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Retro Housewife Goes Green | Vintage Homemaking

Hi, I'm Lisa and I'm the Retro Housewife. Let me take you on a journey to the past to learn from homemakers from the mid-century. Learn vintage recipes, cleaning tips, frugal living, how to be more sustainable, all like a vintage homemaker.

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March 2026 Retro Housewife Goes Green- Monthly Update This email may contain affiliate links. I earn a small commission from these links at no additional cost to you. Happy March!February was still very much a time of grief over the passing of my grandma. I'm also helping my mom with the big task of going through my grandparents' home. It's a very big house and my grandma was quite the collector, so it's a big task. While doing this I'm also decluttering my own home so that I have space for...

Dinner time can be stressful but if you are currently trying to figure out what to make I have a list of 14 delicious vintage dinner ideas that can help! They are family-friendly and many are very frugal. And a quick note to help prevent dinner panic in the future be sure to check out my meal planning course Meal Planning for Everyone. This week only you can get $10 off with coupon code DINNER10 Get the Recipes: Vintage Dinner Ideas Don't forget to sign up for Meal Planning for Everyone and...

February 2026 Retro Housewife Goes Green- Monthly Update This email may contain affiliate links. I earn a small commission from these links at no additional cost to you. Happy February!January was a tough month for my family. My grandma passed away and we are mourning her loss. She was a huge part of my life. When I was a toddler my mom went to nursing school and I stayed with my grandma when she was at school. She taught me to bake, our favorite thing to make was peanut butter cookies, the...

January 2026 Retro Housewife Goes Green- Monthly Update This email may contain affiliate links. I earn a small commission from these links at no additional cost to you. Happy January!Well I have dropped the ball on these updates and I'm late this month, oops. The holiday season is always so busy but I'm back with monthly updates. I had a nice holiday season with my family and it's been personally a good start to the year but as a country a tough one. This weekend I worked on putting away...

January 2025 Retro Housewife Goes Green- Monthly Update This email may contain affiliate links. I earn a small commission from these links at no additional cost to you. Happy January!Can you believe 2025 is here? Now starts the weeks of me writing the wrong year. I am just getting back to being productive after taking a couple of weeks to enjoy the holiday season. It was a nice break and I'm feeling ready to dive back in. Like many in January, I get the urge to declutter and organize so...

December 2024 Retro Housewife Goes Green- Monthly Update This email may contain affiliate links. I earn a small commission from these links at no additional cost to you. Happy December!The holiday season has gone by so fast. That's why I'm always a big fan of planning for Christmas. I wrote a whole book about it, Stress-Free Christmas which also turned into a blog. I've been trying to make the most of the holiday season, watching Christmas movies, baking fun treats, and other holiday fun. I'm...

March 2024 Retro Housewife Goes Green- Monthly Update This email may contain affiliate links. I earn a small commission from these links at no additional cost to you. Happy April!As always the month went by so fast. It was quite an eventful month for my family. A couple of weeks ago we had an historic hail storm. Being in southern Oklahoma we are no strangers to hail, so when I say historic you know it's bad. That hail may look big but that is a rather melted piece. We had softballs and...

March 2024 Retro Housewife Goes Green- Monthly Update This email may contain affiliate links. I earn a small commission from these links at no additional cost to you. Happy March!Can you believe it's already March? Spring is just around the corner and here in Oklahoma we got a bit of a taste for it with some sunny days in the upper 80s! However, we are back in the 30s now, can't say I love the back and forth. My husband and I have decided that we want to spend a lot of time this year fixing...

Good morning! Spring is just 31 days away and that means it's almost time for some spring cleaning. This year I want to make your spring cleaning easy by inviting you to join a spring cleaning challenge! We will be following a 1940s spring cleaning routine. It will be a fun way to do our spring cleaning together. Each week starting in March you will get an email with the tasks for the week. Plus you'll get tips and tricks, a printable checklist, and more. All you need to do is click here to...

January 2024 Retro Housewife Goes Green- Monthly Update This email may contain affiliate links. I earn a small commission from these links at no additional cost to you. Happy New Year!I hope 2024 is off to a good start for you! We had a pretty relaxed NYE here. My husband and I stayed home and watched football, played games, and ate tasty food. We had ordered some food from Mackenzie Limited. We enjoyed all of the things we ordered and it was nice to have some different food and not have to...