what please is sunlight soap? my grandmothers were from vastly different
backgrounds, my maternal grandmother married at 18 to my grandfather who had
seven children from 15 to 2 in age, had four children that lived... she
taught me to make lye, sp soap and squirrell and dumplings, she also taught
me how to bottle feed rabbits squirrels and racoons and deer... the other
grandmother taught me all the uses for a 24 set of cultury and how to walk
with a book on my head... when you attended church with her you wore gloves
and a hat,

btw my mother's home made ice cream is a treat and the only ice cream i care
for, very rich and creamy and not too sweet, Lee
"Ozgirl" > wrote in message
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> 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.
>
> "Storrmmee" > wrote in message
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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
>> "Ozgirl" > wrote in message
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>>> "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.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 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.
>>>>
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