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No matter how many times I heard my parents talk about their lives during the Great Depression, I didn’t come to a full understanding of just how much wisdom they had until they passed on — and I could no ...

My mother’s father was a very clever man whose life in 1947 was saved by a “new fangled” drug called penicillin. He could fix just about anything, and one of his favorite tools of the trade was a can of ...

Many of us tend to roll our eyes at “old-fashioned” ways or ideas. I know I certainly did, especially as a teen! My grandmother saw no use for a computer or even a telephone answering machine. She never owned a ...

My grandmother was known for squeezing a penny so hard it practically would turn into a wire! When I was a kid, though, I didn’t appreciate some of the things she knew. Today, I do. Our ancestors who lived through ...

As I get older I often wish I had paid more attention to my mother and grandmother, both of whom lived through the Great Depression. My mother could stretch a grocery budget until it cried! My grandmother knew more tricks ...

Who doesn’t love the taste of sweet, natural honey? For most people, however, it seems they know of only two uses: as a sweetener for coffee and other foods, or as a means of suppressing coughs. I bet my grandmother ...

If you love to fish, you might have wondered how the indigenous people of the Americas managed to fish without all that expensive equipment so many people seem to use today. When you think about it, many native tribes relied ...

If you are anything like me, then you are fascinated with how native people lived before the Europeans came to the “new world.” I find immense satisfaction in doing things on my own, without the benefit of modern technology. I’m ...

Americans today have it made compared to the pioneers. When something breaks, we can just drive down to our local home hardware store and pick up what we need. We even can order online and wait for the item(s) to ...

  I’m a big fan of kitchen gadgets, having bought just about everything that has come out in the past 40 years: food processors, bread machines, rice cookers, even special margarita blenders! You know what I have discovered lately? Most ...