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Actually, I have always thought that a pictorial of 'Bathtub Marys' would be sellable...paging the National Endowment for the Arts...maybe I can get a grant.

And just because I have to admit to this too...I also grew up in a house with a commode in the basement (freestanding, with a tissue holder contraption welded to one of the posts that held up the beam, the seat was replaced with a snazzy avecado colored one in about 1978...I never, ever used it--I always thought the basement was creepy). We had no dryer, but the traditional clotheslines in the basement. We also had a coal cellar (where my dad kept his snow tires--mom didn't want them near the clean clothes). You can't make this stuff up...

PM, my reserve office space is in a finished basement, approximately 15 feet from the commode-washer-basin cluster. When that description was posted, I laughed out loud. Back in the day, even though we always had a dryer, there were clotheslines down here too.

And I'd love to have a 'bathtub Mary' in my yard, though I don't know really where to begin....

Great thread.