[foxyshaman]

Some of these I find quite amusing.

Just sharing some memories from my oh so bright and fun childhood.

We had a washing machine that had the squeezer on top to get the water out. I loved that old tub washing machine.

When we moved to the 'other' farm we hand washed all of our clothes for a few years. Jeans with cow shit on them are hard to wash... cow shit stains your clothes green, especially if it is early summer and the grass is really fresh. Ringing the water out of heavy clothes to put them on the line could at times be a two person job.

There were lots of times we had no running water and lots of times without TP. I remember a few times using the Sears catalogue for such events. We had various types of porta potties in the house (loved emptying that thing) as well as out houses and dug holes in the ground.

We also heated our house with wood and coal. We cooked on a coal/wood stove. There is one thing that I will never ever eat again, baked brown beans. Why you ask (well even if you did not), because brown beans baked in a coal stove for hours are THE BEST. I have never tasted anything to compare. Our stove even had the bread warmer and drawers to keep things warm.

We were at times very poor and lots of times there was no bread to slice!! However, one day my parents bought a sonic mill and ground their own flour. OMG...seriously OMG that stuff weighed 80lbs per loaf. I never have been able to slice bread very well. Now I don't even eat bread, ever.

So...even tho' things have been invented, there are times when you just go without modern conviences.

Now if you leave me on a desert island, leave me with a washer and dryer please and thank you. And please leave me with nice soft TP!!!