I know my mom did some weird things when I was a kid but since my sister was only 2 years older we figured it was normal so maybe it didn’t bother us much. One really horrible thing was the “rags” we had to wear when we had our period. They were old ripped up sheets folded about 10”x6” and kept on a shelf in my parents master bathroom. They had old blood stains on them even though my grandmother soaked them in bleach. We used safety pins to attach them to our underwear. We always bled through them at school and often got off the bus with blood on the backs of our skirts or dresses. They didn’t absorb much. We honestly never complained!!we thought everyone did this. That would be child abuse today 😂😂 we were in high school before we realized there were pads we could buy! We laughed about as adults telling our own daughters but never blamed our mom. It must have been what she did too for her periods.