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*~*~* Be creative *~*~* It is still summer, but fall and winter are not far away without gas and coal across the Atlantic. This family bathtub will be welcome on Saturdays!  I remember the many years after WW2 when we walked on Saturdays to the community's public wash and shower facility for a warm shower. In our flat we had a sink with running cold water. My mom heated a big pot of water every morning on the stovetop for the obligatory "cat's lick". I remember well the times when we built life from scratch. Happiness is when what you think, what you say, what you do are in harmony - M. Gandhi |
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The main thing is to find a way out of any chaos....  Happiness is when what you think, what you say, what you do are in harmony - M. Gandhi
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The main thing is to find a way out of any chaos.... my mon used to heat water on the stove for tub baths. no one had showers. we did shower when it rained. girtls on one side of the house and boys on other. an no. we knew better than to peek. our lives were valuable hahahha THE DAYS WILL END ... TIME WILL BE ETERNAL
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My new Crockpot said it serves 9, but it isn;t even 1/10th that size....lol I'd want to hold my feet up.
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I would venture to say, that with some exceptions, the younger generations of today have not had to do without much of anything they wanted. To many of them, a hardship is not getting the same top brand of tennis shoes or the newest cell phone or other electronic device. I also would venture to say that the time just may come when they are going to be sadly surprised by the lack of "things" and will be unable to adapt like those who have had less as they grew up. There was always a bath room in the homes I had growing up, with a tub or shower. However, I remember when my grandparents put a bathroom in their home. My best friend did not get a bathroom in her home until we were in high school. They had an outdoor toilet and washed up in the kitchen sink every morning. Once a week, a round metal tub was brought into their kitchen, filled with hot water and the entire family bathed in it. Daughter first, then sons, then mother, followed by dad. Their home also had only three rooms, kitchen, living room and one bed room with two beds in it. Mother slept with daughter, dad slept with sons. Not many of todays younger generation could even relate to that. Be a prism, spreading God's light and love, not a mirror reflecting the world's hatred.
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A creative idea, for sure  Warm hugs to you.   Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.(Khalil Gibran)
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We had a bathroom but no shower. The toilet was portable that my dad had to empty when it got full. In the summer we usually used the outhouse. We had a bath every Saturday night and the youngest got to bathe first and I think my parents bathed last. We would just keep adding hot water to the tub. Water was heated up on the wood burning kitchen stove. I always washed my hair Saturday afternoon and did my rag curls. They took forever to dry. Those were the good old days and for sure the younger generation wouldn't appreciate.
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WHEN I GOT MARRIED IN 1975, MY HUSBAND WAS STILL USED TO HAVING ONE BATH OR SHOWER A WEEK. I HAD A VERY HARD TIME GETTING HIM TO UNDERSTAND WE HAD THE MEANS FOR FAR MORE THAN THAT. IT SEEMS WE WILL NOT BE ALL THAT SHORT OF GAS OR NUKES THIS COMING WINTER, IT IS THE WATER THAT IS WORRYING US NOW.
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Myseek, you have brought me back into a time I had forgotten. Yep, you brought me back to when I was a small child on the farm. No running water in the house, a hand pump outside, an outhouse and bathing was going to the local lake for a swim. Hand washing clothes in a tub and hanging them on a clothes line. I never thought of it as a hard life though. Eventually indoor plumbing was installed and I no longer had to wait for the sun to rise to use the outhouse. That was scary for a little kid, it was a long walk in the dark, you learned not to drink much water before bedtime, or you had to hold it, or face the dark.
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I would venture to say, that with some exceptions, the younger generations of today have not had to do without much of anything they wanted. To many of them, a hardship is not getting the same top brand of tennis shoes or the newest cell phone or other electronic device. I also would venture to say that the time just may come when they are going to be sadly surprised by the lack of "things" and will be unable to adapt like those who have had less as they grew up. There was always a bath room in the homes I had growing up, with a tub or shower. However, I remember when my grandparents put a bathroom in their home. My best friend did not get a bathroom in her home until we were in high school. They had an outdoor toilet and washed up in the kitchen sink every morning. Once a week, a round metal tub was brought into their kitchen, filled with hot water and the entire family bathed in it. Daughter first, then sons, then mother, followed by dad. Their home also had only three rooms, kitchen, living room and one bed room with two beds in it. Mother slept with daughter, dad slept with sons. Not many of todays younger generation could even relate to that. Happiness is when what you think, what you say, what you do are in harmony - M. Gandhi
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My childrens' favourite memory of their off-grid, outer island childhood is laying in the steaming outdoor bath-tub on a cold night while looking up at the moon and stars, then wrapping up in a towel to sprint up to the house and sit in front of the fire while we read Roald Dahl stories. It was an old-fashioned heavy cast-iron tub..a few meters downhill ftom the well........We filled it to the top and lit a fire under it several hours before our baths. After the water was hot, I filled 5 gallon buckets with the hot water....sometimes I had to add more cold water to the tub to get the optimum temperature .....We bathed in the Japanese tradition. We shampooed and washed our bodies with soap and rinsed off outside the tub before we got in to soak....that way we could take turns soaking in the same tub water........we had a wooden trivet lining the bottom of the tub not to burn our bums. We also had a Sauna on the beach....... Our neighbour salvaged a steel Buoy.....the kind that floats on the ocean to signal ships.......He cut the top half off with a welding torch and built a wooden railing around the top out of fragrant Cedar and a floor and seating for 6. .......Then, with the help of a floating crane, he had it positioned on a bed of huge boulders a few feet above the high tide mark.......Then he filled it with sea-water, built a fire under it and had a party.......
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My mother used to fill a big bath tub in front of the open fire to bath us kids every Saturday night. If memory serves me right I think we were all dried with the same big bath towel .When we were all washed and dried, she gave us home made bread and jam. The good old days for sure. Lovely post and interesting comments.
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We had a bathroom but no shower. The toilet was portable that my dad had to empty when it got full. In the summer we usually used the outhouse. We had a bath every Saturday night and the youngest got to bathe first and I think my parents bathed last. We would just keep adding hot water to the tub. Water was heated up on the wood burning kitchen stove. I always washed my hair Saturday afternoon and did my rag curls. They took forever to dry. Those were the good old days and for sure the younger generation wouldn't appreciate. Happiness is when what you think, what you say, what you do are in harmony - M. Gandhi
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WHEN I GOT MARRIED IN 1975, MY HUSBAND WAS STILL USED TO HAVING ONE BATH OR SHOWER A WEEK. I HAD A VERY HARD TIME GETTING HIM TO UNDERSTAND WE HAD THE MEANS FOR FAR MORE THAN THAT. IT SEEMS WE WILL NOT BE ALL THAT SHORT OF GAS OR NUKES THIS COMING WINTER, IT IS THE WATER THAT IS WORRYING US NOW. Happiness is when what you think, what you say, what you do are in harmony - M. Gandhi
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Myseek, you have brought me back into a time I had forgotten. Yep, you brought me back to when I was a small child on the farm. No running water in the house, a hand pump outside, an outhouse and bathing was going to the local lake for a swim. Hand washing clothes in a tub and hanging them on a clothes line. I never thought of it as a hard life though. Eventually indoor plumbing was installed and I no longer had to wait for the sun to rise to use the outhouse. That was scary for a little kid, it was a long walk in the dark, you learned not to drink much water before bedtime, or you had to hold it, or face the dark. Happiness is when what you think, what you say, what you do are in harmony - M. Gandhi
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My childrens' favourite memory of their off-grid, outer island childhood is laying in the steaming outdoor bath-tub on a cold night while looking up at the moon and stars, then wrapping up in a towel to sprint up to the house and sit in front of the fire while we read Roald Dahl stories. It was an old-fashioned heavy cast-iron tub..a few meters downhill ftom the well........We filled it to the top and lit a fire under it several hours before our baths. After the water was hot, I filled 5 gallon buckets with the hot water....sometimes I had to add more cold water to the tub to get the optimum temperature .....We bathed in the Japanese tradition. We shampooed and washed our bodies with soap and rinsed off outside the tub before we got in to soak....that way we could take turns soaking in the same tub water........we had a wooden trivet lining the bottom of the tub not to burn our bums. We also had a Sauna on the beach....... Our neighbour salvaged a steel Buoy.....the kind that floats on the ocean to signal ships.......He cut the top half off with a welding torch and built a wooden railing around the top out of fragrant Cedar and a floor and seating for 6. .......Then, with the help of a floating crane, he had it positioned on a bed of huge boulders a few feet above the high tide mark.......Then he filled it with sea-water, built a fire under it and had a party....... Happiness is when what you think, what you say, what you do are in harmony - M. Gandhi
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Thanks for sharing your outdoor bathing experience. Did you and the kids have a body clean-up that way as a rule or sometimes for fun? Sounds like much of fun! I have been thinking of the bottom of the big bowl in the picture and the bums. lol On one of those cruises, we found the old tub all overgrown with trees and moss.......We dug it out, whittled plugs for it and hammered them in, then towed it back home.....What a find!!!!.......It was not our only way to bathe, but our favourite in the colder months......
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. I guess we've always been pretty lucky no threat of war or deprivation.
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Both.....These outer islands have lots of alternative, imaginative outdoor bathing opportunities.......Those Victorian cast-iron tubs were a precious commodity, though the more modern steel ones can also be used .....some people built beautiful stone bath houses with the tubs cemented in.....There are many abandoned homesteads on these islands and every Summer, we would go on a cruise in our sailboat to pick the fruit. We anchored out at night and picked fruit all day.....There was a cherry orchard on one of the islands with over a hundred trees with many different kinds of cherry...... On one of those cruises, we found the old tub all overgrown with trees and moss.......We dug it out, whittled plugs for it and hammered them in, then towed it back home.....What a find!!!!.......It was not our only way to bathe, but our favourite in the colder months...... Happiness is when what you think, what you say, what you do are in harmony - M. Gandhi
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. I guess we've always been pretty lucky no threat of war or deprivation. Yes, you have been lucky....... most of all the trouble happens far away. Happiness is when what you think, what you say, what you do are in harmony - M. Gandhi
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