Comments on: Household Oddities And Axioms: WTH? http://www.home-ec101.com/household-oddities-and-axioms-wth/ Skills for everyday living. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:44:40 +0000 hourly 1 By: Heather Soloshttp://www.home-ec101.com/household-oddities-and-axioms-wth/comment-page-1/#comment-47104 Heather Solos Fri, 28 Aug 2009 08:29:57 +0000 http://www.home-ec101.com/?p=3751#comment-47104 Bobbie, the saying came from when families used to have to haul water from a well or other source. They'd reuse the same water, dad first, then mom, then the kids oldest first. By the time the baby got around to his turn the water could be fairly dirty. Perhaps so dirty that whoever emptied the tub might not see the baby was still in it. Thank goodness for modern plumbing, right? Bobbie, the saying came from when families used to have to haul water from a well or other source. They’d reuse the same water, dad first, then mom, then the kids oldest first. By the time the baby got around to his turn the water could be fairly dirty. Perhaps so dirty that whoever emptied the tub might not see the baby was still in it.
Thank goodness for modern plumbing, right?

]]> By: ThatBobbieGirlhttp://www.home-ec101.com/household-oddities-and-axioms-wth/comment-page-1/#comment-47103 ThatBobbieGirl Thu, 27 Aug 2009 23:10:33 +0000 http://www.home-ec101.com/?p=3751#comment-47103 "Don't throw the baby out with the bath water."Uhhhhh.....I don't even want to consider how that one may have come about. “Don’t throw the baby out with the bath water.”

Uhhhhh…..I don’t even want to consider how that one may have come about.

]]> By: SGFBhttp://www.home-ec101.com/household-oddities-and-axioms-wth/comment-page-1/#comment-47100 SGFB Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:36:50 +0000 http://www.home-ec101.com/?p=3751#comment-47100 How about a watched pot doesn't boil? That isn't true. How about a watched pot doesn’t boil? That isn’t true.

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