"Storrmmee" > wrote in message
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> my mother is 73 years old, she lived in a house with a dirt floor
> until she was ten, my grandparents didn't get indor plumbing until
> 1968 or so, all of their underclothes and femine products were sewn
> from flour and sugar sack cloth, very poor but well fed, Lee

We have come a long way

IN the late 50's I become aware of certain things on the line every few
weeks. I eventually became aware that they were terry pieces of rag my
mum used each month. My sister is 16 years older than me and I remember
a bit of hoohah when her eldest daughter became a young teenager and
started using stick on pads (as opposed to the old style attached to a
strap) I wasn't around for the time she started tampons, lol. My
mother and sister eventually succumbed to modern day products

> "Ozgirl" > wrote in message
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>> "Storrmmee" > wrote in message
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>>> was just discussing this with a df, her grandmother used to somehow
>>> clean the feathers to make pillows and bed batting with... she
>>> doesn't remember, but she lolled when she said it popped into her
>>> head the hoter day and she was trying to figure how she cleaned them
>>> and they didn't stink.
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>>> My sister has started skinning her chickens whn she slaughters so it
>>> goes quicker, the skin isn't there to tempt and smells less nasty,
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>> My grandmother possibly did. She was born in the early 1890's, didn't
>> have a house with anything but a dirt floor for many, many years and
>> made boy's pants out of grain sacks! I cringe when I think what that
>> must have felt like against the skin.
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