[deport]

Yep a black wash pot and render down the fat and get your cracklins. Then get some lye and make your wash day lye soap. Get up on monday morning around 5 am, start the fire under the pot to heat your wash water and begin the wash day.

[goat granny]

Thats the reason people only took baths infrequently, a lot of trouble to cart the buckets of water into the back room from the outside pump, put in on the old coal fired stove to heat, carry it back into the back room, pour into tub and add enough water to cool it down, wash and the dispose of the water....there was no turning on the tap and filling the tub....we are a soft people now :O)

I still remember my grandma's farm, with a parlor and a piano in it...children were not allowed in the parlor. The upstairs bedrooms would hold 3 full size beds and each had a chamber pot under it...you were careful using the chamber pot in case someone else had used it, you didn't want pee dumped on your feet.....ah, life was good in the good old days.....