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japple

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7. Loved reading your memories and, being from the rural South, I'm sure my grandmother

Reply to watrwefitinfor (Reply #5)

Sat Oct 27, 2012, 08:34 PM

Oct 2012

and mother did it this way before they got the wringer washer and plumbing. I think what made their whites so much whiter than ours today is that they hung them on the line in the sun. Their clothing never went through a clothes dryer, which has a tendency to make clothes look dingy.

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Get your white socks white white again [View all] left-of-center2012 Oct 2012 OP

I think I'd run them through the washer first Duer 157099 Oct 2012 #1

I think I'd run them through the washer first left-of-center2012 Oct 2012 #6

Old-timey method, getting whites whiter. watrwefitinfor Oct 2012 #2

What great memories! NEOhiodemocrat Oct 2012 #3

So are you saying Curmudgeoness Oct 2012 #4

I really wasn't saying that it would whiten them - just that watrwefitinfor Oct 2012 #5

Loved reading your memories and, being from the rural South, I'm sure my grandmother japple Oct 2012 #7

Their probably is some truth to it. juajen Oct 2013 #10

back in the olden days I remember my ma using a thing called 'blueing' for her whites/laundry. Whisp Nov 2012 #8

Bluing in liquid form, should still be available. SoapBox Nov 2012 #9

My mom used bluing for the whites in the laundry! When I was very little, Nay Nov 2013 #12

Bleach and pay attention to the percentage... JCMach1 Oct 2013 #11