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From: "Janie Watkins" <>
Subject: RE: [Cmn-L] Good old days?
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 20:20:04 -0000
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We've certainly still got Lux and it would be Daz not Duz and that's
still around. I remember Rinso and Omo and don't remember seeing them on
the shelves in recent years - Blue bird starch was it? I remember little
strach/blue blocks sort of tied up in a muslin package with a little tie
at the top.

Janie Watkins

www.globalsnookercentre.co.uk


-----Original Message-----
From: Joseph Gregory [mailto:]
Sent: 02 January 2003 19:17
To:
Subject: [Cmn-L] Good old days?


Sarah, what amazes me is the amount ot time everything took to
accomplish that is now done in minutes. Washing day, when I was a child,
was an ALL DAY job, from stoking up the kitchen stove to get nearly
enough water to filling and emptying "tin" tubs with rinse water then
emptying them out in the yard when the laundry was washed. Mom used Fels
Naptha yellow soap with a "scrubbing board" for extra serious stains.
She also dissolved starch in some of the rinse water and used "LaFrance"
"blueing" which somehow magically made the white clothes "white".
The soap she used in the washing machine was granulated RINSO, DUZ (I
still remember their radio "jingles") soap powder with an occasional box
of LUX flakes for washing, by hand, "delicate" things, whatever they
were.
I don't think any of them are sold anymore.
Tuesday was "ironing day" another big chore.
To rest up, Wednesday was "baking day".
How my Aberdare grandmother handled all these chores while cooking,
cleaning and looking after 11 children, I'll never know. Maybe that's
why she died when she was only 63. One duty that didn't consume much of
her time time was shopping, because to say that her family was poor
would be a grand understatement. The "good old days"? No thanks. Joe
Gregory Mt. Top, Pa.


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