My mom would warm a cloth and place it over a layer of Vicks on our chests too. She would also heat lemon juice and a small amount water for us to drink when we had a sore throat. I hated the pulp and the seeds floating in it. Anyone else's mom make that? I've never been able to replicate it. Your mention of the light fixture above the kitchen table reminded me of the one lone light bulb suspended over ours. We plugged our toaster into a plug that dad placed between the lightbulb and the socket. I'm reminded of it whenever I see Ralph and Alice Kramden's apartment. LOL! Thanks for the memories!
We have something in common, my mother learned about Vicks on a heated wool cloth from her Mother-in Law, born 1900. Family lore says: Repeated heated chest compresses saved an Uncle from the 1920 flu epidemic. I love your stories, thank you.
I am so very glad that I found your channel!! You remind me so much of my Granny Mac and my Nanny! You are a jewel! I Love your Stories! I am 73, and at this time in my life, I NEED Stories about the old days! Love your cooking too; just like Nanny and GrannyMac!❤🙏🏼
In our family it was Mentholatum, mercurochrome and A&D ointment that were most used, and my Dad was the one who took care of us, the way he learned from my grandma. If you had a cold with sore throat we were given a spoonful of Mentholatum to dissolve on the tongue to soothe the throat . When I badly sprained my ankle as a teen, my grandma rubbed on horse linament (Grandpa kept it for use on the dairy cows). It stung soooooo much, but it worked. I only saw a doctor twice as a child: for tonsilectomy, and an appendectomy.
Oh my gosh. I had a similar incident happen in junior high. During PE I got hit in back of the head with a baseball. It hurt bad, but the coach seemed unconcerned. I never saw a doctor, and didn't tell my parents. That spot stayed numb for months. I've never heard of cookie butter, and haven't seen it in the store. It sounds like something I'd like so I'll be on the lookout for it. Thank you for the awesome stories.
Oh goodness, my mama had the little bottle of whiskey….that with a touch of honey/sugar for a cough. When my kids were little we called it ‘the recipe’ like on the Waltons.😉
I don't like the sad stories either.. but sometimes life is really hard.. I've had many losses as well.. They make us who we are I suppose. It helps me to know how others dealt with it and I learn from them. Thank you so much for sharing.
Hola Miss Grandma Pat love your stories it's reminds me of the good old days they had more meaning back then people were more educated nicely dressed manners so I love hearing your stories
I got told the same thing about washing your hair! My Grandmother yelled. Go ahead and wash your hair if you get sick you will die Lol. Really enjoyed you sharing your stories!!
I love your stories about your mother. I guess the Vicks took care of your neck from getting hit with the ball, you never said. My Mama was a firm believer in Vicks also.
My mother was born in 1933. When 5yrs old she needed an appendectomy. The Dr performed the surgery on the kitchen table and my grandmother administered the chloroform under direction from the Dr.
Wonderful mama.....I grew up with good ole Vicks. I still use it.🙂. I didn't get castor oil but I did have to take cod liver oil. Oh that was awful...I can still taste it.😫. It didn't kill me but I was sure that it would.😝
Oh how I LOVE these stories,i wish you knew about her poltuses and such...all that would come in handy now...if you think of any more of all that plz make another video or message me...pretty plz!❤
I love home remedies, and my mother used them frequently. My Mom made us eat Vicks salve by the spoonful if we had an even if we sniffled. She swore by the healing power of mecurachrome…you’d go around with red polkadots on your skin to heal your mosquito bites in the summer. I’ve heard so many home remedies, and my time between my mom her sisters, my grandparents, I think I honestly could’ve gotten a doctorate by the time I was at a high school. So, naturally, all my friends come to me when they don’t know how to Dr. up their own kids or how to do something by of the signs. Get rid of chiggers? Bacon grease. Get rid of sunburn? Vinegar. Add shine to your hair? Vinegar. Want to quit smoking? Look it up in the almanac. I could go on, but I think you got the picture. Thank your mom and all my family for blessing me with my doctorate and home remedies.
Thank you again for sharing your history and family stories. They are rich and important to give us perspective on what life was like years ago. How blessed we are today for some things but how blessed prior generations were for unity and family and community bonds. I love your stories and am so glad I found you on the web. Thanks to my mom who sent the first video months ago and I was instantly hooked. Wanted to say that I just returned from a week in Bryson City, North Carolina and what did I first spot, but a beautiful ginkgo tree in full color. Thanks to you I was able to identify it instantly. I admired the same tree on previous fall trips but now I knew the tree by name. You are teaching more than you can imagine. Best wishes to you and your loved ones this holiday season. So glad to have been acquainted with you. You've touched my life and your videos make me happy.
I love when I can learn something new no matter how minor. While you were in NC, I was probably in western KY. It was like being in another country. The corn fields went for miles. I had never seen anything like it. So much beauty in a small corner of our world. We can be thankful.
I grew up with remedies and sayings, too! My dad swore in the Winter we were all gonna catch pneumonia with a wet head! Or don’t sleep under a fan unless you wanna catch a chest cold! Another, put a jacket on or you’ll catch a chest cold if the weather is less than 70 outside! Got diarrhea? We all grew up taking shots of blackberry brandy growing up to cure that one! Heck, my great grandfather used to take shot of blackberry brandy every morning before starting his day. He taught my dad that was the sure way on preventing you from getting sick. We lived with many other remedies, too, but those were the most memorable. 😆
I wanted to mention the boiled onions with sugar was used when you had a cold. Vicks was a standard at our house. Mom used to slatter us with it and pin a towel to clothes on our chest .
I always love listening to your stories about your momma and the past. I used to go to our local history society and listen to tapes recorded by people from the past, usually memories of the war years. Yes, I remember Vicks very well lol. Bless you.
Loved the story about your mother. I’m interested in home remedies. I’m sure they are better for us than most of the medications that we take today. You’re such an inspiration to me. You make me realize how important it is to pass on stories to our children and grandchildren. God bless you ❤
Awe ... never heard of the cookie butter. Looked it up and we don't have it here. Sounds good though. I like cinnamon. I will have to pick some up next trip to US.
Ms pat so glade you got to be with your mother and experience the happy thing and all the medicine rimmeds your mom had . I didn't know my mom and had a ruff time with the step mom . But made it thru it all . 😊 . So love your stories please tell us more ..
Thank you for sharing your stories and memories with us. Your mother sounds like a wonderful woman. My sister and I lived with our grandparents when we were young, and our grandpa's magic cure-all for everything was to mix a little salt in water. From sore throats, to rashes, to splinters, and ingrown toenails, he would say salt water was the remedy. He was also a big believer in the healing properties of garlic, and our grandma always kept a bottle of cod liver oil on-hand for stomach aches.
Your Mother sounds like a strong and wonderful woman who could take care of business! I had Vicks too and I never minded it. Maybe by the 60's it wasn't so bad. Love your stories!
Thankyou so much for taking the time to make these videos. I missed out on knowing any of my grandparents. Listening to you this morning brought tears to my eyes. I love ya grandma Pat!!! ❤
I was so lucky to really know my grandma and her mother, great grandma. I was 21 when great grandma passed. I've heard many of these remedies from them. They lost the husband and father they shared when he was 21, during the epidemic in 1918.
Loved your Mama stories. So, so close to my mom. (Only my mom finished 12 yrs. Of school. Could and did it all. Pretty, dark black hair, and sharper mind on day she died than all three of us girls!!!😅 So your stories reminds me of our upbringing. A very good one in rural Tennessee. Thanks Ms.Pat.
Thank you for these stories. I know your mother was a woman I would have loved to have known. My mother was a smart mother too. But I just wanted to tell you that I absolutely love to smell Vicks vapor rub. And my 8 yr old granddaughter does too. Sometimes when she’s spending the night, as we are getting ready to go to bed and in the bathroom together, I open the cabinet to get out her toothbrush and if I see Vicks setting there , I’ll say oh look our favorite!! Pull it out , open it so we can get a quick smell! She loves it and so do I. I just thought you might get a kick out of that. Now the difference may be that mama didn’t use it on us much, and I would not have liked the sticky around my neck, that’s for sure! Love your stories, keep it going!
I did not like the Vick's either. My grandmother would rub it on your chest and then use a couple of safety pins to hold a cloth between the rub and your pajama's. Then she put salve in a vaporizer that she vented to you using sheets over the bed. My mother's version was to have you take a little taste of it. I don't keep it in my house either.
Oh! Your mama reminds me so much of my own...the way she worried, the superstitions and, especially, the Vicks! I have a cousin who uses it for any and every little thing, most especially she swears by it when it comes to congestion, pain or leg cramps. She keeps telling me I need to keep some on hand, but I keep telling her that she needs to quit talking about it because every time she does, I can SMELL IT because of my childhood and my mama using it all the time on me and my brother. I don't have any in my house either. 😄
I have been checking out more of your videos. I had texted you thT my family was from Kentucky. I hear this one about west KY. My family was from west ky, and southern IN. My family was boatsman who ran up and down the Ohio river. They sold fish. I lived in louisville ky 24:03 for a time before i had children. I loved Louisville but the economy was so bad in 1984, that i couldnt make much of a living.
Hey beautiful Gran Gran!!!!!! Your mama was an amazing lady just like you!!!!!! As you know back in those days they had to be their own Dr. so much of the time they were Dentist as well and they had a remedy ready at all times!!!!!! I have always said life is the largest classroom there are things you can’t learn in a school you must learn many many things through life experience and wow!!!!! did they ever experience real life they were an encyclopedia of information and knowledge we have lost a lot of the olden ways but their value is as powerful as it ever was!!!!!! Sending you love ❤️ hugs and prayers always ✝️🙏🙏🙏🙏💗💗💗💗💗💗💗
Love hearing your wonderful stories. Yes, I remember the Vicks, but it brings back good memories of when my mother would lovingly rub it on my chest and then place a warm cloth! Makes me feel like a young child again with her taking such great care of me!
Listening to you tonight. Y0u could have been talking about my momma and our family.castor yuk!yuk!t.we farmed about 2ooacres .we all worked hard.didnt hurt us a bit.i still like my garden even tough I'm 86 I have canned more 15o cans of variety.chow chow tomatoes perseves and all kinds of jellies .my grandchildren will let's go to Nina's jelly room.This is my therphy.Katie in South Carolina. Have good night's rest .GOD BLESS
I just came across your video and oh how you blessed my heart. Oh the famous Vic Vapor rub. Yes my momma did the same on us - rubbed our chest with it. I hated it. And then she’d wash it off in the morning. We had little heat in our home so that washing it off was horrific in the winter time. Blessed memories of my precious momma. ❤❤ looking forward to hearing more.
Blessed Bauble told me about your channel….what a Marvelous woman you are…such a good story teller and so interesting. You mom sounds quite a bit like my mom…a remedy for everything…am not sure which was the worst…smelling friars balsam to unclog your sinus’s, or……..the mustard plaster!!!!! Xxx
Loved the stories about your momma and her home remedies 😂. That’s just how we grew up too, brought back some memories for sure. I wish your stories were lots longer, sure do enjoy them❤ Debby from upstate New York
My Mother had her tonsils out on my Grandmother’s dining room table and was put to sleep with ether dropped into a tea strainer over her nose. Mustard plasters were another thing my Grandmother made and put on with an old piece of flannel.
Precious sweet lady. Oh Pat, I just love listening and watching you. Listening to your stories is wonderful! It takes me back to me growing up as well. Your stories are very close in nature of how I grew up. My mom was raised on a farm. We went back to Iowa every summer. She had a green thumb and her and my precious dad had all of the home remedies too. Oh yes, Vicks Vapor Rub, Macurachrome (sp), the red liquid stuff, and Oh My gosh, the cod liver oil that made me almost throw up every single time!!!
Bless your mother's precious heart. I just lost my mother this past June at 94 years old. She had Alzheimer's but she still knew who her children were and some of the grandchildren. We we're all blessed that we could take turns staying with her so she could stay at her home.
That video was so fun! It's just what I needed to make my day today I know growing up that it fixed and fix it there was some kind of poultice that would fix it for sure. And it always scared! I remember a time when I was so sick and couldn't stop coughing. My mother had tried everything and it hadn't worked. She told my father that I would have to go to the doctor. I remember him looking at me and saying that I better have been very sick to spend $5 at a doctor appointment. And it was bad, I had some beer bronchitis. So, how well I know! That's how it was back then. Thank you Pat you always bring a smile to my face and my heart!❤
Your mama sounds great. Love the doggy bag story. My husbands aunt used to always give the kids a dollar and a snack when we left. Grew up with vicks still use it when get sick. I hated the smell as a kid, but now it helps when nose is stuffy, opens up the nostrils. The smell always feels like being a kid again.
My beloved Mamaw sounds so much like your beloved Momma. So blessed to have spent so much time with her and my Granddad. Mamaw had a 3rd grade education but had more usable life knowledge than scholars with many degrees! Please no one take offense but our school system have failed our children so terribly. They know bothing of values, morals ans standards and colleges are the worse to confuse young adults about our Lord ans Savior, their gender and where their true place in this world truly is😢. Home schooling is getting more appealing everyday.
My Mom put Vicks on our chests with warm cloth & in our noses if we had stuffy noses. Love your stories . Mom gave me hot toddies of whiskey when I had asthma attacks . Thank God I grew up not liking alcohol
One of my grandmothers had real silver dollars from the 1800's. When a grandchild was born, she would wash the coin and bind it to the navel of the baby right after birth. This was supposed to prevent the belly button from being an "outty". Now we know that silver is a natural antibiotic.
I can add to that….Mama said I had a hernia after birth, in the naval. A nickel was taped over my naval to close the hernia. My belly button is definitely an ‘inny’.
@@chitchatwithgrannypat7900 I love your stories and I loved my grandmother's stories. I used to take my great grandmother night fishing with a lantern. (It was a very safe location) She was in her 80's and I think I learned more from her than all the teachers I ever had in school.
My momma used vicks rub on all of us ❤she raised 4 generations her sisters 4 kids grandchildren and even great grandchildren she was so wise in a Godly way and a great sense of humor she was about 4 years older than you I miss her no one like your momma❤
Vick’s salve and mercurochrome (merthiolate) were things used on me growing up. I used peroxide and Neosporin ointment on my girls. And my cure for just about anything is a cold, wet washcloth. I’m glad you survived all of these things.
Miss Pat, wow your poor sister surgery on the kitchen table I would never think of that. That was really the backwoods. No offense , I grew up in New York City. I don’t know anything like that.. love your stories 🥰 Maureen from Ohio ❤️
Ohh My mama did that too when I was little and I hated that Vicks rub that I would take my blanket and tried as hard as I could to get it off me when she would leave the room
Hi Pat, loved this i love hearing about old remedies and your precious momma. My mom would pour sugar over a onion and let it soak the juices out of it she gave me for cough . Did you ever hear of Save The Baby medicine that was some horrible stuff i think it was used for croup years later it was took off the market it had killed some children. My granny also done some kind of remedy it had pepper in it and i think butter i know it always made me vomit. I remember vicks salve she also put it in the vaporizer i got croup a lot i spent many nights in a make shift tent with a vaporizer smelling vicks salve but my momma would climb right in there with me and make a game out of it . I miss her so much it was just her and me my daddy passed when i was 2 she never remarried or even dated that i knew of she would always says Suzie you are all i need. Momma's are so special ❤
Granny, this is long I hope you don't mind. Dr's would blow their nose before entering a house so they could smell the disease or illness when they entered. With my kids and family when they got sick I would smell their necks and arms and identify the scent with the illness. Working at a hospital I passed a unit and smelled chicken pox. I told the charge nurse and they all laughed so I went my way doing security. About a week later a nurse from that unit asked how I knew there was chicken pox in there because that unit was quarantined from visitors because of it. I told her the old way was to train yourself with the smells and when I passed that unit I smelled the disease. Chicken pox smells like moist fresh on the ground cabbage. I've never smelled lettuce but if a kid gets measles which we didn't have a vaccine in the day, that smells like lettuce. Shingles smells like a rusty tuna can. Liver disease smells like pungent strong sour musk. We were raised with hot toddy;s & garlic cloves on our chest for a cough or congestion. With a fever we got a cool bedside bath then quilts to sweat it out. We somehow survived the concoctions. I love your vids and you brought back so many memories. Please Granny Pat when you talk about death put a warning in the title or subject. I lost my daughter and will be so triggered. Many blessings to you.
I try to avoid the subject of death. That story was one I felt the need to tell. So sorry; i’ll remember your warning. You should have gone to medical school (maybe you did). I’ve never heard a story like yours, almost unbelievable.
My mom rubbed it on us too.Even put some in your nose if you had a bad cold. I used it on my kids and grandkids when they had chest congestion.My 10 yr old grandson lives with me and he gets it on his chest too.
Vicks Vapo Rub really works for me too- back pain, bug repellant, decongestant. .. cough relief, kills toe fungus. I even like the camphor smell 🧙♀️❤️👍The old remedies beat anything made today!
I remember those remides when we caught a cold she would put a big pot of water on the stove dump menthatim into the water cover our head over the pot and inhale that and that really worked
As always Pat, great stories. ❤. My momma rubbed Vicks on my sister and I too so thick on our chests, necks and a big swap up our nose. I didn’t mind it too much. I actually found it comforting when I was sick. One thing she also did if we got a wound or cut on our foot or leg was to put on a sock with milk and bread. It was disgusting. She said it would pull out the germs and prevent infection. I forgot what she called it but swore it was the cure. Do you remember anything like that.
My mom swore by Vicks! She decided once when our dog had a warm nose that Lucky must have been ill. She rubbed the fur on Lucy's chest with Vicks and then put on of my brother's teen shirts on the dog. She put 2 baby aspirin in the dog's mouth, held her mouth closed gently and ticked her throat until she swallowed. Now guess who swears by Vicks??
I think Vic`s Salve works though. All those essential oils; menthol, camphor, eucalyptus, cedarwood, nutmeg and thyme must have an effect. I just had to look up the ingredients. I don`t know how strong they made it back then, but I guess modern VapoRub is much the same? My grandparents generation did a lot of those things, like a cloth or pouch with camphor or myrrh on the chest. Smelling it was suppose to help the lungs and airways. I guess the modern thing is something like night nurse or a cough drops with much the same stuff as the Vic`s, these days with additional vitamin C.
