Yep, count me in the older than dirt crowd. Now when I was small we would not only "sprinkle" the clothes with the Coke bottle with stopper; THEN we would roll the clothes up and put them in the refrigerator for a couple of days....now don't know if that really did anything of my Mom just didn't want to iron them right then !
We had a wringer washer in the kitchen that had to be hooked up to the sink every time we'd wash; more than one time the hose would "jump" out of the sink and cover the kitchen with water !