20 "Illegal" Tricks Every 1960s Dad Did That Were Just Common Sense Back Then

Subscribe to the channel: https://www.youtube.com/@TheLostHandyman?sub_confirmation=1 👉 Start Saving Money By Fixing Everything Yourself Ebook: https://forgottenhandymansecrets.netlify.app/ In 1963, a father in Youngstown, Ohio kept a coffee can of bent nails on his workbench and fixed almost everything the house and the car ever did wrong. He wired his own back porch — wiring that still carried power the day the family sold the house 46 years later. He soldered his own pipes. He burned his own trash in a barrel by the fence. Not one of those jobs needed a permit, a shop, or a phone call. Today, most of them would get you a fine. Here are 20 of the things he did — and why they're off-limits now. Sources: https://www.epa.gov/archive/epa/aboutepa/epa-takes-final-step-phaseout-leaded-gasoline.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_abatement_in_the_United_States https://www.edf.org/our-decades-long-battle-against-lead