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Mine is that my Mom washed my cloth diapers in a pail of water...1950's....and put them through a hand cranked wringer before hanging them on a clothesline in the back yard,..
I used to help my great-aunt do her laundry when I was a youngster. She had a rectangular twin concrete tub indoors with a mangle (hand-cranked wringer) and the clothes were soaked in washing powder, then rinsed twice. The mangle became a novelty for a while.Mine is that my Mom washed my cloth diapers in a pail of water...1950's....and put them through a hand cranked wringer before hanging them on a clothesline in the back yard,..