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To: Spunky

Sounds like we shared similar fun times down on the farm/ranch.

No indoor plumbing at my great-aunts either.

No electricity either, cooked on a wood stove and had kerosene lamps.

She had a small ice box to keep a few things cold, ice man made deliveries.

My kids would laugh when I called the frig the ice box.

They don’t know what they missed.


367 posted on 09/01/2023 8:13:16 PM PDT by Lakeside Granny (IN GOD WE TRUST with TRUMP WE STAND)
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To: Lakeside Granny

My dad always called the fridge the ice box. He used to talk about Saturday they would heat water and put in the tub so everyone could take a bath. Once, one of my kids asked him why he just took a bath once a week when he was a kid. “Because they made me” was his answer, lol.


390 posted on 09/01/2023 9:15:45 PM PDT by Rusty0604 (Despthaerately looking for new conspiracy theories as all the old ones have come true)
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To: Lakeside Granny; Spunky

When we would go visit my grandparents in italy, in the seventies mostly, they had running cold water and plumbing. No refrigerator and no hot water. They finally got a little Motel type refrigerator. But my grandmother still went shopping every day. That was part of the fun of going to visit. The public showers we went to and trying to take a quick bath in the kitchen with a heated pot of water wasn’t so great. My grandparents lived in an old building, built in the 1800s. It eventually got all the amenities but it took a while. oh and no A/C. My aunt’s House’s head running water and showers but they didn’t have an AC either. Everything shut down from 1:00 to 4:00 and opened again until 7:00.


453 posted on 09/02/2023 6:38:14 AM PDT by CottonBall (“Fascism should be called corporatism because it is a merger of state & corporate power" – Mussolini)
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