This one is simple. Do you remember having a bath in the galvanized tub in front of the wood/coal burning stove in the kitchen?
I do.
This was before we had a tub in the bathroom. There was a toilet there, but no sink, and certainly no bathtub.
After supper dishes were done, Mom placed the tub on the floor in front of the stove. Dad stoked up the stove so it was nice and warm. Dad and Mom filled the tub with water, some of it heated on the stove. Then beginning at the youngest, we each got to take our bath. (The babies were bathed earlier in the kitchen sink.) By the time it got to me, the water was pretty well luke warm and a bit dirty. (It was even worse when Dad got to take his turn. I don't know if Mom took a bath the same way, but I would guess so. I just barely remember a discussion between Dad and Mom about the need for a bathtub as the galvanized tub was hard on her most tender areas.)
When I got out of the tub, I wrapped a towel around me and stood in front of the stove to get warm. Then I put on underwaer and went to bed. In those days I didn't sleep in pyjamas.
Saturday night was also Dad's shaving night. He would shave once a week "whether he needed it or not." He had a safety razor, a mirror, and he used regular soap. (I shave now with shaving gel, and a relatively modern razor. That's hard enough. I wonder how he did it!)
This lasted until I was about 8 or 9. It was a Saturday night ritual.
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A toilet????? I don't remember a toilet until I was in geez... maybe 7th grade. that would have made you 20.
I remember mom giving me a bath in the sink just before dad would come home because i got so dirty. then she would put me in clean clothes and tell me to sit there so that Dad would know that he had 2 daughters.
lol, i shave with what ever blade i can afford at the time, usually a bic disposable, and water from the sink. no point in wasting all that money on cremes or soaps
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