Back in the ole days!!!!!!!!?

Question

What did women use before pads were invented..I mean a couple of torn up clothes don't seem like they would cut it. What did they use besides pads? even before they had like alot of material hanging around the house..how did they get by..I've just always wondered.

Answer 1

My grandmother told me that hen she was a young girl (@ 1910), they would make pads from gauze and cotton. She also told me that one time she got her period when she was visiting HER grandmother and was mortified because her grandmother made her pads out of old cotton cloth and cotton batting. She said that they didn't throw them away, but instead had "burning day." Burning day was a code word that meant that you were going to wash out the pads and hang them on the line to dry, and on that day, only close family would visit (and therefore avoid seeing those particular "unmentionables."

Answer 2

Ever heard the expressions "ragging" or "being on the rag?" In old days, women would make thick pads out of whatever rags that they had and use those. From what I was told, the rags were dry and miserably uncomfortable, but that's all they had.

And now you know where the expression comes from!

Answer 3

They would use rags, and clean them between uses. Scrap paper, corn husks. Depends where you were at and how far back you went. In some very old societies women at that time of month went off on their own away from the others.

Answer 4

They used cloth. They always had some and they washed and reused them. Gross I know but when there is no other choice people have to make do.

Answer 5

My mother always told me that I have it made. She had to wear rags folded up. She also had to keep a bucket in the bathroom to soak the dirty rags.

Answer 6

They had rags,and the worse thing of all is they didn't throw them away they had to wash them and reuse them.

Answer 7

Probably some skanky stuff.