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Thread Number: 40244
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Post# 595681 , Reply# 1 5/11/2012 at 06:45 (3,981 days old) by CUFFS054  (MONTICELLO, GA) |
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I guess it wasn't just Tide: www.old-time.com/commercials/1950... | ||
| Post# 595739 , Reply# 3 5/11/2012 at 11:40 (3,981 days old) by stan (Napa CA) | ||
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Post# 595747 , Reply# 4 5/11/2012 at 12:07 (3,981 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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Tide And Others | ||
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Post# 595845 , Reply# 6 5/11/2012 at 21:56 (3,980 days old) by Frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie) |
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Post# 595966 , Reply# 7 5/12/2012 at 13:20 (3,980 days old) by twintubdexter (Palm Springs) |
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Post# 595968 , Reply# 8 5/12/2012 at 13:44 (3,980 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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One Supposes No Rinse Detergents
Were an advertising slap against all the rinsing required when using soap on wash day.
Didn't a member once post a story about knowing someone in his youth whose mother subscribed to this "no rinse" method? IIRC story went that one day the child was caught in the rain and his clothing began to ooze suds. *LOL* Ewwwwwwwwwww! | ||
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Post# 596275 , Reply# 9 5/13/2012 at 21:53 (3,978 days old) by Frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie) |
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I suppose the idea of not having to rinse was attractive to people using wringer washers. I knew several people with wringer machines when I was a kid, and none of them drained the wash water and refilled for a rinse. They usually had a big tub with rinse water in it. They'd swish the clothes around in it, then put them back through the wringer.
I also recall seeing a double machine wringer set-up, but never saw it in action. One machine was used to wash, the other to rinse. | ||
| Post# 596286 , Reply# 10 5/13/2012 at 22:10 (3,978 days old) by arbilab (Ft Worth TX (Ridglea)) | ||
No rinse? | ||
| Post# 596404 , Reply# 11 5/14/2012 at 10:46 (3,978 days old) by dirtybuck (Springfield, MO) | ||
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Another Tide "no rinse" ad Boggles the mind why anyone wouldn't want to rinse out their laundry. 
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| Post# 596432 , Reply# 12 5/14/2012 at 12:23 (3,978 days old) by whirlcool (Just North Of Houston, Texas) | ||
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We rinse our clothes a lot too. I like to see a crystal clear rinse. I think that the clothes smell better too. Just like fresh clean fabric. If we don't rinse well, I get the itches pretty bad. That's one reason we like Persil, it rinses just fine within the normal double rinse cycle. | ||
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Post# 596523 , Reply# 14 5/14/2012 at 17:46 (3,977 days old) by twintubdexter (Palm Springs) |
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just a guess...
Tide was introduced in 1946, a time when most home laundering was done with single tub wringers (no, I am not speaking from experience.) I would imagine all the "wash" was done in a tub of hot "soapy" water with something like Ivory Snow and then the tub was drained and filled with clean water for all the rinsing with a pile of wrung-out clothes in between. I'll bet a lot of "laundry-doers" (as opposed to housewives) looked at that no-rinsing claim and thought "wow, if it works I'll give it a try." I suppose common sense and the ton of automatics that followed resulted in dropping the no-rinse claim. I remember the back of the Tide box saying it was good for all kinds of cleaning especially sparkling dishes and glassware. No wonder women complained about dishpan hands, old Tide was pretty caustic stuff...thank God Madge came along huh?
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Post# 596527 , Reply# 15 5/14/2012 at 18:33 (3,977 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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Single Tub Wringer Washers
Before Tide P&G's most popular laundry soap was "Chipso", indeed it was one of if not the best selling laundry product for it's day only falling from grace when Tide was introduced and slowly at first but then as a stampede housewives chucked soaps for wash day.
Indeed P&G was initally worried that introducing Tide would kill off demand for Chipso, which it did but sales of the former more than compensated. Aside from Chipso there were many brands of soap powder on the market, some names are still around today but as detergents. Fab, Duz, Rinso, Ivory Flakes (the powder came later), Lux Flakes, American Family, etc. Ivory Snow and Flakes along with Lux were seen as "fine white laundry soaps" designed for the household's better wash such as fine linens, silks, etc. Brown bar soaps such as Fels, Kirkman's, and so forth where marketed as "heavy duty" and packed the power to deal with badly soiled laundry such as Johnny's mud caked jeans. Anywho we digress: When using a single wringer washer most housewives/laundry workers would ring the wash out of the machine and into either a stationary tub or sink filled with hot water for the first rinse. Some would have two tubs side by side (often with a wringer between) so to move wash from one rinsing tub to a second tub for another rinse and or to blue. This method allowed the hot soapy water in the wringer to be used for sucessive wash loads and not tie it up with having to rinse. Depending upon how the family's finances stood rinsing was done manually and the wash either wrung by hand or second mangle/wringer was used (if the family could swing it) for rinsing. Of course depending upon how much wash there was to be done one could simply wash and mangle the lot by machine, hold it off to the side, drain the washer, refill with fresh water and start the rinsing. This would have been a very wasteful use of water to some though. Problem is when using soap for washday you don't want that hot wrung wash sitting cooling waiting to be rinsed. If allowed to cool too long the all that soap/soil would settle down back into the fabric and that is not good. Oh and the other reason for wringing right from the wash water is if the items were going to be boiled. Boil washing is always done on pre-washed/soaked laundry for best results so the wash came out of the wringer, soaped and placed in the boiling pot. | ||
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Post# 596551 , Reply# 17 5/14/2012 at 21:21 (3,977 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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Am Referring To
Women/laundresses who mainly used the washer for "washing" but did rinsing in separate tubs.
Several of my vintage commerical/domestic laundry manuals show wringers mounted either between tubs or those old deep concrete/porcelain wash sinks. Theory being laundry was wrung out of each water (as it should be) before going onto the next. Just as today's modern front loaders spin between each rinse. Mind you if a housewife was also a mother with several daughters and or other sort of help rinsing in separate tubs whilst someone else tended to the washing machine could help speed though a mound of laundry. | ||
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Post# 596558 , Reply# 19 5/14/2012 at 22:48 (3,977 days old) by twintubdexter (Palm Springs) |
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| Post# 596561 , Reply# 20 5/14/2012 at 23:39 (3,977 days old) by mickeyd (Hamburg NY) | ||
Wringing 101
The wash was wrung from the washer into the first rinse tub and sloshed. Then the wringer was moved to the position between the rinse tubs or sinks, and the load was wrung into the second tub where it was sloshed. Next, the wringer was moved to the third position, now making a total right angle to the washer, and the load was wrung into the waiting basket. This was the standard method.
No extra wringers were needed. It might be hard to picture how versatile a wringer is, and I'll try to show the method soon. Again this was very standard, universal practice in most old homes with two set tubs in the basement. All wringers have this versatility, except very ancient ones.
Wringer flexibility is probably not widely known unless you've actually used one, because conventional washers are usually pictured with the wringer in only one position, straight across the back of the wash tub.
The hand-cranked wringer one sees screwed into old laundry sinks are vestiges of the days when laundry was done "by hand," that is, on a washboard. Once electric conventional washers and their attached movable wringers became common, the hand cranked models were largely abandoned. This post was last edited 05/15/2012 at 00:14 | ||
| Post# 596583 , Reply# 22 5/15/2012 at 03:15 (3,977 days old) by stan (Napa CA) | ||
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Another way of doing it
My older brother was born in 1946 Tide was brand new! however there were a lot of young mothers, who still did not even have "the wringer" as war production had stopped making washing machines, even though washer production had resumed, anyone that could afford one, might have to wait there turn!
(something that generation was good at, and was well adept to doing without) same thing with parts, cars, tires, refrigerators, ect. By 1947 my other brother was here, but still no refrigerator, or washing machine! Mom thought she was" shitin in tall cotton" because she had a heavy duty glass wash board, (not one of those that rusted, and bent!) and a deep sink. Yip ee Her routine was do the soaking during the day while kids were up, and screaming through the house and terrorizing her, then when the varments were asleep, she'd empty the sink/ refilled, and scrubbed/ rinsed and hung out in the dark. Taken in by mid to late afternoon the next day, so the process could be started over. This was just for the cloth diapers. Some how the rest of the wash was squeezed in somehow. After a while, automatics were new and available, she told my dad she wanted a kenmore automatic, and some Tide detergent, and that if he didn't get for her, she was going to dig his eyes out of his head, as she'd had enough *LOL* True Story She got to bypass the wringer all together! No dryer. Dryer came right after I came along, Wonder what she threatened do do to get the dryer? | ||
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Post# 596619 , Reply# 23 5/15/2012 at 07:34 (3,977 days old) by countryguy (Astorville, ON, Canada) |
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| Post# 596731 , Reply# 24 5/15/2012 at 18:31 (3,976 days old) by cehalstead (Charleston, WV) | ||
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wringing 101 is exactly the method i remember, except add me sneaking the lid up/off while grandma/my aunt was out in the yard hanging a load.....and then hearing: "put that lid back on...you're letting the heat out!!!! I swear, I don't know what's wrong with that boy!!!!" :) | ||
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Post# 596751 , Reply# 25 5/15/2012 at 22:00 (3,976 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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Just Be Grateful They Didn't Go For The Wooden Spoon! | ||
| Post# 596760 , Reply# 26 5/15/2012 at 23:11 (3,976 days old) by mickeyd (Hamburg NY) | ||
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Thanks guys, I had to set the record straight. Everyone I knew "rung" that way
Stan, my Gram washed on the same kind of glass board your Mom used and wrung by hand the things she didn't send out to the laundry before she got her Pulsamatic. A hand cranked wringer would have been a luxury. Wringing big bath towels by hand is not easy work.
"Grammy" would let me help, standing nice and close to her, and would let me "accidentally" splash water onto the cement floor. How I loved her! | ||
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Comes to the Rescue!
I just didn't want anyone thinking that the wringers were stationary. It would have been rude not to correct so silly a notion.