Sharing What Grandma Knew In Your Writing

November 5th, 2008 · No Comments · Public Domain How-To

Think you don’t have anything “new” to write about? What about sharing what grandma knew in your writing?

Articles and blog posting can become a grind. It doesn’t happen often, but when it does it’s pretty dog-gone stressful. So why not put out one of your Public Domain magazines and using that for content?

If you have been following this blog (and me) around for a while… you know that I use this strategy often.

Just today I found someone else who used some copyright-free magazine content to write a new blog post. And it’s fun, interesting and useful content.

clipped from: www.curbly.com

Curbly Recession Busters: What your Grandparents knew.

Leafing through a copy of The Home Front – The Best of Good Housekeeping 1939-1945 is something of a revelation. The British magazine’s wartime editions reminded me that our grandparents, especially those who lived in Europe during that time, knew a few things about privation, making do and surviving an unimaginably difficult time.

Advice like ‘Don’t forget your gas mask’ and ‘Save your coupons’ inspire pride that our little island and the people on it survived horrors with determination and spirit; but they’re not terribly useful these days (thank goodness). But, ‘Grow more vegetables’ and ‘Turn off the light when you leave a room’ stand the test of time.

‘Learn to do it yourself‘ I was completely charmed to see that in the opinion of the Good Housekeeping Institute circa. 1942 that ‘every woman should know how to mend an electric fuse, fasten the head on a broom and re-washer a dripping tap’. I might add ‘change a light fixture’ and maybe ‘put up or replace tiles’ to the list.

Hey… did you notice I used clipmarks.com to share this article with you? I just shared another great tip for creating articles and blog content. Plus… clipmarks is just another way to get traffic to your website because public clipmarks are search engine friendly.