Major find!!

whatatwit

Oust is meant to be pretty good at getting rid of smells from books....but not very OS, unless you already have a tin lurking somewhere.

larmy16

dannahaz wrote:

I am so easily led!

Reading all your comments made me decide I just *had* to have this book, so I boght it for 2.76 (1p+£2.75) on Amazon too.

*shakes head* This moneysaving lark is costing me a fortune!

That book will be v. heavy to post so cost wise it is a bargain. . I have had that book before and got rid of it. Now you are making me want to order it again!!!

I must resist....I must resist....before Christmas I ordered Cooking in a Bedsitter and the Paupers Cookbook all due to this Old Style forum.:o

Soapy955

I've got a brilliant little book from 1962 called "Your own home" by M J Voyce.
It's a sort of advice book for school girls about how to cope in the big wide world with keeping house and how to look after your husband!
It's very Un PC with details about how to leave a tea tray prepared when your Husband brings his friends home. How to pack you and your husband's suticases when you are going on holiday. How to look after your Husband if he is unwell!! :rotfl:

It also talks about putting money aside for bills and to leave some for magazines, sweets and hairdos!!

Does make me smile every time I read it!

recovering_spendaholic

Soapy955 wrote:

I've got a brilliant little book from 1962 called "Your own home" by M J Voyce.
It's a sort of advice book for school girls about how to cope in the big wide world with keeping house and how to look after your husband!
It's very Un PC with details about how to leave a tea tray prepared when your Husband brings his friends home. How to pack you and your husband's suticases when you are going on holiday. How to look after your Husband if he is unwell!! :rotfl:

It also talks about putting money aside for bills and to leave some for magazines, sweets and hairdos!!

Does make me smile every time I read it!

This post made me think of when I was at school - we had a house in the grounds of the school and it was called "The Housecraft House" (I went to a Convent school for girls!) and we were all trooped over to it once a week for lessons in bed making, cleaning, mending and things like how to set a table, who to sit where at the table when you had guests (you know, in case you had an ambassador or an Earl or someone visiting :rotfl: )how to do laundry (to this day I am grateful for that as I am one of the few people I know who can understand all those symbols on labels), how to put stuff away, how to meal plan and do a shopping list and loads of other un PC stuff about having the house nice when your husband came home and the like!. The housecraft teacher was also the domestic science teacher and she had several books which were her "bibles": The Stork cookery book and the Dairy Book of home management. My daughter goes to the same school now and the housecraft house has long gone, but I only went there in the late 1970's so it wasn't all that long ago and how things have changed - Now they just get told where to get free condoms.

jackieb

I went to school in the early 80s and we had a flat in the school, where we learned to make beds etc. The boys didn't go though.

BusyGirl

Hurray! My book arrived today and I recognised it as one that my mum had when I was little. It is a little dated but the information is so relevant to today.

vivw_2

wish mine would arrive....have gone onto amazon to see whats left and it looks like lots of us have ordered over the last few days. they must be wondering whats going on

Disdisbiff

hiya

I have been looking at this book on amazon and was just wondering what sort of topics it covers

Are there any recipes in it


Biff

hilstep2000

I used to have that one! The best one I've got now is one that my Dad gave me. It's called "Waste not... Want not..." by Stella Atterbury The copy I've got is an old library book It was published by Macdonald in 1972. It ells you how to use up every leftover you can think of, I've found it invaluable over the years!

jackieb

I thought Kim and Aggie were innovative when it comes to cleaning tips, but in this book it's suggested to use biological powder to clean a scummy bath. They're not so clever as I first thought.