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I adored those days, the washing at the river, dying and polishing the floor..then shining with the coconut brush, making our own coffee,coconut oil,planting our own rice 🍚, bathe in metal pan,using enamel pail and chimney.. etc
I remember my mom as a child washing by hand in the bath she came to the UK in the 60’s from Jamaica. I was born in the 70’s and when she would wash by hand she would make that sound with the clothes 😄😄
OMG, I just remembered that we also used to make our own ice-cream back when I was a boy in the 80's! I grew up in Kingston and can remember Saturdays or Sundays after church that we used to make ice-cream in one of those contraptions shown in the video - ours was not made out of wood however, but from a sturdy plastic. I remember we used to pack the tub was lots of ice and pour all the ingredients in the middle. We would then use our own fruits picked from our own trees in the backyard to make ice-cream. I distinctly remember us making sour-sop ice-cream, which was never really my favorite. These are memories I'd COMPLETELY forgotten until I watched this video! True story: growing up my parents INSISTED that my sister and I learn to do household chores since the age of 9 or 10. We had to learn how to wash our clothes BY HAND (even though we had a washing machine), how to cook, how to vacuum the carpet, how to sweep and mop the tile floor, how to rake the leaves in the yard, how to clean the dirt off the walls, how to make our beds, etc. I used to hate Saturdays since that was work day which meant we had to start early and finish all our chores before we were allowed to watch Saturday morning cartoons. I thought I had the cruelest parents on planet earth! My mother would justify this by saying "one day your wife will get sick, so you have to learn how to help yourself"! Fast forward 15 years and by this time we were living in New York. I had just graduated from college, living alone in a small apartment in Upstate NY and couldn't find a job. I was so broke that I couldn't even afford to put gas in my car, which was parked on the street for weeks on end since I couldn't afford to drive it. One day I applied for a job at a big insurance corporation and to my surprise they hired me on the spot! I can't explain how happy I was to finally have an income after months of poverty! The problem however, is that for this job you had to wear a suit and tie to work every day, which of course I did not have. So with the last $10 to my name I went to the Salvation Army second hand store and bought a white shirt for $2, a tie for $1 and a suit jacket for $5. And so bright and early Monday morning I went to my first day of work with my new (used) suit. As this was a very hot summer I would sweat all day and so by the end of the day my white shirt was sweaty and dirty. Since I didn't have a washing machine and no money to go to the laundromat and my first paycheck was in two weeks, I had no choice but to fill the bathtub with warm water and HAND WASH the white shirt by myself. I didn't even have to think twice, since I'd learned as a child how to do these things. Then I hung up the shirt to dry and got up early the next morning and ironed it. I did this every day for the first few weeks until I got my first pay check and could finally afford to buy a couple of white dress shirts. One day one of the secretaries came up to me and said "everybody's so impressed with you, especially since you're always wearing those designer suits!" I said to her, "WHAT are you talking about??" She replied, "you know, you're always so well dressed in those nice suits, everybody's wondering how a recent college graduate can afford such expensive clothes! Do you have rich parents or something?" I then just had to burst out laughing! I told her that those "expensive suits" she's talking about came from the Salvation Army second-hand shop, and that everyday after work I had to wash my only white shirt in the bathtub and iron it the next morning. She also burst out laughing, saying that my clothes were so nicely washed and ironed that everyone thought they were expensive designer clothes. When I got home that evening I IMMEDIATELY called my mother and THANKED HER for insisting that I learned how to cook, clean and wash! I FINALLY understood that all this time she was preparing me for the hard realities of life in America, just that I was too young to understand it at that time. If I ever have children YOU BET they're going to learn how to wash, clean and cook! And there'll be NO cell phone, computer or TV until their household chores are completed to my full satisfaction! 😆
I was born in the mid 70s, i am a man and i went through all of that growing up. I am living in the United States and i am missing this lifestyle. I really want to go back home and relive this lifestyle. I cleaned house every Saturday, grandma had the Hoover, but we hardly ever used it. Collect firewood, fetch water by the river every morning, sweep yard every day. Tie out goats and cows, feed hogs and chickens. We plant our own food, rice, corn, sugar cane. we made ice cream, cooliz, gizadas, gratercakes, pudding, pepper shrimp, parch corn acham. Grandma sell these things by school gate. We wash clothes by the river too, and i could do the scrip, scrip sound too. I stopped doing these things in 1990 when i was 15, but i keep washing my clothes by hand until 2006. I hated every moment of this growing up, but now i missed it all, i wanted to relive some of it.
I remember the katta , we used to make it from dried banana leaf and then put our bucket of water on your head and walk up the hill without holding it and not spill even a bit . The good old days
This vlog is really a treat of old time Jamaica. As a child I remember seeing women washing at the rivers. I experienced the kerosene lamps when I lived in rural Manchester for a short while. It was my job to clean them. Please tell us what it was like to go to Denbeigh back in the 1950's and 1960's. Thank you so much for reminding us what life in Jamaica was like back then.
Keep recording this lady and many others before they pass over because we have lostso much heritage I remember some of the songs MissLou and many others usec to sing and didn't realize they all had allegoric meanings Would love to delve into some of those treasures from the past
Yes, cleaning is one of hardest jobs. However, my favorite parts of washing is the scrips scrips, scrab board, shinning wooden and tile floor, karosine oil lamp, gratering coconuts and potatoes to make pudding, coal irons, wearing cottas on my head to bring crocus bags of Primento Seeds to sell. However, my absoulte favorite is the Fuggie and Ice Cream. Over, these traditional living brought back so much memories. Yes, before Usain Bolt became the Fastest Man on Earth. He said, when he first started Tracks and Field the first he wanted to buy his mother was a Washing Machine.
My late father used a delco on the weekends when he was keeping dance. Electricity wasn't everywhere then. Do u also know that there were kerosene oil fridge?
Those were the good old days I remember when I used to clean my grandmother's house with the brush girl you have to sweep wipe and then polish and then and Shine the floor
Such beautiful memories, growing up in ST. Thomas I had the great experience of many of these. The greatest was a day at the PLantain Garden River. Wonderful memories. Kareem the environment was cleaner then than now. Those hardships allow us to strive and make us who we are today. Excellent program especially for those of us overseas.
The washing is not only Jamaica a lot of this was the same in many of the other Caribbean countries. This was the same in Guyana 🇬🇾 , St Lucia 🇱🇨 and Barbados 🇧🇧. The ice cream can was the same we know of this as well.
I was taught to have a lamp with Kerosene oil, lit, beside me as Manchester was COLD , so I had to hold the brush about 6 inches away from lamp flame to warm bristles THEN put one inch of Genie Floor Polish onto brush THEN SHINE THE TARRIS ( paved red concrete ) or the DEAL BOARD and make it SHINE!
I’ve washed in the bath pan with the scrub board. Used a kattah on my head to carry water; done the bleaching as she just described; scripted the water, etc. Followed the soaking process, but never in the river! In the zinc bath pan or a huge Mahogany bowl for washing and bathing. Yes, done two soapy water and one rinse. Walked barefoot to school, aaawwwh. Scrubbed the floor kneeling on my knees, yaks! Did chores before and after school. Grate coconut make coconut oil. Used that similar “bucket”. To make ice cream at home - special treat that was! Trifle cake - made on Sundays - poor man’s pound cake. Had grated fresh coconut. Yummy. Not only done in Jamaica. Yes,ma’am - did the kerosene lamp too and the hurricane lantern for outside. Mercy!Belize!! Memories. Yea, did the kerosene stove too. Thought that was great, not using the firehearth burning dry wood! Baked on the hearth bread, Johnny cakes and Christmas fruit and pound cakes. Not to mention starched clothes. Yes, cleaned shoes and tennis shoes…sneakers. Had two uniforms to last one or two or more years…until they wore out. Used the coal stove iron, and the gasoline iron. Mercy!! Those were the days. And white clothes were White. Yes, I used a crinoline skirt. Had only one that I sewed on the hand Singer’s sewing machine. Thank you for sharing
My mum said she had to walk from BeckfordKraal to Clarendon College. Her one pair of shoes had to last, so she would walk barefoot halfway, then put her shoes on the rest of the way....
I grown up in the seventy in Grenada and that was my life watching in the river growing down on my knees to scrub the floor first I had to scrape the floor with a knife fist then whip it also the greating of coconut to make oil the ice cream I really enjoyed that with my grandma every thing she was saying is so true
Kareem's Quest and company. That was an amazing conversation with your guest. Taking us back down memory lane. I enjoyed every minute of the interview. Thanks to you and your guest. 😊👏🌻 Love and blessings to all. ❤🙏🙏🌻🌻
I remember as a child going to the river to wash and the children were the lookout for the man that watched the river to make sure you were not washing your clothes in the running water .
I use to guh ah market every Saturday guh tun ice-cream bucket fi wash man , all MI get fi di day one cream and truppence fi MI hard work, 0r a drink ah porter.
The screw thing for the lamp was called 'The Burner' we used to sell them in our shops both in Time and Patience (Linstead) and Oxford, St. Mary. I love watching the show.
I remember the coal oil lamp with “Home Sweet Home” on it. When I came home from living and teaching in Jamaica, I brought with me, one of those lamps, and I still have it to this day. It is a significant reminder of the many times we lit lamps when the electricity was off and we needed to have school work to mark.
I do not come from Jamaica, but my parents is from Jamaica. In London I use to wash clothes in the bath wow great video I love traditional methods of doing things
No you did not put the polish on the brush. You used a piece of cloth to paste the polish on the floor similar to waxing your car. The brush was used for shining.
I remember the refrigerators with locks. The iron solid metal was the more modern ones but the hollow ones were first that you’d have to put the hots coal inside the iron. I remember the coconut brushes and genie floor polish, red. I remember the enamel cups. The worst thing to be washing at the river is don’t let your wash pan float away or turn over. I used to be so jealous of my friends that could go to the river and wash in Saturday morning
Jamaican life is the best I remember those days washing on scrubber board cleaning the floor knocking Johnny cooper lantern with the brush all that lady is saying is true
I know people in the hills in St. Catherine use big bamboo joints to carry water. In my area it was against law to wash or bathe in the river. i grew up in the fifties. When we as boys go to the river to swim first we hide our clothes far away from where we are swimming. My brother in law use to sell ice cream in the Linstead Market.On Saturdays we make three buckets of ice cream and put in a big container to sell for the day. Sometime they make crenolin with flour bag sometime they find a small tree and put the crenolin over it to dry.
De scrips scrips i guess was to squeeze out the water to get to expose the fabric to the scrubbing😅 The 1 thing that always confounded me was th likkle square "blue" cube that would whiten clothes.
Everything this lady said is true but we weren't use to polishing the floors. The way we washed in the river was not in a basin but on a pile of stones above the water level. Yes the sun was used for bleaching. You had to sort out the clothes. All whites had to be bleached as well as clothes with stains. The river was a good distance from your destination. There were rivers that were nearer home but not popular and it was not possible to hitch rides from passing vehicles to return home. These were happy days which allowed you to meet with friends and some family members. "Home Sweet Home" was the chimmey for the lamp. The river episodes were St. Lucia experiences.
We had a kerosene fridge, Earlier there was kerosene stove until it blew up and my father bought a gas stove, All through high school it was the flat iron to iron my uniform for school.
My mom prefer corn stick she came from St Elizabeth. I love when she tells us stories she ran away to Kingston at 12 years old. She said too much hard work and she was the eldest work from morning till night we cried. She came to Kingston and worked as a helper up on the hill. People still use grater see it on CZcams.
They also use this dye for the floor name red oak its a powder and its red they mixed it with water and put onthe floor then .et dry and then use the coconut brush to shine the floor and its beautiful
In my house now I have a coal stove, a coal stove iron, an ice shaver that they used to make snow-cone, and a kerosene lamp ( now I use lamp oil). My brother came to visit from Maui recently and he was asking me where I find these things!? A blast from the past!!
U would have to use d washing soda along with d bar soap to rub on d clothes and boilthe clothes this pro. Ismainly for white clothes when rinsing those cloths u have to use clothe blue.
I used to get two old shirts or old clothes and kneel on and use the coconut brush and I am only 50 so it was not so long ago. Blue and brown soap for washing clothes. It was hard but life was good back then. LOVE DEM DAYS.❤
I grew up in Manchester in the ‘80’s and we sweep, wipe the floor,polish shine the tile floor with coconut brush. Not everyone ad the hoover polisher. No one had helper. We had to do that before school. When I went to the maternal cousins for holidays in StMary, we did laundry t the river and carried water from the pipe drinking. I do know about Katta. but did not know how to use it I did not carry water or any load in Manchester. I had one cousin who carried water and load on her head. So the balance skill she could do.
The genius to the Kotta was the swinging of the head in opposing directions while using the neck muscles. As the item being carried sway in one direction, the wearer would usually sway in the opposite direction giving it a counterbalance. Balanceen!
I used to use nappy for my ba it's and the best way to make your clothes white without using bleach is to use cake soap and soap the nappy then put it in a plastic bag and put it in the sun on a zinc. Your baby wears the whitest nappy without bleaching. U can still use this method for bleaching
Not only in Jamaica. I am from Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. 💙💛💚 We made the sound while washing as well. My mom taught us how to wash in the river at Stoney Grounds. Kingstown. St. Vincent.
We used to scrub clothes on flat stones. Every one who is washing had their own very flat stone on which they scrub their clothes. We used to wash with soap, lather with fab as we use to call it and then rinse.
Hello Jamaicans you are not alone. I am from Guyana and when I was a child the elders had the same culture. They used scrubbing board, beater, which was used to beat the clothes to get them clean as well as graters to grate coconuts. Stained clothes were put in the sun which removed the stains and made them white. Salt was sometimes applied too. Ice-cream was churned at weekends in a wooden churner.. Irons called 'flat irons' were placed on a coal pot. When they were hot they were held with a cloth by the handle and clothes were pressed. Sometimes discarded electrical irons were used in the same way. However, in my young working days Jamaicans were always so very innovative. Guyana imported hand cream and body lotion, skin powder with wide puffs in fancy powder bowls, perfumes and many other items from Jamaica
We would use the brown soap and put out in the sun also the white clothes would be boil in zinic pan to make it white and free from germs. I am fron the sixties in Clarendon The pale was also used for female steaming for female problems.
its the best time of my life the old times.things is the best especialy country homes dutty gal soap wash good corn stick for brush it was totLly good❤😂
When i grew up in those days every thing you are talking about it was a must to do these daily activities ‘ it was hard work and most of up kids were made to do the work and we get a lot of beatings if we did not get the job done every day so we would invent playful ways so as not to feel so depressed while doing what is expected of us to do.
Who remember ice cream man who always ride a bike on a Sunday and they would use dry ice to keep the ice cream and the fudge stay frozen n dry ice can burn up hand
My grandfather used to plan corn and when the con fit, I will roast the corn and eat Then we have to put the can stick to dry we use it wash scrub the clothes I am from Saint Catherine. you still live close beside barrel Lodge sugar factory used to have some big pump that water the canes Our grandparents used to send us to wash the clothes. It was three of us
Thank you for your channel I'm learning so much and I'm being reminded what about the kerosene stove the irons that you used to have to put on the cold stove how you made a pudding from the the Dutch pot with the colander and the fire on top man I have so much to say to you I live in Brooklyn and I sure wish you could interview me I'm 76 and I remember a lot of things she's saying I would love to share with you God bless❤
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U can also soap up d clothes and spread it out in d night dew for couple night well or u could soap up d clothes and boil it in d oil kersine pan .
I adored those days, the washing at the river, dying and polishing the floor..then shining with the coconut brush, making our own coffee,coconut oil,planting our own rice 🍚, bathe in metal pan,using enamel pail and chimney.. etc
We used dried corn stick instead of a washing brush to rub the clothes back then😊
I remember my mom as a child washing by hand in the bath she came to the UK in the 60’s from Jamaica. I was born in the 70’s and when she would wash by hand she would make that sound with the clothes 😄😄
OMG, I just remembered that we also used to make our own ice-cream back when I was a boy in the 80's! I grew up in Kingston and can remember Saturdays or Sundays after church that we used to make ice-cream in one of those contraptions shown in the video - ours was not made out of wood however, but from a sturdy plastic. I remember we used to pack the tub was lots of ice and pour all the ingredients in the middle. We would then use our own fruits picked from our own trees in the backyard to make ice-cream. I distinctly remember us making sour-sop ice-cream, which was never really my favorite. These are memories I'd COMPLETELY forgotten until I watched this video!
True story: growing up my parents INSISTED that my sister and I learn to do household chores since the age of 9 or 10. We had to learn how to wash our clothes BY HAND (even though we had a washing machine), how to cook, how to vacuum the carpet, how to sweep and mop the tile floor, how to rake the leaves in the yard, how to clean the dirt off the walls, how to make our beds, etc. I used to hate Saturdays since that was work day which meant we had to start early and finish all our chores before we were allowed to watch Saturday morning cartoons. I thought I had the cruelest parents on planet earth! My mother would justify this by saying "one day your wife will get sick, so you have to learn how to help yourself"! Fast forward 15 years and by this time we were living in New York. I had just graduated from college, living alone in a small apartment in Upstate NY and couldn't find a job. I was so broke that I couldn't even afford to put gas in my car, which was parked on the street for weeks on end since I couldn't afford to drive it. One day I applied for a job at a big insurance corporation and to my surprise they hired me on the spot! I can't explain how happy I was to finally have an income after months of poverty! The problem however, is that for this job you had to wear a suit and tie to work every day, which of course I did not have. So with the last $10 to my name I went to the Salvation Army second hand store and bought a white shirt for $2, a tie for $1 and a suit jacket for $5. And so bright and early Monday morning I went to my first day of work with my new (used) suit. As this was a very hot summer I would sweat all day and so by the end of the day my white shirt was sweaty and dirty. Since I didn't have a washing machine and no money to go to the laundromat and my first paycheck was in two weeks, I had no choice but to fill the bathtub with warm water and HAND WASH the white shirt by myself. I didn't even have to think twice, since I'd learned as a child how to do these things. Then I hung up the shirt to dry and got up early the next morning and ironed it. I did this every day for the first few weeks until I got my first pay check and could finally afford to buy a couple of white dress shirts. One day one of the secretaries came up to me and said "everybody's so impressed with you, especially since you're always wearing those designer suits!" I said to her, "WHAT are you talking about??" She replied, "you know, you're always so well dressed in those nice suits, everybody's wondering how a recent college graduate can afford such expensive clothes! Do you have rich parents or something?" I then just had to burst out laughing! I told her that those "expensive suits" she's talking about came from the Salvation Army second-hand shop, and that everyday after work I had to wash my only white shirt in the bathtub and iron it the next morning. She also burst out laughing, saying that my clothes were so nicely washed and ironed that everyone thought they were expensive designer clothes. When I got home that evening I IMMEDIATELY called my mother and THANKED HER for insisting that I learned how to cook, clean and wash! I FINALLY understood that all this time she was preparing me for the hard realities of life in America, just that I was too young to understand it at that time. If I ever have children YOU BET they're going to learn how to wash, clean and cook! And there'll be NO cell phone, computer or TV until their household chores are completed to my full satisfaction! 😆
Nice story.
@@Junjo11Yes, I enjoyed reading this article. I had some similar experiences.
What a beautiful story, I feel as though I know you! May God continue to bless you! ❤️🇺🇸❤️
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I was born in the mid 70s, i am a man and i went through all of that growing up.
I am living in the United States and i am missing this lifestyle. I really want to go back home and relive this lifestyle.
I cleaned house every Saturday, grandma had the Hoover, but we hardly ever used it. Collect firewood, fetch water by the river every morning, sweep yard every day.
Tie out goats and cows, feed hogs and chickens.
We plant our own food, rice, corn, sugar cane. we made ice cream, cooliz, gizadas, gratercakes, pudding, pepper shrimp, parch corn acham. Grandma sell these things by school gate.
We wash clothes by the river too, and i could do the scrip, scrip sound too.
I stopped doing these things in 1990 when i was 15, but i keep washing my clothes by hand until 2006.
I hated every moment of this growing up, but now i missed it all, i wanted to relive some of it.
I remember the katta , we used to make it from dried banana leaf and then put our bucket of water on your head and walk up the hill without holding it and not spill even a bit . The good old days
Yes, it’s an African cultural thing. Also done to carry wood and other things.🇺🇸🇯🇲
@@chrisper7527 so true ! The good old days
I love the sound when I was wasing the clothes. Made me feel efficient 😆 😂
I still scrlp scrip until to this day, and I living out of Jamaica.
This vlog is really a treat of old time Jamaica. As a child I remember seeing women washing at the rivers.
I experienced the kerosene lamps when I lived in rural Manchester for a short while. It was my job to clean them.
Please tell us what it was like to go to Denbeigh back in the 1950's and 1960's. Thank you so much for reminding us what life in Jamaica was like back then.
Okay I will look into that topic
@@kareemsquest thanks
Keep recording this lady and many others before they pass over because we have lostso much heritage
I remember some of the songs MissLou and many others usec to sing and didn't realize they all had allegoric meanings
Would love to delve into some of those treasures from the past
Thanks for the comment
So true we made the katta from dry banana leaves .I enjoy those days.thanks much
My wife says they make the kind of sounds when washing clothes in St. Lucia back in the day.
Yes, cleaning is one of hardest jobs. However, my favorite parts of washing is the scrips scrips, scrab board, shinning wooden and tile floor, karosine oil lamp, gratering coconuts and potatoes to make pudding, coal irons, wearing cottas on my head to bring crocus bags of Primento Seeds to sell. However, my absoulte favorite is the Fuggie and Ice Cream. Over, these traditional living brought back so much memories. Yes, before Usain Bolt became the Fastest Man on Earth. He said, when he first started Tracks and Field the first he wanted to buy his mother was a Washing Machine.
Thanks for sharing!!
Washing without the scrip scrip, was as if there was no washing at all, those were the days
Lol true
@@kareemsquest. Washing with the sound of scrip scrip. Is still. Common practice. And is. Heard and done in. Most African countries. These days
Anybody remember when every generator was called "Delco" a brand from England?
My late father used a delco on the weekends when he was keeping dance. Electricity wasn't everywhere then.
Do u also know that there were kerosene oil fridge?
I remember delco,I am 67 born in Siloah St,Elizabeth.Thats where i frist saw the delco.Good old days.
Those were the good old days I remember when I used to clean my grandmother's house with the brush girl you have to sweep wipe and then polish and then and Shine the floor
Such beautiful memories, growing up in ST. Thomas I had the great experience of many of these. The greatest was a day at the PLantain Garden River. Wonderful memories. Kareem the environment was cleaner then than now. Those hardships allow us to strive and make us who we are today. Excellent program especially for those of us overseas.
The washing is not only Jamaica a lot of this was the same in many of the other Caribbean countries. This was the same in Guyana 🇬🇾 , St Lucia 🇱🇨 and Barbados 🇧🇧.
The ice cream can was the same we know of this as well.
I was taught to have a lamp with Kerosene oil, lit, beside me as Manchester was COLD , so I had to hold the brush about 6 inches away from lamp flame to warm bristles THEN put one inch of Genie Floor Polish onto brush THEN SHINE THE TARRIS ( paved red concrete ) or the DEAL BOARD and make it SHINE!
Genie floor polish smelled so good...red floors...we used to have a dry mop to sweep, a wet mop to wipe the floor.
I’ve washed in the bath pan with the scrub board. Used a kattah on my head to carry water; done the bleaching as she just described; scripted the water, etc. Followed the soaking process, but never in the river! In the zinc bath pan or a huge Mahogany bowl for washing and bathing. Yes, done two soapy water and one rinse. Walked barefoot to school, aaawwwh. Scrubbed the floor kneeling on my knees, yaks! Did chores before and after school. Grate coconut make coconut oil. Used that similar “bucket”. To make ice cream at home - special treat that was! Trifle cake - made on Sundays - poor man’s pound cake. Had grated fresh coconut. Yummy. Not only done in Jamaica. Yes,ma’am - did the kerosene lamp too and the hurricane lantern for outside. Mercy!Belize!! Memories. Yea, did the kerosene stove too. Thought that was great, not using the firehearth burning dry wood! Baked on the hearth bread, Johnny cakes and Christmas fruit and pound cakes. Not to mention starched clothes. Yes, cleaned shoes and tennis shoes…sneakers. Had two uniforms to last one or two or more years…until they wore out. Used the coal stove iron, and the gasoline iron. Mercy!! Those were the days. And white clothes were White. Yes, I used a crinoline skirt. Had only one that I sewed on the hand Singer’s sewing machine. Thank you for sharing
My mum said she had to walk from BeckfordKraal to Clarendon College. Her one pair of shoes had to last, so she would walk barefoot halfway, then put her shoes on the rest of the way....
I remember cleaning the pots with the ashes from the wood fire that was in the outside kitchen..those were the days
I grown up in the seventy in Grenada and that was my life watching in the river growing down on my knees to scrub the floor first I had to scrape the floor with a knife fist then whip it also the greating of coconut to make oil the ice cream I really enjoyed that with my grandma every thing she was saying is so true
Does anyone remember tilly lamp?...it used spirit...a purple liquid instead of kerosine...it was much brighter too
First time hearing about it I am going to research it
@@kareemsquestwe used it in Guyana 🇬🇾. It was called metelated spirits
Our scrubing brush was a corn cob roasted and scraped then we use it to scrub the clothes
I can still make the scrup scrup sound with my hand when I wash the kitchrn cloth
The burnt corn stick after we eat the corn was the clothe brush
Oh yes!😂
They use to scrub the clothes with corn stick
Beautiful memories of my past. I am just smiling. Love your culture programme. What about using the zinc pan as oven?
That is a topic I might have to look into
Kareem's Quest and company.
That was an amazing conversation with your guest.
Taking us back down memory lane.
I enjoyed every minute of the interview.
Thanks to you and your guest. 😊👏🌻
Love and blessings to all. ❤🙏🙏🌻🌻
Thanks for your kind words
I remember as a child going to the river to wash and the children were the lookout for the man that watched the river to make sure you were not washing your clothes in the running water .
I remember kerosene stove, 2 burners first then 4 burners. What I remember most was the circular wicks that lights the stove.
I use to guh ah market every Saturday guh tun ice-cream bucket fi wash man , all MI get fi di day one cream and truppence fi MI hard work, 0r a drink ah porter.
Lol
Jamaica uncut was talking about drying school uniform, on the back of the fridge 😂
In London (1950-60s) our hot water heater was also a 'gyster"
The screw thing for the lamp was called 'The Burner' we used to sell them in our shops both in Time and Patience (Linstead) and Oxford, St. Mary. I love watching the show.
I remember the coal oil lamp with “Home Sweet Home” on it. When I came home from living and teaching in Jamaica, I brought with me, one of those lamps, and I still have it to this day. It is a significant reminder of the many times we lit lamps when the electricity was off and we needed to have school work to mark.
I do not come from Jamaica, but my parents is from Jamaica. In London I use to wash clothes in the bath wow great video I love traditional methods of doing things
No you did not put the polish on the brush. You used a piece of cloth to paste the polish on the floor similar to waxing your car. The brush was used for shining.
Thanks for the clarity
I remember the refrigerators with locks.
The iron solid metal was the more modern ones but the hollow ones were first that you’d have to put the hots coal inside the iron.
I remember the coconut brushes and genie floor polish, red.
I remember the enamel cups.
The worst thing to be washing at the river is don’t let your wash pan float away or turn over.
I used to be so jealous of my friends that could go to the river and wash in Saturday morning
Jamaican life is the best I remember those days washing on scrubber board cleaning the floor knocking Johnny cooper lantern with the brush all that lady is saying is true
I know people in the hills in St. Catherine use big bamboo joints to carry water. In my area it was against law to wash or bathe in the river. i grew up in the fifties. When we as boys go to the river to swim first we hide our clothes far away from where we are swimming. My brother in law use to sell ice cream in the Linstead Market.On Saturdays we make three buckets of ice cream and put in a big container to sell for the day. Sometime they make crenolin with flour bag sometime they find a small tree and put the crenolin over it to dry.
I iron my iniform to school my bigger sister never used to iron them good
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De scrips scrips i guess was to squeeze out the water to get to expose the fabric to the scrubbing😅
The 1 thing that always confounded me was th likkle square "blue" cube that would whiten clothes.
Believe it or not, blur still works to make whites whiter.
We use to have one when I was small. We used to use dry ice on the outside of the cylinder.
We still use net like crinoline in wedding dresses...I don't remember what it's called it now
Everything this lady said is true but we weren't use to polishing the floors. The way we washed in the river was not in a basin but on a pile of stones above the water level. Yes the sun was used for bleaching. You had to sort out the clothes. All whites had to be bleached as well as clothes with stains. The river was a good distance from your destination. There were rivers that were nearer home but not popular and it was not possible to hitch rides from passing vehicles to return home.
These were happy days which allowed you to meet with friends and some family members.
"Home Sweet Home" was the chimmey for the lamp.
The river episodes were St. Lucia experiences.
Here watching from Barbados🇧🇧
We had a kerosene fridge, Earlier there was kerosene stove until it blew up and my father bought a gas stove, All through high school it was the flat iron to iron my uniform for school.
My mom prefer corn stick she came from St Elizabeth. I love when she tells us stories she ran away to Kingston at 12 years old. She said too much hard work and she was the eldest work from morning till night we cried. She came to Kingston and worked as a helper up on the hill. People still use grater see it on CZcams.
They also use this dye for the floor name red oak its a powder and its red they mixed it with water and put onthe floor then .et dry and then use the coconut brush to shine the floor and its beautiful
I used to watch mama until I learn how to do that. I loved it.
The yabba to keep water cool , made of clay
My parents came from st Andrew's sommerset
In my house now I have a coal stove, a coal stove iron, an ice shaver that they used to make snow-cone, and a kerosene lamp ( now I use lamp oil). My brother came to visit from Maui recently and he was asking me where I find these things!? A blast from the past!!
U would have to use d washing soda along with d bar soap to rub on d clothes and boilthe clothes this pro. Ismainly for white clothes when rinsing those cloths u have to use clothe blue.
yes i use to have one when i carry water
I used to get two old shirts or old clothes and kneel on and use the coconut brush and I am only 50 so it was not so long ago. Blue and brown soap for washing clothes. It was hard but life was good back then. LOVE DEM DAYS.❤
I grew up in Manchester in the ‘80’s and we sweep, wipe the floor,polish shine the tile floor with coconut brush. Not everyone ad the hoover polisher. No one had helper. We had to do that before school. When I went to the maternal cousins for holidays in StMary, we did laundry t the river and carried water from the pipe drinking. I do know about Katta. but did not know how to use it I did not carry water or any load in Manchester. I had one cousin who carried water and load on her head. So the balance skill she could do.
Those were the good old days, that was what you call all for one , and one for all.
We had kerosene stove and kerosene oven.
My mom use to bake a lot.
The genius to the Kotta was the swinging of the head in opposing directions while using the neck muscles. As the item being carried sway in one direction, the wearer would usually sway in the opposite direction giving it a counterbalance. Balanceen!
I enjoyed washing clothes and pots at the river. It was fun with our country friends!!!
I was born in the 60 i kno all about what she is talking about
I remember seeing my grandmother using those iron❤❤❤
Interesting! Also people who have stones or could find stones would make Stone-heaps for bleaching clothes.
I used to use nappy for my ba it's and the best way to make your clothes white without using bleach is to use cake soap and soap the nappy then put it in a plastic bag and put it in the sun on a zinc. Your baby wears the whitest nappy without bleaching.
U can still use this method for bleaching
Thanks for sharing this insight
I am Ghanaian and we still wash with the scrip scrip sound 😂. You need to pass that test before you get to washing machines 😂
Nice to know
Crinoline use to be so scratchy then we move on to slips. Man I hated to wear di slip dem
Not only in Jamaica. I am from Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. 💙💛💚
We made the sound while washing as well. My mom taught us how to wash in the river at Stoney Grounds. Kingstown. St. Vincent.
That ice cream was the best teast great❤❤
We used to scrub clothes on flat stones. Every one who is washing had their own very flat stone on which they scrub their clothes. We used to wash with soap, lather with fab as we use to call it and then rinse.
Hello Jamaicans you are not alone. I am from Guyana and when I was a child the elders had the same culture. They used scrubbing board, beater, which was used to beat the clothes to get them clean as well as graters to grate coconuts. Stained clothes were put in the sun which removed the stains and made them white. Salt was sometimes applied too. Ice-cream was churned at weekends in a wooden churner.. Irons called 'flat irons' were placed on a coal pot. When they were hot they were held with a cloth by the handle and clothes were pressed. Sometimes discarded electrical irons were used in the same way. However, in my young working days Jamaicans were always so very innovative. Guyana imported hand cream and body lotion, skin powder with wide puffs in fancy powder bowls, perfumes and many other items from Jamaica
Thanks for sharing all this information
Born in the fifties bee wax was used on coconut brush so it runs freely and give better shiny good old days work was fun 😂😂
We would use the brown soap and put out in the sun also the white clothes would be boil in zinic pan to make it white and free from germs. I am fron the sixties in Clarendon
The pale was also used for female steaming for female problems.
its the best time of my life the old times.things is the best especialy country homes dutty gal soap wash good corn stick for brush it was totLly good❤😂
My dad make it every Sunday
Sometime they do a knocking on the floor on the floor call Johnny cooper while shining the floor.
Something call E C to help take away stains and green bush to rub the men underwear to take away the stain.
My chore was washing a washpan full of clothes on saturdays. I used a washboard.
I loves ❤️ 😍 💖 u auntie Cecil
It has to be said how ingenious our ancestors were back then, for instance using a halved-dried coconut as a floor buffer/polisher.
I remember those days when I used to go to the river to wash with the bath pan on the head with a Katta
We use a metal bucket or kerosene pan for carrying water
I use all of the iron
When i grew up in those days every thing you are talking about it was a must to do these daily activities ‘ it was hard work and most of up kids were made to do the work and we get a lot of beatings if we did not get the job done every day so we would invent playful ways so as not to feel so depressed while doing what is expected of us to do.
I was in that era and one of the cleaning song was knock pupa lantan bam bam bam
Who remember ice cream man who always ride a bike on a Sunday and they would use dry ice to keep the ice cream and the fudge stay frozen n dry ice can burn up hand
My grandfather used to plan corn and when the con fit, I will roast the corn and eat Then we have to put the can stick to dry we use it wash scrub the clothes I am from Saint Catherine. you still live close beside barrel Lodge sugar factory used to have some big pump that water the canes Our grandparents used to send us to wash the clothes. It was three of us
We use dyed on the floor. We use plastic bags on our hand ✋️ 😅
Great idea!!
I remember using guinea gold and magic soap to wash with corn stick brush
My brother in law used to carry water on his head using a cotta back in the late 70s
Thank you for your channel I'm learning so much and I'm being reminded what about the kerosene stove the irons that you used to have to put on the cold stove how you made a pudding from the the Dutch pot with the colander and the fire on top man I have so much to say to you I live in Brooklyn and I sure wish you could interview me I'm 76 and I remember a lot of things she's saying I would love to share with you God bless❤
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We use to use ashes to make l lye to remove stains from lion brand flour bag to make sheets for beds
You also have dover stove and servel makes fridge and stove
Fadda mi wann u fi one espiode pon cooking in a timely fashion di Ole tyme way,Blessings
Okay thanks for that idea
Scrip scrip was done throughout the Caribbean
I realize
You had to cream the butter and sugar in a bowl till the mixture was creamy to bake cake
In st lucia some ladies still wash by the river
Nice to know
Who remember cow foot jelly? I remember Sunday treats