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    Best beauty decision you've made?

    For me personally, the best decision I ever made was to figure out my favorite and most comfortable decade, if that makes sense. At the same time, I don't want to present an eccentric or attention-getting appearance. This is a balancing act and takes thought & planning. I stopped reading...
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    CNN article: Some buyers want time capsule homes

    This is exactly what happened to my kitchen. When I first looked at this tiny bungalow, built in 1929, I found the original steel cabinets in the basement. They disappeared by the time I moved in. It makes no sense to me at all to gut-rehab any part of a house that is barely 1000 square feet and...
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    What's something modern you won't miss when it becomes obsolete?

    Naaaah, seriously, I work with grad students, and I can tell you that there is no possibility any advisor worth her salt would ever approve such an oddly constructed research problem. There's no way of documenting it, no way of duplicating or checking the results, no possibility of standardizing...
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    Vintage beauty tips for when time and money are scarce?

    Couple of quick questions: can you sew? What's your preferred vintage decade? Also, if you don't mind answering, what's your current beauty routine? The answers to these questions will make it easier to brainstorm.
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    Amusing quotes from people mis-dating you

    I usually wear late 1930s / early 1940s, mostly head to toe, and the other day at a gardening class a lady came up to me and said (very nicely) "You look .... interesting. Are you ... let me see ... eastern European?" I really don't think there's anything remotely eastern European about my...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    How about the word "dictionary"?
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    Ben Sansum, The man who lives in 1946

    Yes, thank you! That's the one. Thanks also for the info on closed captioning. I hadn't thought of that. I'm lucky in that my house was built in 1929, and it was mostly left intact. Unfortunately the previous owners remodeled (I call it vandalized) the vintage kitchen and now I'm left...
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    Ben Sansum, The man who lives in 1946

    Fascinating. There appears to be a growing subculture of people who transform their entire lives back into the golden era. Everyone here knows about Miss Jo in Amsterdam, I'm sure, but I recently also saw a video of a Japanese lady who lives in the 1920s. Does anyone have any information...
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    Midcentury Domestic to Post-modern Superwoman (Women Only)

    Congratulations, W-D. I'm looking forward to hearing how this works out. Good luck to you and your family.
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    Toiletries of the Golden Era

    I don't like replying to myself (feels a bit odd, if you know what I mean) but I thought I'd add a few reviews of some soaps that have stood the test of time. These are all brands that go back at least 60 or 70 years, some more than 100. I thought it might be fun to hunt them down around town &...
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    Ladies, what are you doing this evening?

    Good luck! I hope all goes well. I had similar problems here a few years ago. The suburban nitwit who bought the house next door, with a view toward flipping it immediately, lost interest when he realized that he would actually have to cut the hayfield (ahem, back yard) once in a while...
  14. St. Louis

    do you wash your hair everyday?

    During the fall and winter, I'd say every fifth or sixth day, but during these humid St. Louis summers two or three times a week. I tried that "no-poo" method some years ago and gave up after I began attracting flies. I just wish I knew how to keep a pin curl set going for more than two days in...
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    How do you keep your house neat?

    That's hilarious! I have to confess that I always found the Muffin Man song deeply terrifying. I thought he was coming after me. I pictured him like a giant Boogey Man with a horrible undefinable shapeless object (I didn't know what muffins were until I was in my teens, believe it or not...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Oh, that's funny -- I call people nincompoops all the time! Not to their faces, of course -- and mostly when I'm behind a steering wheel. My favorite phrase of the golden era is "all in," as in "totally exhausted." I wish I could use it, because I think it's a perfect description of that...
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    Lipstick in the heel

    A stiletto? (Pardon the pun.)
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    How do you keep your house neat?

    Old floors are hard to shine anyway. And as Quentin Crisp said about dust, "after seven years it hardly matters." I agree re: living room, though I tend to do most of my sewing in there so that I can watch my old movies, and when the so-called "sweat shop" is up, the place looks terrible. It...
  20. St. Louis

    Lipstick in the heel

    Seems highly impractical to me; can you imagine excusing yourself to your date while in a restaurant, bending over to twist that lipstick out of your heel (no way to do that gracefully) and then, after application, getting it back in there? But the shoes are kind of cute.
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    Ladies, what are you doing this evening?

    Thanks for the kind wishes. My pal is doing better, but further tests are in the offing, which will mean more coercion by me. Tonight I'm going to knit quietly, sip ice cold lemonade, and ignore the cats. Lizzie, good luck on the house. It couldn't possibly ask for a better or more careful...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    I just watched an creepy & slightly clunky B movie titled The Seventh Victim (1943) which had some wonderfully atmospheric scenes and the incomparable and severely underrated Jean Brooks. This movie also introduced Kim Hunter, who was a bit awkward in her first role, but later became the...
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    Ideas for kitchen?

    It does look as though I could just paint the cabinets white and maybe replace the worn white counter tops with something that resembles linoleum. The floor is pine & I have a painted floor cloth on it now, so that's fine. I found someone who's willing to install a gas stove and take out one or...

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