I was born in ‘49. I grew up with no electricity, running water or an indoor bathroom. We had a kerosene lamp. An iron wood stove in the living room and a stove like you showed in the kitchen. Seasoned pine stumps were chopped to get the kindling to start the fires. We carried water from a spring until we got our well dug. Our bathroom was behind the bigger trees. We wiped with leaves. Mother used a rub board and an old iron wash pot to wash our clothes. In the winter they froze on the clothes line & had to be brought in the house and hung on nails in the walls to get dry. I hated living like that. I think that’s why my brothers and I are material minded. I still have the kerosene lamp & the iron wash pot.
My great aunt was living this way in 2010. She still grew her our food. The house appeared derelict from the outside but once inside the living area all the way out to the backyard it was like a paradise from the garden of Eden. She used to keep THOUSANDS of dollars in her draws but was never robbed because everyone thought she was the nutty old lady living in a slum house. Boy did she fool them. She passed away now but I always loved her methods.
My dad was born in the 1930's. We have pictures of the kitchen with the same cook stove. The running water was a spring near the house. Corn cobs were for the stove or out house,which was twenty feet from the house. The good old days.
My parents bought a 1920s 2-story farm house like this for weekend getaways in northern Michigan when I was 12. The well was just off the back porch with a windmill you could engage to pump the water into a barrel. There was an outhouse, a 2-seater in fact, that still boggles my mind. The house was heated entirely with old wood stoves. The cook stove was just like the thumbnail, but turquoise enamel. I didn’t realize at the time the education I was getting in how to live in the past. I love being one of the few people left, especially at my age, who can fire up a stove like that and have a grand farmhouse breakfast cooked in under an hour. 😎 My friends just watched as if I were operating a hadron particle accelerator. 🤭
Ugh, this was my life circa 1982. I am so very appreciative of indoor plumbing, electricity, and not roasting in the summer. Most of all I love my washer and dryer- I well remember saving up to buy a scrub board, which was just under 10 dollars at the time :)
In the 1950s, we had a hand operated coffee grinder in our kitchen. I would watch Daddy turning the hand crank on top after he poured the beans into the grinder, and he would always sing as he turned the crank. We lived in a very rural area, on a Lima bean ranch, and money was very tight. So, we ground our own coffee, made a lot of our own implements, did our own repairs, and tried to spend as little as possible and save as much as possible. I got a measly allowance of 30 cents a week, and had to put half of that into a savings account and the other half into a spending box. After I had saved up enough to do something with, we would go to the department store so I could spend my allowance, supposedly on whatever I wanted, but that wasn't always the case, either. All of this while we were in southernmost California in the 1950s.
I’m tight with money today because of my father. I should splurge some, but I feel bad if I do. My aunt died and left 590,000. She had a problem spending 20.00 on a magazine subscription. Because that was a lot of money to her.
These cast iron wood burning stove/oven from a cold start took up to 3 hours to reach baking temperature. Heating pots on range top although heated more quickly than the oven. This is why housewives had their hands full just keeping these stoked 24 hours a day!
A beautiful kitchen. Love the wallpaper and the use of rainwater for washing the dishes is a great idea! Very sustainable; such a shame modern houses are not built to utilise it. It would also save on water bills.
The water-heater was actually filled from the cistern(rain water) not the well. The hot water was used for washing dishes & laundry so they used the same "soft" water that was used at the dry sink. Hard (well) water doesn't work with soap; it won't lather & produces soap scum. Well water also caused lime-scale build up inside the hot water heater so it was avoided.
Sooo The pump at the sink pumps up rain water that is being held in the cistern. And that's potable ie drinkable. The well water is used for what, especially. I understand having a well is a good thing, because cisterns go dry in long periods of no rain, but was there a specific use? It seems wasting rain water on washing clothes or dishes is wrong
@@ValeriePallaoro Rainwater is reserved for laundry & dishes because it's "soft". Unlike well-water (which is "hard") rainwater doesn't contain calcium, so it's *much better for washing.* Well-water forms soap scum & it doesn't clean as effectively as rainwater. (That's why modern families usually install a water-softener, if their water comes from a well.) But a well is a more abundant & reliable water source than collecting rainwater. Cattle, horses, pigs etc drink a huge amount of water so it was very important for a farmer to have a well. In fact, the well was often closer to the barn, while the cistern was next to (or under) the house, for dishes, laundry & baths. The farmer would bring a bucket of well-water to the house (for drinking) every time he came from the barnyard. Rainwater from the cistern was reserved for laundry, dishes & baths because it's much more effective. Well-water is more abundant so it was used for drinking. (Well water is also more pure than rainwater.... rainwater from the roof sometimes gets bird poop, leaves, etc in it.... Excellent for washing but not as good for drinking.)
Like your presentation of Early 1800s American Home. Our family has had an antique wood burning stove since the mid 1940s. I still use it today as a supplemental source of Radiant Heat to keep the kitchen cozy. The stove comes in very handy when the Electricity Goes Out from a Storm. The hardships people faced for much of Human History makes us all look like real Pansies. I really get upset when I have no Television or worse no TH-cam when technology fails or Electricity is out.
Thank you for your presentation. The kitchen looks so homey, though I admit I am no longer up for that amount of physical work. What state is Rice County in?
I was born in ‘49. I grew up with no electricity, running water or an indoor bathroom. We had a kerosene lamp. An iron wood stove in the living room and a stove like you showed in the kitchen. Seasoned pine stumps were chopped to get the kindling to start the fires. We carried water from a spring until we got our well dug. Our bathroom was behind the bigger trees. We wiped with leaves. Mother used a rub board and an old iron wash pot to wash our clothes. In the winter they froze on the clothes line & had to be brought in the house and hung on nails in the walls to get dry. I hated living like that. I think that’s why my brothers and I are material minded. I still have the kerosene lamp & the iron wash pot.
You may have hated it then. But many of us would like that life very much. Thanks for sharing your story.
@@angryoldman9140you are Absolutely correct
Многие в городе кто заработал денег хотят спокойной жизни в глуши.А кто с рождения в глуши,стремится добраться до цивилизайии.Круговорот.
My great aunt was living this way in 2010. She still grew her our food. The house appeared derelict from the outside but once inside the living area all the way out to the backyard it was like a paradise from the garden of Eden. She used to keep THOUSANDS of dollars in her draws but was never robbed because everyone thought she was the nutty old lady living in a slum house. Boy did she fool them. She passed away now but I always loved her methods.
Clever lady
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My dad was born in the 1930's. We have pictures of the kitchen with the same cook stove. The running water was a spring near the house. Corn cobs were for the stove or out house,which was twenty feet from the house. The good old days.
I actually have that coffee grinder. I bet it works better than the immersion blender I am using. Going to put him back to work!!!
My parents bought a 1920s 2-story farm house like this for weekend getaways in northern Michigan when I was 12. The well was just off the back porch with a windmill you could engage to pump the water into a barrel. There was an outhouse, a 2-seater in fact, that still boggles my mind. The house was heated entirely with old wood stoves. The cook stove was just like the thumbnail, but turquoise enamel. I didn’t realize at the time the education I was getting in how to live in the past. I love being one of the few people left, especially at my age, who can fire up a stove like that and have a grand farmhouse breakfast cooked in under an hour. 😎 My friends just watched as if I were operating a hadron particle accelerator. 🤭
Осталось найти куриц на заднем дворе и забрать яйца для фермерского завтрака.😊
Ugh, this was my life circa 1982. I am so very appreciative of indoor plumbing, electricity, and not roasting in the summer. Most of all I love my washer and dryer- I well remember saving up to buy a scrub board, which was just under 10 dollars at the time :)
In the 1950s, we had a hand operated coffee grinder in our kitchen. I would watch Daddy turning the hand crank on top after he poured the beans into the grinder, and he would always sing as he turned the crank. We lived in a very rural area, on a Lima bean ranch, and money was very tight. So, we ground our own coffee, made a lot of our own implements, did our own repairs, and tried to spend as little as possible and save as much as possible. I got a measly allowance of 30 cents a week, and had to put half of that into a savings account and the other half into a spending box. After I had saved up enough to do something with, we would go to the department store so I could spend my allowance, supposedly on whatever I wanted, but that wasn't always the case, either. All of this while we were in southernmost California in the 1950s.
I’m tight with money today because of my father. I should splurge some, but I feel bad if I do. My aunt died and left 590,000. She had a problem spending 20.00 on a magazine subscription. Because that was a lot of money to her.
These cast iron wood burning stove/oven from a cold start took up to 3 hours to reach baking temperature. Heating pots on range top although heated more quickly than the oven. This is why housewives had their hands full just keeping these stoked 24 hours a day!
My Great Aunt lived this way in 80s East Oklahoma. The pondwater hot cocoa and huckleberry dumplins was BOMB!
Those were the days for sure, no matter what many may think. Technology has been a great contributor to the down fall. In Joy
Thankful for indoor plumbing 😊
During the summer they could also move a stove onto the porch so it wasn't heating up the inside of the house.
My Great-Grandmother had a "Summer kitchen" that was located in a "shed-type" situation and had a kerosene stove primarily used for canning..
I was born 1943 and both grandmothers had a stoves like this
A beautiful kitchen. Love the wallpaper and the use of rainwater for washing the dishes is a great idea! Very sustainable; such a shame modern houses are not built to utilise it. It would also save on water bills.
Вероятно сегодня вода с неба уже не такая чистая.Много химии в воздухе.
The water-heater was actually filled from the cistern(rain water) not the well. The hot water was used for washing dishes & laundry so they used the same "soft" water that was used at the dry sink. Hard (well) water doesn't work with soap; it won't lather & produces soap scum. Well water also caused lime-scale build up inside the hot water heater so it was avoided.
Sooo The pump at the sink pumps up rain water that is being held in the cistern. And that's potable ie drinkable. The well water is used for what, especially. I understand having a well is a good thing, because cisterns go dry in long periods of no rain, but was there a specific use? It seems wasting rain water on washing clothes or dishes is wrong
@@ValeriePallaoro Rainwater is reserved for laundry & dishes because it's "soft". Unlike well-water (which is "hard") rainwater doesn't contain calcium, so it's *much better for washing.*
Well-water forms soap scum & it doesn't clean as effectively as rainwater. (That's why modern families usually install a water-softener, if their water comes from a well.)
But a well is a more abundant & reliable water source than collecting rainwater. Cattle, horses, pigs etc drink a huge amount of water so it was very important for a farmer to have a well.
In fact, the well was often closer to the barn, while the cistern was next to (or under) the house, for dishes, laundry & baths.
The farmer would bring a bucket of well-water to the house (for drinking) every time he came from the barnyard.
Rainwater from the cistern was reserved for laundry, dishes & baths because it's much more effective. Well-water is more abundant so it was used for drinking. (Well water is also more pure than rainwater.... rainwater from the roof sometimes gets bird poop, leaves, etc in it.... Excellent for washing but not as good for drinking.)
Like your presentation of Early 1800s American Home. Our family has had an antique wood burning stove since the mid 1940s. I still use it today as a supplemental source of Radiant Heat to keep the kitchen cozy. The stove comes in very handy when the Electricity Goes Out from a Storm. The hardships people faced for much of Human History makes us all look like real Pansies. I really get upset when I have no Television or worse no TH-cam when technology fails or Electricity is out.
My mom grew up on grandma's farm this way
Very nice....loved all the kitchen work tops too...
Been there done that and at old age, I WANNA DO IT AGAIN 😊❤
Thank you for your presentation. The kitchen looks so homey, though I admit I am no longer up for that amount of physical work. What state is Rice County in?
Minnesota 🌻
Very neat, thank you for sharing this
1:13 ...the wooden box. I'm restoring one right now but I didn't know what it was used for. Now I know.
Excellent. Thank you.
Great video!! THANK YOU FOR SHARING!!
We used that kind of meat grinder 😊.
Almost like my lifestyle today - I am living in a 1920s house with electricity, but no running water...
Thank you that was really interesting to see how people lived without electricity and gas , all the best from the U.K.
Back in the good ole'days when times were HARD.😜😜😜
I have so many questions! Is that cloth as a backsplash?
There is a good chance it was oilcloth, as it is water resistant. It was sold, but you also could make it yourself.
Omg i love the oven
Tknx 4 memories ☺️
Rice County in what State ? A: MN
The video doesn’t explain the pump ! That that was a source of water !!!
A lot of it looked familiar. My elderly aunt & uncle had kerosene lamps & coal as we also did right after the war.
Where the hell was the microwave???? How could they exist!!! :)
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Příliš krátké, příliš stručné.
harley cookingson
Looks like a pit house at Woodlands.
We are going to have to get prepared for using wood or coal stoves soon. And being non electric soon. Be prepared not scared like me!
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I love your ducomentary
God this comment section is like a retirement home
Get off my lawn!😂
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How rude
PLASTIC FREE. How every home should be.
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کاش بشودبدون مواد پلاستیکی زندگی کردن کم کم آنهارا از زندگیم حذف کردم
That sucks