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Posted by Kate XXXXXX on April 21, 2009, 6:00 pm
Pogonip wrote:
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> Kate XXXXXX wrote:
>> The quastions that arise are:
>> What was in those blue bags?
>> How were they used?
>> When did people start using them? (and when did they stop? I don't
>> remember my mum or grandmother ever using them. I remember seeing
>> them in the hardware shop, and the old fashioned grocery shop, but not
>> in supermarkets).
>
> Around here, we used Mrs. Stewart's Bluing. It's been around for 100
> years and is still available in most supermarkets.
> http://www.mrsstewart.com/pages/laundryhelp.htm
OK... Curious. Maybe it has been replaced in most powders this side of
The Great Devide by optical brighteners already included in the powder.
As I use a powder without optical brighteners (being more interested
in the clothes being CLEAN than lookin brand new!), the idea of adding
the stuff later never occurred to me.
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Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons
http://www.katedicey.co.uk
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Posted by on April 21, 2009, 10:00 am
Dear Kate,
I remember blueing from when I was a little girl. I'm going on 72
now. If one used too much, it turned everything in the wash blue. It
was added to the rinse water. But this was when we had wringer
washers, and one had to change the water to rinse. That's probably
when it lost favor. That would have been in the late fifties, I
think.
Teri
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Posted by Kate XXXXXX on April 21, 2009, 12:45 pm
gpjteri@gmail.com wrote:
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> Dear Kate,
>
> I remember blueing from when I was a little girl. I'm going on 72
> now. If one used too much, it turned everything in the wash blue. It
> was added to the rinse water. But this was when we had wringer
> washers, and one had to change the water to rinse. That's probably
> when it lost favor. That would have been in the late fifties, I
> think.
>
> Teri
In those days both Mum and granny (her mum) had one of these:
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> http://www.74simon.co.uk/sunco8687.jpg
(on the left - the Hotpoint Empress)
Granny had two large enammel sinks in her kitchen, side by side. The
power ringer went on top of the washer and she power-wrung the wash into
one sink, where it was rinsed, and then the wringer swung round and
power-wrung it into the other sink. All very modern in its day! But
neither mum nor Granny ever used those blue bags...
When we came back from Malta in '68, Mum's got dropped. Upside down.
The wringer went through the tub, killing it. After that, she has
always had a front loading automatic, except for the time we were in
Germany, when we had a pre-loved (by several people!) twin tub. It was
just about OK for doing the wash when Mum and Dad were on their own, but
with all 4 of us kids home from uni or school for holidays, it was a
right old PITA! It lived in the cellar and the motor dripped oil...
When Alan and I moved in together in '79, we inherited his family's
Hotpoint Empress. It didn't last long. We got an automatic so we could
do washing over night whenever, rather than having to dedicate most of
Saturday or Sunday to it. The old Empress got parked outside for a
year, with a plastic sheet over it. Then the Zannusi museum took it
away and when they tested it, the damned thing STILL worked perfectly!
These days anything modern that needs hand washing gets the handwash
program on my ISE5 front loading automatic washing machine that is so
quiet I keep checking it's actually still working! :D
And to keep dulled or stained whites white, I pop a sachet of something
like this into the drum with the wash:
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> http://www.dylon.co.uk/products/whiteners/
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Kate XXXXXX R.C.T.Q Madame Chef des Trolls
Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons
http://www.katedicey.co.uk
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Posted by Alan Dicey on April 21, 2009, 5:29 pm
Kate XXXXXX wrote:
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> In those days both Mum and granny (her mum) had one of these:
>> http://www.74simon.co.uk/sunco8687.jpg
>
> (on the left - the Hotpoint Empress)
>
Hotlinking not allowed. Try navigating to this page
http://www.74simon.co.uk/sunco.html
and hit the third link from the bottom, labelled
Washing Machines - Hotpoint Empress and Apex-Vactric models 296 and3-231P
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Posted by BEI Design on April 21, 2009, 6:37 pm
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> Kate XXXXXX wrote:
>> In those days both Mum and granny (her mum) had one of
>> these:
>>> http://www.74simon.co.uk/sunco8687.jpg
>> (on the left - the Hotpoint Empress)
> Hotlinking not allowed. Try navigating to this page
> http://www.74simon.co.uk/sunco.html
> and hit the third link from the bottom, labelled
> Washing Machines - Hotpoint Empress and Apex-Vactric
> models 296 and3-231P
Thanks, Alan. My mother had a similar machine in the
basement, along side of a double deep sink made of concrete.
Those were the days....
Beverly
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>> The quastions that arise are:
>> What was in those blue bags?
>> How were they used?
>> When did people start using them? (and when did they stop? I don't
>> remember my mum or grandmother ever using them. I remember seeing
>> them in the hardware shop, and the old fashioned grocery shop, but not
>> in supermarkets).
>
> Around here, we used Mrs. Stewart's Bluing. It's been around for 100
> years and is still available in most supermarkets.
> http://www.mrsstewart.com/pages/laundryhelp.htm