Grandmothers are a valuable source of advice that can make our lives easier, save us money, keep us healthy and help us respect the planet. How many times have grandmother’s remedies allowed us to solve small everyday problems? So let’s not underestimate their wisdom and try to draw from them all possible lessons that will certainly give us a hand to live better. Here are the good habits we should learn from our grandmothers.
Index
- Take a walk
- Cooking with leftovers
- Grow vegetables
- Do your shopping well
- To write letters
- Choose natural remedies
- Mending clothes
- Give up technology from time to time
- Avoid accumulations
- Cleaning in a natural way
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Take a walk
Walking is good for the body and mind. A simple walk, in the park or through the streets of the neighborhood, is a real panacea. Never forget to take your evening or morning walk at least when the weather permits. Now even science has confirmed this on numerous occasions . Walking at least 30 minutes a day is one of the secrets to staying fit and healthy.
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Cooking with leftovers
Preparing meals at home with ingredients from the garden is the first advice that any grandmother could give you when it comes to cooking. Who does not remember the authentic taste of homemade minestrone? The grandmothers then remind us that nothing is wasted and that we must always reuse the leftovers so as not to throw away food . So don’t forget the leftovers in the fridge and use them for cooking before they are thrown away.
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Grow vegetables
Our grandmothers in their lives worked in the fields or cultivated the vegetable garden and if they can they still do it with extraordinary results. Their harvest is always rich thanks to what they have learned over time about cultivation. We ask them for all the most precious advice to learn how to cultivate the vegetable garden in turn and maybe we help to take care of their piece of land. If we don’t have space, a few pots of aromatic herbs on the windowsill or balcony are enough to carry on a good habit.
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Do your shopping well
We learn from our grandmothers to do the shopping, indeed, from our great-grandmothers. As Professor Franco Berrino suggests , every time we go shopping we should pretend to be accompanied by our great-grandmother and exclude from the cart all those products that contain ingredients that she would not know how to recognize. Eating healthy starting from choices while shopping means always focusing on quality and on the simplest and most beneficial foods. Watch the video .
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To write letters
How long have we not written a letter with pen and paper? By now perhaps we are limited only to greeting cards. The ease of e-mails, text messages and chats has almost made the good habit of writing letters disappear. The screen of your pc and smartphone will never have the same warmth as letter paper. So, maybe on a special occasion, let’s try to surprise our loved ones with an unexpected letter .
Choose natural remedies
A cup of chamomile tea for stomach ache, potato peels on sun-reddened skin, mauve compresses on red eyes, fumigations for colds. Here are some of the natural remedies that your grandmothers will have suggested to you at least once in their life to solve many small daily problems with delicate but still effective methods . Take note, experience them and pass them on to new generations.
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Mending clothes
Our grandmothers have a skill that seems innate and almost magical: knowing how to mend clothes in a workmanlike manner, making them as good as new. So let’s learn the best tricks from them. And if we don’t have a grandmother available, let’s try to consult one of the many tutorials and videos that are online. Mending clothes, knowing how to replace the sorting of a bag or jacket and fastening buttons: this is the ideal solution to save money and so that our clothes and accessories last longer.
Give up technology from time to time
Our grandmothers knew how to do everything without having the technological tools that accompany us every day. The washing machine was a revolution, but at the same time we must not forget the ability to wash by hand so as not to risk ruining the most delicate items. Pesto is better if we prepare it with a pestle instead of a blender, we can try to give up air conditioning when it is not strictly necessary and gradually say goodbye to the iron by learning to spread and fold clothes just like grandmothers do. and great-grandmothers know or knew how to do.
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Avoid accumulations
It is not a question of giving up comforts, but of avoiding the superfluous , of following trends a little less and of using objects, technological and otherwise, as long as they are still able to function and be useful to us. And if a breakdown does happen, let’s not forget to learn how to repair . In any case, from time to time, we do a good declutter to get rid of what we really don’t need anymore, trade it, sell it or donate it to charity.
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Cleaning in a natural way
Our grandmothers used lemon juice for cleaning copper and dishes, soap and baking soda for laundry. They knew that leaving dishes to soak in hot water helps save resources, time and effort. Now we too can imitate them by preparing the detergents we need at home with low environmental impact ingredients, in the name of saving and respecting the Planet.
