Before chimneys, houses vented smoke through the roof
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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Without any proper ventilation, just cooking a basic dinner guaranteed you would be weeping profusely and coughing up black soot all night long.
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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 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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