Reply #284: I stuffed my "soiled underwear" in the plumbing behind the upstairs bathtub.

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That was in 1962. Pity the person who has to remodel that 1880 house!

I went off to Girl Scout Camp in Oklahoma that year. I was there 3 days and came down with the mumps and started my first period. I was never a Girl Scout again -- I thought that had something to do with it.

Anyhow, I wasn't ready to grow up -- and my parents told me nothing about it -- but back in the day (and by day I mean 45 ears ago) -- we secured Kotex pads by a belt that had a contraption similar to a garter belt. It was horrendous!

I'll never forget my mom, sitting in the passenger seat of the yellow, 1958 Buick station wagon, saying to my dad, "George, I need some K-O-T-E-X."

Oh my god, we've come such a long way . . .