Pep Talk: Learn the Language of Success through Positive Declarations

by Terri Savelle Foy

bathwater means don’t get rid of the valuable things along with the unnecessary ones. This origin is as surprising as it is repulsive. In the early 1500’s, people only bathed once a year! If that’s not filthy enough, families also bathed in the same water without changing it! The adult men would bathe first, then the women, finishing off with the children and then the babies to go last. By the time the babies were bathed, the water was clouded with dirt, scum and filth. The mothers had to take extra care that their babies were not thrown out with the bathwater! Give them the cold shoulder meaning to be slightly rude or anti-social toward someone. This medieval England custom was used to give a guest a cold piece