These li’l short OyToobs keep popping up on my feed. This lady cooks everyday on that thing and I gotta be careful watching them or I’ll blow my diet and start cooking like she does too.
I wonder how practical it would be to refurb these old friends and put them back to work? When my dishwasher finally croaked I didn’t replace it. A replacement could be cheaply bought from Costco but… they’re cheap garbage and I can do my own damn dishes now that I’m retired. When my drier died after 30 years, I strung up a dryer line down in the Reclusium. I suppose that I’ll be forced to buy another washer though. It’d be a hoot to refurb an old tub style one though.
For domestic chores… they’re cheap garbage way forward seems to amount to taking a few steps back. 😐
My clothes dryer STB 10 yrs ago, in summer I clothesline and in winter it goes on an rack by the woody. No more payin thru the nose for hydro!
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Seen it? I've washed clothes that way when I was a kid, and I'm 'only' 61!
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Same here. I'm 60 and remember my mom wheeling that thing over to the kitchen sink, screwing the hose into the faucet, then I got to have "The fun" of ringing the out. I also remember a Coke bottle with holes in the top, filled with some starch liquid for ironing. We did have a electric drier, but only for use in the winter. Dried the close and warmed up the house.
DeleteWell! We’re ALL youngsters! 😊👍
DeleteOne of my friends had one stored in the corner of the basement and we played with it, pulling the levers on it and whatnot. His mom used to laugh at is and bitch at her husband to get rid of it. The poor bugger coukdn’t sell it or even give it away. I suppose he eventually scrapped it…
I have my mother's Maytag from about 50 years ago. Had a Amish guy refurbish it. He gave me a spare motor as they run theirs with gasoline engines. Have seen mother and grandmother was a lot of clothes this way.
ReplyDeleteI've seen those tub washers hooked up to small gas engines. Not sure of the drive system on them, but I'd wager a guy could use a 12VDC motor or power it off an inverter.
ReplyDeleteMy grandparents had one when I was little. You had to be careful not to get your fingers near the roller, because they'd get mashed. Not the safest contraption in the world, but there you have it.
ReplyDeleteEven though Granddad made a good living, Grandma was stuck with a kitchen that was 30 years old. I was about four years old when the electric stove went sideways and shot sparks all over the place. Well, that was that, and Grandma demanded the kitchen be remodeled. I thought Granddad would have a stroke.
The the transmission in the car gave out (a 12 year old Chrysler), and the garage wanted $200 for a new transmission, which was about what the car was worth on the used car lot. He screamed highway robbery, so old Ed Lay (station owner) offered a rebuilt tranny for $165 - but no guarantees. So Granddad got a rebuilt trans, and two weeks later it went sideways. That was that, and Grandma demanded a new car. She wouldn't take a caddy because the blacks drove them, and Lincoln was out because old ladies drove them (old?). I suggested a Corvette, but Grandma got herself a brand new Thunderbird - 1958 white with a white interior.
Somewhere along the line she got a new washer and dryer.
Is that the two seater with the opera windows? I am loathe to say it. I hate Ford with the same intensity as liberals and Glocks. But that one car redeemed the entire beshitted company.
DeleteSimilarly that two seater Caddy is the best thing out of GM…
My dishwasher left me 3 years ago, so I tried the electric one under the counter. It takes a lot of time to load properly, then the detergent pods for it are WAY more expensive than the liquid I use for the sink hand washing. I takes over an hour to run through the cycles, then you have to unload it and that is a hassle too.
ReplyDeleteI usually wash the sink dishes in the evening and it only takes about 5-10 minutes.
For me at least, a dishwasher is just too much work compared to hand washing.
Yup. I’ve started cleaning as I go too. If ya don’t let them pile up the dishes don’t actually take that much time…
DeleteI have a well used chambers stove just like the one pictured, came out of my parents house that I now own. My grandmother bought it new, it needs to be restored. Ate many a meal made on it and it was a curse in the summer[hot] and a blessing in the winter. Don
ReplyDeleteNice. I bought one of those glass top stoves thinking it’d be a snap to clean with no burners for food to get trapped and cremated in. But forget it! The old lady gets on it, and sure - she’s a hell of a cook… but she makes a helluva mess while she cooks! Crap gets baked onto the glass, and it scratches if you give it so much as a dirty look. She had to buy me all kinds of weird cleaners and none of them seem to work well.
DeleteI’m strongly tempted to put a piece of plywood overt, and set a 3 burner Coleman naphtha stove on top of it…
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You can buy refinished Chambers stoves.
ReplyDeleteA Model C completely rebuilt starts at $7K
https://chambersrescue.com/
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When I was a kid, a common expression was "Don't get your tit in the wringer". Most people today wouldn't understand that.
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