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- Buckwheat Pillows Todays New Standard
I’d been trying to think of some way to compare buckwheat pillows as a new modern standard, as opposed to something else that used to be thought of as a new fangled luxury that has become an accepted necessity, and I’ve thought of one - the old 2-holer out house.
I was born in the “Great Depression”, when life was quite different. I lived in rural Pennsylvania, and still do. Both my sets of grandparents were farmers, and one grandmother also taught 8 grades in a 1 room school house. My mother also taught 8 grades in a 1 room school house and my dad farmed, but I digress.
The standard sanitary facility of the day was the ubiquitous 2 holer outhouse. The idea of having a toilet inside your living quarters was viewed as either abhorrent, or as a somewhat risque luxury. Few people thought it would “catch on”. Most people who did put a toilet (bathroom) inside their house still retained the 2-holer to keep some semblance of decency. Only a few people saw the future of the bathroom.
But move forward 70 years, and an in use outhouse would provide a good item for a scavenger hunt - after you explained to the younger participants just what it was you were looking for.
One obvious advantage of the indoor facilities was the convenience of not risking having your toilet deposited along with assorted farm wagons, corn shocks, hay rakes, and scare crows in the middle of a nearby village square on Halloween night.
My point is, that while buckwheat pillows may be still viewed by many today as a new fangled fad, a few years down the road the feather and foam pillows may be remembered as an outdated unsavory harbinger of dust mite infestations with their attendant allergy attacks, as we reminisce about our somewhat forgotten past.
Why put off enjoying a modern hypoallergenic convenience (er-ah-necessity)? Buy your buckwheat pillow now.
Posted by woodstar (May 15, 2009)
May 15th, 2009 at 5:56 pm
Foam pillow kill the planet. I had to replace mine every few months. With my Buckwheatglory pillow they supply more buckwheat hulls than needed, so I have extra if I ever want to add some.