Grandma would place the damp clothes into the laundry basket. The basket would be carried to the backyard clothesline with a ...

Throughout the years, the way we have done laundry has changed dramatically, from hand-washing to wringer machines to modern automatic washers. Wringer washing machines are among the old school ...

The bell on our new washer really intrigued me. Around 1950 we finally got an actual automatic washing machine. You’d plug it in, turn it to “start” and then you could walk away while it swirled the ...