@Ray : My mom used one (and I'm sure I did too). She would sprinkle and then wrap the clothes in a towel so that the moisture penetrated completely through and then iron the next day. I still have my ironing board from my first marriage in 1964. It does get used occasionally.
TexasGranny : You couldn't return those vingar bottles for money.
@Texas1965 : True, but we weren't allowed colas when we were young. Homemade root beer and sarsassparilla only or milk from the cow. That was many, many decades ago. I still miss the homemade soda pop.
@TexasGranny : We were allowed all the coke and candy we wanted. But since we didn't have any money it wasn't a big problem. I remember when I was about 12 I mowed a neighbors yard with a push mower (reel type) I went to the store and bought even in our family a real coke so everyone could have their own.
My mother was so sweet. I would wear jeans one time and then she would wash and iron creases in them. When I went to college and I had to do it myself, that B.S. stopped.
@Donnawisdom : My husband and I knew a guy in Tacoma, WA who insisted his underwear be starched and ironed. And the laundry lady would have to starch and iron them and then stand them on the waistband so he could see that they were starched right. But he did pay her well. I wanted to ask her if his undershirts had to be starched and ironed too. This was back in '55, and I still wonder.
@Ray : Homie, Easy with the "old"!! I also remember my Gramma putting the ironables in the fridge or freezer, until she could get to doing the ironing, in the afternoon, so that the wrinkles did not set.
