These Past Hygiene Practices Will Render You Grateful For Today’s Modern World

Stroll through any mall in America and you’ll find entire stores dedicated to health and beauty. From vitamins to body wash and makeup, there are countless products that claim to make it easy to look and feel your best.

Whether you like to try everything on the market, or have a quick morning routine that involves little more than brushing your teeth and hair, you’re far better off than the men and women of yesteryear. Check out these hygiene practices of the past that’ll make you grateful that you live in today’s modern world…

Storing Number Two Under The Bed

All it takes is 30 seconds in a port-a-potty at an outdoor concert to make you appreciate the modern convenience of indoor toilets. Simply push a lever and you can flush away waste into the great unknown, never to be seen (or smelled) again.

Before this modern convenience, many people kept pots under their beds for those midnight urges, and they would store the waste until the next morning. Even worse? In some places, people emptied their full bedpans out the window and onto the street below.