Originally Posted by
quiltingshorttimer
reading this thread reminded me of my Mom's dry iron that was heavy, hot and so old that it had a cord that had a woven covering.
It brought back lots of childhood memories for my sis and I--learning to iron with pillow cases and my Dad's hankerchiefs, my Mom using a 7-Up bottle with a sprinkler stopper to dampen the clothes and then placed in a plastic bag overnite to prepare to iron--all things that younger folks won't experience.
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Wow! Those are "my" memories, also. Ironing handkerchieves, then moving on to learning how to properly iron shirts, then pants, etc.
I think my mother's sprinkling bottle was an empty ketchup bottle...lol...and roll everything up, stick it in a bag, then off to the 'icebox' (it was really a refrigerator but my mother always called it an icebox) until she had a chance to iron them.
My first paying job (@ age 15) was ironing the dresses, shirts and pants of the elderly residents of the nursing home that my mother worked at. I think I was paid a dime per item!!