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The Clever Homemaker’s Competition

Woman's Realm / 18th March 1967

A rather clever competition dealing with the main problem of a consumer society: where to put it all. It’s doubtful that people before the late ’60s had storage as a real issue. As a child of the ’80s, I grew up with overflowing cupboards, and am currently using this post as an excuse to avoid dealing with the large amount of crap upstairs. Probably the best thing we could do for our children is to teach them about the folly of continually buying stuff to make themselves feel better, isn’t it? Yeah, I don’t think that’s likely to happen either…

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