Practically Classics Forum

By Christ ,I'd forgotten those wooden tongs , are we all over 50 ? Don't recall a mangle in our household ,but we did have a "tin bath", and an outdoor bog..We was poor..

Zipgun, I got one of those washers from a charity shop for my first
house. The charity shop said "we don't know how to work it" so I
got it for a fiver!

I am not over 50, I'm 36. My second washing machine was a twintub,
and the first modern washing machine I had before moving back into
my parents, mother broke with her horse blankets

As for those woodern tongs, well they still get used to pick up dirty
laundry and push them around in a bucket of hot soapy water if they
are that bad! (remember my dads a plumber)

zipgun wrote:By Christ ,I'd forgotten those wooden tongs , are we all over 50 ? Don't recall a mangle in our household ,but we did have a "tin bath", and an outdoor bog..We was poor..

There was an old dear who lived across the road from my aunt up in the Midlands back in the 70s, who used to wring out her washing using a mangle, fascinated me as a kid!

zipgun wrote:By Christ ,I'd forgotten those wooden tongs , are we all over 50 ?

According to some advertising blurb I received the other week, the average PC reader is 46!

OneCarefulOwner wrote:

zipgun wrote:By Christ ,I'd forgotten those wooden tongs , are we all over 50 ?

According to some advertising blurb I received the other week, the average PC reader is 46!

I must be dragging that down from what it might be!

zipgun wrote:By Christ ,I'd forgotten those wooden tongs , are we all over 50 ? Don't recall a mangle in our household ,but we did have a "tin bath", and an outdoor bog..We was poor..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EI7p2p1QJI