Anyone want a laugh!!!

elliebobs

My SIL to be, upon my telling her that I was coming up to being 40, exclaimed that she didn't think that I was that old.

It was a compliment...I think

LandyAndy

Ok I'm 54 but I can remember my maternal grandparents having a bathroom put in their house when I was in my teens. Up until then they bathed in a tin bath in front of the living room fire with a screen round them and no one thought anything of having a conversation, through the screen, with my grandfather while he bathed after he came home from work.

JC9297

I'll be 45 soon, our house was built the year before I was born so fitted bathroom suite and central heating and definitely no tin bath, but everybody I knew as a child had a proper bath even those who lived in old houses that would not have had them originally.

My grandparents house had an indoor and outdoor loo, but if my grandad was at home he expected us to use the outdoor one during the day which I hated because there was always spiders in there.

pigpen

lol.. a bath????

In MY day batheing was a once a year event .. what would you want to do that for.. the witches can smell you.

We had no indoor bathroom in the house I was born in.. it was compulsory purchased and demolished.. it is now a fish warehouse.. lol.. we moved to a 60's house with a bathroom and an air raid shelter!

I wouldn't have been angry though I might have asked her the best avoidance tactics to use when faced with a t-rex

Valli

although we DID have a bath I can remember baths were once-a-week things! I mean we actually did have a bath night!
When the Vallikids came along I got into the habit of bathing them daily and they, and I shower every day.
How times change!
The Vallikids BTW are 18 & 16

fiesta04

Sam, I think it was just a dig at you being older than their little boy.....

Oh I laughed

F4

Four_leaf_clover_2

samuela66 wrote: »

Any ways the guy was talking about the days gone by, tin baths and all that malarkey, so we are walking back to the car and me early forties my partner a bit younger, his Dads wife says to me "Do you ever remember sitting in a tin bath in front of the fire", I could've snotted her on the spot, I just retorted a very quick NO how the hell old do you think I am......

I havent heard from her since....... thank god:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

You can pick your friends, but hey ho IN Laws......... jeez!!

If you twist the comment round I think it shows her age rather than yours. I would have just retorted with a 'no love, they were before my time'. She clearly remembers them though doesn't she

newcook

My friends still bath their littl’uns in the kitchen sink! They say it’s a waste of water to run a bath even a couple of inches deep!

As for your MIL I think I would have replied with ‘no, what was it like?’

euronorris

Mrs.W wrote: »

When my OH bathes our toddler, she happily sits in the kitchen sink. Alongside all the above reasons, it's also easier on OH's back.

And for a toddler, it's a fun novelty!

Plus, I liked being able to look out into the backgarden and watch the cat chasing the birds!

It's odd the things you remember from the very early years!

Baileys_Babe

I'm the same age as you, we had in door plumbing but not central heating.

Desperado99 wrote: »

We also had a mincer that would clamp onto the kitchen table

We did to, in fact my sister still uses it

Desperado99 wrote: »

a singer sewing machine (the really old ones that folded back into the table and had a huge pedal at the bottom).

I have one of these, I love it.

I also remember being bathed in the kitchen sink and being able to look into the garden, I think it is a very sensible idea, saves water and the parents from getting back ache.