jullo:

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Looks like somebody doesn't have a clue how to use a wringer washer!  

And I thought it was those old electric ironers that were considered manglers......guess I was wrong LOL!

I don't remember clothes wrapping all around the rollers like in the video. That was a small wringer too. Big towels wouldn't go thru that very well. Watching that video I almost wanted a machine like that. If I bought a wringer people would think I was nuts. I already got lots of flak for not having a dryer. No laundry tub though for rinsing clothes. E

elovestea:

I don't remember clothes wrapping all around the rollers like in the video. That was a small wringer too.

Clothes don't wrap around the wringers like that unless you do something to make them. That was a newer machine - the old ones have wider wringers and more room to maneuver clothes. 

 You like myself are blessed to live in the country on a farm, we have 100 acres that have been in my family for 4 generations,(I'm4th), and I would not have it any other way. Prior to working 14 years in EMS, I was astay at home mom and wife, and raised nearlly everything we at. Raised and butchered chickens,hogs,ducks, pheasants and a huge garden. There is not many things that at one time or another that I have not canned. We ate like kings, were healthier and happier. We didnt spend $50 a month at the grocery, and that was for things we couldnt grow. I intend to go back to that this year as I may not be employable with my limitations from a back and shoulder injury from work. We have 2 adult sons (age 26 and 22) who are more than willing to help me do the things that Im limited in while the hubby works his job. There is more here in the country to see and hear than in any town for me. SO pick you up and brush you off, you will be better. especially when the weather warms a bit and us farm folks can play in the dirt. Chin up.

 I bet grandma used lye soap with the wringer washer, best soap for cleaning,  you can clean anything with lye soap, From dirty little boys to windows to laundry. Lye soap is kinda fun to make too. Heaven forbid there are still smokers out there,lol, a set cloth and lye soap will remove nicotin from your car windows inside. I know this from experience. Give it a try.

So here's one for you ladies, .  My husband and I are gearing up for our week-long medieval re-enactment in March.  Nothing but medieval clothes and armor and a tent to sleep in all weekend.

Being noble people, we, of course, have a fine tent.  A brand-new, in fact, 14'x14' tent, with a porch that's a further 7' out from it.  All canvas, 6' tall at the shortest point.  We put down a tarp and then cover it with oriental rugs that we've bought cheap at yard sale (I think my husband rescued a couple from the dump, actually), so we have wall-to-wall carpeting in our tent.  We have a clothes rack so we can hang up our clothes.  We have a desk that I use as a dressing table, complete with a standing mirror. 

But, most wonderful of all, is our "indoor plumbing" by way of an antique chamber pot!  We've been talking about building a toliet-box to house it so using it will be like using the toliet at home (well, more or less), but I don't know if we will have time to make it or not before March. 

Before the real chamber pot there was a coffee can chamber pot.  It worked, but wasn't as good as a real chamber pot.  You will never know the love of a white enamel chamber pot with handle and lid until you wake up at 2am and it's 40 degrees outside and the nearest porta potty is halfway down the road.  Ah, to not have to put on your cloak and your shoes and leave your nice warm tent (yes, it's warm--because we heat it with a propane heater) and go out in the cold and use a cold toliet and then come back to your tent and have to put everything away again before getting back into bed.  I eventually told the ladies that camp with us what exactly that coffee can was for that I took down the road with me in the mornings, then brought back.  And several of them went out and made their own version of the coffee can (some use a 5 gallon bucket with a trash bag and kitty litter in it).

I figure you can't get more back to the past than having (and using) a chamber pot, LOL.  Although I've secretly lusted after a treadle sewing machine too!  But what would I do with it?  I already have two regular machines, an embroidery machine and a serger!  I think I will have to content myself with letting my spinning wheel be my antique furniture decoration (still need to get cotton to spin on it; worsted wool was all wrong for it, although it did dog hair really well, so I think it is gear-ratioed for short-staple fibers, like cotton; because it's antique, I have no hope of getting a new flyer and spindle to fit it that will change the gear ratio to handle wool). 

Keriamon, that sounds like fun to me. We have two of those big tents, one is canvas. Both have woodstove for them, to keep you warm in the cold weather. We like the woodstove better than propane as it dryer inside and we are used to that feel as our house also has a woodstove in it and when we are gone, during the winter, I miss my woodstove.

We also have a Hot water on demand shower too, actually we have three for we bought one, when they first came out, then about two years later, we saw a nicer on, that has a battery pump on it, for more pressure, and the third one, is so much better, for you can pump all the water you want, for it has a pump, but with a 12v. battery you can pump your hearts content, so we always take it now, when we go primative camping.

Have a good time in March, and I will be here, pouting, cause I can't go then too. LOL

The camping part does sound like fun. That is alot of stuff to haul around with you. Have fun next month. E

 Keriamom,

May you enjoy your excursion away from this time and place.