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Old Washer

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"The classes that wash most are those that work least."
- G.K. Chesterton

My grandmother, a farmer, had a washer much like this. When I was a young child I used to love help do laundry by feeding the wet clothes through the wringer and seeing them come out all flat on the other side. Then out to the clothesline where I wouldn't so much as help but mainly gather up horse-chestnuts from under the trees. I couldn't reach the line.


posted by jeremy on July 25, 2003 in Categories: Miscellaneous
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i think we should take this if it's still on the neighbor's lawn. it could make a cool end table in the basement. or something.

posted by: irish-girl on July 25, 2003 09:56 AM

that's really nice :)

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posted by: Lily on July 28, 2003 06:19 PM

My mom had a wringer washer when I was a kid. First, she would have the wringer pointed towards the first washtub full of rinse water, then the second tub for another rinse. I thought it was cool when she had the ringer swung around to the basket for the final ringout and the sheets would kind of fold themselves as they came through the ringer into the basket to be hung on the line. We have it so easy now!

posted by: Lauri on July 29, 2003 04:01 PM

this picture says a lot!

the first thing i thought when i saw it was: maytags last forever. the second thing was a memory i have of sticking my hand through the wringer of my mom's wringer washer when i was around three. i always did dumb stuff like that to see what would happen.

i guess we have it easier today but there is something lost. i loved watching my mom wash the clothes, helping her to hang them out to dry in the fresh air. now i spend all my time on my butt at this computer.

there should be a special town where we could go to get away from the kind of artificial world we live in today. spend a week fishing in a pond, or skipping stones across the water, pulling a kid in a wagon and using a wringer washer. the real life! ;)

ciao

posted by: teri on August 26, 2003 04:35 PM


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