For Men Only - Hygiene Question

Pony · #21 08/13/13, 09:55 PM

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Originally Posted by MichaelZ

We take for granted the daily showers. In the old (old) days, however, baths were a once a week thing except for a dip in the river or pond in the summer. And since they worked all day in the fields and with animals, it could not have been too pretty.

People knew enough to wash up daily, they just didn't do the whole tub bath thing. It was quite a ritual, to be sure! Carrying in the water, heating the water, dragging out the tub, filling it up...

But people DID understand - and, more importantly, practice - good hygiene. They just didn't shower or tub bathe daily, but they did fill a bucket and give themselves a good going-over.

Sawmill Jim · #22 08/13/13, 10:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Pony

People knew enough to wash up daily, they just didn't do the whole tub bath thing. It was quite a ritual, to be sure! Carrying in the water, heating the water, dragging out the tub, filling it up...

But people DID understand - and, more importantly, practice - good hygiene. They just didn't shower or tub bathe daily, but they did fill a bucket and give themselves a good going-over.

Old folks called those possible baths

emdeengee · #23 08/13/13, 11:11 PM

Hygiene is not just about knowing where and when to wash It is about practices conducive to maintaining health and preventing disease.

LoonyK · #24 08/14/13, 08:29 AM

Some of the sickest people in society are some of the cleanest, leave me in my wallow, I like some dirt, it adds homesteading cred.

JoePa · #25 08/14/13, 09:06 AM

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Originally Posted by Pony

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaand...

The majority of posters in this thread are women!

Well - to get even I opened the For Women Only thread - read some of it - that was a big mistake - shouldn't have done it - now I am having horrible nightmares - can't sleep - lost my appetite - the one good thing that came out of it was - I got down on my knees and thanked God that He made me a man -

poppy · #26 08/14/13, 10:12 AM

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Originally Posted by Pony

People knew enough to wash up daily, they just didn't do the whole tub bath thing.

Apparently not all did. I read a book about old timey ways that was really interesting. The author said the idea of women carrying flowers when they walked down the aisle on their wedding day was in order to cut the smell of body odor because they rarely bathed.

Doug Hodges · #27 08/14/13, 10:27 AM

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Originally Posted by MichaelZ

We take for granted the daily showers. In the old (old) days, however, baths were a once a week thing except for a dip in the river or pond in the summer. And since they worked all day in the fields and with animals, it could not have been too pretty.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pony

People knew enough to wash up daily, they just didn't do the whole tub bath thing. It was quite a ritual, to be sure! Carrying in the water, heating the water, dragging out the tub, filling it up...

But people DID understand - and, more importantly, practice - good hygiene. They just didn't shower or tub bathe daily, but they did fill a bucket and give themselves a good going-over.

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Originally Posted by Sawmill Jim

Old folks called those possible baths

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Originally Posted by poppy

Apparently not all did. I read a book about old timey ways that was really interesting. The author said the idea of women carrying flowers when they walked down the aisle on their wedding day was in order to cut the smell of body odor because they rarely bathed.

Wait just a minute. Who are you all calling old. I remember the wash rag baths. I remember the tub with the water heating on the stove. Going to the creek or lake everyday to take a bath in the spring and summer. My uncles soaping up and taking the bucket of hot water out on the porch and dumping it on their heads when snow was on the ground. We had cisterns and outhouses too. Im only 48. I grew up in the hills of North Central Arkansas. Dad built a house with running water and bathrooms when I was 6ish. We were ahead of the curve. My grandparents didn't get inside toilets and running water until several years later. We had thousands of acres of land in my family but we had outhouses too. LOL.

Doug Hodges · #28 08/14/13, 10:28 AM

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Originally Posted by JoePa

Well - to get even I opened the For Women Only thread - read some of it - that was a big mistake - shouldn't have done it - now I am having horrible nightmares - can't sleep - lost my appetite - the one good thing that came out of it was - I got down on my knees and thanked God that He made me a man -

I only read two sentences and closed it out and Im in the same boat you are.

wannabechef · #29 08/14/13, 12:19 PM

2-3 showers per day for me..,

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Ozarks Tom · #30 08/14/13, 01:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Sawmill Jim

Old folks called those possible baths

Yep, wash up as far as possible, wash down as far as possible, and when nobody's looking wash possible.

Bret · #31 08/14/13, 02:34 PM

Laugh always. Shower often. When I start the day. When I end the day. Saturday, 4 times with the hose in between to keep cool while digging post holes. It was hot.

wannabechef · #32 08/14/13, 03:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Bret

Laugh always. Shower often. When I start the day. When I end the day. Saturday, 4 times with the hose in between to keep cool while digging post holes. It was hot.

I start the morning with a shower and one when I come home from work, if I go back outside after work I will shower again. I will not sit on my furniture with a dirty body or clothes

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tinknal · #33 08/14/13, 04:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Sawmill Jim

Old folks called those possible baths

There is another name for them but forum rules forbid...............

Haven · #34 08/14/13, 05:15 PM

I never really wondered about men's hygiene until they started selling Monkey Butt powder at Tractor Supply.

Why do they have to keep it right next to every register where we are forced to think about it every time we check out?

fordy · #35 08/14/13, 08:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Sawmill Jim

Well if a fellow my age don't know what and where to wash by now i don't think he will ever know .

..................I can't reach all the places I could when I was 40 ! , fordy

wannabechef · #36 08/14/13, 08:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Haven

I never really wondered about men's hygiene until they started selling Monkey Butt powder at Tractor Supply.

Why do they have to keep it right next to every register where we are forced to think about it every time we check out?

Goof stuff it is...

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HOTW · #37 08/14/13, 09:40 PM

When I see the Monkey Butt Powder all I can think of is the movie Monkeybone with Brendan Fraser

Doug Hodges · #38 08/14/13, 09:42 PM

Always a shower in the morning. If I work outside after working in the office all day, I take one before bed.

Sawmill Jim · #39 08/14/13, 11:33 PM

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Originally Posted by fordy

..................I can't reach all the places I could when I was 40 ! , fordy

Ever try the car wash

Awnry Abe · #40 08/15/13, 01:53 PM

You know what I just learned? That little bar of soap thingy in that upside down milk jug sink thingy in the Johnny on the spot ain't no bar of soap. And the milk jug sink thingy ain't no sink.