Bathing and doing laundry in Siberia at -95 degrees F
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Ritajanice
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When my mom was a child living in the country, they had an outhouse, too. She said one time there was a snake curled up on the shelf. Her dad came out and got it, threw it by the river.
The old outhouses never were emptied. The debris just went back to the earth.
When I was age 2-3 we lived in my grandmothers old homeplace that had just gotten electricity, but had no plumbing. We had a bucket in a small closet with a red curtain hanging in the doorway ...and we had an outhouse. And I remember a huge snake when my sister and I were on our way to the outhouse.
We also had a well. We had the bucket for drinking water and a metal dipper. We took baths on the screened back porch in a metal tub. We did have a washing machine, though. It was on the side porch ...a wringer washer.
My sister and I shared a bedroom on the back. Part of the back porch had been enclosed to make a bedroom.
I remember that place pretty well. It was the place we lived when I first started having horrible running-screaming nightmares, and hiding under my bed. I had those nightmares off and on till I was age 7 or 8.
Ritajanice
Born-Again
Did you have a bucket in a closet for emergencies? lol
Another word for those was "thunder bucket" ...or "thunder closet." lol
Ritajanice
Born-Again
When we lived in a 2 bedroom house, I had to sleep in the same bedroom as my brother and Grandad.
My younger brother, slept in the same bedroom as my parents.
At night time....as far as I can remember...was a pot...I can’t be 100% sure though....there was a lot in my young life was blocked out....there is a lot I can’t remember...
I understand. Oddly enough, I blocked out years, but my mind also recorded certain things in detail, stored in my conscious memory. So I have facts stored in my head....like the red curtain, or the layout of the houses we lived in when I was 1, 2, 3 (etc) ...and my Mom verified it was accurate. I even remember my maternal grandmother taking me to a neighbor's house to pick persimmons ...age 1. I remember her feeding me so many pecans, I began to hate them, especially the bitter taste of a pecan that wasn't cleaned well ...also age 1.
I have memories from outside my body, age 2. My aunt and uncle were at our house. The adults were sitting at the dining table playing cards. I was sitting on the kitchen counter looking through the "pass-thru" above the counter. I could see them playing cards. I saw my Dad and uncle get up and go to the bedroom where my sister and I slept (and likely, our cousins were with us that night, but I don't remember that detail). I was outside my body because by then, I knew that being in the body wasn't safe. At some point after the men went into our toom, another "me" flew out of the bedroom through the door. In and instant, I flew up to join her, and we flew out into the night sky, above the trees, into the stars ...as far away as we could go. (My spirit and soul were shattered into thousands of pieces by my adulthood.)
God has healed so much ...
Anyways ...how old were you?
No, we had a regular bath tub.... although our first apartment when I was about six had a shower in the basement.
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