25 Things Every House Had on Winter Nights Before Electricity (Coals in the Bed)

Life before electricity on a winter night meant no heat upstairs, so the farmhouse warmed the bed instead: a brass bed warmer full of coals, hot bricks, rubber bottles and feed sack quilts. Most of it still works in a winter power outage today. Tell me in the comments what your family put in the bed on the coldest night of the winter, and whose farmhouse it was. #LifeBeforeElectricity #WinterPowerOutage #BedWarmer #FarmLife #RuralAmerica