2006-07-11 16:22:19 · 21 answers · asked by ♥My 2 Cents♥ 5 in Health ➔ Women's Health
they used leaves !
Dont worry sharky lol I will get my own ha ha
2006-07-12 03:52:45 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 3⤋
My guess is that you're in the USA and a teen-age female, I'm in the UK and I'm a 74 years young male. If your 'Old days' scenario includes the years from 1943 onwards then I am happy to confirm to you that a 'Sanitary towel' with strings at the front and back, were in general use, as were condoms, known here as 'French letters'
2006-07-12 00:20:46 · answer #2 · answered by Jimbo 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they used lams wool, and then used the rags everyone else has mentioned (i think that's where we get the term "on the rag") and then they used something like the pads we use today, but it was before the adhesive, and so it had straps and buttons and this whole harness thing to hold the pad in place until you changed it
2006-07-12 00:32:10 · answer #3 · answered by hot_fat_chik1982 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I heard that in my country ( VN). While in the war against USA...VN was a poor country... So many woman don't have money to pay for tampons or pads...So they use many fabric....After used, they throw away.... But one things i wonder that when human was in the acient time, live in cave, hunt animal... Did women have period ??? And what did they use ???
2006-07-12 08:06:08 · answer #4 · answered by Koffee Kup 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
what i have heard is that they used like pieces of cloth (like cloth diapers) and then they would keep it in the underwear using safety pins (ouch, becareful when you sit!) and then they would wash them and use it again the next month. im so glad they invented tampons and pads and birth control, less periods!
2006-07-12 11:23:12 · answer #5 · answered by BeAuTiFuL 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I use what they did back then. They make and sell, environmental reusable pads. Cloth type and wash out like a cloth diaper.
2006-07-12 00:11:29 · answer #6 · answered by teambargain 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They used rags and washed them.
When my mother was at school, you washed them in a little shed and then hung them on the back fence.
It sounds gross, and I'm sure was so, but at least it was ecologically sensible. They were recycled and didn't become instant landfill.
2006-07-11 23:32:19 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
according to my elderly relatives they had old rags tht they would pile into a pad and safety pin in their panties. the rags would ne wahsed and reused the next month.
2006-07-11 23:38:52 · answer #8 · answered by Proud to be an American 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Rags. Thay had to wash them and put them out on the line.
2006-07-12 06:20:56 · answer #9 · answered by itty 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some used small sponges. Otherwise cloths that were washed and reused.
2006-07-11 23:32:47 · answer #10 · answered by survivor 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
in the cave man days men wouldnt let their women have periods. if the women did, the men would club them on the head and they would be knocked out for about 5 days, the brutes, lol.
2006-07-12 16:15:51 · answer #11 · answered by cornholio9631 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋