I LOVE LONG UNDERWEAR 12-12-1

MORE OLD TIMEY STUFF..December 12 at 6:08am 2017

I Live Without Central Heating so I LOVE LONG UNDERWEAR. I bet you never thought of them as a medical item. When I was a boy on a rural farm we had no central heating. There was a wood burning cook stove in the kitchen and a wood burning "chunk stove" in the living room. The stove pipes passed up through the floor to warm a bedroom on each side upstairs.

There was no indoor plumbing not even a kitchen sink.. there was a "dry sink" in which you set 2 dishpans. We finally had cold water which continually ran in and filled a crock in a cast iron sink and which overflowed and ran down and out all the time.. it never froze. At first there was just a barrel at one side, out of which we dipped cold water and the right side of the wood stove had a 'reservoir' which was kept hot by the stove, and one used a 'dipper' to get water as needed.

IN THOSE DAYS Everyone wore long underwear in the winter. Men, Women, Boys and even Girls wore them. Mine were all one piece... "union suits" and you may hear the term "onesies" today. They were 100% wool and toasty warm even if you were wet, but boy they were itchy. :O They were made with a 'trap door' in the back bottom side to open and sit on the 'two holer' outhouse seat and you were glad you had them sitting out there when it was 22 below zero with winter wind whistling around the corners of the little shack.

TODAY Technology has even reached underwear and we have high tech Thermal Underwear. Boy they are nice! Super warm and do not itch and they are in 2 pieces now a top and long bottoms. I love them! If you happen to live on a rural homestead, I recommend you do as we did way back when, and everyone wear them. I remember my mother working in the kitchen in her dress with long-john leggings reaching to her ankles.

Here is a cool article about the entomology of the "Long John" and how they were named after some guy called "John"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_underwear

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