"Antique Washer and Dryer Set"

[mr-maytag]

Get a load of this:

http://duluth.craigslist.org/atq/2647051563.html

 

[mixguy]

Maytag Wringer

My mother had a square tub model like the one pictured until 1971. The washer had a gravity drain (np pump). Rinsing was done by hand using a #3 tub on a table that raised to tub to the same height as the washer. The wringer was pivoted around to "wring" rinsed clothing into the clothes basket to be taken to the line to dry. In the time it took on load to becompleted in an outomatic, my mom had three loads of laundry washed, rinsed and hungout on the line to dry. Most pieces were dry in about 2 hours of hanging time too! I miss the smell of lined dried sheets when the linens were changed!

 

[mr-maytag]

...I was thinking more of the humor of how the seller is calling one machine a washer and one a dryer!

 

[Ultramatic]

Hmmmm...

<span style="font-size: medium;">Not the sharpest knife in the drawer.</span>

 

[wringer]

OK

So I am a dummy. Which is the dryer ??????????????????? What makes some people know how to breath? LOL Thanks for posting the most humorous post of the day Ted

 

[mr-maytag]

LOL I guess the Speed Queen is supposed to be the dryer. Definitely not the sharpest knife in the drawer!

 

[lebron]

Of course this shows up in MY city! Where is a working Frigidaire for under 100 bucks? ( dreaming IK ^_^ )

 

[laundromat]

I hear it all the time. Not many people are that smart about their home economics or the brand name of appliances they have at home. They look at them like most lawn care ignoramuses would a Lawn Boy."It's just a lawn mower. What difference does it make what kind it is?" I had some female customers call their Frigidaire washer a "G and E" only because it was purchased at the Gas and Electric company.But, most claimed their washer is either a Whirlpool or a Lady Kenmore. Then, I'd go to their house and find that it's a GE/Hotpoint or a Frigidaire.However, if I asked them what kind of vehicle they drive is or who their phone company is, they'd know without a doubt what the answer was.

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

Now you wouldn't call your FORD a CHEVY, now would you??

Well, if some of the above is true, then generic bleach is CLOROX, and a store-brand cleanser is AJAX, and a private-label window cleaner is WINDEX!

Worked at one place & kept hearing "SHIELD-O-SHINE", which was a brand name for stainless steel cleaner no-longer used, or really used long-before I was working there... It got replaced by a more simpler, one-name product, I'd never heard anyone mention: GLINT... (Guess I wouldn't, either; "Steel Cleaner", for me, then!"...)

-- Dave

 

[tomturbomatic]

I did not see a price. The poor soul did get the model numbers. I wonder why he or she recognized one as a washer, but not the other. It's not like one is a wringer and one an automatic.

 

[easyspindry]

Give the poor fool a break . . .

. . . maybe they're just using the term washer/dryer as a generic for both. Whoever posted this probably doesn't know one from the other.

Mixguy: I still hang my sheets out to dry. If it's bad weather, I save them until the sun shines. There's almost nothing better than the smell of sheets dried outside in the fresh air.

Jerry Gay

 

[jetcone]

no

if you bolt the gyratator to the ceiling, the maytag will spin back and forth and your clothes will get dry --eventually!!