Re: Neighbors
Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2022 11:31 pm
I haven't abandoned the thread. I'm busy is all. I just wanted to get something up here quick for my own purpose. Someone here (and I ain't sayin' who) was watching a survival channel (I think) and the guy was showing a kind of off the grid kitchen wherein he passed by an old timey upright refrigerator/ice box.
When we moved into our beach house, it had a small ice box just like that and I want to say the brand was Coldspot and the name was written in script. I haven't researched the brand names yet. Anyway, I was thinking about how I grew up with ice picks, meat grinders, axes, knives, and fish scaling utensils. These were never kept away from me. I knew better than to touch them. I was allowed to have my own pocket knife and was allowed to use that and another collection of knives to throw at the trees. I was also allowed to use my own archery set in the back yard and all of this...without supervision.
The house also had an old timey ringer washing machine in the back yard, I don't recall being allowed to use it. We had a big pot belly type coal stove in the kitchen with a coal pile dumped in the back yard. Also had a big oil drum up on cinder blocks and that's where we burned trash.
I'm not going to say that the safeguards with which we raise children today aren't improvements but I think that children today are strangers to the kind of risk taking that builds confidence.
Anyway, no one need reply to this. I'm going to incorporate it into something else I'm putting together in real life. Then again, some of this has to do with mental health and current societal conditions...culture of fear so if anyone wants to make a similar reply that's fine.
When we moved into our beach house, it had a small ice box just like that and I want to say the brand was Coldspot and the name was written in script. I haven't researched the brand names yet. Anyway, I was thinking about how I grew up with ice picks, meat grinders, axes, knives, and fish scaling utensils. These were never kept away from me. I knew better than to touch them. I was allowed to have my own pocket knife and was allowed to use that and another collection of knives to throw at the trees. I was also allowed to use my own archery set in the back yard and all of this...without supervision.
The house also had an old timey ringer washing machine in the back yard, I don't recall being allowed to use it. We had a big pot belly type coal stove in the kitchen with a coal pile dumped in the back yard. Also had a big oil drum up on cinder blocks and that's where we burned trash.
I'm not going to say that the safeguards with which we raise children today aren't improvements but I think that children today are strangers to the kind of risk taking that builds confidence.
Anyway, no one need reply to this. I'm going to incorporate it into something else I'm putting together in real life. Then again, some of this has to do with mental health and current societal conditions...culture of fear so if anyone wants to make a similar reply that's fine.