Washing clothes

[judylucas]

wood paddles were used with the old wringer type washers because the water was always boiling hot and my mothers doubled for a spanking paddle

[snuggleycutejc]

geez i like to keep the laundry simple hardest chore ever. I thought you meant the stick detergents

[alice44]

This one made me giggle.  I use my hands.  Never heard of using a stick so you don't get your hands wet!

[camellia0]

Many years ago I used to, but now I just put my hands in the water. And I mainly did that for jeans.

[pstovall]

I have heard of using a stick or paddle for pushing the clothes down, but that seems so old timey!  It must have been a huge chore in the past to have to haul the water, heat the water, not to mention making the soap to use.  I'll bet people back then didn't get their clothes washed that often!  We have it so easy now!

[MichelleHW101]

Nope.  I'm not afraid of getting my hands wet, I just make sure to sterilize them immediately after but my hands are faster and less frustrating than if I had to use a stick to get them down where I wanted them. 

[joywalk637]

My mom uses a grabber stick for the washer and dryer. I don't use a stick I just wash my hands after I put them in.

[HiFighter25]

I do not bother with that. He threw it in the typewriter and washed it and squeezed it out and almost put it on you)

[NRAJOE]

I do not bother with that. He threw it in the typewriter and washed it and squeezed it out and almost put it on you)

 

[1imaginarygirl]

I do not bother with that. He threw it in the typewriter and washed it and squeezed it out and almost put it on you)

 

Lol! My thoughts exactly!

[didiinvent]

Do you use a stick when you wash clothes? My Mom and Grandmother did and now I do. My Nanny never liked to get her hands wet so she pushed her clothes down with a stick

Yup, know the stick ...

[minioncookies]

nope i use tabs for my laundry

[tnshpalmer85]

I never heard of using a stick to wash dirty cloths. I just put mine in the washing machine and wash my hands after if the cloths are that dirty.

[timvolley]

i have never heard of this

[jkhanson]

Many, many years ago I used a stick to push the clothes  down into the washer. before starting it. Yep it was a wringer type washer. the  I would  use the stick to pull the clothes up so I could  run them through the wringer. The  water was hot.  After running them through the wringer from the was I then had to run them back into the wringer from the rinse water. what a job.  Then had to hang them out to dry.  Oh it is so much easier with my washer and dryer now.

When I was little we had a Double Dexter washing machine with a wringer between the two tubs.  Mom used a stick (I think it was actually a short broom stick, not a stick from a tree) to pull the washed clothes up out of the water and then she put a corner of the clothing into the the moving wringers.  The wringers were two rollers that wrung the water out of the clothing.  We had to run the clothes through the wash water  then through the wringer into the rinse water and then back through the wringer.  Then we took the laundry outside to the clothes line.

We always hung up our clothes on the clothes line to dry.    When the clothes were dry, we sprinkled them with water.  We had a special "sprinkling bottle"--- a large 7-Up bottle with a sprinkler head on it.  Then we rolled the sprinkled clothes up and placed them in a laundry basket and covered them with a clean dish towel. 

We then ironed all of the clothing.

Whew!  What a big job washing was back in those days.  No wonder the old embroidered dish towels had days of the week for Washing on Monday, Ironing on Tuesday, etc!!!