From: Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>
To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [Homestead] Disposable "nappies" greener than cloth
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 09:14:23 -0400
VAN DELL JORDAN wrote:
>
> One question I wished I had ask grandmothers. How did they wash diapers
> before washing machines. My guess is that wet diapers were rinsed and hung
> up to dry and then reused. I'm sure that the washing they gave by hand
> would not have met our current standards.
My standards are pretty low, but even I would have required some soap to
clean diapers. They probably did them the same way they did other
whites...soap and very hot water, swished around with a pole, rinsed and
hung to dry.