30 "SECRET" Money Tricks 1950s Housewives Hid From Their Husbands That Saved the Family
Subscribe to the channel: / @forgottenfrugalamerica 👉Start saving $5000 a year: forgottenfrugalamerica.netlify.app In the spring of 1953, a steelworker's wife named Mae Coughlin stood at the kitchen counter of a bungalow on the west side of Cleveland and counted out the household allowance her husband had just handed her. Twenty-two dollars. That was the week. Twenty-two dollars for groceries, the milkman, the iceman, the church envelope, and anything else that came up between Monday and Sunday. She spent eighteen of it. She put four in a Maxwell House coffee tin behind the flour canister. By Christmas, that tin held one hundred and forty-three dollars. Her husband never knew it existed. He was not a bad man. He worked the open hearth at Republic Steel for forty-two years and never raised his voice at the table. He just believed the paycheck was his and the budget was hers. So she ran a second economy underneath the first one, quiet as a furnace pilot light.
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