I'm 73 & try to be enviromentally friendly. I still do 15 of these today. I actually cleaned the drains in kitchen, bathroom, laundry yestrday with salt & vinegar. Salt also helps kill bacteria. My grandmother & my mother who is 101y.o taught me these ways. They work & save on using plastic containers(my pet peeve). DO TRY THEM, YOU WILL NOT ONLY SAVE$ BUT GET GOOD RESULTS. Thank you for showing this, we could help get rid of all the plastic😊
Totally agree with you I am your age and I use all these things but I don't think you can get the blue bag for laundry but I use proper borax now and I have white whites!
I use soap instead of shower gel, to reduce plastic bottles. The soap goes in a little jute bag, which lathers up when rubbed. When the soap is about two-thirds gone, I add the next bar, so no soap is ever wasted.
@jacksg1809im a 90s kid so lived through the change from quality clothes even if cheap to fast fashion. I try to patch the kids clothes stretch them out i fix buttons and tears all that. we spend a bit more to buy better quality when we can. Yet times are what they are if we have to buy fast fashion.(kmart/big w/best and less/target) the material is so thin its like you got it worn out. The quality is gone. 1 season and its in the rag bag. Been talking to friends we all find the same thing.
Unfortunately, they have change the ink on news papers and this doesn't clean them anymore just smudged ink. Bread no longer comes in waxed paper. I find the best drain cleaner is hot water first, then Bicarbonate of soda, leave for 20, then white vinegar, leave for 20, then another hot rinse. Once a week is enough. I still use a hot water bottle. Stale bread as a cleaner still works, still used. As does the tire repair kit and potato starch, good for thinking soups and stews too. I still collect the candle stubs and use as fire starters. The white vinegar still used just have to remember to add in the last rinse. yes, the egg shell trick but for cloudy glass it is still white vinegar soak. the cold tea still used and works as a supplement to the plants, just don't use it from a cup as the sugar and or milk isn't good. However the flour paste doesn't work well at all and attracts silverfish, not good. Dolly blue is brilliant, I still use it. four liquid drops in a pint of cold water added to a rinse and spin at the end. Indeed I still use Bicarb' as described. Thank you.
I find a similar trick for stain removal of laundry. I dampen it, add white vinegar, leave for 20 mins, sprinkle bicarb of soda and gently rub it in to vinegar soaked stain, leave for 20 minutes, then wash in machine as normal. Usually comes out spotless
I never use any shop bought cleaning products these days, not only are they full of chemicals but in my experience don't work any better than bicarbonate of soda and vinegar.
me too. I am a cleaner and they supply me with all these fancy chemicals but I quietly bring in my own non toxic white vinegar and bicarb of soda and shine eveything - they wonder why my toxic cleaning supplies last for ages whilst everything sparkles ha ha
Sodium bicarbonate, commonly known as baking soda or bicarbonate of soda, or salaratus, is a chemical compound with the formula NaHCO₃. It is a salt composed of a sodium cation and a bicarbonate anion. Sodium bicarbonate is a white solid that is crystalline but often appears as a fine powder. So you see, even bicarb is a chemical!
I was ɓorn in 1947 and stayed with my grandmother in the 50s these tips brings back memories of her and is making me tearfull ,i wish i could bring her backk
Another use for leftover pieces of soap bars. (Tips from the grandmother of a friend of mine) - A small piece of soap in the closet made your clothes and linens always smell fresh.
I use the plastic "bottles" thrown away, cut the bottom off and use the top as per example on the video instead of the glass milk bottle, cost nothing and reduce waste
Im a housekeeper/ cleaner i use vinegar spray for tile cleaning and shower doors to reduce limescale. I use bicarb, vinegar then boiling water down drains. I use a bicarb/ lemon juice paste for yellowing stains on the armpit areas on white clothes. Bicarb on mattresses and carpets.... i reuse spray bottles with my own cleaners.
I use newspaper to clean my wood burner glass with ash .I always put a measure of white vinegar in my washing .I make a cleaning product in a spray bottle (vinegar drop of washing up liquid and water ) to clean kitchen ,bathroom and my shower door ,I sprinkle bicarbonate on my carpets and leave over night before hoovering up ,I sprinkle bicarbonate on my mattress once a month and leave for the day then hoover
that woodburner glass cleaning trick is genius isn't it. When we first got our woodburner we spent ages every day, demoralised trying to clean the blackened glass with glass cleaner and soapy water etc to no effect. Then I read about the dampened kitchen towel with some ash and it comes off a treat with hardly any effort - gleaming like new
In those days, poor people used what they had. They recycled and reuse a lot of stuff for a lot of chores. They were "inventors" and bright. Other people used them too to save money and to keep their home clean. But in our generation, the industry are getting so rich by selling all kinds of products with so much chemicals. But a lot of DIY can be made naturally and effective. It was hard for those people who had to wash all day, cooking, fixing things and take care of a lot of babies and children. But it was like that before and family was the center. Very good video. 👍
In the 70's we used the stone ones but you took them out before you went to bed then after that a bed warmer which was a round pink spaceship shape dish that was electric before you went to bed to heat it up
I still use mine , I’ve always got cold feet , my late husband used to be my hot water bottles , I used them for period and back pain , they’re good with cold water for swellings too .
Yes my gran did all these tricks and so do I and they do work and my windows do sparkle and my drains do run clear ! We as a people have become sheep!!!! The common sense which was rare to begin with is now non existent, think people ,think!! THANK YOU.
I absolutely love bicarbonate of soda, I use it for baking Irish soda bread, use it in an Eastern European recipe called Mici, which are delicious skinless little sausages, use it for scouring tea stains from mugs and it keeps the bottom of cooking pans clean, which the dishwasher fails to remove. Bicarbonate of soda also is good to neutralize smells.. which was invaluable when after buying a brand new car, our dog had an “accident” on the back seat, due to being anxious…I washed the whole area with liquid soap, and then after drying, scattered bicarbonate of soda everywhere.. the new car looked like a Columbian drug dealer, had an accident with his consignment! 🤣 Once completely dry, I vacuumed, everything away, and even when the interior of the car became hot, no pee smell ever occurred after! Thank you for making this video, which a lot of things I had forgotten, but used to do! 🥰
Way back in1964 age 4 my parents inherited an Edwardian mangled with their business. So fascinated watching. Tea towels virtually dry when mangled. Fingers beware
Milk bottles were returnable. They weren't free. They charged a deposit to ensure they were returned to be washed and refilled. Soda and juice came in returnables too. And things like butter and peanut butter came in clay glazed crocks which were also returnable.
What a great video I'm 70 now and I remembered just about all of these that either my grandmother or my mother used to use brought back some great memories and I could almost smell on the different odours that they got from using these products.
Although not here at the decades mentioned I do still use many of these as tsught by my mother. We were not a poor household, quite middle class I suppose, but we still used these items, preferring thrm to toxic chemicals.
I'm 66 and I remember my mum using vinegar mixed with oil to polish with. I used to make my own washing powders and use white vinegar instead of fabric conditioner. I have now started making home made soap using the hot process and have made my own shampoo soap and bath soap bars using all natural ingredients. I feel so much cleaner using my home made soaps in the shower.
My friend is in Antiques and is also a Fresh Polisher. He guided me towards a bottle of linseed oil some 30+ years ago and I've never looked back. I've never bought furniture polish since that day and a bottle lasts a couple of years (and yes, I polish regularly though I never have any draws of static dust!), and costs about £6.00. Just a tiny drop on a flannelette duster (old sheet!), rub into all wooden furniture in little circles and then buff up to a high shine. You won't need to do that piece again for weeks or at the very least, use the same 'dirty' piece of cloth for a quick going over. More so, linseed does have a pretty aroma.
American here---my grandmother used plain hot water, vinegar and newspaper to clean our windows, and I still do this today. And vinegar and hot water clean the refrigerator a right treat! And foil, baking soda and hot water are a great silver cleaner!
@RobertaAvrutin I put a piece of foil into a flat bowl of ceramic or glass (no metal!) Then I put my Silver on it. and sprinkle a spoon of baking soda and a spoon of salt upon it. Then I pour boiling hot water over it. Each piece of Silver must have contact to the foil and must be fully emerged in water. Within seconds you can see, how the silver cleans and the foil turns grey-black. There will be a little bit of bad smell, when the reaction takes place. The hole process works with a spoon of salt only, too.
Milk bottles had to go back to the dairy to be sterilised and re-used. Not Milk bottles. Potatoes cleaned pictures. Crushed eggshells were also used in the garden to stop slugs getting to cabbages! Cold tea to soak dried fruit before making fruit loaves.
And so many people in the UK and Britain slam us Americans for the ways we do things; at least we know how to do central heating and airconditioning right so our homes are comfortable all year round!
@jb6712Britain is in the UK,also we are talking about many many years ago,Central heating was expensive to fit,and run,so it wasn't affordable to many,Educate yourself! Word has it a huge percentage of Americans can't afford food let alone heat, ......
I used to help my nan when she used the mangle 😁 we used to wring out the washing as much as we could then we folded the washing and fed it through the mangle. I did the easy stuff like tea towels, towels and tablecloths. I miss my nan and grandpop. 🥹
Maybe not major PROBLEMS, but there was still major cleaning to be done at least twice a year. Of course, that's here in the States--I've never been to the UK, have no idea how things are done there, so can't speak to the cleaning done--and Mom had us cleaning the entire house from top to bottom, every ceiling, everything inside and out, thoroughly as soon as the snow was fully gone and spring arrived, and again in the fall, just before "halloween" so the house would be properly cleaned for the winter.
I have an antique copper & brass foot warmer originally designed for sleighs. I warm my bed before climbing in, then move it above the top sheet beside me since touching the metal could burn. I don’t boil the water, just run hot water from the faucet. Still warm in the morning. I wear wool socks, so I keep it near my body core. It’s 5:07 am as I’m reading this and it’s still nice & warm.
I am a cleaner and I often use bicarbonate of soda and white vinegar. The folks are amazed but come to realise how effective it is and how unnecessary all the other brightly packaged over-priced gloop is.
I worked in a chippy when I was a teen, they used the chip paper & vinegar to clean the cabinet glass daily. I absolutely swear by it. No streaks, just clean sparkly windows & kitchen tiles.
I cringe when I see cafe staff spraying toxic scented chemicals over the glass counters with food in them, and on top of tables near where people sit... They could use natural vinegar and/or bicarb instead
The inks used in newspapers today would leave your windows in a filthy mess. They smear, they stain, they run, they're not meant for any kind of cleaning at all.
Nature really does know best. And these big corporations have polluted our planet. Just look at those brightly coloured supermarket aisles full of chemicals that are going into our homes and gardens.....
One of my jobs as a kid in the 50's was to grate sunlight soap into a bucket fill with boiling water to make laundry liquid it turns into a bucket of slimes liquid put a couple of cups into each load clothes clean clean firstly in the copper later we got a pope wringer washing machine it was a miracle wash put through the wringer into the tubs for rinsing I'm so shocked at the amount of water going down the drain from my fully automatic machine now
Bicarbonate I use on my rugs and they come up cleaner than the shop bought stuff with harsh chemicals. I throw nothing away if i can reuse it I will. Used tea leaves and coffee grounds go in my garden. Modern day news papers no longer work on windows believe me I tried but there's other things you can use which does the job less expensive and no chemicals. Problem with today's generation is it's a throw away generation rather than buying less expensive products that really works and no harsh chemicals they rather buy expensive products full of harmful chemicals.
Don't put those crushed egg shells down your drain especially if you have a disposer. You'll be paying the plumber to unblock it. Also, if you have plastic plumbing pipes do not pour boiling water down the drain.
Water from boiling eggs is an excellent plant and flower fertiliser. Crushed and then groung eggshells make a tonic for dogs, just a pinch added to their food once or twice a week helps with digestion and kills yeast infections.
I bought a spin dryer when my washing machine was disconnected for relocation. For me, it's a perfect laundry day backup. Getting the water out of clothes is essential, and then they can be hung up to finish drying 👍 !!!
I Loved watching this. My nanna taught me to bulk buy anything if it was on a sale, even now in my 50s,, I still do it. My whole family does and my daughter. It didnt matter what it was, from butter to loo roll, butter freezes and so does bread etc. I actually make bread, crotchet, knit and can sew up a storm, because it was taught to me. She taught me to cook too. I miss her.
I have done all of this including the shoe poish. Another thing we did was use brown paper and iron it over candle grease to lift the grease from the carpet. I am 85. I still miss so much from my childhood and still do many of these things. My grandmother used to use all the rags in strips to make rugs.
Scrunched up paper for windows is something I use always. Love Bicarb and vinegar for cleaning. Lemon, salt and bicarb to clean my chopping boards too. I use sugar soap too, great before decorating. My mum showed me a lot of little tricks.
@BirdsAloud Just grab the whole thing like a normal soap bar under the tap, rub your hands for lather, and voilà! I keep one under the garden tap. It dries out in between uses too, so no mush.
To anyone thinking of using newspaper for insulation - please don't! Unless it's for a doghouse, etc. I lived in a house that actually had it in the attic walls. But it's a real firetrap!
Can't recall the last time I added fabric conditioner to my laundry - perhaps back in the '90's! Vinegar is the answer - I always add a 'good splash' into the Fabric Conditioner drawer section of my washing machine. My towels, especially, are always fluffy. There's no after smell of vinegar. None.
I worked with Ultramarine Blue and boy did it work as advertised. Never had to buy it as my gear usually had enough on it by the end of the day! For many years the detergent manufacturers put ultramarine blue in their products, but over time they moved to optical brighteners (organic chemicals) as they were cheaper....... And just for reference it's a pigment and not a dye - pigment remains as solid particles, dye dissolves (yeah, I'm a science nerd).
Amazing! I have 2 to add..honey heals sore chapped lips..(it you can afford honey!) ..powdered starch heals happy rash..still use not water bottles as cuddled close it acts like central heating am a Ready Brek!
Wallpaper paste was commercially available long before the 1960's! Earliest record in print 1850's! No one used flour paste as it attracts vermin, mice and rats as well as insects!
I buy and use the cheapest brand of baking soda available. Exactly the same product as A&H, just a different box. Does precisely the same job, and costs far less.
I've using bicarb for years and vinegar, news paper for windows brilliant but then again I'm 93 and grew up with these cleaners.b7t thanks for the lesson, take it on board you youngster, they truly work.
I remember grandad doing all the chores with all in this video,gran was a piano teacher, she'd do the ironing with a heavy iron kept on the plate of their small arga, horsehair mattress with a wool blanket before the sheet I used to sleep on shared double bed with my sister every single school holiday..
In Israeli kindergartens glue made of flour and water are stil used, as well as vinegar in the washer and on carpets to eliminate smells, bicarbonate soda is used as a natural deodoriser and as toothpaste as well as in baking cakes and cookies. It is used together with vinegar and boiling water in a bowl laid out with aluminium foil.
I still use a hot water bottle, they're warth lasts all night, unless needed for pain. I would reheat them and place them at my kids feet when they were young to help them sleep, and it worked like a charm. When I was their age, my mother would iron the bedding to heat it up for us in the Melbourne winter. The newspaper trick was taught to me by my grandmother. And I recently learnt to use a slice of bread to clean the canvas artwork I have, I dab it, as it crumbles whether stale or fresh... This video has resurfaced many childhood lessons, which is great in today's economy Vinegar I use in all washes with towels instead of fabric softener, and at times to deodorize.. but it costs more than an antibacterial additive
Use a little toothpaste on your bathroom taps , rub it into the tap and leave for half an hour then clean it off with cool water.Also good for bathroom ceramic sink. Crush egg shells as fine as possible add a little water, gather some between your finger and thumb, and descale the inside of your Tea/coffee cup, then rinse with cold water.This can also be used for stubborn patches on your oven tray, drip, grid.
A useful trick using bicarbonate of soda is for plastic (usually black plastic) that has gone 'sticky', just make a thickish paste and rub it in. It restores the plastic by reversing the chemical reaction that caused the item to go sticky!
You never wasted candle stubs to light coal fires, they were saved up then melted down then either had new wickes dipped repeatedly to build up a new stem to a thickness of your choice or poured into a jam jar allowed to cool slightly then a new wick hung in the middle for a candle that would burn for a couple of days. Also used on carpenters saw blades to make sawing wood easier and to rust proof the steel
😊 Ma put the, most used blue bag on our bee sings. There B chemical explation for this However, we were so startled at our skin turning blue that it stopped the hurt. 🌻
In the winter ,if your power went out you can be nicely warm in bed if you layer newspaper between a few blankets. I have used it while camping by putting newspaper onto the sleeping bag and covering it with a blanket or a coat. I was always toasty. Specially since my coat was an old rabbit fur coat. Also I put down a layer of newspaper on the ground before laying down the sleeping bag. I didn't have a expensive sleeping bag anyway so the paper was very warming. At home sometimes I was warmed when the power was off by inviting a cat or two under the covers to sleep with me at night. It's like having a heater in bed. And they don't start fires either. I never use space heaters in my bedroom due to the possibility of fire from an unwatched heater. My husband removed the oil heater from the old house we bought but didn't replace it with any kind of alternate heater for the house. The first winter in that house the bedroom was so cold a glass of water I kept on my bedside table froze to ice overnight. So it was cold in there. The living room was heated by a cheap wood stove that had me chopping wood all day long to keep it going while my husband was at work.
I'm 73 & try to be enviromentally friendly. I still do 15 of these today. I actually cleaned the drains in kitchen, bathroom, laundry yestrday with salt & vinegar. Salt also helps kill bacteria. My grandmother & my mother who is 101y.o taught me these ways. They work & save on using plastic containers(my pet peeve). DO TRY THEM, YOU WILL NOT ONLY SAVE$ BUT GET GOOD RESULTS. Thank you for showing this, we could help get rid of all the plastic😊
Totally agree with you I am your age and I use all these things but I don't think you can get the blue bag for laundry but I use proper borax now and I have white whites!
@bellyartyplease do you make a nice formula for mopping floors ? I cant tolerate the ubiquitous febreeze or swiffer soaps
Please, what do recommend to wetmop floors?
@Michelle-n7f bicarbonate of soda and hot water.
Then rinse with hot water and a square root of white vinegar
@Michelle-n7fG'day, tile floors if clean use vinegar, it also kills germs. Otherwise the old soap . Only small amounts. 😊
A plain salt mouthwash eliminates the bacteria in our mouth that forms plaque if used twice a day, saves on dental care even now
Coconut oil swilled in the mouth
you are told by the dentist to swill your mouth out after having a tooth out
И гвоздичная вода
@angelamary9493unfortunately for it to be effective one would have to rince/oil pull for 20 minutes
I use soap instead of shower gel, to reduce plastic bottles. The soap goes in a little jute bag, which lathers up when rubbed. When the soap is about two-thirds gone, I add the next bar, so no soap is ever wasted.
The "make do and mend" generation were the green, recycling warriors.
Clothes are cheap nowadays so don't mend well
@jacksg1809was going to say fast fashion isnt repairable.
@rosehill9537such a waste ...I don't know how old u are but I keep my clothes till they drop off lol
@jacksg1809im a 90s kid so lived through the change from quality clothes even if cheap to fast fashion.
I try to patch the kids clothes stretch them out i fix buttons and tears all that.
we spend a bit more to buy better quality when we can.
Yet times are what they are
if we have to buy fast fashion.(kmart/big w/best and less/target)
the material is so thin its like you got it worn out.
The quality is gone. 1 season and its in the rag bag.
Been talking to friends we all find the same thing.
@rosehill9537I don't understand !
Unfortunately, they have change the ink on news papers and this doesn't clean them anymore just smudged ink.
Bread no longer comes in waxed paper.
I find the best drain cleaner is hot water first, then Bicarbonate of soda, leave for 20, then white vinegar, leave for 20, then another hot rinse. Once a week is enough.
I still use a hot water bottle.
Stale bread as a cleaner still works, still used.
As does the tire repair kit and potato starch, good for thinking soups and stews too.
I still collect the candle stubs and use as fire starters.
The white vinegar still used just have to remember to add in the last rinse.
yes, the egg shell trick but for cloudy glass it is still white vinegar soak.
the cold tea still used and works as a supplement to the plants, just don't use it from a cup as the sugar and or milk isn't good.
However the flour paste doesn't work well at all and attracts silverfish, not good.
Dolly blue is brilliant, I still use it. four liquid drops in a pint of cold water added to a rinse and spin at the end.
Indeed I still use Bicarb' as described.
Thank you.
Stale bread is also good to thicken soups etc.
Warburtons does!
I find a similar trick for stain removal of laundry. I dampen it, add white vinegar, leave for 20 mins, sprinkle bicarb of soda and gently rub it in to vinegar soaked stain, leave for 20 minutes, then wash in machine as normal. Usually comes out spotless
Yep
I’m glad I saw your comment as the actual thing is not good
I’m 72 and even though I don’t use these items I can still remember my own Mam using them.Great trip down memory lane, thank you.
I never use any shop bought cleaning products these days, not only are they full of chemicals but in my experience don't work any better than bicarbonate of soda and vinegar.
me too. I am a cleaner and they supply me with all these fancy chemicals but I quietly bring in my own non toxic white vinegar and bicarb of soda and shine eveything - they wonder why my toxic cleaning supplies last for ages whilst everything sparkles ha ha
It was a scam all along. Grandmothers can often see through it like their sparkling glasses.
I agree
Sodium bicarbonate, commonly known as baking soda or bicarbonate of soda, or salaratus, is a chemical compound with the formula NaHCO₃. It is a salt composed of a sodium cation and a bicarbonate anion. Sodium bicarbonate is a white solid that is crystalline but often appears as a fine powder.
So you see, even bicarb is a chemical!
@rozwalters5812There are chemicals and there are chemicals
I was ɓorn in 1947 and stayed with my grandmother in the 50s these tips brings back memories of her and is making me tearfull ,i wish i could bring her backk
Me too
They knew a lot more than we ever gave them credit for, hey!!!
They did
Another use for leftover pieces of soap bars. (Tips from the grandmother of a friend of mine) - A small piece of soap in the closet made your clothes and linens always smell fresh.
Milk bottles had to be given back to the milkman when I was young. You couldn't keep them for anything.
I still get my milk delivered in glass bottles.
Stera milk bottles taken to the shop half a penny
We used to return empty pop bottles to the corner shop for money. That was our pocket money.
You could keep them...you just had to pay more for the milk if you had na bottle. 🌻
I use the plastic "bottles" thrown away, cut the bottom off and use the top as per example on the video instead of the glass milk bottle, cost nothing and reduce waste
Im a housekeeper/ cleaner i use vinegar spray for tile cleaning and shower doors to reduce limescale. I use bicarb, vinegar then boiling water down drains. I use a bicarb/ lemon juice paste for yellowing stains on the armpit areas on white clothes. Bicarb on mattresses and carpets.... i reuse spray bottles with my own cleaners.
Very impressive! I hate the smell of all these modern cleaners and sprays.
The joke is these are not forgotten, nor did poor families only use them!
Who is your ‘mum’??
😂
I use majority of these hacks still. Taught as a kid
i had to leave my bottles for the milkman
I use newspaper to clean my wood burner glass with ash .I always put a measure of white vinegar in my washing .I make a cleaning product in a spray bottle (vinegar drop of washing up liquid and water ) to clean kitchen ,bathroom and my shower door ,I sprinkle bicarbonate on my carpets and leave over night before hoovering up ,I sprinkle bicarbonate on my mattress once a month and leave for the day then hoover
that woodburner glass cleaning trick is genius isn't it. When we first got our woodburner we spent ages every day, demoralised trying to clean the blackened glass with glass cleaner and soapy water etc to no effect. Then I read about the dampened kitchen towel with some ash and it comes off a treat with hardly any effort - gleaming like new
Throw some potato peels into fire box and glass stays cleaner 😊
In those days, poor people used what they had. They recycled and reuse a lot of stuff for a lot of chores. They were "inventors" and bright. Other people used them too to save money and to keep their home clean. But in our generation, the industry are getting so rich by selling all kinds of products with so much chemicals. But a lot of DIY can be made naturally and effective. It was hard for those people who had to wash all day, cooking, fixing things and take care of a lot of babies and children. But it was like that before and family was the center. Very good video. 👍
Even though im a 90s kid- my mum swore by hot water bottle, and I still love using them. I cant stand electric blankets
I thought hot water bottles were still commonly used - we use them all the time in winter!
Ditto here! 😂
In the 70's we used the stone ones but you took them out before you went to bed then after that a bed warmer which was a round pink spaceship shape dish that was electric before you went to bed to heat it up
I still use mine , I’ve always got cold feet , my late husband used to be my hot water bottles , I used them for period and back pain , they’re good with cold water for swellings too .
So do I, in Argentina and now in Spain!
My mam told me to use bread as an eraser in school books for pencil marks back in the late 1950s ❤️
Yes my gran did all these tricks and so do I and they do work and my windows do sparkle and my drains do run clear ! We as a people have become sheep!!!! The common sense which was rare to begin with is now non existent, think people ,think!! THANK YOU.
I still use flour and water as glue for my son's projects, i learned it from my mother 😊
Still put tea on my plants, use vinegar and bicarbonate for drains, and vinegar for cleaning windows!
great for mirrors too
I absolutely love bicarbonate of soda, I use it for baking Irish soda bread, use it in an Eastern European recipe called Mici, which are delicious skinless little sausages, use it for scouring tea stains from mugs and it keeps the bottom of cooking pans clean, which the dishwasher fails to remove.
Bicarbonate of soda also is good to neutralize smells.. which was invaluable when after buying a brand new car, our dog had an “accident” on the back seat, due to being anxious…I washed the whole area with liquid soap, and then after drying, scattered bicarbonate of soda everywhere.. the new car looked like a Columbian drug dealer, had an accident with his consignment! 🤣
Once completely dry, I vacuumed, everything away, and even when the interior of the car became hot, no pee smell ever occurred after!
Thank you for making this video, which a lot of things I had forgotten, but used to do! 🥰
Suddenly I feel ancient 😂
My mothers first appliance was a spin dryer and she was in heaven❤
Way back in1964 age 4 my parents inherited an Edwardian mangled with their business. So fascinated watching. Tea towels virtually dry when mangled. Fingers beware
I bought a brand new spin dryer in 2020... loved it but I sharp wore it out
We used to sit on the twin tub when it was spinning. Good old childhood memories.
My first one was a fridge, the second was the spin dryer.
Milk bottles were returnable. They weren't free.
They charged a deposit to ensure they were returned to be washed and refilled.
Soda and juice came in returnables too.
And things like butter and peanut butter came in clay glazed crocks which were also returnable.
The worst thing to happen to this planet was Plastic
i agree
H Yup!
I still use some of these “tricks”
What a great video I'm 70 now and I remembered just about all of these that either my grandmother or my mother used to use brought back some great memories and I could almost smell on the different odours that they got from using these products.
Although not here at the decades mentioned I do still use many of these as tsught by my mother. We were not a poor household, quite middle class I suppose, but we still used these items, preferring thrm to toxic chemicals.
Number 13 ... glass bittles gor cloches over seedlings....
I use large lemonade /coke bottles to do this !!!!!
I'm 66 and I remember my mum using vinegar mixed with oil to polish with. I used to make my own washing powders and use white vinegar instead of fabric conditioner. I have now started making home made soap using the hot process and have made my own shampoo soap and bath soap bars using all natural ingredients. I feel so much cleaner using my home made soaps in the shower.
My friend is in Antiques and is also a Fresh Polisher. He guided me towards a bottle of linseed oil some 30+ years ago and I've never looked back. I've never bought furniture polish since that day and a bottle lasts a couple of years (and yes, I polish regularly though I never have any draws of static dust!), and costs about £6.00. Just a tiny drop on a flannelette duster (old sheet!), rub into all wooden furniture in little circles and then buff up to a high shine. You won't need to do that piece again for weeks or at the very least, use the same 'dirty' piece of cloth for a quick going over. More so, linseed does have a pretty aroma.
Salt over red wine stains on the carpet. Leave for at least 30 minutes. Then Hoover. Works a treat.
American here---my grandmother used plain hot water, vinegar and newspaper to clean our windows, and I still do this today. And vinegar and hot water clean the refrigerator a right treat! And foil, baking soda and hot water are a great silver cleaner!
Doesn't the tinfoil scratch the silver?
No
@RobertaAvrutin I put a piece of foil into a flat bowl of ceramic or glass (no metal!) Then I put my Silver on it. and sprinkle a spoon of baking soda and a spoon of salt upon it. Then I pour boiling hot water over it. Each piece of Silver must have contact to the foil and must be fully emerged in water. Within seconds you can see, how the silver cleans and the foil turns grey-black. There will be a little bit of bad smell, when the reaction takes place. The hole process works with a spoon of salt only, too.
Milk bottles had to go back to the dairy to be sterilised and re-used. Not Milk bottles. Potatoes cleaned pictures.
Crushed eggshells were also used in the garden to stop slugs getting to cabbages!
Cold tea to soak dried fruit before making fruit loaves.
Our house was so cold in the winters that we had frost in our wardrobes 😮
And here you are!
maybe Narnia was on the other side....
And so many people in the UK and Britain slam us Americans for the ways we do things; at least we know how to do central heating and airconditioning right so our homes are comfortable all year round!
No insulation whatsoever.
@jb6712Britain is in the UK,also we are talking about many many years ago,Central heating was expensive to fit,and run,so it wasn't affordable to many,Educate yourself! Word has it a huge percentage of Americans can't afford food let alone heat, ......
Oh my word! This was truly a trip down memory lane. Thank you so much for posting this.
Yep good days nowt wasted. Make do and mend ive come from used them old mangle in garden. Wish I had one now brilliant for getting water out ..❤️❤️❤️🙏
I had a dedicated spin dryer until about 12 yrs ago. Marvellous machines .
I used to help my nan when she used the mangle 😁 we used to wring out the washing as much as we could then we folded the washing and fed it through the mangle. I did the easy stuff like tea towels, towels and tablecloths. I miss my nan and grandpop. 🥹
I loved my old twin tub
You had to fold things just right so the buttons did not get crushed!
@14caz68I've still got mine.
A note . ...cleaning was done a little at a time so a major problem never occured .......
Maybe not major PROBLEMS, but there was still major cleaning to be done at least twice a year. Of course, that's here in the States--I've never been to the UK, have no idea how things are done there, so can't speak to the cleaning done--and Mom had us cleaning the entire house from top to bottom, every ceiling, everything inside and out, thoroughly as soon as the snow was fully gone and spring arrived, and again in the fall, just before "halloween" so the house would be properly cleaned for the winter.
Todays newspapers are NOT good to use unless dried in the sun for a week---because of the different inks used today
Thks for the sun hack!
All good and no chemicals nothing wasted
My mother used washing soda to unblock sinks.
I also use white vinegar and bicarbonate of soda but I am going to try the salt with the white vinegar.
do you?
It wasn't the tea that went into the garden, it was the tealeaves. We didn't use teabags back then. Everything had it's uses.
I just open the tea bags and put the damp leaves around my garden plants, especially my herbs.
@amkenwrick9187 Good thinking.
I put tea leaves in the outside compost bin, it always has plenty of worms, which is a good sign.
I have an antique copper & brass foot warmer originally designed for sleighs. I warm my bed before climbing in, then move it above the top sheet beside me since touching the metal could burn. I don’t boil the water, just run hot water from the faucet. Still warm in the morning. I wear wool socks, so I keep it near my body core. It’s 5:07 am as I’m reading this and it’s still nice & warm.
I am a cleaner and I often use bicarbonate of soda and white vinegar. The folks are amazed but come to realise how effective it is and how unnecessary all the other brightly packaged over-priced gloop is.
Satisfying isn't it!!💐
You are genuinely their greatest _household_ 'treasure' (... best clean is _traditional 'old school'_ clean) x👌🏻😘🙋🏻♀️
I worked in a chippy when I was a teen, they used the chip paper & vinegar to clean the cabinet glass daily. I absolutely swear by it. No streaks, just clean sparkly windows & kitchen tiles.
I cringe when I see cafe staff spraying toxic scented chemicals over the glass counters with food in them, and on top of tables near where people sit... They could use natural vinegar and/or bicarb instead
I used that when working as a barmaid, brilliant! And that was early 70s. But we can't get newspapers any more.
What in the world is a "chippy"?
@jb6712fish and chip shop
The chippy paper was newspaper without the printing. Absorbed the grease. A chippy is a fish and chip shop.
I always used vinegar and newspaper on my windows when I lived in the Uk! My windows were always clean.
The inks used in newspapers today would leave your windows in a filthy mess. They smear, they stain, they run, they're not meant for any kind of cleaning at all.
Bicarb all the way xx
Nature really does know best. And these big corporations have polluted our planet. Just look at those brightly coloured supermarket aisles full of chemicals that are going into our homes and gardens.....
I use Bi-carb in the drains. Simple enough.
One of my jobs as a kid in the 50's was to grate sunlight soap into a bucket fill with boiling water to make laundry liquid it turns into a bucket of slimes liquid put a couple of cups into each load clothes clean clean firstly in the copper later we got a pope wringer washing machine it was a miracle wash put through the wringer into the tubs for rinsing I'm so shocked at the amount of water going down the drain from my fully automatic machine now
How did you manage to write that entire line of ??? without one single bit of proper punctuation to break it up? It's nearly illegible.
@jb6712
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I remember that in the 70’s too at my Grandma’s house
@jb6712this person must be nearly 80 please don’t be rude
Flour paste with added salt and oil, cooked to thicken becomes play dough.
I used it as glue for my collection of royal photos 🎉😂
We used to make "bakery" items for our toy shop at infants school with this, then let them dry out and paint them! Kept us quiet for hours! 🤣🤣👍
I did that for my kids who are in their late 30s now
Making paste out of flour and water cooked till it looked clear
@BarbaraHicks-r5d I would love doing that at my age now😆
I was taught to clean windows with vinegar and newspaper. Always works
I wish Hoover still made the washing machine that had a mangle attached , there are so many small dwellings where space is pressures.
Bicarbonate I use on my rugs and they come up cleaner than the shop bought stuff with harsh chemicals.
I throw nothing away if i can reuse it I will. Used tea leaves and coffee grounds go in my garden. Modern day news papers no longer work on windows believe me I tried but there's other things you can use which does the job less expensive and no chemicals.
Problem with today's generation is it's a throw away generation rather than buying less expensive products that really works and no harsh chemicals they rather buy expensive products full of harmful chemicals.
What are the other things instead of newspaper
Going to try using bicarbonate more
Don't put those crushed egg shells down your drain especially if you have a disposer. You'll be paying the plumber to unblock it. Also, if you have plastic plumbing pipes do not pour boiling water down the drain.
Water from boiling eggs is an excellent plant and flower fertiliser. Crushed and then groung eggshells make a tonic for dogs, just a pinch added to their food once or twice a week helps with digestion and kills yeast infections.
I still use all these items today. Put the milk bottle in the freezer for 30 mins then pour in boiling water. The bottom drops out immediately.
I didn't know that thank you I will try that now with some of my bottles because The cloche idea is great for new seedlings.
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does it ever leave a jagged edge?
I bought a spin dryer when my washing machine was disconnected for relocation. For me, it's a perfect laundry day backup. Getting the water out of clothes is essential, and then they can be hung up to finish drying 👍 !!!
I Loved watching this. My nanna taught me to bulk buy anything if it was on a sale, even now in my 50s,, I still do it. My whole family does and my daughter. It didnt matter what it was, from butter to loo roll, butter freezes and so does bread etc. I actually make bread, crotchet, knit and can sew up a storm, because it was taught to me. She taught me to cook too. I miss her.
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Not everyone had a hotwater bottle but everyone had a brick 🤣😂how true.
I have done all of this including the shoe poish. Another thing we did was use brown paper and iron it over candle grease to lift the grease from the carpet. I am 85. I still miss so much from my childhood and still do many of these things. My grandmother used to use all the rags in strips to make rugs.
I'm so happy seeing this,thank you 💓
Scrunched up paper for windows is something I use always. Love Bicarb and vinegar for cleaning. Lemon, salt and bicarb to clean my chopping boards too. I use sugar soap too, great before decorating. My mum showed me a lot of little tricks.
I already use bi-carb to clean the oven
I had my oven cleaned as I cant bend to clean it now i have back problems. I now have an airfryer
Old soap scraps do well in an old stocking or tights. I also grate mine to make laundry liquid.
so do you wet your hands and squeeze the soap through the net/tights? Is that how it works?
@BirdsAloud Just grab the whole thing like a normal soap bar under the tap, rub your hands for lather, and voilà! I keep one under the garden tap. It dries out in between uses too, so no mush.
@MurielWall-ce7eh thank you!
To anyone thinking of using newspaper for insulation - please don't! Unless it's for a doghouse, etc. I lived in a house that actually had it in the attic walls. But it's a real firetrap!
i still use baking soda for lots of stuffs.
When I was kid and had insect bites from being outside, taking a bath with baking soda would take the itch away.
Can't recall the last time I added fabric conditioner to my laundry - perhaps back in the '90's! Vinegar is the answer - I always add a 'good splash' into the Fabric Conditioner drawer section of my washing machine. My towels, especially, are always fluffy. There's no after smell of vinegar. None.
I've never had success with vinegar making towels soft, or fluffy.
Clean wallpaper with bread… bread was certainly not going stale in these days. It was used. Old bread still works for dumplings.
I worked with Ultramarine Blue and boy did it work as advertised. Never had to buy it as my gear usually had enough on it by the end of the day! For many years the detergent manufacturers put ultramarine blue in their products, but over time they moved to optical brighteners (organic chemicals) as they were cheaper....... And just for reference it's a pigment and not a dye - pigment remains as solid particles, dye dissolves (yeah, I'm a science nerd).
In Ireland the Milkman reused the Milk Bottles.
1 Pint for Milk and Half Pint for Cream.
I have used them all but then I was born in 1950, btw they all work as advertised!
Me too!
2 years younger than you though xxx
Amazing! I have 2 to add..honey heals sore chapped lips..(it you can afford honey!) ..powdered starch heals happy rash..still use not water bottles as cuddled close it acts like central heating am a Ready Brek!
The cockroaches and fleas loved the flour based wallpaper paste too😮
I bet! YIKES !!!!
Wallpaper paste was commercially available long before the 1960's! Earliest record in print 1850's! No one used flour paste as it attracts vermin, mice and rats as well as insects!
I always have a box of Arm and Hammer and white vinegar, absolute long list of uses. Use a lot of the other ideas too.
I buy and use the cheapest brand of baking soda available. Exactly the same product as A&H, just a different box. Does precisely the same job, and costs far less.
@jb6712 Hi, can I ask what you call it if you don't mind and where you get it? I live in the UK and Arm and Hammer is very expensive for a tiny box.
I've using bicarb for years and vinegar, news paper for windows brilliant but then again I'm 93 and grew up with these cleaners.b7t thanks for the lesson, take it on board you youngster, they truly work.
I remember grandad doing all the chores with all in this video,gran was a piano teacher, she'd do the ironing with a heavy iron kept on the plate of their small arga, horsehair mattress with a wool blanket before the sheet I used to sleep on shared double bed with my sister every single school holiday..
I do most of these. Vinegar, bicarbonate soda, news papper. Great fun
I put bar of soap in the leg of an old pair of tights. This is tied near my outside tap. Perfect for hand washing after outdoor chores.
I still use tea on my owers. And bicarbonate soda down my drains. 😅
Newspaper scratched the windows
In Israeli kindergartens glue made of flour and water are stil used, as well as vinegar in the washer and on carpets to eliminate smells, bicarbonate soda is used as a natural deodoriser and as toothpaste as well as in baking cakes and cookies. It is used together with vinegar and boiling water in a bowl laid out with aluminium foil.
I still use a hot water bottle, they're warth lasts all night, unless needed for pain. I would reheat them and place them at my kids feet when they were young to help them sleep, and it worked like a charm. When I was their age, my mother would iron the bedding to heat it up for us in the Melbourne winter.
The newspaper trick was taught to me by my grandmother. And I recently learnt to use a slice of bread to clean the canvas artwork I have, I dab it, as it crumbles whether stale or fresh...
This video has resurfaced many childhood lessons, which is great in today's economy
Vinegar I use in all washes with towels instead of fabric softener, and at times to deodorize.. but it costs more than an antibacterial additive
Use a little toothpaste on your bathroom taps , rub it into the tap and leave for half an hour then clean it off with cool water.Also good for bathroom ceramic sink.
Crush egg shells as fine as possible add a little water, gather some between your finger and thumb, and descale the inside of your Tea/coffee cup, then rinse with cold water.This can also be used for stubborn patches on your oven tray, drip, grid.
I still use newspaper and white vingar on my windows - you can't beat it
Just nipping off to fill up my hot water bottle 😊👍
HWB 😊
I already use cold tea but unfortunately newspapers are just about obsolete these days. Im going to try the flower glue though
We used washing soda to unblock drains.
I ALREADY USED ABOUT 25% OF these hacks. but the rest are food for thought. thankyou
A useful trick using bicarbonate of soda is for plastic (usually black plastic) that has gone 'sticky', just make a thickish paste and rub it in. It restores the plastic by reversing the chemical reaction that caused the item to go sticky!
Thank you more of these videos.
You never wasted candle stubs to light coal fires, they were saved up then melted down then either had new wickes dipped repeatedly to build up a new stem to a thickness of your choice or poured into a jam jar allowed to cool slightly then a new wick hung in the middle for a candle that would burn for a couple of days. Also used on carpenters saw blades to make sawing wood easier and to rust proof the steel
Really enjoying this channel. I’d love to be able to have it all put into a book 😊
I suppose the difference between using paper to keep the house warm and proper insulation is, paper is easily burned and would start fires.
I use bi carb, white vinegar and apple cider vinegar for many things to this day. I’m 70 and remember mum using many of these hacks.
Down the plughole...certainly brings memories.
Thank you for sharing
Reckitts blue bag. Into the white boiler for whites which id stir for my Mum in the 60s
I just looked on Amazon & a different brand is available 🤗.i want to brighten my net curtains .
I remember the blue bag
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Ma put the,
most used
blue bag on our bee sings.
There B chemical explation for this
However, we were so startled at our skin turning blue that it stopped the hurt. 🌻
In the winter ,if your power went out you can be nicely warm in bed if you layer newspaper between a few blankets. I have used it while camping by putting newspaper onto the sleeping bag and covering it with a blanket or a coat. I was always toasty. Specially since my coat was an old rabbit fur coat. Also I put down a layer of newspaper on the ground before laying down the sleeping bag. I didn't have a expensive sleeping bag anyway so the paper was very warming.
At home sometimes I was warmed when the power was off by inviting a cat or two under the covers to sleep with me at night. It's like having a heater in bed. And they don't start fires either. I never use space heaters in my bedroom due to the possibility of fire from an unwatched heater. My husband removed the oil heater from the old house we bought but didn't replace it with any kind of alternate heater for the house. The first winter in that house the bedroom was so cold a glass of water I kept on my bedside table froze to ice overnight. So it was cold in there. The living room was heated by a cheap wood stove that had me chopping wood all day long to keep it going while my husband was at work.
I like the idea to invite your cats to sleep with you. I remember when I was a child, my cat used to sleep with me. Yes very warm 😊
Sounds dreadful, and I'm a woman who was taught to work hard, so am no wuss.