I know this is a really silly question...

Question

but how did the women in the olden days deal with their periods ...i mean i dont think they had pads and tampons back then like we do now. So what did they do to prevent there stuff from being damaged ????

like if you have watched little house in the praire then you should know what time iam talkin about ...like that far far far back!

Answer 1

I've always wondered the same thing!  The only thing that ever gave me any insight into that was actually in the bible (I'm not a big churchie, but grew up with in the church/temple, as one of my granddads is a priest and the other is a rabbi). Anyway, there's this one story, I think it was about Abraham? The one who saw this girl, wanted to marry her, and ended up working for her dad for seven years or something, but he tricked him into marrying the girl's sister, so he worked for the dad for another seven years, married the one he wanted to to begin with, and left, but when they were leaving, one of this sisters (eeewe! he married them both! I'm sorry, that still grosses me out!) took something from the dad, and when he stopped them to get whatever it was that was stollen, she said that she couldn't get down off the horse because it was "that time of the month"... there's other references in other things that they were basically immobile when they were on their periods, weren't allowed to do much of anything.  Sorry for the rambling.  God save the tampons!

Answer 2

i think they ram a peice of cloth up there!!? im guess so it would stop from bleeding! ooh im gangster!

Answer 3

They didn't go out or leave their houses during it, and they used rags or even leaves to catch the blood and they would sometimes rewash the cloth. Some people even stayed away from them at that time because they thought they had a diease or were pocessed by something.

Answer 4

i asked my grandma that.they used washrags,or cloth,anything they could really.

Answer 5

My granny used washable flannel pads- and no, I didn't ask to hear about that little tidbit; my family just doesn't understand the concept of overshare.