[goat granny]

Unless one has a job that gets you dirty, why take a bath or shower daily....When I was growing up, daily you freshen up using the bathroom sink and a wash cloth...Just a few years prior to my birth (1939) many homes didn't even have indoor plumbing....and one can wash up without filling a bath tub full of water or stand under a shower for 10 minutes..deodorant was always used, no one went around stinking....

Most women worked at home, and unless you lived in a hovel, how dirty do you really get...of course after gardening a bath was mandatory.

Fill a large kettle with water from your well, stoke up the stove, heat the water and put in the bath tub that you had out in the utility room, add cold water until luke warm, bathe and get out of tub...It wasn't a relaxing evening thing, it was a cleansing thing..

Thats how we did it on grandma's farm...

[ontap]

I’m well aware of the use of a wash pan and picture. We also did not bathe everyday because it was just to much trouble heating the water and such. We also did not heat new water for each child...being the youngest the water was getting pretty thick by the time it got to my turn!!