Friday Funnies

@June1952 I made a crochet chain and knitted a small bag to tie the camphor block in.  
@arpie I never had a potato bag, but sounds practical. 

@June1952 I never wore a calico bag with a block of camphor - but When I was very young, my mother cut a hole in the top of a potato bag for my head & 2 holes for my arms, and told me to go out & play in THAT .... ( as I'd played in mud with my nice dress on.)  Apparently I paraded up & down the street in it, telling the neighbours to come look at the lovely dress my mother had made me ..... LOL

Yes to 2, 3 & 4 tho!!  The salt works, but tastes horrible - and the charcoal is like eating dirt!!  :( 

Following on from the post by @arpie on 26 February:

How on earth did we survive growing up as we did in the 50s/60s?

Does anyone else remember:

1. Wearing a calico bag around the neck in winter which contained a block of camphor ?
2. Sticking an infected finger into a glass of peroxide ?
3. Using salt and one's finger to clean one's teeth ?
4. Using charcoal from the fire to clean one's teeth in winter ?  (The relatively new toothpaste fad of charcoal is not really new) ...

Coming up next week 

As you might have guessed. I LIKE my coffee

I just spent my whole day reading these from day one and then found out I just repeated someone else from last week when I was away. Oops. It was a good way to relax the day after an eleven hour long trip in a mechanically broken car that only drove in limp mode.