January 31, 2015
It may be hard to understand life without: TVs, Skype, cell phones, Ipods, Ipads, texting, instant communication, instant news, instant hot water, cars with power steering, fast food restaurants, microwaves, credit cards, automatic washers, automatic dryers, gas or oil furnaces, prepared foods from the box or the freezer, shower or bath tub
WE LIVED IN THE GOOD OLE DAYS:
We washed clothes with a wringer washer after heating the water on the stove.
The clothes were hung on the clothesline outside unless it was raining or cold, then we hung them inside on clothes racks over the registers.
Our eggs came from the chicken house.
Our milk came from the cows in the barn.
Our fruits and vegetables came from the garden or the jars that had been home canned.
We got the news, music or programs that we listened to from the radio.
We had a non electric carpet sweeper. For a better cleaning we took the rugs outside and hung them over the clothes line and beat them with a metal rug beater to get out the dirt and dust.
We used coal and wood in the furnace to heat the house.
We had a large wooden bowl and wooden paddle that was used for making butter out of the cream off of the milk.
We didn't argue about who was going to sit by the window in the car. We rode in the back of the pickup.
We used a glass pop bottle of water with a stopper that had holes in it to sprinkle the clothes, rolled them up to set to dampen them, before ironing, since we had no steam iron.
We actually had fun playing outside for hours with the neighbor kids.
For baths we used a basin or sometimes a metal tub by the wood cook stove to keep warm.