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[Gorgf]

Yes we had a Maytag which was square and two rinse tubs. It was finally sold after 35+ years as my Mother kept it to wash throw rugs and work clothes even after getting an Automatic Washer in the early 60s.

First the sheets and towels and then light soiled clothing, everyday wear and last work clothes. My Dad's uniform shirt was starched and ironed in the starch cooked on the stove. I recall the pop bottles with the sprinkler top to iron. Everything was ironed. I ironed the stuff that wasn't too important, like handkerchiefs. 

Washing took nearly a whole day and lugging the baskets of wet clothes upstsirs to hang outside up just so. Nothing I side out. My Mother had colds alot and my Dad said it was from in and out with the laundry in Winter. He didn't help her out but she never mowed the lawn or washed the car either. It hung in the basement when too cold to hang outside.  I am 68 years old.

[Boehm Collector]

Both my mother and my grandmother had one.   I'm 64.  

[1Snickers]

That's a newer model than the ones my grandmothers had!  We had one in Germany and I was afraid the cat would get caught in it.

  Those machines did a terrible job on buttons in the wringer!

[LMinAZ]

My mom had one.  I used to watch her put the clothing in, and use a wooden dowel to push everything into the water.  I found the wooden dowel, when I cleaned out my parents' home.  LIke mother, like daughter.  I have kept it, and made a little vignette in my utility room, with the dowel, a basket of wooden clothes pins, and a wooden reel holding the clothes line she used, to peg the wash in summer.  

[RedTop]

Mamaw and my aunt had this model washer where the lid was a separate piece.  

Mom, my farm grandma, and I had Maytag models with hinged lids.   I turned 65 this week.   Mom and grandma had double rinse tubs, as the second rinse either had bluing for the whites, or starch.   

Due to iron water, I went to the laundrymat for many years to wash whites, sheets, and nice clothing.   I used my wringer washer for towels, jeans, my husbands work clothes, and rugs.  

I truly enjoyed using that washer, and both girls learned the hard way not to put their fingers near the roller!  

[hckynut]

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@Desertdi wrote:

Ours wasn't so fancy and shiny.......looked more like some kind of torture machine.    Big hand crank on the side of the rollers so you could get heavier items thru..........and to release items that wound themselves around the rollers and got stuck.......

@Desertdi 

Our Maytag was also much more mechanical, I am guessing years older. Ours had like a big gear shift handle on the side. It was used to start the agitator. If memory serves me right, you could use it to select different agitator speeds.

The wrong had some sort of knob on the top to adjust for the thickness of what you were wringing out the excess water. You could adjust it to a level to squeeze more out, or also to run clothes through it several times. It also had a hand crank that rotated 360°, built up arm muscles!

Guess I didn't look close enough at this apparent updated and newer version.

hckynut

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[Mz iMac]

Go to wash board cleaner---> Octagon Soap.

When using the wash boards, my mother scrubbed whites w/Octagon Soap before throwing them into the wringer washer.

She won't admit it, but I swear she also used that soap on us kids while giving us a bath in the washboard tubs too.  We all have dry skin.

To this day, my mother still uses Octogon soap.  Only now she scrapes the soap like a carrot & puts the pieces into the machine along w/Tide instead of using bleach.

I use Octogon soap scrapes on whites instead of bleach.   I throw them into the wash along w/the Tide pods.

Shoprite sells it in the laundry section.  Still comes paper wrapped but neater. 

[LdyBugz]

I have a very vague memory of my mom having one of these contraptions.  So glad I never had to use one!  For those of you wondering how to use this thing, here's a link to a You Tube video:

 https://youtu.be/gumYzYttxz0

[deeva]

My mother had one. We also had a washboard, and I still have one.

When I first got married, my MIL had a wringer washer.

She was so upset when she had to get an automatic washer, because she could reuse the wash water. 

[Still Raining]

They were a pain.  Gravity feed drain and manual feed fill.  So you wash, wring, drain, fill, rinse, wring.  Then came came the moment of truth - second rinse or no?  Oh the guilt.

And the wringers could pull buttons out.

Everybody, go kiss your washer!