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Old 04-11-2011, 08:59 AM
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Parrothead
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I love all the posts, such fun reading and traveling down memory lane. My Mother did not have a dryer until late 1960 so I grew up with clotheslines. (I am 70) I remember the wringer washer, the clothes pin bag, hanging the right way, clothes pins in my mouth so I didn't have to go back to the bag! LOL When I first got married in 1956 we did not have money for washer or dryer. Finally got a washer wwhen first baby was about 6 months old so I had been boiling diapers on the stove and hanging out to dry. Then we finally got a dryer when 3rd child was born. That was when I realized I missed the smell of sheets hung out to dry. Moved to Upstate NY and fourth girl was born in 1973 (16 years after the first) and no dryer. So diapers were hung on the line (and it bleaches them if sun is out) and in winter they would freeze. So had to hang them inside on one of those wooden things that fold out and had rods to hang clothes over. My Daddy bought me a dryer and I haven't hung clothes since. But I do miss that smell of the sheets.
Thanks for the memories.
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