Crystal radio, wash board, bedding and a real icebox
Having no Mom no Dad is definitely a doorway to poverty, but all is not lost because you'll experience things your peers will not. Case in mind is the issue of not having electricity, we just didn't have enough money to pay the bill.
So instead I learned how to jumper the meter box to give us some electricity, eventually the electric company spotted the jumpers and put a lock box where the meter use to be. So we used kerosene lamps, luckily back then the hardware store had a pump to dispense kerosene.
The lamps gave off a surprising amount of light and the fumes were mildly pleasant. Not having electricity meant no TV, no radio, but I did have a Crystal Radio. It didn't require any electricity, it got its power from the radio waves being transmitted by the strongest local radio station. The only problem was it only received a signal from a local classical radio station, I didn't much care for classical music back then.
Not having any electricity meant there was no power to run the icebox so occasionally we got a block of ice and keep the small amount of perishables for a day or so. Even with the ice in the refrigerator it always had a foul smell that I still can't get out of my nose. And last but not least not many people had a washing machine they simply went to the laundromat, but that cost money. Our answer to that was a glass rippled washboard that we used to mainly wash clothes.
Never once as a kid do I ever remember changing or washing my bedding, never had any bed bugs though, guess we didn't even have enough to offer them.
So instead I learned how to jumper the meter box to give us some electricity, eventually the electric company spotted the jumpers and put a lock box where the meter use to be. So we used kerosene lamps, luckily back then the hardware store had a pump to dispense kerosene.
The lamps gave off a surprising amount of light and the fumes were mildly pleasant. Not having electricity meant no TV, no radio, but I did have a Crystal Radio. It didn't require any electricity, it got its power from the radio waves being transmitted by the strongest local radio station. The only problem was it only received a signal from a local classical radio station, I didn't much care for classical music back then.
Not having any electricity meant there was no power to run the icebox so occasionally we got a block of ice and keep the small amount of perishables for a day or so. Even with the ice in the refrigerator it always had a foul smell that I still can't get out of my nose. And last but not least not many people had a washing machine they simply went to the laundromat, but that cost money. Our answer to that was a glass rippled washboard that we used to mainly wash clothes.
Never once as a kid do I ever remember changing or washing my bedding, never had any bed bugs though, guess we didn't even have enough to offer them.
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