What Hygiene Was Like in Colonial America

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  @spj2000 · 6 years ago

  I can't imagine living in a world where you just throw shit out the window every morning

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  @Housewarmin · 6 years ago

  Everyone always says romanticizes the past. “What time would you go back?!!” Umm I love running water, modern medicine, electricity and technology, and no slavery. Thank you.

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• AT

  @atompunk456 · 6 years ago

  Imagine walking pass a house and some shit falls on your head

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• JA

  @jamesferris4573 · 6 years ago

  I am an older man, and I was raised in a small farming area in Oklahoma in the early 60&apos;s. My father was a WWll vet, and like many didn&apos;t have a high school diploma. He was a poor peanut farmer, and we were surrounded by relatives, and friends who were in the same financial boat. No one in that area had indoor plumbing, and all knew poverty. I lived in a four room house without indoor plumbing, and inadequate heating until I was a teenager, and my parents fortune changed. We were self sefecient, and grew our own vegetables, and fruit, which my mother would can in fruit jars, and store in the cellar. My father, and uncles would butcher hogs, and cure the meat in my grandfathers smokehouse. My parents would have a calf butchered, and stored at a local meat locker until we needed it. The only thing that was purchased was some clothes, and material, thread, patterns, and staples such as sugar, salt, and things one can&apos;t grow. <br><br>My grandfather was born in 1880, and his father was a U.S. marshal in what is now S.W. Oklahoma, and West Texas. My grandfather passed in 1976, but left many stories of his father, and the time spent with him traveling the country. I was raised in what was more like the 19th. century, and although there were rough times we were always clean. My mother was a very hard working, strong woman, and watching how hard she worked gave me a healthy respect for strong women. My mother cooked three hot meals a day, no t.v. dinners, or fast food, she heated the water to wash the dishes, and for the bath water. She did all of the gardening, picking fruit, vegetables, canning, house cleaning, and helped in the fields The bath tub was a galvanized tub, which was carried into the kitchen, and filled with water, which my brother, and I carried from the windmill. It took time to heat the water on the propane stove for the bath water, but it was done regularly. Our clothes were old, but always clean, and the outhouse was no different than an indoor toilet. It was a lot colder in Winter, and you had to knock the black widow spider webs out from under the rim in the Summer, but if you were a clean person you were still clean. Some people are not clean, and have lived their entire lives in luxury. There seems to be a misconception that people who use an outhouse were nasty, and couldn&apos;t get clean, but this is not true. My father kept lime in the bottom to keep it from smelling, and other than the inconvenience, ours was clean. I have experienced a lot in my life, as my grandfather before me did, and people were no different then, than now, some are clean, Some are not. Indoor plumbing, and modern facilities make it easier, but the desire to care is in each person. My father was taught to believe that all household work was women&apos;s work. He was a good man, but misguided like many in that era. After watching my mother work I told my wife when we got married over 45yrs. ago that there was no women&apos;s work. We have always shared the house work, and I believe you both live there, and mess it up, so you should share the work. Stay safe everyone.

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• BE

  @BeckVMH · 6 years ago

  I have always believed a hot shower is one of the life’s greatest luxuries. This video is just another illustration.

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• JA

  @jahsei7269 · 6 years ago

  Imagine walking up to Benjamin Franklin..and he stinks I’d be like “instead of discovering electricity you need to discover some soap”.

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  @davidharris3728 · 5 years ago

  I sometimes find myself daydreaming about living in another period of human history, but in reality, we as humans have never lived in a more comfortable, prosperous, or safe time. Videos like this really put into perspective how much we take for granted now-a-days.

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• BI

  @Big_E_Soul_Fragment · 6 years ago (edited)

  &quot;Those who bathe are less likely to engage in other sins and less likely to be poor&quot;<br>brb gonna take <i>yet another</i> bath

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• SH

  @shawnmichaelduncan5951 · 6 years ago

  Just recently we had to have doctors going on television telling people how to wash their hands. In 2020.

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• BU

  @butterfIyy1 · 6 years ago

  When someone has access to water and soap in 2020 and still don&apos;t take advantage of it is what I call a tragedy to humanity 😭

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• EL

  @eligreg99 · 5 years ago

  The thing is they probably didn’t even realize they all stunk like that because all of their noses got use to that smell. Who’s to say in 100-200 years they think we are dirty and smell bad as well lol.

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• CM

  @cmck17 · 6 years ago

  You don’t need 12 minutes to say: “gross”.

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