Her name was Margaret. She raised six children on one paycheck in a little house with a coal stove - and she never thought of herself as poor, because she knew things. She could feed eight people on what we throw out today.

This is a nostalgic look back at 20 money-saving tricks only 1950s housewives knew - and we forgot. The bacon grease can on the back of the stove, one Sunday roast stretched into a week of meals, the button tin, the mending basket, turning worn shirt collars, and the simple rule she lived by: use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without. A tribute to a generation of women who could make a dollar do the work of five.

Which of these did your mother or grandmother do and which one do you STILL do today? Tell us in the comments, and share this with the brothers and sisters and cousins who grew up in a home that wasted nothing.

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