Very true but I much prefer things (in general) that we have today I
think in the 50's though a lot were past that almost 24/7 job some of
our grandmas had just working in the house/farm etc and the fast-paced
life that is today. My nan had a really hard life looking after her 6
siblings and helping her mother in the house as well as all the cooking
for the farmhands. Then she went on to have 7 kids of her own, lol. But
my grandfather ended up working for the railways and they lived many
years in railway homes in the country as he was a station master, each
one a little more modern than the other. Then they made the move to
Sydney with a floor and a can toilet out back Nan never stopped doing
certain things though, like putting sunlight soap in a wire container to
use as dishwashing soap. She always boiled washing up water on the
stove. She only used hot water from the tank for baths and showers. It
was late in her life before she got rid of the copper in the laundry
that she used for some washing. Then there was always home made ice
cream (pretty vile, lol) and always home made soups. Stewed her own
fruit, made her own jams and pickles etc.

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> 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
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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
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>> We have come a long way
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>> 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
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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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