Well, I guess I just HAVE to add my two cents worth to this one. I got married at the ripe age of 15 in 1965. We bought a wringer washer because it was what I was accustom to. The washer went through 3 kids and 12 years of that marriage. In 1980 I had to move & sold the washer to a friend who STILL has it!!! I have a dryer. It sits in the basement waiting for the day that I might get an electric plug in to plug it in to......in the meantime, I have two clotheslines. One is in the backyard and the other is on the front porch (for rainy days). Guess you know which clothes line I have been using; hunh? Will this rain EVER stop? Spent this evening removing stones and rocks from our freshly plowed and disced three acres. As I slung them to the sides I wondered if there really will come a time when we can get our veggies in. Rose ----- Original Message ----- From: "Warren & Kathleen Barrett" <furndr@tenforward.com> To: <PABRADFO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2000 9:01 PM Subject: [PABRADFO] wringer washers > I am the 7th of 10 children. I was born in 1941 and my mother continued > using her wringer washer well into the late 50's and early 60's. She just > didn't want to make the switch. She taught me how to use the washer, and > how to lift the clothing from the very hot wash and rinse waters with a > stout rod--then using the rod to get the clothing started as they were put > into the wringer. Once I was assigned the job of helping my sister-in-law > learn to use the washer when she and my brother were staying with us. I > guess I got a little sidetracked. When my sister-in-law said something had > jambed the wringer, I told her the problem was my arm was caught in > it--almost up to the elbow. I didn't suffer anything from that experience > except embarrassment. > > My mother also had a hard time using a clothes dryer. She seldom used one > even when one was in our home. She preferred hanging them on the clothes > line. That is one experience I really miss--gathering freshly washed and > dried clothes from the outside clothes line. They still smelled good when > in the winter they froze on the line and had to be thawed inside the house > on an old wooden clothes rack. Thanks for the memories. > > Kathleen Barrett > Port Angeles, WA > > >