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[Carmie]

Yes, my mother had a wringer washer.  She fought like heck to keep it.  When the automatic washers came out, she refused to get one and had my father run all over to see if anyone still had wringer washers in stock..just in case hers broke.

As a child, I used the wash tubs to swim in.  We had a lot of fun.

i learned to sew on buttons at a very yong age...maybe at 5 years old.  Those wringers broke a lot of buttons on shirts.

[Scooby Doo]

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@patbz wrote:

I'm 76 and there may have been one of these before I started school in 1949 but what I do remember was a rangal (?)ironing machine that my Mom used thru early 1950s to do her sheets ( that was before non press). She'd put her sheets through it (it was huge and definitely dangerous to kids) and they came out pressed.

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We had one that was named Ironrite.

[threecees]

Remember it, I can see it every time I go to my Mom's house.

She stills has and uses her wringer washer. It's the ONLY

type of washing machine she has ever used.

By the way, I am nowhere near 60 @ECBG 

[J Town Girl]

My mother had one and I remember watching her run the clothes from the washer into the rinse tub and then through the wringer.  She never allowed me to help because she was always afraid that I would get my hand caught in the wringer. 

When she finally broke down and purchased an automatic washer my sister-in-law wanted to have her wringer washer.  She said that no automatic washer got the clothes as clean as those machines did.  Fortunately my brother talked her out of it.  

I remember the hours that it took for my Mom to wash the clothes and then take them out to the yard to hang on the clothesline.  I remember many times we had to run out and quickly take the clothes down because it started to rain.

Once my Mom got an automatic w/d she wondered how she ever managed to handle that hard chore.   She also felt the same way when she got her first automatic dishwasher.

Housework was definitely more difficult for the ladies of past generations.  

[skatting44]

 This photo gave  me a chuckle  . Yes, you'd be older than 65 to remember having a wringer washer in your home.  I remember our family had an Ammana microwave by 1968.

   When I lived on my own  in 1976 , I  could not afford a washer nor dryer  so my husband bought  me a  wringer washer from  some  elderly neighbor. Well, at first I had the  wringer washer  model that was not electric as this picture depicts . It had a hand crank , I complained so much that he  found one that was electric. I can only say that  the machine  could not handle the zippers on blue jeans  and feeding the clothes into the wringer  was a little tricky to prevent pinching your fingers.  It took alot of time doing  laundry  . Luckily , we were able  to  save enough money by not going to a laundromat to eventually afford   a new  Kenmore washer & dryer set. 

[tucsongal]

My aunt and uncle lived on a farm and they had one that was not as fancy as this one.  I used to love helping her put clothes through the ringer and then hang them up on the huge clothesline outside. I’m 62. 

[Catty2]

One my favorite childhood memories is doing laundry with my grandmother with that kind of machine.  They we'd hang the clothes outside with wooden clothespins.  

[Kitlynn]

My Grandmother had one and used it for years!

[January121]

I am over 60 & I never saw one of these in any of my relatives houses🙃

[hckynut]

@ECBG 

Near 60? Yep, 21 years ago!

I remember it very well. When we lived in Public Housing Projects, our wash day was Sunday. Because my mom worked 6 days a week? Ours was a Maytag I believe.

There was a laundry building room over a block away, so my 2 sisters and myself, helped our mom get the clothes there. They had locked fenced in rooms to hang some clothes and store the washer.

My mother taught all of us how to use it, how much water to soap, and so on. Every Sunday we made our trip in the early morning to "clothes wash" day. Some clothes we brought back to our apartment and hung outside on a clothesline. Spring loaded clothespins.

Seems like just a few years ago, but it was closer to 70+ years ago.

hckynut