I really don’t miss any of this except the smell of clean sheets on the bed.
2 comments:
Your cloths line is so pretty! I can just smell the sheets! That is a beautiful quilt! We had a mop contraption just like you and a wringer washer. That all seems so hard now i just press buttons:)
My grandmother had a wringer washer, but my mom had a regular one. She did use her clothesline a lot though. I also loved the smell of those crisp air-dried sheets! I did NOT enjoy the scratchy towels though.
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