It is no secret to anyone that Soviet hostesses have a lot of useful skills, which today turned out to be unnecessary or forgotten.
20-30 years ago all this was ordinary. Our moms and grandmothers boiled, suited and starchy underwear, darned and manually changed clothes, washed polyethylene bags and prepared cottage cheese from the Black Milk.
Maybe you also remember the details of the recent past. We will be glad if you share them in the comments.
Necessary skills
Boil underwear
Almost all bed linen has not been white. So that it remains white, it is boiled with soap and soda. And in the winter, at the end of the washing, the salt was added to the laundry not frozen while drying on the street.
Somewhere in the attic still lying on wooden tongs, which Mom delivered underwear boiling in a bucket of water.
Blue
Before the appearance of modern bleach, it was taken after washing the white to add blue. She gave linen from cotton and flax bluish tint.
Crankly
In order for collars, lace, tulle and tablecloths to keep the shape, after washing them lowered in the prepared starch solution. After that, things were pressed and dried.
Darn
Almost every house used to either a wooden ball or a mushroom that helped keep the tissue in the process of ducts. Increasing all socks, but sometimes shirts on elbows or trousers on the knees.
Patch
Sciential children's things were often updated with the help of payments. Now, by the way, on sale there are ready-made heatpars. Sutsted the desired size, storated - and use on.
Milk cottage cheese
Before the appearance of "Ultrapakov", milk was stored only a few days, and then Skisalo. However, homemade cottage cheese did not only so that the milk is not lost. He was much better shopping.
Stop the arrow on the head pantyhose
The tights were not the most affordable goods for a long time, so when the arrows appeared on them, they were striking to stop quickly, and then "raise" a loop or snatch. I remember how Mom stopped the arrow with nail polish and kept tights in the freezer for greater strength.
