Not that I'm bitter, but I loathe magazines that depict an Olde Worlde where big cheery families were always happily sitting inside vaguely rough-hewn but immaculately clean wooden buildings, chatting companionably while a cheery fire lit their healthy, rosy cheeks with a warm glow-- up until contemporary life ruined everything.

They make it sound if all of family life was one big Hallmark card scenario until modern life stepped in.... Stepped in with what, exactly?

Do you really want to get rid of our silly, life-saving modern antibiotics and pesky vitamins? Our overly clean water and ridiculous reliance on lead-free utensils? Our rotten habit of properly cooking foods and ridding most meals of salmonella?

Articles about how great life used to be during earlier and simpler times make it seem as if stringing cranberries is an activity so spiritually and emotionally meaningful that in and of itself it would compensate for the lack of running water. As if eating by candlelight would be so romantic that nobody would mind the fact that it was 36 degrees inside the house.

Would wearing organic homespun clothing actually outweigh the lack of antiperspirant, deodorant, not to mention a whole other concept of what we would call in our horrible modern manner �basic hygiene�? This was a world without toilet paper, or for that matter, toilets. You had to pee in a pot under your bed at night and then bring it outside the next day. For some of us who don'�t like to use a restroom when there'�s anybody within six feet of us to act as a witness, what do you think it would have been like to drag your chamber pot down through the kitchen in the morning?

This was a world without tampons, people. This was not a fun place to be a girl.

Nostalgia, when rabid (and there was rabies, too, don'��t forget rabies), would encourage us to believe that having a taffy pull for the whole family would keep us from realizing that very few of the family actually had their own teeth. (��Give that last piece of pork to little Martha. Her canines are still workin�� good. She can gnaw on that for the rest of the evenin�� and it'��ll keep her quiet.��)

This is probably also the place to mention that having a big family was not exactly something you could prevent from happening. I mean, once you started having a family, you kept having family. There was no central heating. There were no indoor lights. No cable. And a person can only pull so much taffy.

Therefore, I am compelled to offer thanks for what we all too often take for granted in our gloriously modern age, including but not limited to the following:

--Flushing (not the city in Queens, but the ability to push a button or step on a handle—no woman has actually ever used her hand to flush a public toilet ��and make It disappear)

--Mattresses, ones not made from straw (��Don'��t let the bedbugs bite!�� was once not a cutesy saying--it was a profound wish)



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Can't imagine you being bitter.

lol,, I only WISH I had written this,, its actually another writer's article

but I thought it was inspiring and hilarious

btw, IM really NOT bitter at all,,

at worst, I tend to not be easily excitable is all,,,