The old days!

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It was raining one day, but it didn't stop us from going ouside. I mean outside and inside again. This time we went to a combined gallery and a museum.

When we came, I couldn't help it but to smile seeing this picture in a rainy day. Maybe the owner of the shop who is an artist was hoping for days with sunshine.

Reilo Design. The name of the gallery and museum! 

There were lot of things to see like old things and paintings, but this time I will just show old things that we found and with historical truths that can put smile on our faces.

This is an old sewing machine .

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 odour. 

Hence the custom today of carrying a bouquet when getting married.

(I read in a book in Norway that in old days that they do really take a bath once a year.)

(Old toys)

(Historical truth practiced in cold countries like Norway in old days)

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."

This is the man made toy that the owner of the gallery played when he was a child.

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 off the roof.

Hence the saying "It's raining cats and dogs."

anohter old car toy made of wood

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.

An old stroller

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 adding more thresh until when you opened the door it would all start slipping outside. A piece of wood was placed in the entranceway.

Hence the saying a 'thresh hold."

Different kinds of irons. They are heavy.

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.

Old radios!

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."

An old lamp!

Sometimes they could obtain pork, which made them feel quite special. When visitors came over, they would hang up their bacon to show off. It was a sign of wealth that a man could "bring home the bacon." They would cut off a little to share with guests and would all sit around and "chew the fat."

Those with money had plates made of pewter. Food with high acid content caused some of the lead to leach onto the food, causing lead poisoning death. This happened most often with tomatoes, so for the next 400 years or so, tomatoes were considered poisonous.

old typewriters...

Bread was divided according to status. Workers got the burnt bottom of the loaf, the family got the middle, and guests got the top, or "upper crust." 

Cash register

Lead cups were used to drink ale or whisky. The combination would sometimes knock the imbibers out for a couple of days. Someone walking along the road would take them for dead and prepare them for burial. They were laid out on the kitchen table for a couple of days and the family would gather around and eat and drink and wait and see if they would wake up.

Hence the custom of holding a "wake."

Old gas burner?

The floor was dirt. Only the wealthy had something other than dirt.

Hence the saying "dirt poor."

Maybe this  was use to weight things?

England is old and small and the local folks started running out of places to bury people. So they would dig up coffins and would take the bones to a "bone-house" and reuse the grave. When reopening these coffins, 1 out of 25 coffins were found to have scratch marks on the inside and they realized they had been burying people alive. So they would tie a string on the wrist of the corpse, lead it through the coffin and up through the ground and tie it to a bell. Someone would have to sit out in the graveyard all night (the "graveyard shift") to listen for the bell.

Thus, someone could be "saved by the bell" or was considered a "dead ringer."

Well, this is absolutly out of date. hi hi

Woven tools?

And this one made my day!

I was so thankful that the owner of the gallery collected and preserved these old things. It is like living the old days in one day. It helps to see those things to be thankful for all the modern things we have now!

Hope you enjoy too the visit to this gallery and museum!

JOY