Somecallmemom posted a link and I found this interesting. They listed 5 chores everyone would have to do after or during shtf.
Dishes
Laundry
Bathing
Cooking
Lawnmowing
My first thoughts are usually "what did gramma do and howd she do it". She was a dirt poor sharecropper, migrant worker, raised before the Great Depression, then raised 8 kids through the depression.
Dishes was done in a wash tub. Access to clean water is a must. Dushes was a few plates n bowls, couple of forks and spoons. Dutch oven and cast iron pans and couple of enamel pots. Not ever enough cups. Couple carbon steel knives.
Laundry was done once a week, but clothes were few. At most ya had couple pair of overalls and 2 shirts. Girls had couple.moo moo type dress things. Kids went bare foot. Men had couple pairs of socks. Men didnt have underwear, women sometimes had bloomers.
She used the big tin washtub or a giant cast iron pig boiling pot. She boiled the clothes, scrubbed them on a washboard with home made lye soap.
Bathing....weekly or monthly depending on weather n season. Pond, creeks, rivers or the washtub. Granpa bathed first, followed by the kids and her last. Bathwater was used ince by everyone. Kinda gross if ya ask me but drawing n heating water was a big deal. Also the used lye soap.
Cooking was simple meals. Usually no meat unless it was wild game or an occasional chicken or pig. Meat just wasnt available usually. Salt pork was a treat. So lotsa beans n biscuits, cornbread and canned greens. Turnips n taters, squirrel, rabbit, turtle and fish. Lotsa lard btw.
Most cooking was usually outside, depending on weather. And she cooked with very small fires.
As for the lawn mowing....most times the homes were 2 or 3 rooms and way small. I bet her old house wasnt 800sq ft. With a family of 10.
Anyway small house, small yard....and they swept the yard down to bare dirt.
Life was hard. Drawing water, gathering woid, cooking, cleaning, sewing, doctoring, and pulling cotton, pickin peaches, apples, gardening.....living was a full time job.
Dishes
Laundry
Bathing
Cooking
Lawnmowing
My first thoughts are usually "what did gramma do and howd she do it". She was a dirt poor sharecropper, migrant worker, raised before the Great Depression, then raised 8 kids through the depression.
Dishes was done in a wash tub. Access to clean water is a must. Dushes was a few plates n bowls, couple of forks and spoons. Dutch oven and cast iron pans and couple of enamel pots. Not ever enough cups. Couple carbon steel knives.
Laundry was done once a week, but clothes were few. At most ya had couple pair of overalls and 2 shirts. Girls had couple.moo moo type dress things. Kids went bare foot. Men had couple pairs of socks. Men didnt have underwear, women sometimes had bloomers.
She used the big tin washtub or a giant cast iron pig boiling pot. She boiled the clothes, scrubbed them on a washboard with home made lye soap.
Bathing....weekly or monthly depending on weather n season. Pond, creeks, rivers or the washtub. Granpa bathed first, followed by the kids and her last. Bathwater was used ince by everyone. Kinda gross if ya ask me but drawing n heating water was a big deal. Also the used lye soap.
Cooking was simple meals. Usually no meat unless it was wild game or an occasional chicken or pig. Meat just wasnt available usually. Salt pork was a treat. So lotsa beans n biscuits, cornbread and canned greens. Turnips n taters, squirrel, rabbit, turtle and fish. Lotsa lard btw.
Most cooking was usually outside, depending on weather. And she cooked with very small fires.
As for the lawn mowing....most times the homes were 2 or 3 rooms and way small. I bet her old house wasnt 800sq ft. With a family of 10.
Anyway small house, small yard....and they swept the yard down to bare dirt.
Life was hard. Drawing water, gathering woid, cooking, cleaning, sewing, doctoring, and pulling cotton, pickin peaches, apples, gardening.....living was a full time job.
