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[ECBG]

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@jeanlake wrote:

Grandma's back porch - NC - right next to her back porch cupboard with canned fruits and vegetables

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@jeanlake Where in NC?  I'm in NC.

[DustRose]

Yes.  It came with the house my parents brought 

[jeanlake]

@ECBG Grandmother around Saluda and other grandparents around Bryson City - then cousins all over the state and Greenville, SC

[shoekitty]

yes i do.  I am 73 and i remember this machine in the garage when I was 4.  Mom warmed about wringer and fingers.  Lol,  as soon as she told me that I had to do it.  I got a pail turned it upsidedown and touched it.  Then I was screaming, bucket fell and mom was yelling at me.  As soon as fingers released, she paddled me.  There was no  child abuse laws in those days.  We drank out of lead faucets, used lead toys, licked ant spikes, chewed tar, andgot smacked every now and then  remember when parents said, "wipe that smile off your face or smack it the other side of yur head.?"   They might have, lol

[GoneButNotForgotten]

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@Robertak wrote:

yes my Mom told us many times how my brother put his arm thru the wringer somehow

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hahaha! I did the same thing and my mother FREAKED OUT! luckily I was only about 3 or 4 and those little bones are soft and don't break easily so I was ok.

[Melzie]

Yup!  My grandmother had one just like this but WE had the deluxe model with two tubs.  You would wash in one tub and then pass the clothes through the wringer into the tub on the other side into clean water to rinse off the soap.  WOW!  This has brought up a bunch of memories for me and a smile.     

[Buffalogal47]

@ECBG , my mom had a wringer washer. So did all of my aunts. One of my cousins got his arm caught in the wringer so I was always afraid of using that thing. I wish I could go back to 60! I just turned 73 last Saturday.

[shoptilyadropagain]

Growing up my neighbors across the street had one.  I think she was always kind of embarrassed but I was always fascinated by her using it.

[Ladybug724]

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@KatieB wrote:

I remember that washing machine.. My mother had one.  I am 69,soon to be 70.  

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Wait what?! That's a washing machine?? How?

[shoesnbags]

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@KBEANS wrote:

@Maloyo 

So that's where that old adage comes from." She's been put through the wringer." Its amazing how many people have responded just on this thread, and have experienced trauma from this item! Sounds horrifying ! I never saw one and I'd like to keep it that way! 😆  When we look back at all the dangerous items that paved the way for today's modern appliances, it's amazing we survived!  for example, the old fashion fans. bye bye fingers! 

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Good point, @KBEANS .  I remember "floor furnaces" from my childhood days - a metal grill on the floor with a heater underneath that blasted up hot air into the room. Naturally the metal grill got really hot and could even melt rubber shoe soles if you stood on the grill too long as opposed to just walking over it!  My friend's little sister had grill marks on her butt because as a toddler she ran out of the bathroom naked, slipped and landed on the floor furnace. Just the thought of having this in a house with children seems horrible, but before that we had gas space heaters with an open flame behind the grill. Yes, it is amazing that we survived, I guess.