Originally Posted by
deedum
I remember sprinkling the clothes using an old coke bottle with the old metal sprinkler top. I can still get those tops from the Amish store. Then mom would roll up some things and Put in a plastic bag in the fridge to be iron later. Ah. Memories!
All the memories this thread brings back! Our sprinkling bottle was a 7UP bottle. My mom did the same thing with the ironing in the fridge. And bluing, it came in a bottle with a lady on the label but that's all I remember about it. I know when I helped my aunt hang out laundry we had to put the sheets and towels on the outside lines so they would hide the 'unmentionables' from neighbors and passersby. Then when my children were in diapers I remember hanging out 3 lines full of cloth diapers just to have a passing flock of blackbirds land in the closest tree. They had just raided the berry patch and I had to rewash all but 1 diaper!