Lynn S ~ The New HomeMaker
You guys heard her. If I was up that way I would gladly stop by. If anyone is in the area and goes, please tell me all about it.
Speaking of HomeMakers, Project Gutenburg has The American Frugal Housewife by Lydia Maria Francis Child free for download. {written in 1832} found thanks to Get Rich Slowly
excerpt
The true economy of housekeeping is simply the art of gathering
up all the fragments, so that nothing be lost.
I mean fragments of _time_, as well as _materials_. Nothing
should be thrown away so long as it is possible to make
any use of it, however trifling that use may be; and whatever
be the size of a family, every member should be employed
either in earning or saving money.
3 comments:
Please don't let my husband read that "Nothing should be thrown away so long as it is possible to make any use of it...".
"Nothing should be thrown away so long as it is possible to make any use of it...".
But that would be my mother's favorite part. That's her excuse for collection of the plastic rings that held six-packs of soft drinks together. Her collection of Altoids tins. Her collection of... Well, you name it, she collected it.
Ha! Sorry alrescate. {my husband already knows that one.}
KF, I feel ya. It's the same things around here.
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