Vintage Hygiene Practices That Are the Very Opposite of Clean

 
People Used Pots as Toilets

Do you ever wake in the middle of the night from the sudden urge to use the bathroom? Centuries ago, they had a solution for this. People would keep chamber pots under or near their beds and use them throughout the night. Then in the morning, you would dump it. Or, if you were lucky, your servants would empty it for you, and you would never see a thing. Not very sanitary, but pretty convenient. 

If pots of urine and feces were sitting under your bed for hours on end, the smell would've been incredibly unpleasant. Yet the hygiene practices only get worse.