When I was small, our well water was salty so we hauled our dirty laundry to my Granparents house. They had a wringer washer that my Grandpa had put an electric motor on. Until I was old enough to hang the clothes on the line, my job was to catch them as they came out of the ringer. After we had a new well dug, we had our own washer/dryer. The washer was a suds saver, which meant the same water was used for all the clothes- whites first. The dryer was only used in the winter.