The best thing invented since sliced bread is ___________________ And History of it.

[Apocalipstic]

The washing machine!

I remember when we got our first one shipped from the US to Argentina. I remember watching everything be washed by hand on a stone wash boad.

I.would.hate.that.

Dryers too....yes, sheets smell sweet after hanging out in the sun...but with work, who has time (or even wants to)? Especially in places where it rains a lot....like here.

[AtLast]

Originally Posted by apocalipstic

The washing machine!

I remember when we got our first one shipped from the US to Argentina. I remember watching everything be washed by hand on a stone wash boad.

I.would.hate.that.

Dryers too....yes, sheets smell sweet after hanging out in the sun...but with work, who has time (or even wants to)? Especially in places where it rains a lot....like here.

I remember both my Mom and grandmother using washboards! i thin washers were on the market, but they didn't get one until they could afford it. Same with a television.

Plus, do you remember when "Borax" was about the only clothes detergent around? Very harsh on skin.

[Rockinonahigh]

My grannie had a wood burning stove to cook on even when mom bought her a new fangled gas stove she didnt use it till grandpa finaly hauled the old stove out of the house and installed the gas one.Grannie didnt like it,wouldnt cook on it cause she said the food didnt cook or taste the same.Finaly she got the hang of the thing but never really liked it.

[Gentle Tiger]

DIVIDER PLATES

[Apocalipstic]

Originally Posted by AtLastHome

I remember both my Mom and grandmother using washboards! i thin washers were on the market, but they didn't get one until they could afford it. Same with a television.

Plus, do you remember when "Borax" was about the only clothes detergent around? Very harsh on skin.

We were in Argentina until 1976, and we used RINSO which also was pretty rough lol.

Originally Posted by UofMfan

Since I don't hold Sliced Bread in such high regards, it could be anything, to me.

I agree...now...but when I was little in Argentina outside of Buenos Aires there was no sliced bread...you have to go to the panaderia to get the bread then take it to get it sliced for sandwiches. Same with milk...you bought it one place then took it to another to get it pasturized.

So many things we take for granted now .

Originally Posted by Jess

" You might be a redneck if: You use a shower cap to cover your leftovers!"

That said...these have become one of my favorite new thingys. "Plastic land" ( that storage area we all have to keep up with plastic containers and lids) as we call it drives me nuts and we always lose one or both parts of the set...soooooo:

Heyyy, I need me some of them. lol
I never can find a lid!

OK, so pasturized milk!

[foxyshaman]

Some of these I find quite amusing.

Just sharing some memories from my oh so bright and fun childhood.

We had a washing machine that had the squeezer on top to get the water out. I loved that old tub washing machine.

When we moved to the 'other' farm we hand washed all of our clothes for a few years. Jeans with cow shit on them are hard to wash... cow shit stains your clothes green, especially if it is early summer and the grass is really fresh. Ringing the water out of heavy clothes to put them on the line could at times be a two person job.

There were lots of times we had no running water and lots of times without TP. I remember a few times using the Sears catalogue for such events. We had various types of porta potties in the house (loved emptying that thing) as well as out houses and dug holes in the ground.

We also heated our house with wood and coal. We cooked on a coal/wood stove. There is one thing that I will never ever eat again, baked brown beans. Why you ask (well even if you did not), because brown beans baked in a coal stove for hours are THE BEST. I have never tasted anything to compare. Our stove even had the bread warmer and drawers to keep things warm.

We were at times very poor and lots of times there was no bread to slice!! However, one day my parents bought a sonic mill and ground their own flour. OMG...seriously OMG that stuff weighed 80lbs per loaf. I never have been able to slice bread very well. Now I don't even eat bread, ever.

So...even tho' things have been invented, there are times when you just go without modern conviences.

Now if you leave me on a desert island, leave me with a washer and dryer please and thank you. And please leave me with nice soft TP!!!

[AtLast]

Originally Posted by Gentle Tiger

DIVIDER PLATES

Yup! And these puppies come from old time chop or grill plates- many of which in the US were Blue Wollow. It was actually the dinnerware of country tables and inexpensive china picks. Great way to keep the meat juices from running into the veggies and starches!!

[Gentle Tiger]

Rowenta irons! Me and my Rowenta got a thing going on~

[deb_U_taunt]

refrigerator/freezers