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Please define "olden days" because each time had different things. To some people 1950 is the "olden days".
there was barter system
Braille came into use by the blind people of the olden days.
what did thety wash their clothes with back in the olden days
they use to cross the river in cannoe or in ferry
In the olden days there were no banks so people used to keep their money under their heads
Coal stoves, Wood stoves, Wood fires.
flax bark paper animal skin
Through sundials,water devices etc
horse and buggies
rubbish people