20 "Poor Man" Money Habits 1950s Housewives Used to Stretch a Single Paycheck All Month

Subscribe to the channel: https://www.youtube.com/@ForgottenFrugalAmerica?sub_confirmation=1 👉Start saving $5000 a year with my Ebook: https://forgottenfrugalamerica.netlify.app In 1953, in Muncie, Indiana, a housewife named Ruth Hartley fed four children on $62 a week — every dollar her husband carried home from the Ball glass plant. She never missed a meal, and she never once bought on credit. In the cellar she kept a coffee tin her children were forbidden to open, and what was inside is number one on this list. Women like Ruth ran whole households on habits, not apps. Every dollar had a job before it was earned. Here are 20 of them — the habits of people who refused to be caught unprepared. Sources: https://www.usda.gov/foodlossandwaste/consumers https://www.energy.gov/energysaver/laundry https://www.princeton.edu/news/2013/08/29/poor-concentration-poverty-reduces-brainpower-needed-navigating-other-areas-life