Favorite Tip or Helpful Hint
08-09-2010, 05:01 PM
#72
Super Member
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Merced, CA
Posts: 4,188
You people who used to iron....do you remember ironing just the front of the shirt when you were wearing a jacket or sweater? And not ironing the tails that would be tucked in? Surely I'm not the only one to do this![/quote]
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You forgot ironing just the cuffs of a shirt worn with a sweater or
jacket when in a mad rush and no time to do any sort of ironing.
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You forgot ironing just the cuffs of a shirt worn with a sweater or
jacket when in a mad rush and no time to do any sort of ironing.
08-09-2010, 05:10 PM
#73
Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Falls,PA
Posts: 101
My Dad was in World War II and when he was in the army his pay was sent home to his mother and he did ironing to earn his spending money. Sometimes he would put the "Army " crease in his work shirts. He taught me to do it for him sometimes also. He would have been 89 on the 7th this brought me an old memory.
08-09-2010, 05:35 PM
#74
Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Ohio
Posts: 493
Here are a few of my tips:
- tape a coffee filter on table to hold threads
- prescription bottle beside machine to hold broken needles & pins
- magnetic auto parts dish holds my pins
- glue a magnet on the end of dowel rod to pick up dropped pins or needles
- when threading needle, wet needle hole instead of thread (thread expands when wet making it harder to thread)
Those are just a few that I can think of right now. I remember my mom rolling her sleeveless blouses in a plastic bag & putting them in the bottom drawer of the fridge. That was her designated ironing drawer.
- tape a coffee filter on table to hold threads
- prescription bottle beside machine to hold broken needles & pins
- magnetic auto parts dish holds my pins
- glue a magnet on the end of dowel rod to pick up dropped pins or needles
- when threading needle, wet needle hole instead of thread (thread expands when wet making it harder to thread)
Those are just a few that I can think of right now. I remember my mom rolling her sleeveless blouses in a plastic bag & putting them in the bottom drawer of the fridge. That was her designated ironing drawer.
08-09-2010, 06:01 PM
#75
Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Warrensburg, MO
Posts: 396
You vbet I do!!!! I still have my moms!!!! and sometimes i use it!
Originally Posted by alaskasunshine
I remember my Mom used a beer bottle with an aluminium top that had a sprinkler tip on it. She would shake it and water would sprinkle on the clothing. She used to iron my Dad's uniforms for the Army. I have always loved to iron!. Oh how I wish I could find the tip she used. Does anyone know what I am thinking of? :?
08-09-2010, 06:08 PM
#76
Junior Member
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Corinth, MS.
Posts: 130
Originally Posted by hobo2000
When I was a kid back in the 40's, my grandmother would sprinkle the clothes and roll them tightly. If she couldn't
get to the ironing the next morning she would store them in an old refrigerator in the basement until she could get around to ironing.
get to the ironing the next morning she would store them in an old refrigerator in the basement until she could get around to ironing.
08-09-2010, 06:14 PM
#77
Junior Member
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Georgia
Posts: 138
Originally Posted by pbreon
You vbet I do!!!! I still have my moms!!!! and sometimes i use it!
Originally Posted by alaskasunshine
I remember my Mom used a beer bottle with an aluminium top that had a sprinkler tip on it. She would shake it and water would sprinkle on the clothing. She used to iron my Dad's uniforms for the Army. I have always loved to iron!. Oh how I wish I could find the tip she used. Does anyone know what I am thinking of? :?
08-09-2010, 06:33 PM
#78
Member
Join Date: Aug 2010
Posts: 19
Do you know I still have the old "sprinkler botter" my mother and grandmother used. It had a cork stopper which is still pretty much intact. Wouldn't part with that for the world. Mum used to put her dampened clothes in the fridge also. Reading this blog sure brought back some memories. Our white blouses could stand up by themselves, they had so much starch in them.
08-09-2010, 06:38 PM
#79
Senior Member
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Marathon, Texas
Posts: 854
Originally Posted by seabolt22
Originally Posted by pbreon
You vbet I do!!!! I still have my moms!!!! and sometimes i use it!
Originally Posted by alaskasunshine
I remember my Mom used a beer bottle with an aluminium top that had a sprinkler tip on it. She would shake it and water would sprinkle on the clothing. She used to iron my Dad's uniforms for the Army. I have always loved to iron!. Oh how I wish I could find the tip she used. Does anyone know what I am thinking of? :?
08-09-2010, 06:53 PM
#80
Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Eastern Iowa
Posts: 953
Mom used a Coke bottle with the aluminum sprinkler stuck in the mouth of the bottle. I have that thing around here somewhere. I remember Mom asking what I want that old thing for anyhow. And she had pants stretchers too. Medival torture devices if as a kid you ran in to them!! And the ringer washer - I don't know how many times I ran my hand thru the wringer with a bunch of clothes. But we had an electric dryer when the 5th baby came along. Us kids thought we were living high on the hog then!![/quote]
It's fun sharing memories :) I remember pants stretchers, and clothes hung all over her house. I used to be afraid of the farmers overalls that she would bring in from the line freeze-dried! I'm sure there are a lot of us who remember what a chore it was to keep house fifty years ago :)
It's fun sharing memories :) I remember pants stretchers, and clothes hung all over her house. I used to be afraid of the farmers overalls that she would bring in from the line freeze-dried! I'm sure there are a lot of us who remember what a chore it was to keep house fifty years ago :)
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