Toilet paper

[Diggin It]

I don't get the ground beef beef though. Why the run on that? It doesn't exactly keep well unless frozen.

 

[MossRoad]

Most people have refrigerator/freezers.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Didn't toss them in the privy after Ernie? . . . boy they were poor . . .

When you had a crib full of corn, and you shelled it by the bushel to feed your livestock, you accumulated a lot of cobs...and you can only use so many in the privy, and besides, how many corn cob pipes do you need? Might as well burn them in the stove!

 

[Industrial Toys]

I still have my carton of tightly wrapped one ply institutional toilet paper from Y2K. It's great because it's so nasty that you would never normally use it and depleat the emergency supply.

 

[RalphVa]

When you had a crib full of corn, and you shelled it by the bushel to feed your livestock, you accumulated a lot of cobs...and you can only use so many in the privy, and besides, how many corn cob pipes do you need? Might as well burn them in the stove!

Run them through the chipper and then compost pile.

Ralph

 

[5030]

I still have my carton of tightly wrapped one ply institutional toilet paper from Y2K. It's great because it's so nasty that you would never normally use it and depleat the emergency supply.

Your comment reminded me of my days in school when the TP in the boys room. It was light brown and had small bits of bark in it and it was brittle so wiping was a careful exercise. Paper towels were of the same material too. Light brown coarse and not very absorbent. Must have been the buyer for the school system was very frugal.....:laughing: Looking back, shelled corn cobs might have been better........ Least you could grip the end instead of putting you finger through the brittle TP.

 

[shooterdon]

Grew up in a century-old house where they installed running water in about 1910. Ran the sewer line out of the house and almost 1,000 feet down the hill in the forest and just ended it in a kinda natural cavity. The sewerage was sometimes fragrant but always stayed in a 30 diameter swampy area. The area was ringed by the richest looking blackberry bushes I've ever seen - with the biggest berries imaginable. But we were afraid to eat them. It's still there, still used by that house... Until someone tells the Health Department I guess. It's a half mile or more from the nearest neighbor house, so nobody really knows.

One of my neighbors has a small septic tank and no drain field...just a 4" pipe that runs 200-250 ft to a swamp. Never an odor.

 

[YanmarFever]

Run them through the chipper and then compost pile.

Ralph

Ralph they had no chippers back in those days... The great depression- although there was nothing great about it.
He said the cobs burned really hot and those Minnesota mornings were really cold.

The 22 bullets were for deer hunting, back then there were no deer tags.

His other job's as a small boy was trimming the wicks on the Aladdin lamps and keeping them full of kerosene, plus there was the firewood to put up all summer.

We have it made nowadays !

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Reminds me of my kitchen duties...besides pumping the water and filling the water bucket, it was my job to remove the glass jug from Mom's kerosene cook stove, take it outside, fill it with kerosene, and put it back on (upside down I might add) on the stove without dropping it. Kerosene is very slippery when you get it on a glass jug, I might add! I recall the burners on the old stove were typical lamp wicks, but laid sideways in a circle; and raised and lowered with a knob like any other stove.

 

[Industrial Toys]

I always wish I had a bidet. No room for it here. Why we are blessed with hair down there I will never know. Often thought about getting it waxed! Clean up would be easier.