Thread: My mother, the time machine---

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Originally Posted by Don Dalton

I would imagine most of the guys on the forum that are my age were in the same boat,especially if your lived in the country.All my siblings except 1 were born at home. We didn't go to the drug store,but bought medicines from a traveling salesman (Rawliegh Products). No electricity kerosene(coal oil) to burn in the lamps. No indoor toilets or toilet paper.

We lived on a farm in the 50's. I remember getting a bad cut on my foot and mom "doctored" it with Watkins Cow Salve. I still have the terrible scar but I still have the foot too so the salve must have been a good stuff. Now, if you don't get right to the emergency room for antibiotics the infections could kill you.
I remember using many a catolog page as toilet paper in the outhouse when it was 5 below. You didn't waste a lot of time go to the toilet in those days.