The next time you are washing your hands and complain because the water temperature isn’t just how you like it, think about how things used to be. Here are some facts about the 1500’s:

These are interesting…

Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in May, and still smelled pretty good by June. However, they were starting to smell, so brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body odor. Hence the custom today of carrying a bouquet when getting married.

Baths consisted of a big tub filled with hot water. The man of the house had the privilege of the nice clean water, then all the other sons and men, then the women and finally the children. Last of all the babies. By then the water was so dirty you could actually lose someone in it. Hence the saying, Don’t throw the baby out with the Bath water.

Houses had thatched roofs-thick straw-piled high, with no wood underneath. It was the only place for animals to get warm, so all the cats and other small animals (mice, bugs) lived in the roof. When it rained it became slippery and sometimes the animals would slip and fall off the roof. Hence the saying . It’s raining cats and dogs.

There was nothing to stop things from falling into the house.. This posed a real problem in the bedroom where bugs and other droppings could mess up your nice clean bed. Hence, a bed with big posts and a sheet hung over the top afforded some protection. That’s how canopy beds came into existence.

The floor was dirt. Only the wealthy had something other than dirt. Hence the saying, Dirt poor. The wealthy had slate floors that would  get slippery in the winter when wet, so they spread thresh (straw)  on floor to help keep their footing. As the winter wore on, they added more thresh until, when you opened the door, it would all start slipping outside. A piece of wood was placed in the entrance way. Hence the saying a thresh hold.

(Getting quite an education, aren’t you?)

In those old days, they cooked in the kitchen with a big kettle that always hung over the fire. Every day they lit the fire and added things to the pot. They ate mostly vegetables and did not get much meat. They would eat the stew for dinner, leaving leftovers in the pot to get cold overnight and then start over the next day. Sometimes stew had food in it that had been there for quite a while. Hence the rhyme, Peas porridge hot, peas porridge cold, peas porridge in the pot nine days old.
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1: If you are right handed, you will tend to chew your food on your right side. If you are left handed, you will tend to chew your food on your left side
 
2: If you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more water. For when a human body is dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off.
 
3: Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
 
4: Your tongue is germ free only if it is pink. If it is white there is a thin film of bacteria on it.
 
5: The Mercedes-Benz motto is ‘Das Beste oder Nichts’ meaning ‘the best or nothing’.
 
6: The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal.
 
7: The pupil of the eye expands as much as 45 percent when a person looks at something pleasing.
 
8: The average person who stops smoking requires one hour less sleep  a night.
 
9: Laughing  lowers levels of stress hormones and strengthens the immune system. Six-year-olds laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day.
 
10: Frank Perdue’s chicken slogan, “It takes a strong man to make a tender chicken” was translated into Spanish as “it takes an aroused man to make a chicken affectionate.” 

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1: To solve the human equation, we need to add love, subtract hate, multiply good, and divide between truth and error. (Janet Coleman)

2: The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there’s a 90% probability you’ll get it wrong. (Andy Rooney)

3: The day after tomorrow is the third day of the rest of your life. (George Carlin)

4: If all the world’s a stage, I want to operate the trap door. (Paul Beatty)

5:In life, it’s not who you know that’s important, it’s how your wife found out. (Joey Adams)

1: 5 minutes ago you were traveling to office at 80 mph in your brand new car.

    Now you are traveling to hospital at double the speed in a van ambulance.

    You wish there was ‘UNDO’ in life!

2: You are already late, and your key is missing, You wish there was ‘FIND TOOL’ in       

      life!

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