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[Poodlepet2]

@VaBelle35, what a contraption!!!! I thought I was going to go nuts ironing DH's uniform shirts when he was in the Air Force-even camouflage! (Like, that would be done in a war zone????), but ironing ruffles????

Bras and underwear???? I take it brassieres back then we're all cotton with no underwire?

No doubt you grew up with the same warning I did: never go driving without making sure you are wearing clean underwear. If you were in an accident, you wouldn't want to go to hospital wearing dirty underwear....

I gotta ask-back to ironing bras....did your grandmother shape them into a cone, starch and then iron???

Thanks for the picture!

Poodlepet2

[ALRATIBA]

Doing loundry isn't something I look forward to.  

One of the many advantages of living in an apartment house ...I can do three loads of laundry all at the same time. 

I generally only do laundry when I have enough for a load each of whites, colors and blacks.  

[VaBelle35]

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@Poodlepet2 wrote:

@VaBelle35, what a contraption!!!! I thought I was going to go nuts ironing DH's uniform shirts when he was in the Air Force-even camouflage! (Like, that would be done in a war zone????), but ironing ruffles????

Bras and underwear???? I take it brassieres back then we're all cotton with no underwire?

No doubt you grew up with the same warning I did: never go driving without making sure you are wearing clean underwear. If you were in an accident, you wouldn't want to go to hospital wearing dirty underwear....

I gotta ask-back to ironing bras....did your grandmother shape them into a cone, starch and then iron???

Thanks for the picture!

Poodlepet2

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@Poodlepet2  All cotton bras.  She used the sleeve/cuff contraption on the ironing board to iron the cups.

[Mominohio]

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@giddy up wrote:

I like doing laundry because I like my machinery which I carefully picked out.  I have two washers, one Whirlpool and one Speed Queen, and one Whirlpool dryer.  I alternate using the washers and love each of them for different geeky reasons.  No outside line drying but I have a couple of inside lines in my basement that I sometimes hang large blankets on for drying.  Most of the time I use my dryer though and love my sheets fresh from the dryer.

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@giddy up

I can't imagine having two machines, but I would love it! My husband would think me nuts!

In our community, a lot of farm families have two machines, one for the really dirty farm clothing and the other for regular laundry and linens.

I have heard of really large families having more than one washer too. 

I'd think I was pretty high society if I could have another washer and a Speed Queen at that! 

You are living my dream!!!!

[Mominohio]

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@VaBelle35 wrote:

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@Mominohio wrote:

I love doing laundry! I really like most all housework.

I find it very satisfying to clean, arrange and care for the things we work so hard to have. I feel a sense of duty to honor the things we have been blessed with ( a home, nice furnishings, a decent car etc.) by taking good care of them, and I enjoy the process of doing so.

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When I go on a first date with someone, I always want to see their car.  It tells me a lot about them.  Not the year or the cost, but how they treat it, take care of it and if it's a trash heap.

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@VaBelle35

Oh so true!

Most people I know who trash a car do the same with just about everything they own.

We were raised to keep a car clean, inside and out, and keep it for many years. A car was still considered a luxury, and a very large investment, when I was a kid and treated as such. When we finally had two cars (more toward my teen years), we really thought we had 'made it'!

[Mominohio]

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@ALRATIBA wrote:

Doing loundry isn't something I look forward to.  

One of the many advantages of living in an apartment house ...I can do three loads of laundry all at the same time. 

I generally only do laundry when I have enough for a load each of whites, colors and blacks.  

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@ALRATIBA

When I used to have to go to the laundromat, I loved getting the laundry done all at once. It was fun to me, to load up all the washers and dryers and fold everything in those large batches! 

[MyShadowLove]

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@Mominohio wrote:

I love doing laundry! I really like most all housework.

I find it very satisfying to clean, arrange and care for the things we work so hard to have. I feel a sense of duty to honor the things we have been blessed with ( a home, nice furnishings, a decent car etc.) by taking good care of them, and I enjoy the process of doing so.

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@Mominohio...What a beautiful way of expressing the loving care of a home....I have to share that I basically feel the same way, although I can't say that I
"really like most all housework"...lol...I just don't take for granted of what we have worked very hard for and definitely feel very blessed.