Originally Posted by
jcrow
My mom had one and use to iron all our sheets and other things. It was huge!! I remember her sweating while she worked. She didn't seem to enjoy it. Now I wonder "why did she iron our sheets?"
She ironed your sheets because everything wrinkled. Usually they were hung on the line to dry. When I was a young girl, my aunt had one of those big ironing machines. I thought that was the best thing ever. When I was about 10, I started out ironing hankerchiefs, sp., and table napkins, then moved on to pillow cases, then up to table cloths. There was no permanent press, so everything had to be ironed. One day was wash day, the next was ironing day. And we complain...