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Originally Posted by suesiegel

Before us but the expression,"Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater," comes from bathing practice. Even in the 1900's few people had indoor plumbing. To bathe you had a large copper pot that you could sort of get into. The water was pumped from your well. The water would be warmed by pots from the stove. A major effort. It was not uncommon to get a bath once a month. Into that tub of warmed water first went the father-reminder it was once a month, then the mother, then the kids, Last was the baby. As to "Don't throw the baby out with the bath water," you can imagine how dirty the water was by the time the baby,last to go, got it's bath

Kind of an interesting history lesson.