2006-09-11 06:00:41 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Women's Health
We take everything for granted now, but I know a lot of people never knew what went on during Russian times in Europe, there was no such thing, women used anything they could get their hands on newspapers, rags etc, horrible! I played the tennis tour in Europe and as late as the 1980, in places like Estonia Latvia Lithuania etc there were no toliet paper, people used newspaper and even pages from magazines, and if you were lucky to get some toliet paper it was more like crepe paper with wood chips in it, I remember one time I was in Palanga Lithuania and in a store found a box of man sized kleenex, you would have thought I found $100.00 bill! I was so Happy!
2006-09-11 06:02:54 · answer #1 · answered by Michael 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They used rags. Hence the expression "Being on the rag". Some women in the south used balled up cotton.
2006-09-11 13:02:00 · answer #2 · answered by IAINTELLEN 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I know that when the Indians had theirs, they had a place, like a hut where the women had to stay until they finished there period, i learned that in history. So maybe they just let it flow in some kind of hole they dug.
2006-09-11 13:06:58 · answer #3 · answered by mom1 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sanitary Belts.
2006-09-11 13:02:58 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Egyptians used papyrus rolled up
2006-09-11 13:03:37 · answer #5 · answered by daisymay 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
oh my gosh! they had these belt thingys that went around your waist and clipped onto the gigantic pad in four places! Can u imagine?
2006-09-11 13:04:08 · answer #6 · answered by tirebiter 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they had rags and then pads
that is why way back they refered to a "bwitch" as being on the rag
2006-09-11 13:05:14 · answer #7 · answered by suzie 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Pads. Not like the ones we have today... but yeah.
2006-09-11 13:03:37 · answer #8 · answered by Kamunyak 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
in the 1930s and stuff and still in some unmodernised countries, women put this type of cloth in their underwear and wash it after
2006-09-11 13:03:35 · answer #9 · answered by carcaterra 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I remember my grandmother using cloth strips they needed to be washed .... gran'ma would soak them in cold water and then boil them in a manual washer....ancient I know - but that's how it was.... we are blessed inouadays!
2006-09-11 13:06:04 · answer #10 · answered by CC Top 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋