10 Things My Mother Never Threw Away (And Why You Should Keep Them)

📖 My book, Nothing Goes to Waste: https://missevelynsnotebook.com/ Frugal living tips from 10 things my mother never threw away: what to reuse, what to restore, and which old habits to leave behind. This morning a truck came down your street and took away a pantry's worth of storage jars, a Saturday's worth of soup and a skillet with forty years left in it. You paid for every one of those once already, and then you went back to the store and paid for them a second time with a new name on the label. These are ten things my mother's generation never threw away, the job each one was born to do, and what it replaces on the shelf: the pickle jar, the bones and the ends, the rusted cast-iron skillet from the yard sale, the pale wooden spoon, what's going soft in the drawer, the cheese with one spot on it, the little blue bottle in the laundry room, and a plain bar of soap. Then the honest part, because a notebook that only keeps the good news is a scrapbook. Number nine was true in my mother's day and isn't now. Number ten is not an object at all: it's the one thing that generation never threw away and should have, and I did it for twenty-five years. And at the end, the three habits that made every one of those things last, short enough for an index card. None of this is your fault. We were taught, a whole generation of us, that using the free version was something to be embarrassed about. We're done being embarrassed. CHAPTERS 0:00 What the truck took this morning 0:14 It was your trash, and you paid for it twice 0:45 Ten things my mother's generation never threw away 1:23 None of this is your fault 1:50 The part you didn't click for: three habits 2:05 1 · The glass jar in your refrigerator door (and the one hard rule) 3:41 2 · The chicken: one bird, three dinners and a jar of gold 5:08 3 · The rusted skillet: rust is a Saturday 6:22 4 · The wooden spoon and the wooden board 7:25 5 · What's going soft in the drawer 8:38 6 · The cheese with the spot: hard you save, soft it goes 9:59 7 · The blue bottle in the laundry room 10:58 8 · A bar of plain soap 11:49 9 · The newspaper: true then, not now 12:36 10 · Not an object: the eggshells, and what your disposal really has inside 14:32 The three habits that made every one of them last 15:21 This week: rescue three things 15:40 The notebook, and the thing your mother refused to throw away More from Miss Evelyn's Notebook: ▸ I've Never Had a Bug in My House in 40 Years, The Old Trick My Mother Swore By: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6gycDWmfRg&list=PLAx8wFt8e9HM ▸ I Lost Two Years of Food in My Own Freezer — 12 Rules Since: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KF8k9y5sRJI&list=PLAx8wFt8e9HM ▸ These 3 Powders Do What $100 of Cleaners Can't — for $12 a Year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Md706leWpt8&list=PLAx8wFt8e9HM ▸ 25 Kitchen Rules From Grandma's Generation — I Tested Every One: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwDtywyjEEw&list=PLAx8wFt8e9HM ▸ 18 Things You're Storing Wrong And (What It's Costing You): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WD_MZY2RVo&list=PLAx8wFt8e9HM ▸ All my kitchen & household videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAx8wFt8e9HM No miracles. Just what works ❤️