How do the Amish wash their clothes
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- How "DO" the Amish wash their clothes? We are pretty familiar with how they dry their clothes as it is not unusual to see long clotheslines full of various sizes of Amish clothes out to dry!! In this video you will learn how the Amish wash their clothes.
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My amish friend has a wringer washer. She will be up at 4 am on Saturday and start on laundry. She uses a motor of some sort and will try to get all of the laundry done by 12 if she can with them still having 10 kids still at home. I have an old maytag wringer washer machine as a back up just in case. I don't use a dryer I prefer air drying even in the winter. Oh some amish sects still use washboards don't forget that. Thank you for another wonderful video. Take care and have a blessed day 🙏
You are absolutely right. The Swartzentruber groups do not use any electric or engine help. Thank you for pointing that out!
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In the early to mid 1950's I used to help my mother every Wednesday do our was using one and we used to hang it in our back yard. I lived on the south side of Chicago. Mom and dad had 7 kids and when I started high school in 1958 I no longer had to help (thank God)
You made me smile when I read this...the oldest children in large families tend to be happy to leave. I have a friend that was the oldest of 9. She has no children. She told me she already raised her siblings. I love to hang laundry except for the towels...not so soft anymore.
The Amish are strange they'll come in the store and spend $150 on Easter stuff Easter candy little by everything modern but they won't buy a washer and dryer that makes no sense
Each to his own! LOL
I just started homesteading at 51. We have gone to laundry mat for a month now. Yuck! I washed my black bra mid week in the sink the water was brown. YUCK! I ordered a lehman tub and wringer. Never want to go to laundry mat again
Yeah! Good for you! One step at a time!
My mother had a wringer washer when I was little. My washer broke, ive been washing in sink, small items,wringing by hand. I purchased a wringer, have not set it up, cause it will have to stay out side.
My husband bought me one and it is on the porch. I'm excited to use it. He is going to put a clothes line with pulley off the porch!
I've seen single load hand crank washing machines that I would use for laundry with detergents, but I honestly don't trust bulk processes, and I have a washing machine that doesn't use much energy already, so I don't feel the need. If I were to put in the extra effort, I'd use my muscles, and so should the Amish in my humble opinion, although I surely live a more simple and less physical life than them.
There is definitely more satisfaction in doing it yourself!
Bless the Amish for trying to do it themselves, but God expects us to use technology to make our lives easier, within reason. If so many weren't obese, I'd say we were doing a good job keeping things in balance.
Amen to that~
I am 71 and remember helping my Mom do laundry with a wringer washer. They are the best washing machines ever. I bought my daughter a brand new modern washer 3 yrs. ago. I told her that if she ever needs to buy another, to get one with the tall agitator. I brought clean laundry home and decide to wash them again by hand and the water was gray. I have been using a laundry plunger ever since.
My husband bought us a wringer washer off Marketplace...haven't used it yet but excited to have it!
Nope I'm not buying a new washer or dryer I'll go to the laundry. Mat wash clothes and hang them at home 2-3000 dollars for a washer is insane.
That is actually very smart. Probably cheaper than buying one. You can read a good book while waiting on the wash!
When I was employed I hadf an Amish customer whose wringer type washer worked 2 different ways. One was converted to a bicycle where the young girls sat on the bicycle and powered the washer gearbox via a belt drive. The other way was from a horse outside on a turnstyle that used an automobile drive shaft that went under ground into the house. My mother also had a wringer type washer when I was a child growing up. She had a melt down in the 70's when her wringer washer went bad and found out that she couldn't get parts to fix it or a new one to replace it.
Priceless! I love how innovative people are! Thank you for sharing!
Get exercise and do the laundry I need one
I would love to go back to the "old fashioned " ways . So much simpler. Not so much technology.
Agree! I feel like I spend time "cleaning" up files etc...like cleaning the house...it is crazy!
Honestly, washing machines don't do a good job. They just move the water and detergent around a lot. And you can do that with almost any container and some muscle power, so there's that, if you want to put in the effort yourself.
My dryer has been broken and I've been hanging everything. I'm seriously considering trying a different method for washing! Thanks for the idea!
My mother began her marriage in 1950 with a wringer washer, she taught me to use it at about 10 years old and I loved doing the laundry. I married in 1969 and had one as well. Neither of us had an automatic washer until 1977 when we each got one. Mom always used Tide and never had problems needing stain removers while using the wringer-type washers. Now that I am 70 I wish I could get my hands on another wringer because these new HE washers are awful at getting any stains or real dirt out of the clothes plus they take 1 to 1 and 1/2 hours to run a load of clothes. Mom taught me how to use her glass washboard before she got her wringer washer, I still have it and utilize it. We always hung our clothes out on a line while I was growing up and all through the years, my son was in diapers. We didn't have a set laundry day of the week we just washed when we had a full load if it was a nice day. Now we have weather apps that are even more accurate and I very rarely use a dryer although I have one. I have a large Amish-type wooden dryer for rainy days I have inside my home I got it from Lehmans. This wooden dryer works very well, clothes dry overnight and saves electricity. My last month's electric bill was $38.00 and that's for a 1200 sq foot home with central heat and electric and no dishwasher.
Love your memoires! Thank you so much for sharing!
i always wonder how do they dry their clothes in the winter when there'd snow on the ground. outside they'd freeze
They do hang to dry outside in the winter. Many have a line with a pulley so Mom doesn't have to go into the yard and stand on the ground when hanging. She can hang from the porch or inside the garage depending on how it is set up.
Drying clothes inside the home helps add humidity to the air especially when heating only with wood which dries the air alot
I have an off grid laundry set up. It starts with a double basin sink where I’ll personal clothes and scrub on stains. Then clothes Get scrubbed some on the washboard before going into a dasher washer. It’s like a 55 gal drum on its side with a metal lever that’s rocked back and forth to agitate clothes. Clothes get sent through a wringer and into some clean water in the second basin for a rinse. After the rinse, they go through wringer again and onto the line to dry. That’s my washing method
Thank you so much for sharing. We may all be using this method if things don't turn around!
Growing up in the 60’s and 70’s I would help my German grandma. That’s what she washed our clothing with.
Good memories I'm sure!