Warshing Clothes

[CuPcAkE]

Just keep these facts in mind the next time you are told
to do laundry!!!

WARSHING CLOTHES

Years ago a Kentucky grandmother gave a new bride the following recipe for washing clothes. It appears below just as it was written, and despite the spelling, has a bit of philosophy. This is an exact
copy as written and found in an old scrapbook (with spelling errors and all). Some of the younger people might have to ask a grandparent to explain this.

Warshing Clothes

01. Bilt fire in backyard to heat kettle of rain water.
02. Set tubs so smoke wont blow in eyes if wind is pert.
03. Shave one hole cake of lie soap in bilin water
04. Sort things, make 3 piles, 1 pile white, 1 pile
colored, 1 pile work britches and rags.
05. To make starch, stir flour in cool water to smooth,
then thin down with bilin water.
06. Take white things, rub dirty spots on board, scrub
hard, and then bile. Rub colored, don't bile, just rinch and starch.
07. Take things out of kettle with broomstick handle,
then rinch, and starch.
08. Hang old rags on fence.
09. Spread tea towels on grass.
10. Pore rinch water in flower bed.
11. Scrub porch with hot soapy water.
12. Turn tubs upside down.
13. Go put on clean dress, smooth hair with hair combs.
14. Brew cup of tea, sit an rock a spell and count your
blessings. We're so fortunate to have all that we have.

* * Paste this over your washer and dryer and next time when you think your life is bleak, read it again and give thanks for your blessings!

[WVsnowflake]

Forgot a part! My gran said when there was not enought rain water she had to carry water bout .1/4 mile to fill the rain barrels.

[Sinker]

Reckon ah'd go dirty,mos'ly!!!

[olhillbilly]

Reckon I'd just take a dust bath, like the chickens. We all know dust is a preservative.
Nuthin like preservin my hide.

[tocools]

Thank you CC that was good and really hits home.

[jake]

I certainly remember my mother using the wringer washer. Not only did SHE use IT....IT used HER! She leaned way over once to push the clothes back through and the rollers caught her tummy. It bruised her up pretty good, but mostly, everyone got a good laugh out of it. I remember the bluing that she used for whitening.
I am soooooo thankful for modern conveniences.

[uncledave]

I STILL HANG MY CLOTHES OUT IS THAT STRANGE?? I HATE TOWELS IN THE DRYER

[olhillbilly]

Thats prolly cuz yer wife dont wanna be smellin em. hehe ;D

[linda53]

I got married when I was 19. My grandma had a Maytag ringer washer at her house, but she was getting old and lived with my Mom. I ask her if I could use the washer . So the very first washer I had in my home was a ringer. It did the job. That was back in 72.

[linda53]

P.S. I still have my grandmas wash board. it hangs over my dryer.

[sweetwench]

linda53:
I too still have my grandmothers washboard, and I still use it. I also have a small cake of lye soap. Sometimes theirs nothing like good old human power to do what gots to be done and...

Uncledave, your not crazy,
I still hang up washing on the line, specially during the summer months, cuts back on the electric bill and nothing bleaches better than the sun.

[SpyderLady]

My dad had given me an old wash board and I use to get oily stains on my shirts from work. I tried every thing imaginable to get them out. I thought I would give one of them a good scrubbin. Well, needless to say, I don't know how to use one, or I didn't realize my own strength...lmao, I rub a hole right thru that shirt.

[hootnannie]

ROFLMAF, SPYDIE YOU AIN'T SUPPOST TO SCRUB TILL THERE IS A WHOLE, IFIN THE STAIN DON'T SCRUB OUT, STOP SCRUBBING, IT AIN'T COMING OUT SWEETIE.


I KNOW THAT THERE ARE SOME ON HERE THAT REMEMBER THE OLD RINGER WASHERS, WITH TWO EXTRA WASH TUBS FOR THE RINCH WATER. 24 YEARS AGO, I USE TO DO MY SONS DIPPERS EVERY DAY IN ONE, AND I WOULD HANG THEM OUT ON THE LINE. THEN I WOULD TAKE THEM IN AND IRON THEM, WAS THAT CRAZY OR WHAT? ;D

[critter]

Until I moved up here to the lake a couple years ago,I still used an old Maytag wringer washer and double tubs for my work clothes.It's hard to beat them for getting clothes clean.I think Buttons was glad I didn't drag them up here,she prefers the automatic washer and dryer...go figure

[CuPcAkE]

I am glad that we don't have one, I would be in the ER every Wednesday and Sunday whenever I do laundry My aunt and uncle had one when I would go stay with them, that looked dangerous and she almost got her arm stuck in it once when I was up there

[SpyderLady]

I wonder if it has a emergency stop and a reverse?!!

[cenaub4]

Well, some here know my mum, she got her hair, long hair, caught in the wringer, just once! She did have a bald patch to grow out, for a spell, after that!

I have made lye soap, and would again. If you age it well, it is good stuff.

Ahem, I'm spoilt, and deserve it. Cupcake you can truck your wash to California, and we'll both use my Duet machines!

If'n anyone wonders where I've been, my computer died, and I've just gotten it a heart transplant!