maviskw

Too bad! The dry irons are not available.

I only use distilled water in my iron; when I want to use steam. It is cheap enough: about a dollar for a gallon. Since I have quite hard water, I don't want to put that into my $20.00 iron that I've had for about 20 years. Works well.

Do you remember curtain stretchers? My mother had them in the 40's. I had to help put the curtains on it, and picked my fingers way too many times. They were frames as big as the curtains, and could be changed to fit different size curtains. After the curtains were washed and rinsed, they were put on the frames, which had little nails sticking out about every half inch all around the side. We put the four corners onto the corner nails, and then had to push the edges onto each nail all the way around. Every half inch. Didn't like that at all. All the curtains (six or eight of them) were put onto the stretcher and then they were left to dry. Then when they were put back on the window, they hung straight.