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5 Forgotten Things Your Grandma Did With Apple Cider Vinegar

5 Forgotten Things Your Grandma Did With Apple Cider Vinegar

  While in today’s world apple cider vinegar is mostly overlooked, to my grandmother, it was more of that “good old-fashioned medicine.” She raised children during the Great Depression, which made her not only tough as heck, but a bit ...

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How To Make Good Old-fashioned Soap… The Pioneer Way

How To Make Good Old-fashioned Soap… The Pioneer Way

Have you ever wondered what the best way is to make soap if you are living off the land? The hard-working pioneers had to be resourceful and learn how to make their own soap from wood ashes and waste fats. ...

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Lost Remedies Found; a Closet of Strange Tales and Ancient Medical Curiosities

Lost Remedies Found; a Closet of Strange Tales and Ancient Medical Curiosities

Often, our grandparents’ medicine worked more effectively and faster compared to the conventional, traditional treatments. These lost remedies found a way to obliterate diseases and improve ailment conditions. Regardless of whether you have a sore throat, headache or stomach upset, ...

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7 Old-Fashioned “Grandma Approved” Health Remedies That Really Work

7 Old-Fashioned “Grandma  Approved” Health Remedies That Really Work

  Many old health remedies are defined by folklore, myth and the varying claims of natural healers across the centuries. Beyond the claims, however, studies have shown that certain natural remedies actually can provide effective relief for illness and disease. ...

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What Native Americans Can Teach Us About Sustainability

What Native Americans Can Teach Us About Sustainability

We know that the earth and all of creation came into being by God as designer and creator. God put in place a number of finely tuned systems, cycles and physical parameters that sustain life. Adam and Eve were given ...

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8 Overlooked Survival Skills That Kept The Native Americans Alive

8 Overlooked Survival Skills That Kept The Native Americans Alive

I have a lot of respect for Native Americans — those who populated this land before the first European white man set foot on these shores. History rarely mentions it, but countless thousands of those Indians were killed by disease ...

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Old-Time Secrets To Getting A Good Nights Sleep

Old-Time Secrets To  Getting A Good Nights Sleep

There’s nothing like flying home to the Pacific Time Zone after spending time in the Central European Time Zone. You gain nine hours in the process, but the resulting jet lag is punishing to the body’s sleep cycle. Rapid travel ...

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Six ‘Lost’ Off-Grid Lessons From The Amish Community

Six ‘Lost’ Off-Grid Lessons From The Amish Community

Several years ago we had a week-long power outage in my region. We live in a fairly old-fashioned rural community. Nonetheless, panic still set in somewhere around hour 12 of the weather-related disaster. It was summer, a really, really hot ...

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8 Forgotten Ways Your Great-Grandparents Survived Hard Times

8 Forgotten Ways Your Great-Grandparents Survived Hard Times

One thing I know for certain. Previous generations survived hard times because they chose to spend money wisely. The key was never spending more than you earned. And now, as  I’ve grown older, I’ve noticed that life has lots of challenges ...

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3 Forgotten Ways The Pioneers Built Fires Without Wood

3 Forgotten Ways The Pioneers Built Fires Without Wood

I’m fortunate to call the windswept prairie of the Great Plains my home. If you get out of farm country, it’s just grass as far as you can see. In fact, there are still places nearly unchanged since pioneers first ...

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