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| maggie14 |
Posted - Jan 18 2010 : 3:48:49 PM
Well for me:
1. I sew a lot by hand
2. I do dishes by hand
3. I iron my clothes
4. I write letters
5. I make my own dog food by hand
6. I bake lots of our breads, cookies, etc.
7. I clean our floors the old fashionded way by getting down on my hands and knees.
8. Growing our own wheat for bread making
9. we make popcorn on the stove. We don't have a microwave.
10. We grow and dry our own fruit
11. when the weathers nice we dry our clothes outside.
12. I milk my goats for milk so we always have fresh milk
13. I make cheese
14. I'm learning to make our own soap
15. we cut and stack our own fire wood
16. We build our own things like goat shed, green house, etc.
17. I write a diary!!!
This is all I could think of for now but will write more later.
Hugs,
Channah
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| maggie14 |
Posted - Feb 23 2010 : 12:14:17 PM
bumping!!!
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| maggie14 |
Posted - Feb 14 2010 : 9:23:38 PM
aww, Thank you Rae!! I guess to me it is not old fashioned but when your will alot of kids all the time and they don't do thoughs things it's old fashiond. But like I said before, You Ladies are amazing!! Keep up the great work!!
Hugs,
Channah
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| Old Spirit |
Posted - Feb 14 2010 : 7:08:32 PM
But Channah you led the way for us to tell what we do!!! It is kind of enlightening when you think about it because I don't think of it as old fashion until I stop and look at things most people do now.
Rae
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| maggie14 |
Posted - Feb 14 2010 : 2:36:55 PM
Wow!! You ladies are amazing!!!
Hugs,
Channah
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| farmallgrl |
Posted - Feb 09 2010 : 12:44:17 PM
Let's see I,
Hang laundry to dry
Milk cows for fresh milk
learning to make soap.....would love to make laundry soap
tat
knit/crochet
make my own gifts
can and freeze
bake my own bread
Cook all three meals everyday
iron
Keep chickens
sew by hand
write all of my notes thank you and otherwise by hand
My husband and I prefer an old fashion way of life...and so does my son:)
Angela
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| Old Spirit |
Posted - Feb 09 2010 : 09:05:41 AM
Ok some more...
One room home.
Cook and bake 98% from scratch
Have a mail box at end of the driveway, HA!!!
Iron clothes
Mend clothes
Clean house myself 
That is it for now 
Farm Girl #647
...those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles:...
Isaiah 40:31
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| maggie14 |
Posted - Feb 09 2010 : 07:58:59 AM
Ok I thought of a few more things.
When we were redueing our bathroom we had to go to the bathroom out side for I think it was 2 weeks, and take showers outside.
When we were doing our kitchen we had our old sink out side and we would have to carry buckets of water and heat them to do dishes outside. We did all the remodeling for the house by ourselfs. I helped build my goat shed.
I mow our little acer and a half with a really old push mower.
Me and my dad do all the vet work around our little farm.
And I think that's it for now. lol
Hugs,
Channah
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| countrynmore |
Posted - Feb 07 2010 : 8:19:50 PM
Beginning in June of 2009 and for five months following, we didn't have any hot water because my dh was replacing our hot water hot water heater. It was a long process as there were new guidelines for our new tankless water heater, like replacing our gas line and water pipes. Anyways, I felt like I went back in time. I didn't have to get water from a water pump or a well, but the outdoor faucet, when the water was shut off. If I wanted to have hot water for dishes or cooking, then I had to heat the water up on the stove.
You really appreciate something when you go without.
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| maggie14 |
Posted - Feb 07 2010 : 7:34:46 PM
Oh I'm so happy!! Thank you so much for letting me share them with you!!
Hugs,
Channah
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| kentuckywoman |
Posted - Feb 07 2010 : 7:05:59 PM
Channah,
I received your letter with recipes today! Thank you!! It was so wonderful to get a real letter! I cannot wait to try the recipes out. :) |
| maggie14 |
Posted - Feb 07 2010 : 5:59:22 PM
Thank you Ladies for sharing!!! It has been so much fun to read!! You are all so talented!!
Hugs,
Channah
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| mscountrygirl |
Posted - Feb 04 2010 : 09:04:50 AM
The airing out is not only southern. My grandmother promoted it when my sister and I got older. She lived her life in Mass and RI. Using onions as a major cold remedy is old fashioned according to my children, and so is using sh**e vinegar to clean the kitchen.
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| cajungal |
Posted - Feb 04 2010 : 06:43:08 AM
I don't know whether this is old fashioned or just a humid, southern, thing...... At night time when going to bed, girls/ladies "air out". Hmmm, let me try to put it nicely. Using Debbie's phrase of 'step ins'.... 'step ins' are not worn at night to give ourselves a chance to have air flow....."air out". It's good prevention of moisture related irritations.
My friend, Lisa, upon moving down here in south Texas, was quite shocked when several of the ladies at a retreat started removing 'step ins' before getting in bed. She was too embarrassed to ask them, so when she arrived home, she sheepishly asked me about the custom and I replied, "Oh, they were just airing out". Today, 12 years later, Lisa is still a transformed "airing out'er".
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| Huckelberrywine |
Posted - Feb 03 2010 : 4:15:01 PM
So true! There are definitely ear bobs and others are earrings. :)
I keep forgetting that so many daily life things in our house are "old fashioned". Reminds me of my grandmother when I was helping her in the kitchen about 10 years ago. I commented that some of her gadgets were "antiques" and she got a bit cross in a good natured way and asked if they could be considered antiques if she was still using them. I told her no, they were just right. She's 95. She still uses some of her mother's things. Bless her boots! Don't you just love the feel of the good old things that were made to last? Iron skillet, wooden spoon, glass jar, garden fresh beats teflon, plastic, imported any day.
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| DebbieSue |
Posted - Feb 02 2010 : 7:39:02 PM
HuckelberryWine or Michelle,
Speaking of old fashioned words
how about 'ear bobs' (earrings) or 'tourist court' (hotel) or 'step ins' (panties)
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| kentuckywoman |
Posted - Feb 02 2010 : 5:24:52 PM
This thread is so inspiring! You all are such farmgirls!
I don't have a place of my own yet, let alone my farm I'm dreaming up but I have really been trying recently to do some old fashioned things!
Here are a few I can think of:
Try to eat and buy as many whole food items as possible
Listen to the record player
Listen to the radio (Ordering a hand crank radio this week!)
Ordering my first seeds (heirloom)
Learned to bake bread
Cook as much as I can from scratch
Making my first quilt and by hand
As I run out of beauty and personal care products, I am replacing them with all natural and organic products
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| KayB |
Posted - Feb 02 2010 : 3:12:12 PM
Right now I'm watching out on anything MJF and learning.
I am knitting my own sweaters and dish cloths. I'm getting ready to learn how to knit socks (mainly 'cause my feet are so big and I have trouble finding socks to fit).
I can sew, though not well yet.
I make my own laundry soap thanks to y'all. That started when my skin rebelled and I had the worst ever eczema outbreak in my life.
This year we're doing the garden and I'm going to learn canning and preserving.
I really want chickens, but DH is agains that and I don't think we can have them where we live.
So, thanks to everyone and everything MJF, I'm learning.
KayB
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| maggie14 |
Posted - Feb 02 2010 : 08:06:27 AM
oh Wilma that sounds like something I would like to do!! I love doing things my hand! It's so much fun!!! All you ladies are so talented! I am honered to call you all Chums ( I think that's spelled right).
Hugs,
Channah
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| miss wilma |
Posted - Feb 01 2010 : 5:58:01 PM
I still cook my beets outside in an old washtub over an open fire before pickling. It is such a hard job I say every year no more but always end up doing it again
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| Huckelberrywine |
Posted - Feb 01 2010 : 4:08:33 PM
Hmm. I'll focus on old-fashioned phrases I use absentmindedly, sometimes purposefully though.
Some streams are "cricks", but if I'm reading or it is a new place with no memories yet, I pronounce it "creek".
Also, sometimes moths are millers. Depends on what I'm doing and who I'm talking to. Sometimes the old fashioned word comes to mind first, or just fits better.
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| mscountrygirl |
Posted - Feb 01 2010 : 12:34:20 PM
I really want to learn to make those dishclothes so bad! My mother-in-law made some for me and I used them until they fell apart and stuck in my kitchen drain! I like to make popcorn on the stove too. I really want to live somewhere that I can ride a bike.
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| Maryjane Lee |
Posted - Feb 01 2010 : 11:54:26 AM
Wonderful topic!
crochet my own dish clothes
make my own laundry soap
wear an apron
make my own gifts & cards
make the yummiest homemade popcorn on the stove
ride my pink bike
make a yummy Buttermilk Pie...to name a few!
ahhhhh, the simple life!
Hugs!
Maryjane Lee
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| countrynmore |
Posted - Feb 01 2010 : 09:01:15 AM
I guess that you are right. My days are full that is for sure. I help with my mom's house upkeep as well, shopping, and I do her yard work, etc.
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| Sue Feely |
Posted - Feb 01 2010 : 08:29:59 AM
Boy do we all have the same ideas or what, canning, scratch cooking, aprons, braids and bows etc. Ah the simple life! |
| mscountrygirl |
Posted - Feb 01 2010 : 08:25:50 AM
Sharon, I think taking care of family and not putting them somewhere is old fashioned by today's standard. the fact that you can make anything with all that onyour plate is commendable.
Michelle
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