{"id":43582,"date":"2024-04-07T18:29:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-07T22:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/?p=43582"},"modified":"2024-04-01T11:31:06","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T15:31:06","slug":"the-best-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/the-best-decade\/","title":{"rendered":"THE BEST DECADE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Penny For Your Thoughts<\/strong> By: Nancy Whitaker<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We all have stories about the past and  a lot of us believe that their decade was the best .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 I love going back and reading about the Royals and some of their practices and this was not old sayings, they were a way of life.. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Back in the 1500\u2013 1700s, hygiene was not a top priority for anyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some people believed that taking a bath would make you sick; others thought at least once a month wouldn\u2019t harm you.   This included the poor, the rich and The Royals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is said that Marie-Antoinette bathed once a month. Then the 17th century British King James I was said to never bathe his whole life causing the rooms he frequented to be filled with lice. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We think their practices  were gross, but that\u2019s what they believed, and made due  with what they had at the time <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well we have come a long ways from those ancient times Thank God, we don\u2019t have to stink, wear dirty clothes and die by age 30.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well growing up in the 50s and 60s, I remember not having running water and we had an outhouse.  I remember my mom and grandma packing in water, heating it on the stove and doing laundry in a wringer washing machine. But we kept ourselves clean and all our clothes smelled so good after hanging outside on a clothes line. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

My grandma had her own beliefs and sayings and if granny said by it, it had to be true.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For instance, if you burnt your self grandmas remedy was to put butter on the burn. I have done this and people thought butter wasn\u2019t a remedy, but to cook with and adorn corn on the cob.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We were told never to drink milk and eat fish at the same meal, or it could kill you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also   another rule to live by was : Never hand anyone a fork or you and that person would get in a fight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then you never saw a  cake or cookies being baked on a rainy day because it wouldn\u2019t rise. I believed that when i was young, but now I don\u2019t think it\u2019s true.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I read that a lot of grandma\u2019s sayings are fading away. Have you ever heard these?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve got a Champagne appetite on a Kool-Aid budget. (I want more than I can afford.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, butter my backside and call me a biscuit!.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You are as handy as a pocket on a shirt! (That\u2019s mighty handy!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can lead a horse to water but you can\u2019t make it drink.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can\u2019t get blood from a turnip! (Who would even try such?)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You\u2019re as blind as a bat! (Bats are blind? Really?)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Up the creek without a paddle!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well I\u2019ll be a monkey\u2019s uncle! (Say what?)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Were you born in a barn?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Whew, saved by the bell!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You all are like two peas in a pod.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don\u2019t use these old sayings or practices as much as I used to but, I still won\u2019t \u201c bake a cake on a rainy day;\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don\u2019t hand anyone a fork and I still butter up a burn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through the years we have all had different ways of life, taken a bath once a week in a big tub; wore a hat and gloves to church, carried in water from a well or used an out house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I bet those old Royals would love our practices today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How did you live during your decade? Do you still use homemade remedies or old sayings? Let me know and I\u2019ll give you a Penny for your Thoughts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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