20 FORGOTTEN Painting Tricks That Make $60 Paint Cans Look Like a Scam

In 2024, the average American homeowner spent close to sixty dollars a gallon on premium interior paint, sometimes needing three or four gallons just to finish a single farmhouse room. Meanwhile, an eighty-nine-year-old man in rural Kentucky has whitewashed the same fence posts and outbuildings for sixty years using a recipe his father mixed from three ingredients that together cost less than four dollars. These are the 20 forgotten painting tricks that make a sixty dollar paint can look like a scam, using nothing but lime, milk, vinegar, and a few kitchen scraps. New episodes every 2 days. Subscribe for more forgotten American skills the modern world left behind.