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| Remember These...even When Power Supply Was Stable by YoungestMuller(m): 7:38pm On Apr 09, 2015 |
Before the days of modern, electrically-powered irons, housewives and laundresses would use old-fashioned, solid metal flatirons such as this one: Flatirons like these were filled with red hot coals from the kitchen stove and once the metal was hot enough, they'd be used to quite literally, iron out the wrinkles in your clothes. Of course, if you didn’t have the benefit of a coal- heated iron, you would have to make do with an even older technology, solid metal irons heated on the stove, like these: Irons like these were placed on hearths next to open fires, or on the kitchen stove, to heat them up until they were scorching hot. Because the heat from the iron would eventually disappate, housewives would often have two, three or even four such irons on their stoves or fireplaces so that when one iron cooled down, they could put it back on the hearth and just pick up another one and continue with their work. It’s where the phrase “to have many irons in the fire” comes from, meaning that you always had something else to fall back on. You Remember or You still make use 
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| Re: Remember These...even When Power Supply Was Stable by kolomax(m): 7:51pm On Apr 09, 2015 |
Chaiiii back then |
| Re: Remember These...even When Power Supply Was Stable by emisquare99: 7:59pm On Apr 09, 2015 |
I burn my dress wella with those funny looking iron  |
| Re: Remember These...even When Power Supply Was Stable by YoungestMuller(m): 8:05pm On Apr 09, 2015 |
Na mai skin suffer am o...I even develop muscle self emisquare99: |
| Re: Remember These...even When Power Supply Was Stable by Nobody: 9:44pm On Apr 09, 2015 |
I remember dis iron. |
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