housewifery

Homemaking in the Great Depression: Modern Conveniences

This post contains affiliate links. Read our disclosure policy here. Have you wondered what homemaking looked like during the Great Depression? Or, maybe you never thought about it? Either way, here is a little glimpse into the “modern conveniences” of the early 1900s. For the housewives who could afford to buy them, they made their lives significantly easier. Today’s Magazine, a…

Garden Huckleberries, an Unusual, Easy to Grow Fruit (plus a pie filling recipe)
Garden Huckleberries, an Unusual, Easy to Grow Fruit (plus a pie filling recipe)

A pie filling recipe, suitable for canning, which uses garden huckleberries

2020, Here We Come
2020, Here We Come

As much as New Year’s Day is a snore of a holiday for non-partying me, I love starting a new year. A fresh start, a new bullet journal, a chance to start over. I’ve heard it said that the 20s don’t technically begin this year, but actually start in 2021. Maybe that’s correct, but I’ll follow the crowd on this…

Vic and Sade, 1930s and 1940s

A fun way to get a glimpse of home life “way back when” is to listen to an old radio show called Vic and Sade. Vic and Sade was a daily 15 minute show so popular at the time that each episode aired several times a day. Most of the episodes have been lost or destroyed but the ones that remain…