“Once I helped one of them do her laundry, she was really quite efficient about it, it didn't take nearly as long as one would have thought. And yes she warned me several times about keeping my hands out of the wringer!”
Even though doing the laundry with a wringer washer is full time hands on, there is no faster or more efficient way to do a weeks worth of laundry! I’ve always said, if I had the set up for one, either a kitchen large enough, a laundry room with a laundry tub or a bathroom big enough to roll the wringer washer up to the tub for rinsing, thats the way I’d be doing my laundry even today. It’s zen like, almost theraputic, and I know most reading this will think I’m crazy. But don’t knock it if you haven’t tried it, its kinda fun.
And you do need to be very careful to keep your fingers out of the wringer. My Mom, when she was about 6 and her sister were playing with a sock once, running it back and forth through the wringer while Gradma was hanging some rinsed laundry, and Mom didn’t let go of the sock in time. she got her hand up to ther wrist caught before Grandma could release the wringer. As a result she had a ganglion cyst on that wrist that she had to have removed when she was 33. It was about the size of my thumb, I remember going to the doctor with her the day it was removed,
There is also an old fashioned Mid Western saying for someone that is all “het up” over something, “They must have got a t*t caught in the wringer”, LOL. I use it all the time, reminds me of my grandparents.
Eddie[this post was last edited: 10/8/2018-22:06]
Even though doing the laundry with a wringer washer is full time hands on, there is no faster or more efficient way to do a weeks worth of laundry! I’ve always said, if I had the set up for one, either a kitchen large enough, a laundry room with a laundry tub or a bathroom big enough to roll the wringer washer up to the tub for rinsing, thats the way I’d be doing my laundry even today. It’s zen like, almost theraputic, and I know most reading this will think I’m crazy. But don’t knock it if you haven’t tried it, its kinda fun.
And you do need to be very careful to keep your fingers out of the wringer. My Mom, when she was about 6 and her sister were playing with a sock once, running it back and forth through the wringer while Gradma was hanging some rinsed laundry, and Mom didn’t let go of the sock in time. she got her hand up to ther wrist caught before Grandma could release the wringer. As a result she had a ganglion cyst on that wrist that she had to have removed when she was 33. It was about the size of my thumb, I remember going to the doctor with her the day it was removed,
There is also an old fashioned Mid Western saying for someone that is all “het up” over something, “They must have got a t*t caught in the wringer”, LOL. I use it all the time, reminds me of my grandparents.
Eddie[this post was last edited: 10/8/2018-22:06]
