my grandmother would sew a pad that looked similar in shape to the modern
day ones but they had a tab on each end to pen to the underwear or later a
belt... they had cotton sewn and quilted, then my grandmother would boil
them in lye soap. sounds hidious but it seems everyone survived it... odd
to think of talkng of what my mom used as a young girl and now i don't need
any of that sort of thing anymore, lol, Lee
"Ozgirl" > wrote in message
...
>
>
> "Storrmmee" > wrote in message
> ...
>> 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
>> ...
>>>
>>>
>>> "Storrmmee" > wrote in message
>>> ...
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> 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,
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>>