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When I was growing up in the late 1930s and early 1940s, we lived on a farm and didn't have running water or electricity. Mother heated the bath water in a reservoir on the side of the wood cook stove, and in big pots on top of the stove. In the winter we would bring in the big metal wash tub and fill it with water and the smaller kids could sit in the tub, sometimes 2 at a time. The water was not thrown away until the last bath, but mother just kept adding hot water until everybody had a bath.
All 7 of us (6 girls and l boy) had to get a bath on Saturday night so we would be clean to go to church on Sunday morning. I liked to get my bath early in the afternoon and shampoo my hair and mother would put my hair up in rollers.
You would take your feet out of the tub and step on the cold linoleum floor and start shivering.
Our house was heated by one fireplace in the main bedroom where we would gather to get dressed in the winter.
I like to believe our "humble beginnings" made all of us survivors in the fast-paced world of today. We all enjoy and appreciate the inventions we could only dream of back in those days.
I like my new jacuzzi in our new 14x14 bath that we added on last year. What a luxury, but oh, how I enjoy it. Especially on cold winter nights, or when I've been outdoors working and my muscles ache. I dubbed it "My Spa".
When I have the jets open on full, and the water is splashing about, it always brings to mind this old Bobby Darin song of the 60's.
"Splish Splash, I was takin a bath
Long about a Saturday night
All 7 of us (6 girls and l boy) had to get a bath on Saturday night so we would be clean to go to church on Sunday morning. I liked to get my bath early in the afternoon and shampoo my hair and mother would put my hair up in rollers.
You would take your feet out of the tub and step on the cold linoleum floor and start shivering.
Our house was heated by one fireplace in the main bedroom where we would gather to get dressed in the winter.
I like to believe our "humble beginnings" made all of us survivors in the fast-paced world of today. We all enjoy and appreciate the inventions we could only dream of back in those days.
I like my new jacuzzi in our new 14x14 bath that we added on last year. What a luxury, but oh, how I enjoy it. Especially on cold winter nights, or when I've been outdoors working and my muscles ache. I dubbed it "My Spa".
When I have the jets open on full, and the water is splashing about, it always brings to mind this old Bobby Darin song of the 60's.
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Long about a Saturday night
A rub-a-dub, just relaxin in the tub
Thinking everything was alright
Well, I stepped out the tub,
put my feet on the floor,
I wrapped the towel around me
and I opened the door, and then
Splish, Splash! I jumped back in the bath.
Well how was I to know
there was a party going on!"
When I don't have time to linger in the jacuzzi, I go to another corner of the bathroom and enjoy the refreshing walk-in shower with the big shower head. It feels like it is raining when you are in the shower. I love it!
I have a "Saturday Night Bath" almost every day of the week and am so thankful for modern baths.
