23 Feb 2013

SATURDAY = BATHDAY



To my Grandma times and even later when people had to heat up water with coal or wood or other means they took a bath once a week and that was usually on Saturdays to be clean for Sunday and the church !



Today we have a bathday or at least a shower day almost every day but we also go less or never to church. Result : too much water used !

8 comments:

  1. Until the age of 10 when we moved to a modern house, my home did not have a bathroom. The toilet was out in the yard and once a week the tin bath came out and the water was heated on the big stove. The bath was put in front of a big coal fire to keep you warm. My father and older brother used to go to the municipal baths where for a few pence you could enjoy a bathful of hot water. Such memories you have brought back to me this morning.

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  2. Being brought up for the first years of my childhood in England, I can remember the weekly bath. Eve in Australia until we had a real house we still only had a bath once a week. I couldn't think of anything more revolting today. We must have stunk!

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  3. lol
    In the country every one washed in the river after a hot day. Tougher in the cities though but then we went to the pool all day and then rinsed off with fresh water.

    Yup times were rough when I was growing up lol
    Today I try to conserve but it is hard to do. Life would be hard without water.

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  4. I must have had a more privileged childhood. I had a bath every 2nd night which I had to share with my sisters. There was a very scary gas heater to heat the water hanging over the bath. It gave mini explosions if not treated with care. On holidays we never had a bath as there was never a bathroom and came home covered in salt and sand.
    Good job with the washing Arthur, keep it up.

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  5. That is a cute photo of the two children in the bath tub / bucket. I see you live in Belgium and my father's people are from Belgium, long ago. I say hello from California.

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  6. So it means... the less people go to church, the more they spend water? Hmmmmm, interesting correlation...
    God bless you!
    Cezar

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  7. I think we always had bathrooms, but I do remember my grandmother's bathroom. No shower, just a very large sink. My uncle has had a shower installed a few years ago, making it a bit easier on him (my grandmother passed away a few years earlier).

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  8. I love the old fashioned bath photo. I had a framed picture something like that in our bathroom in our house in Oregon.

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