1. Celery with Peanut Butter Celery sticks often sat in the crisper drawer until someone spread peanut butter inside them. It was a way to use up a bunch of celery that might otherwise wilt. Add a few raisins on […]

1. Mustard Plasters for Chest Colds When a chest cold struck, many moms mixed dry mustard with flour and spread it on cloth for a “mustard plaster.” The warming effect was believed to draw out congestion. Kids lay bundled with

1. Saving Glass Jars for Reuse During the Great Depression, families never threw away a good glass jar. They became storage containers for food, buttons, nails, or even leftovers. Nothing with a lid went to waste. Decades later, the practice

1. Sitting Down for Family Dinner In the 1960s, the family dinner table was the anchor of the day. No matter how busy life got, everyone gathered to share a meal together. Conversations about school, work, and neighborhood news kept

1. Walking Everywhere In the 1960s, walking wasn’t considered “exercise”—it was simply how people got around. Kids walked to school, parents walked to the corner store, and families strolled after dinner. It kept people moving without needing a gym membership.

1. Laundry with a Wringer Washer Laundry day once meant hauling heavy baskets of clothes to a wringer washer, filling it with water, and adding soap flakes. Clothes had to be scrubbed, rinsed, and run carefully through the wringer, which

1. Rubber Cement That little brown glass jar of rubber cement with the brush in the lid was a staple for art projects. The glue smelled strong, but no one thought twice about leaning in close while brushing it across