10 Old Fashioned Frugal Living Skills You NEED to Learn
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- 💰 Struggling to make ends meet? It's time to go back to some oldies but goodies! 💡
Today, I'm going back to one of my favorite topics: Old fashioned frugal living tips! But I'm not going to talk about sewing your own clothes or line drying your laundry. I've got a few NEW old tips to share (what a paradox).
Discover how to:
🌾 Embrace frugal living with time-tested, practical tips.
🫖 Live like your grandma did during the Great Depression.
🍞 Master the art of home cooking and save big on meals.
🌱 Cultivate a garden for fresh produce and significant savings.
💡 Develop a frugal mindset for sustainable financial success.
//MENTIONED RECIPES
Hillary’s “Peasant Bread” recipe:
3c flour (Whole wheat, all purpose, bread flour, ANY FLOUR)
1c warm water (or, even better potato water)
2.5tsp yeast
2 tsp salt
1 tbsp sugar
Mix everything together.
Knead for 5-10 mins
Cover, let rise until doubled (1-3hrs, depending on temperature of your room)
Punch down, shape into a ball.
Put on parchment papered cookie sheet, cover, & let rise again 1 hr.
During this rise, preheat oven to 450F
Slash top of dough with sharp knife & pop in oven for 10 mins.
Reduce heat to 430, bake for an additional 20 mins.
Take out and let cool. Then slice & enjoy!
(Would anyone be interested in a bread-making video?)
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How did you get your Master Gardener Certification?
As far as I know, each state offers a certification program through the local University Cooperative Extension Office. I did my 12 week class through UMaine.
I've been aiming to do this for awhile. What fees or supplies did you have to pay/have to take the gardening classes?
@@sstephens2175 I just looked up the cost in my area. It’s on a sliding scale with $300 being full price, and 50% and 75% discounts for those who financially need it. That’s all-inclusive except for transportation to any field trips.
I never had to provide my own supplies for anything, except appropriate gardening clothes!
@@Homegrown_Hillary thank you for your reply. I’m going to check into doing that class.
Best spot treatment is dishwashing detergent.
Adding to #10, learn to talk to the grandmas and grandpas out there. Not only are older people often lonely and open to friendship, they also have THE best stories and an entire lifetime worth of experience on how to save money, weather inflation, and find happiness.
Excellent addition!
Both of my grandmothers were strong women. They both grew up on farms, moved to the burbs, and were active all their lives. They toted grocery bags, kids, garden tools, pans, trash bags, and did housework all the time. I was shocked when I saw the vacuums they used in the 50s and 60s. Uprights with huge metal sweepers, canisters with huge, hog size canisters. They weighed a ton!
1. Always ... especially handy on the farm. And I'm pretty basic.
2. Isn't this a very normal thing to do? I assumed it was. I just use a tiny drop of dish soap, a little water, and a toothbrush in a circular motion. Blood - hydrogen peroxide. Grease / oil - corn starch to pull out.
3. Gardening is my passion. Cooking, baking, quilting, crocheting ... love them all. 😊
4. My next, really long time coming, video is about cozy activities for singles / solo entertainment.
5. I love walking and hiking in nature. I'm pretty active with the garden and the farm stuff, but not as active as needed ... so walking or hiking are a blessing.
6. I've cooked with whole foods for 30 years 😊
7. Bread was the first "big kitchen skill" that I learned. I was a single mom, homeschooled, and worked full time back then, and the bread machine was a huge help at the beginning. I eventually learned how to do it all by hand, and about 15-20 years ago I learned sourdough. It's very rewarding making your own yeast!! I use it to leaven bread, biscuits, and cakes.
8. My passion! But it was actually my youngest who got us started when he was 8. He managed our gardening efforts until he was 14 and worked too much. Then when he was turning 15 I had to learn how to take over. Now he's 26 and trying to shift his life around to where he'll be home enough to garden with his wife snd children. I have my own large garden on his property where I live. Definitely start small and simple. Grow what you love. We didn't do herbs until several years later, and I grow lots now. I found them a bit difficult at first because I didn't realize Mediterranean herbs do not appreciate too much water or fertilizing. 😂
I'm going through the Master Gardener program this winter. I'm excited!!
9. Always cash. My children are all debt free, own their own acreage and homes, and vehicles. (My oldest is debt free but does not own land). Debt free was very important to me and I'm thankful they carried that on!!!!
10. I really don't do well over internet, rest, etc. In person is definitely best!!
Great ideas for beginners!
Blessings, Joanne in SW MO
I like the hobbies-to-practical idea. I love doing needlepoint, and I've found that hanging finished pieces from dowels on my walls, esp during winter, acts as extra insulation as well as looking really pretty and classic. My dad played guitar, and often on weekend evenings, he'd start playing and we'd all chime in with harmonies, clinking water glasses and boxes for a percussion section, and even with just five or six of us, we had a lot of laughter and learned simple ways of making do with what we had.
This is so wholesome!
Thanks again for all the great tips! Thanks for being real. I enjoy hanging out my laundry & baking bread. Very therapeutic for me. I hope everyone kept that turkey carcass & bones to recook for more broth. I save all my peels & ends from carrots, celery & onions. Just toss in a zip lock bag & put in freezer, i got that out & simmered with the turkey carcass & bones. Strained & it made the most amazing broth!
Yes to broth! I think I’m making mine today. 😊
Most of them I do. No 3, don't forget knitting and crocheting. I make my own scarfs and sweaters. And some people can sow their own clothes. No 7 I don't. I live next to a bakery, does that count as an excuse? 😂 No 8, I do but only in my appartement and on my balcony. No garden anymore. Outside gardening and cleaning your house are good workouts. 😊 Thanks and greetings from the Netherlands.
You're always such fun Hillary! My 2 cents is if you can buy green onions with the roots still attached, you just cut off the bottom inch or so and plant it for more free green onions. Growing them from seed is really hard but I usually buy a few bunches a year and then have green onions for MONTHS from those bunches because we don't get snow here in Sydney. Chopped green onions freeze well too. I've been trying to build up the courage to bake bread for ages, so I'll give your recipe a try. In the meantime I've discovered homemade crumpets which are so fast, easy, cheap, delicious and fun to make - your kids would love them! Recipe Tin Eats has really good instructions if you want to give them a go. You can make them in egg rings so no need to buy anything fancy. Cheers from Oz!!
You know it! I discovered the green onion trick myself this year, and only regret not learning sooner!
Thank you for the freezing hint regarding chopped green onions! I will definitely try this next time round
It's best to double bag them to stop their smell permeating other things. It's really handy to have them ready to go. Cheers from Oz!@@bmedve3427
I have a no knead bread recipe for a nice simple loaf sandwich bread, but it definitely started out more “peasant bread” like and it’s taken me 4 years to finally work out all the kinks lol
Hillary you are most probably right on the flour UK stats.
My husband says I'm a freak as I make everything from scratch including our bread. I find it sad.
I’m sorry. You’re not a freak! Your people are here on the internet. ❤️
Sincere question: I thought one of the staples of older generations (think covered wagons era) was flour?? And another lol: how would one make bread without flour?? How would it rise
@allysonh6410 exactly my parents grew up during ww2 and I was always taught to be frugal and always have flour in my pantry. I don't know what it is in the UK at the moment, but people live on convenience foods, and a lot just don't know how to cook.
I love making bread. I actually love cooking and baking.
All great tips. You got me thinking about baking bread again. Thanks and I love your delivery!
We have lots of beautiful hankies, because we actually use them instead of tissues. I don’t remember the last time I bought tissues … it’s been at least 20 years. We don’t buy paper products at all.
Same here. When I realized I was spending $$ every shopping trip on tissues I used once, I ordered 2 doz cotton hankies and have used them ever since. They're easier on my nose and one hankie load per month means I never run out.
Regarding the UK flour fact, it’s because in the uk flour costs more then just buying bread etc in the majority of cases.
I’m guessing you’re gonna make home made laundry soap! Thanks for another great videos
Hi! I would love for you to have a play list so I can binge watch your videos. Love your channel!
I’ve actually got four now, I think! You can go to my channel homepage and choose between grocery/food- related videos, general frugal living, my experiments, and my “how I saved this month” series! 😊
I love how you’re so real ❤
You’re doing a great job please continue your posts.
Thanks! I don’t plan on stopping. 😁
You have great energy. You and the youtube channel Way Crunchy are similar, both real, both frugal, both creative etc. maybe doing a youtube together would be interesting. Thanks for the tips.
Never heard of her, but I’ll have to check her out. Thanks!
My favorite way of fighting stains: I don't buy clothes in white lol
Hey Hillary, thanks for the tips & the entertainment 😂 I'd love to see a bread making video 👍😊
Another great vid!
Maybe.. If you grow your own food, lift cast iron because you're cooking from scratch with whole foods, and are dancing a jig while washing your dishes... then there might not be much need for the gym membership!😃
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Great video. Loved it. Had so many useful tips. Thanks.
You’re so welcome, Melissa! 😊
Great!!! So useful and you are soo entertaining. Thank you soo much!
Oh thank you! I try! 😊
That hankie is gorgeous!!!❤🎉🎉
Sewing, crochet, cutting hair, small woodworking crafts.......just to start.
Yep, and darning socks.
We have zero credit cards and here in Spain the types of cards we used to have in the US are almost non existent. Most people pay cash but since Covid we see a lot more debit cards.
Yay first! Love your channel
Not just "first" for the video, but the first "first" comment EVER on my channel! You should get an actual award 🥳
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When my 3 children were young, I missed a lot of strain,that didnt grt pretrested, what I started doing, on wash day,id fill machine& let agitste for a coupke if min. ,then ud ket soak for 30 min.or more!,wash as normal dry ect. Most of the stains were comeing out! Time saver,my timeI wasnt up to my elbows looking for spots on small clothing! A boom, 1 and done! Spots cane out& I wasnt wore out, im chronically ill.
Cool idea! I'm not sure it would work for my front loading washer, but what a creative solution for everyone else!
Yes, I am interested in a bread making video. Is this the recipe you mentioned your husband now eats instead of Ezekiel bread?
That's the one! I'll have to add bread video to my list :)
Thanks for your bread recipe. I've never tried making bread. What kind of yeast to use? I think there are a few out there?
You're absolutely right! Two main kinds: the kind that needs to mix with warm water for a few minutes first (active dry yeast) and the kind you can just throw in with all the ingredients and whip up instantly (quick or instant yeast).
You can use either in this recipe as long as you prep according to above guidelines. :)
I have the look and smell test for laundry. If it looks clean and smells clean then you can wear it again.
I quilt, crochet and am working on cooking from scratch. I discovered audio books from my library.
I have not mastered bread making. Even frozen bread dough has failed in my hands. 😢 I can’t get it to rise.
I fail at gardening. I think it because we live in a very dry, near dessert, environment.
Ooo yeah I imagine the desert garden life is tough.
I too have just discovered audio books from the library and I'm as excited as a kid at Christmas - bloody brilliant to listen while doing boring chores! I'm also wary of baking bread but I've discovered homemade crumpets and they're SO easy, SO cheap, quick and really fun to make, you cook them on the stove, and they're super delicious toasted the next day with butter and jam or cheese and tomato, ham, whatever. I use egg rings because I have them and they come out a bit small but they're just as delicious. Recipe Tin Eats has a great recipe - they're a great alternative to bread without all the work and worry. Cheers from Oz!!
Ok, workout clothes need to be considered for movement (and to keep your "everyday" clothes non sweaty!), but you can wear them for years until they are raggedy. Keeps your day clothes cleaner longer. Just saying! 😂
Yeah, I realized while editing this that there could be some scenarios that just wouldn't work for the 'pass it down' method. Trying to run a mile in something restrictive like a formal pencil skirt is definitely one 😂
They buy the bread from the bakery and pastries
I’m going to make a comment based on observing this video. I have thyroid issues, and I noticed your neck appeared to be swollen in the goiter area. Is that just how the video looks, or is your neck swollen? I just wanted to mention that in case it was something you might need to get checked. Stay healthy and well. ☺️
Huh, interesting! I've been sick with some swollen lymph nodes, but I'll keep an eye on it. I'm surprised it was visible enough in the video. Thanks for keeping an eye out for me. :)
@@Homegrown_Hillary you’re welcome. The thyroid can be a tricky thing. It doesn’t always show up in our blood work when it’s not working right. Yet, at the same time our body is telling us that something is amiss. One of the worst symptoms I had was feeling like someone had beat me nearly to death. I ached all over. It was excruciating. I had some other bad symptoms as well. Once I started the medication and took it correctly my symptoms went away. I’m in my 50’s.
I noticed the same thing and wanted to comment out of concern.
Hillary, I love you, but your account of people not using credit until the 1950s is not accurate. Farm/ranch suppliers and even dry goods store owners have granted individuals and small businesses credit in the form of an "account" (read charge account) since the days of the pioneers.
Fair enough! But I’m sure you’d also agree that the “at the discretion of individual store owners” type credit is VASTLY different from the “any 18 year old can max out three cards if they want” type bonanza that exists today.
@@Homegrown_Hillary Yes, of course, 100%