I Was Just Thinking.....

[chrissa1]

As I smoothed out my fitted bed sheet and fluffed and straightened my duvet, which took all of 20 seconds, just how long it's used to take to make the beds when I was first married in the mid seventies.

Tucking in the sheets, three blankets, an eiderdown and then the cover. Making the beds took a large slice out of the morning.

The youth of today don't know they're born. Anyone, agree?

[Tilly2]

Life is a lot easier now, Chrissa.

[Tilly2]

...in some ways...

[mazie]

Yep. Remember it well chrissa. I remember wash day Mondays at my Granny's. Heating the water, dolly ponch and an old wringer. I also remember her taking the rugs out and beating them. Bloody hard work back in the day. Thank goodness we live in a different world today

[wolf63]

I have been known to spend nearly an hour changing a duvet cover :-)

[johnny.5]

oh and I remember

Darning socks !!

[chrissa1]

I agree. Life is a lot easier. I remember many times making the beds when I got in from work in the evening, during the week. Ah, happy days.

[gness]

Isn't half that time spent dragging cats out of the duvet cover, Wolf.... ;-)

[mazie]

I still have a darning mushroom johnny. Not that I use it these days

[johnny.5]

mazie
are you giving me the needle ?

[mazie]

No dear, I'm not offering to darn your socks either x :o)

[chrissa1]

I remember my parents having a Thor washing machine which was the bees knees in th late sixties. It used to traverse the kitchen on its spin cycle.

[EDDIE51]

We got a Rolls twin tub washing machine in the 1960s.
My Mum thought it was brilliant as it had a spin dryer with a rinse facility.
A lot better than the old single tub with a powered roller mangle.

[Cloverjo]

My big thing is to do with laundry and matching socks. I know that bears are much more threatening. I don't iron anything that really doesn't need to be ironed.

[johnny.5]

we had a Flatley dryer
how posh was that ?

[tonyav]

So did we, johnny, mt brother and I used to sword fight with those pieces of wood the was in the hanger slots.

[hc4361]

We had a drying rack suspended from the ceiling. As my father smoked a pipe and my mother was a chain smoker you can imagine how my clothes smelt :(

[DaisyNonna]

Takes me ages to stuff a double duvet into its cover!

[johnny.5]

tonyav
are you my brother ?
because they were the perfect swords

[tonyav]

Mom was never to happy about the sword fighting, johnny.

[johnny.5]

no she was not tony and those sticks doubled up as a quick whacking tool too