Cold Water & Stinky Soap {Pub Ad Inspiration Challenge}

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Cold Water & Stinky Soap {Pub Ad Inspiration Challenge}

I lived in Bolivia three times as kid, for a total of about 2 years. Unfortunately, my parents took no photos. I've been wanting to scrap memories from this part of my life for some time, but just never started because of the lack of photos. I decided to use pictures from the Internet to fill in this gap of my life. Journaling reads: <br>The soap I remember was actually a puke-colored brown, but the bars looked just like this–big and rough and not at all like something you would want to wash anything with. But that's what we used for washing clothes, and some people even used it to bathe. And this soap smelled horrible–it was stinky lye soap, and they didn't even try to do anything to mask the smell. We eventually got used to the smell, but when we retuned to United States, I remember Gram almost gagging at how our clothes smelled. We didn’t have a bathtub or shower, just an enormous stone sink outside the house. The house we lived in had no hot water. In the morning, the water was freezing, but by the afternoon, the sun had heated the pipes and the water came out warm, and if you wanted cold water, you were out of luck. In the morning and evening, they'd wash dishes with cold water. If, for some reason, you really needed hot water, you'd have to boil it. So because we had no bathtub or shower, we would bathe outside in this huge sink, which was designed for washing clothes. We'd sit on the large, flat edge of the sink and basically have sponge baths, which was quite a challenge, since we had to do it with our clothes on, since we were outside and anyone could walk by. We'd wash our hair in hat sink, too, with little pouches of shampoo that were good for one washing. Most of the time, we'd bathe in the afternoon, but when it was necessary to get a bath in the morning, it excruciatingly cold. I am forever grateful for the plumbing we have here.<br><br>Matrials: Rusty Pickle patterned paper. Doodlebug leter stickers. 7 gypsies fabric tab. Times New Roman font. TFL! ~Debbi T