Hoarding is not collection development
Retro Home Decorating
1001 Decorating Ideas
Carter and Bernard, ed.
Consolidated Trimming Corp.
~1955
Looking for some decorating help? Look no further! There are so many ideas here (over a thousand!). Turn your home into a showplace! My personal favorite is the pink and red master bedroom. I’m curious why there is a book on the floor. You would think they would pick up since someone was coming over to photograph the bedroom. Maybe it is there to distract from the ridiculous red wallpaper or all the ruffles.
Mary
Dodging the Marriage Bullet
How to Avoid Matrimony
Froy
1957
Okay all you rogue males, you don’t want to be trapped by the ladies looking for marriage. This guy has you covered with some interesting advice so you can avoid having the life sucked out of you by some airhead or harpy out to trap you into marriage.
Naturally you can’t be going with out feminine companionship, but you want to avoid certain kinds of women. For example: girls with boring factory jobs, because they have boring factory jobs; divorced women because they are kind of desperate; foreign girls, girls with pushy mothers, etc. Be vigilant!
Best part: all the charts and illustrations so you really can visualize your bachelor strategies.
Time for me to round up some rogue males,
Mary
Snag a boyfriend with a meal!
Teen-Time Cooking
with Carnation
Blake
1959
Want to be one of the cool kids? Break out the apron and you can be popular and throw the perfect party with help from this little book. Naturally, Sad Susie is totally unpopular with the boys, but she can at least get her girlfriends together and throw a little party. One of those girls might have a cute brother or cousin and with your cooking skills you might be able to snag a new boyfriend. Naturally, we have a molded tuna salad recipe with gelatin to make sure you can properly “shape” your food. I am sure this recipe is a sure bet for attracting a man.
Mary