stackyFACTSHence the phrase 'sleep tight,' because if you didn't manually crank the ropes every day, your saggy bed would dump you directly onto the freezing floor.
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If you didn't aggressively smack your bed with a large stick, all the assorted bugs and mice would get a little too comfortable inside your sleeping space.
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Cooking essentially meant crouching dangerously close to an open raging flame while desperately trying not to set your own sleeves completely on fire.
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Reigniting a hearth without matches was such a tedious, miserable nightmare that peasants just let logs dangerously smolder 24/7 inside their homes.
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Without convenient flat stovetops, every heavy piece of iron cookware had to awkwardly straddle the glowing embers like a creepy metallic spider.
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Without an electric kettle, just making a cup of hot water required building a fire from scratch, hauling heavy iron, and waiting half the morning.
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Houses just featured a gaping hole in the roof, meaning absolutely everyone constantly smelled like they spent the weekend at a miserable bonfire.
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