Allicor's Unique Boutique: BATHS & BATHING

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Most of you readers are young , and some of you may be seniors, but what do you remember or remember hearing about taking a bath? Today we have bathtubs, showers, and running water.

We take a bath as often as we want to. We never worry about using too much water do we? We take things for granted but what about our grandparents and great grandparents? They didn’t have running water ,nor bath tubs or showers.

Well I heard stories and read stories about Bath times of long ago. First of all our ancestors needed something to bath in. Oh I know that some used to bathe in a creek or river or stream but that would have been hard to do if one was living far from these places. I read that one particular family used to go to a spring about a mile from their home filling buckets of spring water and bringing them home on a horse and wagon. The lady of the house (mother, grandmother, or spouse) had this round metal tub, ( I remember Mom had one ,I believe it was galvanized) This tub was used for many things, for boiling diapers, gathering vegetable and whatever usage the could find. So as you can see they had to conserve the water by using it over and over which brings me to the bath time . Baths were usually once a week and usually on Saturday to have everyone clean for Sunday Mass. Usually they all took turns in bathing in the same tub of water ,as one would leave the tub ,water was poured in to warm the water for the next child, after the children were put to bed, the mother took her bath and then the father. By the time the father got into the same tub he had the most water in the tub. When the baths were all over the water was often thrown on flower beds or plants which seemed to thrive all this bath water. Another lady wrote” It’s funny how deprived some people think they are. They feel poor because they don’t drive a car, or cannot shop at fancy stores or they cannot live in the exclusive parts of the city. They have never experienced what it means to survive on so little and still not feel underprivileged.” A very wise lady to realize that we should be thankful for whatever we have no matter how little or how much., Christmas will soon be here, and now is the time to start preparations, you can find more at either of my two stores

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