Bath time

Soft rollers to sleep in....glad they weren't the hard plastic one's. Miss A

Fringe and wart Bluebelle...you can have mine, I've still got both.

I remember my dad coming up to get me out of the bath and dry me. I would have been about 7 and feeling faintly embarrassed.

Always every night with bath salts that never quite dissolved so were scratchy on the bum!! When i was little mu. Used to wrap me in a warm towel and put me on the shelf in tbe linen cupboard above the hot tank. Remember having pipe cleaners in my hair for curls. Ive always had a fringe. I remember sitting next to the fire drying my hair then dad bought me a hairdryer mum used to go to the hairdresser every week for a shampoo and set ir a perm and went into a curtained cubicle (where nobody saw you with wet hair).
Afterthought bath it was straight into bed with lovely warm flannelette sheets and hot water bottle and dad reading me stories.

Bath night once a week, and the only day in the week in winter when there was heating in the bathroom!

When we were small, we were told to hold a folded wet face flannel infront of our eyes while our hair was washed. This was supposed to prevent shampoo getting into our eyes, but it did not work and the shampoo stung.

We had ducks and boats in the bath - great fun.

I remember at the age of three (I think) being told off for sucking soapy water out of my face flannel, and on a different occasion for weeing in the bath and saying it tickled so nicely.

You should have seen Mummy's disapproving and embarrassed expression. This was long before children, especially I suspect, little girls were allowed to "play with themselves."

If it was very cold in the winter, we were bathed in the big deep sink meant for washing clothes in, or had our hair washed at the kitchen sink.

The only time I remember having my bottom smacked was when I, aged four, refused to have my hair washed. It was washed and I cried so hard that Mummy never smacked me again. She did not realise, and I never told her, even after I was grown up, that I cried, not because it hurt, but because I was simply furious with her.

Thank you Miss A…..😂🤣

Does anyone remember 'Matey'?
Like shaving foam, thay you could wash with?
Matey's a bottle of fun!
You put me in the bath!
I'm loved by everyone!
And I'm always good for a laugh!

MissAdventure

Then my mum would cut our toenails so short we'd be limping for a week until they grew back a bit...
Poke around in our ears, and clean our fingernails (with a sharp implement)
Happy days!

Pushing back the cuticles as far as she could get them! 😩

Grannybags

And scape me dry with a really rough towel. I’m sure there were shards of glass in it!

Ha I like a rough towel

MissAdventure

Does anyone remember 'Matey'?
Like shaving foam, thay you could wash with?
Matey's a bottle of fun!
You put me in the bath!
I'm loved by everyone!
And I'm always good for a laugh!

Oh yes. Did it have a blue top shaped like a hat?

Sunday night was bath night. Three in the tub at once. Rota on the back of the airing cupboard door who had to come out first last.
Dried with a rough towel as one gran says.
Then the dreaded bone comb would come out 😩
No wonder we would fight to be last out of the bath 😂
To this day I never have a bath on a Sunday night.

MT62
Yes, I think it was made to look like a sailor?
There was Miss Matey, too.

Bath once a week with those scratchy bath salts or Radox, Vosene or Linco Beer shampoo and that bloomin' awful shower thingy which attached to the bath taps, but invariably shot off halfway through washing your hair, so you either got a blast of scalding hot water or freezing cold! And I had really long hair (so long I could sit on it) so I had to endure my mother brushing it (with no mercy!) then putting it into pigtails!

Bath on a Sunday, hair washed at same time. Sure that school uniform was also sorted out on Sunday and lasted a week.. At times I do think we have become obsessed with cleanliness for both personal and household purposes.

I remember Matey! Yes made to look like a sailor I think.

We sometimes got Matey for Christmas.
I can't remember it being that much fun, but you could squirt it on your head like a horn.

My Mum was always quite generous with bath water but my cousins had to bath one after the other in the same water. When we stayed with them we had to do the same. I have been put off bathing for life.

No I meant a wart I ve no idea why I wanted one perhaps some friends had them or something I ve no idea but obviously I thought I was missing out 🤣🤣🤣

MissAdventure

When I was a child...


youtube.com/shorts/gVCOjlxtOGs?is=ydm3R3T7vnmbhxYp

That ‘mum’ needs a top lip and chin wax!

We used to have a bath in a tin bath in front of the fire. We never had a bathroom until I was 11 and my sister 14 what luxury when we did.

My mam couldnt be bothered, she just stuck my sister and i in the bath and left us too it. If we got clean, we got clean, if not too bad. I had to wash my sister.

Very old and poor terrace in Liverpool. My clever dad built a bathroom from a small box room on the first floor, we had a cellar with a sewage pipe. There used to be an old copper in there for the washing and later a geyser with the bath

Before that yes, like many, we had the tin bath in front of the fire, no privacy but who cared when the oldest (me) was only 5. I was first, followed by three siblings. 4 of us girls under 5 then, three more siblings appeared by magic, later in time

The main room was such a mess on saturday nights, toys everywhere and all the bath stuff but we started sunday clean and tidy. Church first then always a family day out, even if only to the lovely local park or Otterspool on the bus. Later on bath night was sunday so we were neat and clean for school

I remember one sister getting a nit nurse note and the frantic use of the nit comb. I sat in the bath for a long time dragging that comb through my hair, I never had nits but the very idea mortified me

Love Sushi Mango - Australian men who just started doing these skits and found world wide fame! Saw them in Hobart Tasmania a few years ago.

I remember being dried with the rough towel no body scrub needed then.

mrsfeather

Love Sushi Mango - Australian men who just started doing these skits and found world wide fame! Saw them in Hobart Tasmania a few years ago.

I'd never heard of them before the bath video popped up.
I'm glad I found them.
Are their parents Greek?