We Dare You Challenge

This weeks challenge was to look at the younger you. I've been trying to complete a few pages recently for my 'Me' album and this was a great opportunity to create yet another page about my childhood memories. Funny as it may seem I actually wrote about our clothes line and wash days.

We thought we were so cool when we got a twin tub washer as an upgrade from the old wringer model. Only problem was we were a family of six and it only fit one sheet in at a time. Wash day literally meant all day long.

Here's what I wrote:

Clothes line. As every kid did back in the sixties the clothes line was the only way to fly. Mum had a wire line job and after we all had a turn (several) the line was on a slight angle after that. On wash days every line space was taken and with six of us it didn’t take too much to fill. I remember the old laundry tubs were made of concrete. The twin tub washing machine replaced the old one with the wringer you used to feed the washing through to squeeze out the excess water. Still, for the size of the loads it could only take a sheet at a time as it was so small. Washing day went for literally the whole day. Piles of washing would fill the small laundry and spill out on the path beside the room.