No Rinse Tide!

[twintubdexter]

I guess that's what all those dual concrete washtubs were for...rinsing...or as my mom used to say, "rinching." She had one in the backyard and grew Italian parsley one one side and basil on the other. All the info posted on this thread is very interesting. Thanks to all those who contributed.

 

[mickeyd]

Wringing 101

 

 

The wash was wrung from the washer into the first rinse tub and sloshed. Then the wringer was moved to the position between the rinse tubs or sinks, and the load was wrung into the second tub where it was sloshed. Next, the wringer was moved to the third position, now making a total right angle to the washer, and the load was wrung into the waiting basket. This was the standard method.

 

No extra wringers were needed. It might be hard to picture how versatile a wringer is, and I'll try to show the method soon. Again this was very standard, universal practice in most old homes with two set tubs in the basement. All wringers have this versatility, except very ancient ones.

 

Wringer flexibility is probably not widely known unless you've actually used one, because conventional washers are usually pictured with the wringer in only one position, straight across the back of the wash tub.

 

The hand-cranked wringer one sees screwed into old laundry sinks are vestiges of the days when laundry was done "by hand," that is, on a washboard. Once electric conventional washers and their attached movable wringers became common, the hand cranked models were largely abandoned.

[this post was last edited: 5/15/2012-00:14]

 

[alr2903]

Depends on where and how much water you can use...

I enjoyed everyones memories of "wringer laundry day",   both my grandmothers, put  LCB in the first rinse tub, the whites washed in the hottest water soaked in the first tub. Colors were washed second,  as they were put through a wringer by an adult a kid or second adult caught them and tossed them in to the second rinse tub, after a good sloshing the colors went through the wringer and out to the clotheslines. Only then were the whites soaking in the first tub with LCB run through the wringer to the last tub and out to the line. How did your family do the bleaching?   alr

 

[stan]

Another way of doing it

My older brother was born in 1946 Tide was brand new! however there were a lot of young mothers, who still did not even have "the wringer" as war production had stopped making washing machines, even though washer production had resumed, anyone that could afford one, might have to wait there turn!
(something that generation was good at, and was well adept to doing without) same thing with parts, cars, tires, refrigerators, ect.

By 1947 my other brother was here, but still no refrigerator, or washing machine!

Mom thought she was" shitin in tall cotton" because she had a heavy duty glass wash board,
(not one of those that rusted, and bent!) and a deep sink. Yip ee

Her routine was do the soaking during the day while kids were up, and screaming through the house and terrorizing her, then when the varments were asleep, she'd empty the sink/ refilled, and scrubbed/ rinsed and hung out in the dark. Taken in by mid to late afternoon the next day, so the process could be started over. This was just for the cloth diapers. Some how the rest of the wash was squeezed in somehow.

After a while, automatics were new and available, she told my dad she wanted a kenmore automatic, and some Tide detergent, and that if he didn't get for her, she was going to dig his eyes out of his head, as she'd had enough *LOL*
True Story
She got to bypass the wringer all together! No dryer.
Dryer came right after I came along, Wonder what she threatened do do to get the dryer?

 

[countryguy]

Mickeyd,

 

Wringing 101 is the exact method that I remember my mom using.  We didn't have concrete tubs in the basement - instead they were a shiny white (not plastic) material, like the insides of Maytag dishwashers in the late 80s, early 90s, before they went to stainless steel.

 

Gary

 

[cehalstead]

wringing 101

is exactly the method i remember, except add me sneaking the lid up/off while grandma/my aunt was out in the yard hanging a load.....and then hearing: "put that lid back on...you're letting the heat out!!!! I swear, I don't know what's wrong with that boy!!!!"

 

[launderess]

Just Be Grateful They Didn't Go For The Wooden Spoon!

*LOL*

 

[mickeyd]

Thanks guys, I had to set the record straight.

Everyone I knew "rung" that way

I just didn't want anyone thinking that the wringers were stationary. It would have been rude not to correct so silly a notion.

 

Stan, my Gram washed on the same kind of glass board your Mom used and wrung by hand the things she didn't send out to the laundry before she got her Pulsamatic. A hand cranked wringer would have been a luxury. Wringing big bath towels by hand is not easy work.

 

"Grammy" would let me help, standing nice and close to her, and would let me "accidentally" splash water onto the cement floor. How I loved her!

 

[tomjensen]

Surf was First

I believe it was Surf who came up with the idea but they had such a small market share the P&G just piggy backed on their idea and advertised the same thing. The government sued P&G, Lever and Colgate because it didn't work so they had to pay fines and stop advertising it. I have the article somewhere and will dig it up/

 

[tomturbomatic]

Anytime women are polled about revolutionary inventions, the automatic washer is at or near the top of the list. People who never did laundry (mostly men) are surprised.

RE: No rinse detergents. I wonder how dish towels laundered that way reacted when they met wet dishes. Seems like a quick way to get a purgative effect from the dishes, glasses and flatware.