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re: What do ya'll think it was like living in the old days? Say 1880s
Posted on 6/13/21 at 12:03 pm to baseballmind1212
Posted on 6/13/21 at 12:03 pm to baseballmind1212
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I'd imagine once a kid hit 10 or 11 they'd be expected to take on chores around the house
Should still be that way.
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Posted on 6/13/21 at 12:06 pm to Teslarocks
Just finished watching season 7 of Alone. I think we are giant pussies compared to men in those days. The women were more manly than we are today. Everything was a matter of survival. I imagine the kids had to provide for the family or they risk starving.
Im with you, though. Id like to teach my daughter about "the old ways". Only problem is I dont know anything about the old ways.
Im with you, though. Id like to teach my daughter about "the old ways". Only problem is I dont know anything about the old ways.
Posted on 6/13/21 at 12:06 pm to Teslarocks
You cherished shade and the trees that made it. You worked from just before dawn until too hot, and then did indoor work.
If you cooked, you cooked knowing that you had no refrigeration and what you didn't eat would go to the chickens and hogs.
I know that canning food was big in the states not in the deep south, I wonder if drying fruit worked or if the humidity made that less safe.
Laundry: get out the pot and boil the clothes, etc. then, of course, line dry before the afternoon rains hit.
Try to put off making soap until cooler weather.
Mend clothes as they tore. Make clothes as cloth became available from bags of flour.
Wonder if, if you're a young girl, life would be better in a nunnery. Especially if you've heard a woman die after or during child birth.
If you cooked, you cooked knowing that you had no refrigeration and what you didn't eat would go to the chickens and hogs.
I know that canning food was big in the states not in the deep south, I wonder if drying fruit worked or if the humidity made that less safe.
Laundry: get out the pot and boil the clothes, etc. then, of course, line dry before the afternoon rains hit.
Try to put off making soap until cooler weather.
Mend clothes as they tore. Make clothes as cloth became available from bags of flour.
Wonder if, if you're a young girl, life would be better in a nunnery. Especially if you've heard a woman die after or during child birth.
Posted on 6/13/21 at 12:06 pm to Teslarocks
It sucked. Getting an infection meant you could die. Lots of unregulated corporations were taken advantage of our resources. When having a child, there was a 50% chance your wife died. You were so broke, the chances of leaving you home town were very low.
Posted on 6/13/21 at 12:11 pm to Teslarocks
1880 in LA? Screw that, now NC, TN upper MO sure.
Posted on 6/13/21 at 12:12 pm to baseballmind1212
Once a kid hit five or six, feeding the poultry, collecting eggs, weeding the garden, keeping marauding wildlife out of the garden, all of these things were within the kids' abilities.
Posted on 6/13/21 at 12:15 pm to Teslarocks
The average guy worked from sunup to sundown, almost every day to scratch out enough to eat.
Posted on 6/13/21 at 12:17 pm to Teslarocks
Life was soooooo much harder than now. If you picked up most people from today and dropped them in that time period, then I don’t think the majority could make it.
Posted on 6/13/21 at 12:19 pm to jamiegla1
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Everything was a matter of survival
Honestly, we need more of this.
Posted on 6/13/21 at 12:19 pm to Teslarocks
And I'll ride that pony fast
Like a cowboy from the past
Be young and wild free
Like Texas in 1880
Just like Texas in 1880
Like a cowboy from the past
Be young and wild free
Like Texas in 1880
Just like Texas in 1880
Posted on 6/13/21 at 12:21 pm to Teslarocks
None of us would have to go back further than 3 or 4 generations to find family who worked with their hands and backs all day every day, and couldn’t let up for long if they wanted food on the table and a roof overhead.
This post was edited on 6/13/21 at 12:22 pm
Posted on 6/13/21 at 12:25 pm to Teslarocks
Nasty, brutish, and short.
Posted on 6/13/21 at 12:25 pm to Teslarocks
It was hot as shite but that's one of those things about can you miss what doesn't exist? If heat it all you know then you adapt to it. We melt in the heat because we know AC is a thing.
Posted on 6/13/21 at 12:28 pm to Teslarocks
You bathed once a week but nobody noticed the funk because you were used to it. You used an outhouse and wiped with pages fron the Sears catalog. You had a bunch of kids to make sure a few of them reached adulthood.
Posted on 6/13/21 at 12:30 pm to Jim Rockford
I wonder what it was like to go to town on women back then. I bet the smell was overwhelming. But like I said in my previous posts that's another one of those don't know any difference things.
Posted on 6/13/21 at 12:31 pm to The Boat
quote:Men used to ride women to town? I thought they used horses?
I wonder what it was like to go to town on women back then
Posted on 6/13/21 at 12:51 pm to jimbeam
Posted on 6/13/21 at 12:52 pm to Teslarocks
You had to shite in a hole, you didnt have running water or electricity, and you didnt probably live past 35 y/o.
I bet it sucked.
I bet it sucked.
Posted on 6/13/21 at 12:52 pm to Teslarocks
quote:
So you had to worry about illness more, manual labor just to survive, but perhaps living in the country you had peace with the land, more of a present in the moment life?
Grandfather was born in the 1920s and grew up on a houseboat in the laffite marsh. At around 6yrs old he chopped his toe off cutting kindling for the stove and his dad died of a hernia that was the result of pushing the houseboat trying to dry dock it a couple years later.
His mom tried to fish and fur the land and live on the house boat with just the two kids for a few years before her family convinced them to move “up front” to marrero. He would tell me stories of waking up at daybreak and feeding animals on the island where they were parked, running nets, checking traps, skinning and fleshing hides.
They worked 7 days a week and the only entertainment fun was a wedding or a holiday get together.
He always told me he wouldn’t trade all the “good ol days” for air conditioning or the medicine that would have saved his dads life!!
Posted on 6/13/21 at 1:30 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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Honestly, we need more of this.
The further we get from basic survival skills, the more dependent and weak we become.
I think this country would benefit from a brief 1-2 week loss of all utilities and services. We are so fat and spoiled that we are licking our fingers and arguing about superficial issues
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