Ramona - Was your Grandma from PA? "Redd up" is an expression I heard a lot while growing up in Erie. I occassionally use it as an adult and usually get really strange looks![/quote]
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Nope, Grandma was a West Virginia native, but she had firm ideas of what had to be done. Since houses then didn't have many, if any, closets, housewives had to be very inventive when storing things. Attics, basements, boxes and low chests at the foot of beds, and under the bed, hence long quilts to hide this, all were valued for getting rid of what wasn't needed on that day. Quilts were either in cedar lined boxes, or put on beds as decoration and folded neatly at night when it was too hot for them.
And I, too, get strange looks when I don't censor my speech. I still say that Oncet is less than twict, a bail is what you grab to carry a bucket, and cracklins are what are now called Pig Skins.
Still taste real good in sweet cornbread with sweet milk.