20 Forgotten Household Tricks That Only Poor Families Knew (A Lunch Lady Still Does Every One)

📕 Get the full cookbook - The Lunch Lady's $3,600-a-Year Grocery Cut (175 recipes & tricks, scaled for 1, 2 or a family): www.dorislunchlady.com/ Six dollars for glass cleaner. Four for drain opener. Nine for the softener that makes the towels smell like a hotel. My mother owned none of the three, and her windows embarrassed the whole street. We had no money. What we had was about a hundred small pieces of knowledge, and every single one of them had a catch. Do it slightly wrong and it does nothing at all, which is exactly why most people try these once and give up. That catch is what nobody tells you, and it is in every one of the twenty. Twenty tricks, counting down. What it replaced. What it actually does. And the one condition that decides whether it works. Number fourteen is a raw potato on a rusted blade, and it sounds like nonsense until you hear what is happening. Number ten will ruin your towels if you put it in the wrong compartment. Number four ruins more clothing than anything else on this list, and I expect you did it this week. And number one is not a trick at all. It is the reason for the other nineteen, and it took me until my fifties to understand it. I am Mrs. Doris. Thirty-five years in a school kitchen in Scioto County, Ohio, four hundred children a day, on a dollar and five cents a tray. TWO SAFETY NOTES, because two of these can hurt you if you get them backwards: - Never put vinegar in a washing machine that has bleach in it. Those two together make a gas you do not want in the room with you. One or the other, never both. - Never pour boiling water down a drain you have already put a chemical opener into. And if the trap under your sink is white plastic rather than metal, use hot tap water instead of boiling. Tell me down below which one your family did, and which one I have got slightly wrong. There is always one, and somebody's mother did it better. #householdtricks #oldfashionedtips #frugalliving #homehacks #mrsdoris