Recently I did the post on the big clean, the hand washing verses the HE washer and water study etc. I decided to do another experiment. &n ......
About gDonna The photo is my son and myself. Now days you can get a photo made to look old like this one. This photo was taken when this was the new look.
Harry S Truman was president when I was born and world war II had ended. I grew up in a time when lunch was put in a brown paper bag and a sandwich was wrapped with wax paper. There was no such thing as pantyhose, we wore stockings that attached to the rubbery clippy things that attached to the girdle. Convenience stores were not common and when we took a trip we packed a picnic basket because many places did not have fast food. Highways had places to pull over and stop, some with picnic tables. Read more ....
September 22, 2016 Living Like the Past
Today is the First Day of Fall and I am ready for cooler weather. It has been a long hot summer. There is one problem, we are still in the 90's. ......
September 19, 2016 Old Fashioned Organizing
This time of year I want to do hand work such as sewing, knitting and making gifts. So I decided it was time for the big clean up to get that ou ......
September 16, 2016 Living Like the Past
When I was doing the posts windows around the world, Ali from Essex England sent this photo and some outdoor photos. Her kitchen window is charm ......
September 15, 2016 Living Like the Past
I do like to get change back and I am sure you do too. But I like to change things as well.My husband recently made a wider shelf above the sink ......
September 13, 2016 Living Like the Past
Recently we did a study about hand washing clothes verses machine washing and I posted the results in the post called, machine wash verses hand washin ......
September 10, 2016 Living Like the Past
We have another post for Windows around the world. Part 4These photos were sent in by Mirjam from Bloemendaal , The Netherlands.This is a part of the ......
September 8, 2016 Living Like the Past
Last post I posted a email from Kelly in Guam. She has sent in pictures of the windows that she described in the last post. See windows ar ......
September 8, 2016 Living Like the Past
We are back with page two of windows around the world. These photos were sent in by Ina from Holland. Ina says that the Dutch like open windows. ......
September 6, 2016 Living Like the Past
Do you have a window without plastic blinds? A vintage window? An interesting window? A homey window? I have started a series about ......
September 5, 2016 Living Like the Past
Recently my daughter had to get very serious with thinking about toxins and allergens in her house. My Grandson has severe food allergies and en ......
September 4, 2016 Gdonna's TIPS
Many of us that are older or those that love vintage things have pyrex or fire king or some of the older kitchen items.This is a 8x8 inch fire king pa ......
September 3, 2016 Living Like the Past
Just thought I would do an around the house update. We have been busy doing projects. We added a water pipe to our bath house since I last poste ......
August 29, 2016 Living Like the Past
My husband and I did a water study so we will know how much water it takes to machine wash clothes as well as hand wash clothes. We have an HE t ......
August 27, 2016 Living Like the Past
Soap has changed through the years and back when this photo was taken in 1949 my mother would use a bar of soap to do most anything that needed cleani ......
August 23, 2016 Living Like the Past
During our lifetime we go through many changes. I wonder if we had just stayed the same with what we had where we would be? I think this t ......
August 18, 2016 Living Like the Past
Getting started can be hard to do if we have not yet figured out where we are going. Recently an email from one of my blog friends said this aft ......
August 16, 2016 Living Like the Past
(She donned her apron in the early morning hours just before dawn....)Sounds like the beginning of a book? How about a living book? What if we si ......
August 15, 2016 Cooking from Scratch
This is the recipe for the blueberry dessert seen in a recent post and recipe has been requested...This is a dessert I have made since my children wer ......
August 15, 2016 Cooking from Scratch
Today I made hamburger buns....I have several posts about making bread. This time of year is a good time to go back over a simple basic bread do ......
August 13, 2016 Cooking from Scratch
A boiled frosting is a more old fashioned frosting and boiled frosting and puddings are a bit of a technique but not hard to do.I recently posted a re ......
August 13, 2016 Cooking from Scratch
I am behind posting requested recipes so I will try and catch up a bit starting with my yellow cake with boiled chocolate icing.Grandma Donna's Yellow ......
August 8, 2016 Living Like the Past
This is part three and the last of our visit to the Naval Museum WW2 1940s town. We are strolling down our small town. The Barber shop.It ......
August 7, 2016 Living Like the Past
We are leaving our 1940s house and going for a stroll into town.......Here we are at the grocery store... We are in the 1940s and we are at war. It is ......
August 6, 2016 Living Like the Past
I have a surprise for you. My husband and I took a trip to a special place that I have been intending to go to for quite sometime. I had b ......
August 5, 2016 Living Like the Past
Many of us spend a ridiculous amount of money on household utilities.Where we live it is mandatory to live with electricity and running water but we d ......
August 1, 2016 Living Like the Past
I recently moved my Granny's 1800s trunk to a place where I could stack our quilts instead of folding them tightly in a closet. They seem to fee ......
August 1, 2016 Living Like the Past
This is part two of items in our home that are vintage and also have a good purpose. Go to part one first if you have not already :)I had one of ......
July 29, 2016 Living Like the Past
Why do so many marriages fail? What is true love? It is being with your best friend, that person that you never run out of things to talk a ......
July 26, 2016 Living Like the Past
Water and food are the most important life sustaining needs we have yet it seems to me by my observation that many people give those needs the least a ......