How Did We Ever Manage Without Them?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4994980/JAN-MOIR-looks-innovations-60-years.html

It is amazing the dates that some of these appliances were introduced.

But think of the gadgets that were bought but hardly ever used.

[hereIam]

I remember my Mum getting a Flatley, a sort of clothes dryer and it was advertised on the TV at the time by the kid saying 'My Mum's got a Flatley' and when the fitter had finished he turned to me and said that I could say that now.

[Mamyalynne]

My Aunt had a Flatley, we didn't.

I still have a mangle.

[hc4361]

Very expensive to run, those Flatley's.

[hereIam]

I remember Mum and Grandma having mangles when I was very young. Monday wash days was a very busy day.

[albaqwerty]

coo, I'm missing something. Never heard of a Flatley (unless it was Riverdance, sorry)

I remember Mondays, too, ham, busy day and I think my mum spent most of it shouting at me to keep me fingers away from the mangle :-D

[wolf63]

I left home in 1986 and I had a twin tub. As I was working all week I did the washing on a Saturday. It took hours and was very boring. I vaguely remember that it had a lovely smell - conditioner or washing powder, don't know.

I had a TV with a remote with a wire. I had a big dog who seemed to be forever catching the wire with his tail. These days I have no TV and, alas, no dog.

[hereIam]

I don't know how old you are albs, it was in the early 60's and they were 'all the rage' !!

[hc4361]

Alba, a Flatley

http://www.1900s.org.uk/1950s-60s-flatley.htm

[albaqwerty]

let's just say I was 7 in 1970 ham :-)))

No longer have a tumble drier, but thankfully have got central heating.

I remember mum and dad getting secondary glazing as opposed to double glazing.

[hereIam]

I remember my first twin tub, I loved it and when it broke, I got another one, despite everyone telling me to get an automatic. I now have an automatic obviously and realise how right they were !

[hc4361]

We had an overhead airer in our kitchen - all the drying smelt of cabbage :(

[albaqwerty]

thank you hc, blooming heck !
modern technology was/is wonderful innit ? :-)

seems to have been an accident waiting to happen tho, surely?

[hereIam]

Younger than me then albs ....

Oh hc thanks for that, brought back many memories of Mum loading it up and the warmth and happiness in our little kitchen.

[albaqwerty]

the third last automatic went to the great bloo in the sky, I wanted a twin tub.
I seem to go through automatics, sob.....

[Khandro]

Never quite get the point of dishwashers, we have one but it is seldom used, but the washing machine is something else, I remember my mother's lot with a boiler and a mangle [which was outside].
Without going back to the link - did she forget the indoor flushing w.c. ? That has to be the greatest life-changer ever

[hereIam]

In that article albs, it seems one woman is STILL using hers !

[jno]

not in the last 60 years, Khandro. (Not in my house, anyway.) I remember being shown one of Dicken's homes in London, just along the road from the workhouse. It had no backyard, so it had indoor plumbing, quite rare; but this was the 1820s or so.

[albaqwerty]

she's a lucky so-and-so ham :-D

When the first load went into the spinner and the next went into the washer, it's was a lovely sound :-)