tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3743429387466266100.post5086073100839861705..comments2023-06-14T04:13:03.470-07:00Comments on Deb Gould: SCRUB-A-DUB-DUB...Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11658880722411505714noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3743429387466266100.post-27250935508209690612015-09-21T05:50:45.641-07:002015-09-21T05:50:45.641-07:00I can't even do it if I'm READING the word...I can't even do it if I'm READING the words! Never was really good at tongue twisters -- but I remember Rubber Baby Buggy Bumpers and Tinsmiths Should Snip Tin on Thursdays...Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11658880722411505714noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3743429387466266100.post-28998424550997656792015-09-20T22:33:38.459-07:002015-09-20T22:33:38.459-07:00The "Sunny Monday Double Rubber Washer" ...The "Sunny Monday Double Rubber Washer" has me thinking of Rubber Baby Buggy Bumpers. Try saying Sunny Monday Double Rubber Washer five times real fast and see what happens. I find by the time I get to "washer" I'm going downhill fast.Tattered and Losthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00208918251232477186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3743429387466266100.post-20863150790915156382015-09-20T19:09:48.900-07:002015-09-20T19:09:48.900-07:00Ah! THAT makes sense! Love this international slan...Ah! THAT makes sense! Love this international slant to Sepia Saturday!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11658880722411505714noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3743429387466266100.post-88701969978165511472015-09-20T15:31:45.490-07:002015-09-20T15:31:45.490-07:00A rose by any other name....... What we call coppe...A rose by any other name....... What we call coppers you call set tubs !Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3743429387466266100.post-41665783428573669252015-09-20T09:38:59.094-07:002015-09-20T09:38:59.094-07:00I'd sure like to have ALL my payments be so ea...I'd sure like to have ALL my payments be so easy -- and not notice the money dribbling out of the checking account!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11658880722411505714noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3743429387466266100.post-22799143156725751882015-09-20T09:13:58.103-07:002015-09-20T09:13:58.103-07:00Wow! You found some really ancient washers! Love...Wow! You found some really ancient washers! Love the lady's line: "Under your easy payment plan, one pays so easily that it is not noticed."<br />In the days before credit cards/anyjazzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03319237414264543250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3743429387466266100.post-47960309186281218432015-09-20T04:46:35.942-07:002015-09-20T04:46:35.942-07:00I remember using an electric mangle -- running she...I remember using an electric mangle -- running sheets through it; I think we folded into fourths, then ran them through the mangle before finishing the folding. Boy, were those sheets beautiful!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11658880722411505714noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3743429387466266100.post-74764103996815745692015-09-20T04:45:20.168-07:002015-09-20T04:45:20.168-07:00Mine has far too many choices, Mike -- and I dares...Mine has far too many choices, Mike -- and I daresay yours does, too...whatever happened to wash/rinse/spin? It's a perfect example of technology running rampant!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11658880722411505714noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3743429387466266100.post-79387875063534425162015-09-20T04:45:05.378-07:002015-09-20T04:45:05.378-07:00I can still remember my mother boiling clothes in ...I can still remember my mother boiling clothes in a ‘copper’, fishing them out with tongs and then putting them through a mangle to wring all the water out. We are still pretty lucky these days even when the machine goes wrong.Little Nellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11862657943846727987noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3743429387466266100.post-1942274566819359102015-09-19T21:17:37.078-07:002015-09-19T21:17:37.078-07:00We just replaced a 12 year old front load washer w...We just replaced a 12 year old front load washer with a top loader that has no center agitator but a computer control more powerful than my first PC. It has a marvel of washing choices but if that computer ever fails, it will be impossible for a DIY repair. Mike Brubakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13065245846262417519noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3743429387466266100.post-186835264789770532015-09-19T13:08:32.992-07:002015-09-19T13:08:32.992-07:00I'm snorting up here in Maine -- "agitato...I'm snorting up here in Maine -- "agitator surgilator?" Seriously? Sounds like it should be mailed in a plain brown wrapper...Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11658880722411505714noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3743429387466266100.post-32142932772117088962015-09-19T13:07:42.359-07:002015-09-19T13:07:42.359-07:00Yeah, eight times fast is pretty hard...and Mrs. D...Yeah, eight times fast is pretty hard...and Mrs. Davis, poor thing, scrubbing away in Tippecanoe, Ohio, probably got free shipping for her washer! It's the least they could do...Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11658880722411505714noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3743429387466266100.post-80147135922826116022015-09-19T11:16:22.573-07:002015-09-19T11:16:22.573-07:00I was going to ask if anyone remembered the ads fo...I was going to ask if anyone remembered the ads for a washing machine where they emphasized the agitator surgilator action...we laughed about that in the family for many years....an agitator surgilator...is surgilator a real word I wonder?Alex Dawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05083753053051713061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3743429387466266100.post-56983800817426593022015-09-19T10:15:08.479-07:002015-09-19T10:15:08.479-07:00The Sunny Monday Double Rubber Washer makes a good...The Sunny Monday Double Rubber Washer makes a good tongue twister. <br /><br />In those days, whether you paid $5 or $50, I'm sure you had to notice the payments unless you could afford a maid who did the laundry. Wonder what Mrs. Davis got for that little testimony.Wendyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17863357756727783017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3743429387466266100.post-84715231569413568922015-09-19T09:27:15.765-07:002015-09-19T09:27:15.765-07:00Hard to describe: think of a rectangular block mad...Hard to describe: think of a rectangular block made of brick, about waist high...iron doors underneath open to fire pit, copper kettles set in recessed openings on top -- hot wash/rinse water for laundry.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11658880722411505714noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3743429387466266100.post-25926723398952839152015-09-19T09:23:25.633-07:002015-09-19T09:23:25.633-07:00Jo, when I was little, my job at my grandmother...Jo, when I was little, my job at my grandmother's summer house was to turn the crank for the wringer...loved the sound the water made dropping back into the machine...don't see those very often any more!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11658880722411505714noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3743429387466266100.post-48156239574924515542015-09-19T08:28:13.129-07:002015-09-19T08:28:13.129-07:00Scrub-A-Dub-Dub three men in a tub, you know someb...Scrub-A-Dub-Dub three men in a tub, you know somebody was going to add this! Three times and you're out.... off to the laundromat she goes! Great story. I would love to see what you've described in your comment to boundforoz, it sounds like an incredible buying point if I ever bought a house in Maine!21 Witshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00071361755673253230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3743429387466266100.post-10325280602969295052015-09-19T07:44:40.004-07:002015-09-19T07:44:40.004-07:00My son had a problem with his front loading washin...My son had a problem with his front loading washing machine, in that the door wouldn't open. A repair man couldn't come for a week or so, abd my son had to keep running the machine so that the clothes inside wouldn't go mouldy in the meantime! When I first got married we had a machine with a wringer like those pictures, and we used it.Jofeathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10290597697140624780noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3743429387466266100.post-54477423602827737652015-09-19T06:04:07.302-07:002015-09-19T06:04:07.302-07:00Lots of old houses here in Maine still have "...Lots of old houses here in Maine still have "set" tubs in their basements -- brick foundations with copper tubs set within them -- there's a firepit beneath for heating the water. Old habits die very hard indeed!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11658880722411505714noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3743429387466266100.post-50159759216568892672015-09-19T05:27:42.359-07:002015-09-19T05:27:42.359-07:00Early in my marriage we persuaded my mother-in-law...Early in my marriage we persuaded my mother-in-law to buy a washing machine but the next time we visited she was still boiling everything up in the copper before putting them in the washing machine to make sure the clothes were properly clean.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3743429387466266100.post-71474960770727483592015-09-18T18:27:50.860-07:002015-09-18T18:27:50.860-07:00Good luck with that computer thing! And I don'...Good luck with that computer thing! And I don't think they make ANYTHING the way they used to...our economy depends on things breaking/failing!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11658880722411505714noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3743429387466266100.post-3390751751817419252015-09-18T15:12:30.156-07:002015-09-18T15:12:30.156-07:00Sounds like even washing machines don't last l...Sounds like even washing machines don't last like they used to. Your description of your washer problems sounds like the computer problems I have had the last few days. I really need a new computer but was hopping my old XP computer would last until I could find a Windows 10 model with all the features I want. Postcardyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16399915833682943432noreply@blogger.com