Did you know that a simple test in your home could help prevent the second leading cause of lung cancer? If you haven’t already done so, Flour Sack Mama encourages you to test your home for radon. This naturally occurring gas can sneak into the places where we live, learn and work. Radon is produced […]
Perhaps part of your busy day involves shopping at the local store for groceries. When you stop at the dairy case for eggs, you spot a carton with a picture of green pastures or some other bucolic scene. Here’s a happy looking chicken. There’s another carton with some reassuring words such as “natural” or “free […]
I love to display my great-grandmother, Maude’s, quilting handiwork. Yet, I can’t find the hours to sew by hand like she did. Upon finding some of her quilt blocks, not yet sewn into a quilt, I found an alternative way to display them. I purchased various sizes of polystyrene balls for this project. I used […]
My maternal grandparents were married and started their family during the middle of the Great Depression. Having come from a large family herself, Grandma never was afforded the opportunity to complete much public schooling. Grandpa, an only child, completed the eighth grade. He was needed as a teenager to help out on his family’s farm, […]
Families all around the world are searching for a simpler, healthier, more affordable way to live. Not unlike the thrifty habits made famous during the Great Depression of the United States in the 1930s, a renewed sense of urgency about doing more with less is taking hold. Many of us had grandmothers who sewed clothing […]
Anne is a mother, wife and independent journalist blogging about carrying on the best of Grandma’s traditions while improving on what we know better.
