LoisM

Like many of you, I had a small wooden ironing board and a little red iron that warmed. I would iron my dad's handkerchiefs and SOCKS! When I got a bit older, I ironed his boxer shorts. LOL!

jeanredner

I rember hanging out diapers and they would freeze before you finished hanging them.I was very young and dumb with my first one, I was told to sterilize the diapers so I put them in a large pot and boiled them.My neighbor came over and asked what I had on the stove and I told her diapers.When she could finally stop laughing she explained how to wash them.Lol

fairydawn

Yup, still have an old wooden kids ironing board and iron. My girls used it when they were young too. Pulled it out for the grand daughters when they came over but, they had no interest in it. I still iron {real} my clothing weekly.

Steady Stiching

No toy iron for me.....Back in the early sixtys you ironed with a real hot iron and just had to be careful LOL!
Four girls in our family...you ironed starting age 6 and what you ironed was dependet on your age and yes...you always started on the hankies and moved up. By the time I was ten I was allowed to do sheets and pillowcases on the mangle. I thank my mother for those lesson. Few people today know how to iron a shirt properly. We had the sprinkler bottle.
I do wish I had toys...but mother was practical.

maryb119

I had a little ironing board and iron too. I learn to iron "for real" practicing on dad's hankerchiefs and pillowcases. I had a miniature china tea set that matched mom's good china. It was white with tiny pink roses on it. I still have it. Oh the memories....

nana20010

i had the iron no ironing board iron gave to me but loved ply house

pinecone

I had one of those and I have DMIL's little sad iron that she had. It would have been placed on the woodstove to heat up. I have 2 inserts for it as those would stay on the stove to be ready to use when the other cooled down. NO temperature control there.......and she lived to tell about it, Jan. lol

Oh Jan, what a hoot!! Yes, we must be protected. *eye roll*

piney

Scakes

I remember the irons. And the easy bake ovens. That was a long time ago. LOL. Haven't thought about those things in ages. Thanks for the memories.

ragquilter

That is so true, Jan! I raised 4 kids of my own (20s and 30s now) and babysat countless others, I never lost one of them (except for a few minutes anyway)and none were ever harmed beyond what a kiss and a band-aid could cure. I also had an iron like Judy and a china tea set, glass and electricity for a small child, what were my parents thinking. Kids today miss out on a lot being bubble wrapped until high school.

Lyncat

I got the toy ironing board and iron for Christmas when I was three, in 1959. My brother got a ride-on wench truck. It had a seat on the roof of the truck. When I was six, the big gift was a beauty shop doll with a beauty shop chair. Good times!