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What do you remember that your kids or grandkids would find strange?

Heather Echola @GardenGerty (169449) • United States 28 Mar 13

I was talking to my son's girlfriend this morning and mentioned that I actually remember my grandmother boiling a huge caldron or pot under the trees to wash her clothes in. Stirring the laundry with a stick. Then rinsing it out,...

laundry in the past

old time things

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Do you hang clothes to dry?

peavey @peavey (16936) • United States 18 Jan 07

Dryers take a lot of electricity or gas and they wear out clothes, too. I know some places don't allow outside clotheslines but do you hang clothes, either outside or inside, to dry?

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Clothes Dryer or Line Dried?

Ashida @Ashida (1370) • United States 27 Dec 06

Sometimes I miss clothes that have been hung on a line to dry. When I was little, Mom used to hang up our clothes on one of those outside hangers that looked like a huge white TV antenna. The jeans would come off the line like...

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