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HOMEMADE SCRAPBOOK

Happy National Preservation Month & National Scrapbook Day Eve. Preservation is the act of keeping something valued intact and in its original state, protecting it from damage or decay, for the conservation of history and more. Scrapbooks are where Mom kept her personal “valuables” – letters and cards from relatives and close friends, pictures and […]

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"No Laugh 'N Matter" by Gloria Pitzer

“No Laugh ‘N Matter”, by Gloria Pitzer – Food Costs Are Killing Us

INTRODUCTION Mom was very creative and funny. She designed a few different satirical editorial columns in the 1960s and 1970s that were geared toward working homemakers like herself (or those who just wanted to laugh at life), mailing out samples to over 300 newspapers. Within a year, she was steadily writing two different columns (“No […]

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