Didn't everyone used to bathe in the kitchen sink!

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incredible_edibles

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This is where I'd have my weekly wash back in the 60's!!

A dad of two has said he had to bath his young family in the kitchen sink due to the rising cost of heating oil.
Richard Shaw, 33, is from Doveridge in the Derbyshire Dales, where about one in 10 households depend upon oil to heat their homes.
He said the cost of filling the 220 gallon (1,000 litre) tank had nearly tripled in the past year.
The government said it recognised families were struggling with the cost of living.
Mr Shaw, who is disabled and not working, said when he and his family moved into the house, a year ago, the cost of filling the tank had stood at about £400 but prices had risen rapidly since then.
"In the end, we nearly ran out of heating oil," said Mr Shaw, whose children are 17 months and two.
"We couldn't afford any more. It got to the point where we were bathing the kids in the sink in the kitchen, filling up the kettle, boiling it, then letting it cool, for the water."
He said he was eventually able to get an oil delivery thanks to Rural Action Derbyshire, a charity that has started an oil bank to help people in need.
"We needed a delivery and we couldn't [have got] one without Rural Action Derbyshire," he said.
"Not being able to heat your house is demoralising. We've had some very cold days out here.
"Without the central heating, we'd have been in real trouble."
 
incredible_edibles said:
This is where I'd have my weekly wash back in the 60's!!

A dad of two has said he had to bath his young family in the kitchen sink due to the rising cost of heating oil.
Richard Shaw, 33, is from Doveridge in the Derbyshire Dales, where about one in 10 households depend upon oil to heat their homes.
He said the cost of filling the 220 gallon (1,000 litre) tank had nearly tripled in the past year.
The government said it recognised families were struggling with the cost of living.
Mr Shaw, who is disabled and not working, said when he and his family moved into the house, a year ago, the cost of filling the tank had stood at about £400 but prices had risen rapidly since then.
"In the end, we nearly ran out of heating oil," said Mr Shaw, whose children are 17 months and two.
"We couldn't afford any more. It got to the point where we were bathing the kids in the sink in the kitchen, filling up the kettle, boiling it, then letting it cool, for the water."
He said he was eventually able to get an oil delivery thanks to Rural Action Derbyshire, a charity that has started an oil bank to help people in need.
"We needed a delivery and we couldn't [have got] one without Rural Action Derbyshire," he said.
"Not being able to heat your house is demoralising. We've had some very cold days out here.
"Without the central heating, we'd have been in real trouble."
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Yes, especially in the summer when we had a hotel. The bathroom was for visitors.
 
I could put photos of the 3 grandkids when very young looking very proud in our washing up bowl. For sheer convenience I’ll add. But despite the bubbles sparing their blushes I don’t think it’s appropriate to put them in the public domain, with all the emphasis on child pictures & weirdos etc.
 
incredible_edibles said:
This is where I'd have my weekly wash back in the 60's!!

A dad of two has said he had to bath his young family in the kitchen sink due to the rising cost of heating oil.
Richard Shaw, 33, is from Doveridge in the Derbyshire Dales, where about one in 10 households depend upon oil to heat their homes.
He said the cost of filling the 220 gallon (1,000 litre) tank had nearly tripled in the past year.
The government said it recognised families were struggling with the cost of living.
Mr Shaw, who is disabled and not working, said when he and his family moved into the house, a year ago, the cost of filling the tank had stood at about £400 but prices had risen rapidly since then.
"In the end, we nearly ran out of heating oil," said Mr Shaw, whose children are 17 months and two.
"We couldn't afford any more. It got to the point where we were bathing the kids in the sink in the kitchen, filling up the kettle, boiling it, then letting it cool, for the water."
He said he was eventually able to get an oil delivery thanks to Rural Action Derbyshire, a charity that has started an oil bank to help people in need.
"We needed a delivery and we couldn't [have got] one without Rural Action Derbyshire," he said.
"Not being able to heat your house is demoralising. We've had some very cold days out here.
"Without the central heating, we'd have been in real trouble."
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Why have 2 children if your disabled and unable to work?
 
As we are about to have our bathroom renovated….out with the existing bath tub which doubles up as the shower area to be replaced by a walk in shower along with a new sink ,new storage units ,new tiles,new flooring and a new false ceiling we may be about to experience this ( well ok see below) for ourselves for at least a fortnight.
Not looking forward to having to use the sink in the kitchen or more likely the utility room to wash and shower…the shower comes courtesy of a single tap flexible shower lead and a plasterers bath ( 4 foot long,two foot wide and one foot deep) to stand in as opposed to the sink which might crack under the weight😉
we have warned the neighbours though fortunately the side of their house is window less🫣
will mean missing the Huddersfield game unfortunately as not the best of ideas to disappear for much of the day when all the work is happening.….and don’t worry I won’t be posting any photos…though even if wanted to this website refuses to upload any photos otherwise I would have shown said plasterers bath in case anyone thought I made this up😳
 
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Back in the early 1950’s, Victorian terraced house in Hull. Tin bath in the lounge, the whole family used the same water, I was youngest so I went in last! 😂
 
washed all the time (including hair) in the 60s in the kitchen sink as we had no heating in the house apart from the fire in the front room. Mum used to put the gas oven on and leave the door open so we could keep warm while washing ourselves and it used to be freezing in the winters then too!🥶🥶
 
I remember that, as a very young lad, birth to about 6 years, we had a metal bath, about 2 x 3 ft, which we had to bath in.
Hot water from the kettle I think.
Might have been Zinc, but not sure.
OMG, how age makes the memories unsure. 😟
 
As a youth of nineteen I had an insurance round in Lincolnshire, once a month I headed off to an estate which had seen better times to collect the premiums from a family of five. The oldest girl would have been sixteen.

I turned up one day and was invited in the kitchen only to find the said oldest girl standing naked in the kitchen sink, her mum said, never to be forgotten words, “don’t mind her she’s going out tonight”
 
Tin bath, toilet at the end of the yard, complete with spiders and torn up newspaper for bog roll, no electricity, gas lights downstairs and candles upstairs, no bathroom, Jerry under the bed, dolly tub and mangle, silverfish in the hearth, hell we had it good
 
TangerineBayern said:
washed all the time (including hair) in the 60s in the kitchen sink as we had no heating in the house apart from the fire in the front room. Mum used to put the gas oven on and leave the door open so we could keep warm while washing ourselves and it used to be freezing in the winters then too!🥶🥶
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Spot on. Central heating didn't exist. Electricity was too expensive to use. we relied on cheap coal and woolies for warmth.
 
Sooty59 said:
I could put photos of the 3 grandkids when very young looking very proud in our washing up bowl. For sheer convenience I’ll add. But despite the bubbles sparing their blushes I don’t think it’s appropriate to put them in the public domain, with all the emphasis on child pictures & weirdos etc.
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That's brilliant Sooty. You're absolutely correct with regards to keeping the photos within the family. Until they're at an age where you want to embarrass them :)
Our 18 month old screen saver, is of our grandson being bathed in a bowl of bubbles in the sink - washing off after a very messy play/meal time.
 
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