
I already know many of the old-time favorite homemade recipes for cleaning house and home; e.g., white vinegar as a fabric softener and toothpaste as a jewelry polish. My mom, a survivor of the Great Depression, taught her youngest child and only daughter well.
Mom had the solution to everything, was the queen of making a nickel a quarter, and knew how to do both with flair! Many times I went to school in my wool cardigan smelling like apple cider vinegar because, according to Mom, apple cider vinegar kept moths away from wool. Apple cider vinegar also kept the boys away!
Oh, if my mom had only had a copy of Karyn Siegel-Maier’s handy-dandy book The Naturally Clean Home, she could have added some scented essential oil to that smelly cider vinegar wash. My wool sweater would have come out of the wash smelling like a rose, or lavender, or sandalwood! (Hmmm . . . now that I think of it, maybe there was a method to my mother's cider-scented wool sweater rinse . . . maybe it was her way of keeping the boys away!) Do take a quick sweep through the book Naturally Clean Home by Karyn Siegel-Maier for quick, easy, inexpensive, and, most important, effective recipes to keep your home naturally clean.
— Maryellen Mahoney, Special Sales Account Manager
2 comments:
yup...Nana sure had a way to save ANYTHING!
Katie
Hey, Maryellen!
I enjoyed your common sense tips and amusing recollections. I, too, am a child of a Great Depression survivor. That generation really knew how to stretch a buck! I'll have to check this book out. Thanks for sharing!
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