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In reply to the discussion: My Mom had a wringer washer and a clothes line. Yes I am old & I want a clothes line again [View all]dweller
(23,728 posts)10. We had a tub/roller wringer washer
and clothesline when I was a kid
washer was in the basement.
My kid brother and I would run army men through the wringers 😃 but he got his fingers caught in it once, started screaming and my mom came thundering down the steps to the basement , rushed over and walloped the top of the wringer mechanism which popped it apart and freed him.
I was frozen watching the whole thing go down
Ahhh childhood memories
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My Mom had a wringer washer and a clothes line. Yes I am old & I want a clothes line again [View all]
irisblue
Apr 29
OP
Remember the smell of the clothes just from in from being dried on the clothes line?
Peregrine Took
Apr 29
#12
I am in tbe US. A friend told me the Irish do different. I bow to their different
irisblue
Apr 29
#13
You're welcome to mine. I hang a quilt out if I happen to wash one, but I try to avoid drying
Vinca
Apr 30
#25
Nice to go down memory lane. I remember my grandma's/great grandma's old washing machine, with the tumblers on
SWBTATTReg
Apr 30
#27
My job was to wipe off the cotton rope and bring out the cloth bag of clothes pins.
irisblue
Apr 30
#32