The way it was doing a wash

When I was a toddler, my mom had one of those. I remember clothes getting squished through those rollers. Strange, I remember wondering if those rollers could break buttons. Now, I have a spiffy new washer, my previous one lasted 37 years. Good old Sears stuff.
 

When I first came to Canada 1958 we rented basement a flat in a house which was adjacent to laundry room.
Old washer with crank handle was a nightmare to me so landlady soon replaced it with a new one which had electric driven rollers.
Though I had died and gone to heaven when we got to use it and that was only once a week for one wash.
No dryer. Lines set up in basement for drying
We also had mini fridge which required a big block of ice every week. That was a nightmare too...
Ah the good old days Smiley Mohawk.gif
 
In our first house, we were living paycheck to paycheck. Two of my children were babies, the third hadn't been born yet. I did have a washing machine, but had to lug the wet wash out to the back yard and hang everything (including diapers) on the clothesline.

I didn't see it as a hardship, as in those early days, many people didn't have a dryer. Disposable diapers weren't quite on the scene yet. And I sort of enjoyed getting out in the fresh air. I was in my 20's, healthy and energetic. But when we moved to our next house, I was happy to see a dryer in the laundry room, especially when baby #3 came along!
 
When I was a boy, I remember walking up and down in a bath
full of wet blankets, it was very boring to a child, but they came
out clean.

Mike.
 

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