Pass It On: funny, fascinating and useful retro household tips from the 1950s
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Meat & Fish
Pass It On: funny, fascinating and useful retro household tips from the 1950s
07/17/20 • 28 min
It’s the penultimate episode of Pass It On, but there’s no end of weird and wonderful tips from the 50s to discuss. Why, for example, would you need to know the best technique to post a chicken?
We’re still here!
Pass It On: funny, fascinating and useful retro household tips from the 1950s
03/27/20 • 46 min
The last time Connie, Steve and Chris were together, we promised you that the next episode would be filled with sewing tips. But then again, the last time we were all together, the world was in a very different place.
And now so are we, literally; this episode was recorded from Connie, Steve and Chris’s respective homes, and while we do get to some sewing tips, first, we took the chance to chat and catch up with each other. Stay safe, and if you’d like something to entertain and amuse you while you’re home, remember that the discount code which gives you 20% off the Pass It On books at dcthomsonshop.co.uk is now ‘darning’; it’s valid till 20 May 2020, and you just need to enter it at checkout! Chat to us at twitter.com/ThePassItOnPod or facebook.com/PassItOnTips, and if you know anyone who’d enjoy the podcast as much as you do – pass it on!
The Future Pt. 1
Pass It On: funny, fascinating and useful retro household tips from the 1950s
01/22/20 • 28 min
In the first copy of The Sunday Post published in 1960, its journalists wrote about what they thought the next decade would bring. It’s fertile ground for intergenerational japes and discovery from Connie, Steve and Chris, but we’re not sure we could have predicted that it would have been the catalyst for finding out how recently Connie discovered where Fife was – hint: we can see it from the room we recorded in.
There are far more tips in the Pass It On books than we can cover in the podcast, but remember, you can get 20% off the books this show is based on at dcthomsonshop.co.uk, using the discount code ‘thrifty’ at checkout; that code is valid till 12 Feb 2020! Let us know what you think of the show at twitter.com/ThePassItOnPod or facebook.com/PassItOnTips, and if you know anyone who’d enjoy the podcast as much as you do – pass it on!
Painting and decorating Pt. 2
Pass It On: funny, fascinating and useful retro household tips from the 1950s
01/15/20 • 25 min
In this episode, Steve presents Connie and Chris with another list of – he says – sure-fire painting and decorating tips from the readers of The Sunday Post in the 1950s. But as usual, they’re sceptical, and as usual, they quickly find themselves on tangents. Plus, Steve reveals his favourite thing about paint, and if that’s not going to get you excitedly listening, we’re out of ideas.
There are far more tips in the Pass It On books than we can cover in the podcast, but remember, you can get 20% off the books this show is based on at dcthomsonshop.co.uk, using the discount code ‘thrifty’ at checkout; that code is valid till 12 Feb 2020! Let us know what you think of the show at twitter.com/ThePassItOnPod or facebook.com/PassItOnTips, and if you know anyone who’d enjoy the podcast as much as you do – pass it on!
Painting and decorating Pt. 1
Pass It On: funny, fascinating and useful retro household tips from the 1950s
01/08/20 • 26 min
Planning on refreshing your interior décor in the new year? Let the Pass It On tips be your guide! On second thought, maybe not! There are some good ideas here, but there are towels being given our left, right and centre – can you work out why? As always, there are far more tips in the Pass It On books than we can cover in the podcast, but remember, you can get 20% off the books this show is based on at dcthomsonshop.co.uk, using the discount code ‘thrifty’ at checkout; that code is valid till 12 Feb 2020! Let us know what you think of the show at twitter.com/ThePassItOnPod or facebook.com/PassItOnTips, and if you know anyone who’d enjoy the podcast as much as you do – pass it on!
The Doc Replies
Pass It On: funny, fascinating and useful retro household tips from the 1950s
01/01/20 • 26 min
If you’re feeling a little delicate today after the Hogmanay revels, let us share with you some medical advice from the pages of The Sunday Post. Get yourself a bacon roll and some Irn Bro, and play it nice and quietly...
There are far more tips in the Pass It On books than we can cover in the podcast, but remember, you can get 20% off the books this show is based on at dcthomsonshop.co.uk, using the discount code ‘thrifty’ at checkout; that code is valid till 12 Feb 2020! Let us know what you think of the show at twitter.com/ThePassItOnPod or facebook.com/PassItOnTips, and if you know anyone who’d enjoy the podcast as much as you do – pass it on!
🎄 Christmas Special 2019
Pass It On: funny, fascinating and useful retro household tips from the 1950s
12/25/19 • 38 min
Merry Christmas, if you celebrate it, from Connie, Steve and Chris! We returned to Tenement House in Glasgow recently to record a special Christmassy episode for you, in front of an audience – just the thing to enjoy when you’re lying catatonic on the sofa, up to your eyeballs in turkey and sprouts.
And if Santa didn’t bring you a Pass It On book, remember that you can get 20% off them at dcthomsonshop.co.uk, using the discount code ‘thrifty’ at checkout; that code is valid till 12 Feb 2020! Let us know what you think of the show at twitter.com/ThePassItOnPod or facebook.com/PassItOnTips, and if you know anyone who’d enjoy the podcast as much as you do – pass it on!
Nostalgia
Pass It On: funny, fascinating and useful retro household tips from the 1950s
12/18/19 • 24 min
It’s nearly the end of the year, and so Connie and Chris allow Steve an even more than usual licence to wallow in nostalgia. We’re looking forward to next week’s special show, recorded live in front of an audience, but for now, for this week, let us look back!
There are far more tips in the Pass It On books than we can cover in the podcast, but remember, you can get 20% off the books this show is based on at dcthomsonshop.co.uk, using the discount code ‘thrifty’ at checkout; that code is valid till 12 Feb 2020! Let us know what you think of the show at twitter.com/ThePassItOnPod or facebook.com/PassItOnTips, and if you know anyone who’d enjoy the podcast as much as you do – pass it on!
Clean Mama special episode
Pass It On: funny, fascinating and useful retro household tips from the 1950s
12/11/19 • 32 min
We’re thrilled to welcome Becky – the person behind the cleaning phenomenon that is Clean Mama – to the podcast for this very special episode, not least because Becky actually knows what she’s talking about! Connie, Steve and Chris put some of the Pass It On cleaning tips to Becky for her verdict, and discover to their delight that she’s doing exactly the same kind of inventive work in the US, with a simple store cupboard of ingredients, that the Pass It On housewives were doing in Scotland in the 1950s!
There are far more tips in the Pass It On books than we can cover in the podcast, but remember, you can get 20% off the books this show is based on at dcthomsonshop.co.uk, using the discount code ‘thrifty’ at checkout; that code is valid till 12 Feb 2020! Let us know what you think of the show at twitter.com/ThePassItOnPod or facebook.com/PassItOnTips, and if you know anyone who’d enjoy the podcast as much as you do – pass it on!
What is Pass It On?
Pass It On: funny, fascinating and useful retro household tips from the 1950s
06/12/19 • 25 min
More than 50 years ago, a Scottish newspaper called The Sunday Post started a little column where readers, usually women, could write in with tips for running a household. We recently rediscovered these in our archives, and have been republishing them as a series of books; the tips are often funny, sometimes delightfully dated and dubious, occasionally even useful! But they’re always fascinating, as a capsule of social history, forgotten knowledge, gender expectations and more.
Welcome, then, to the Pass It On podcast, where we really dig into all that! Connie is the host – the modern equivalent of the generation who wrote into Pass It On – and she’s joined by the author of the books, Steve, who’s of a generation to remember these tips in use. Between them in age is Chris, and though the tips themselves are our starting point, they're just an excuse to explore changing attitudes to housekeeping, gender equality, privilege, thrift, throwaway culture, and more – we hope you enjoy it whatever age you are or wherever in the world you live, and that you subscribe now to join us as we discover, talk and learn!
As a special thank you for listening to the podcast, you can get 20% off the Pass It On books themselves – stuffed with thousand of tips! – at dcthomsonshop.co.uk, using the discount code ‘podcast’ at checkout; that code is valid till 28 August 2019. Let us know what you think of the show at twitter.com/ThePassItOnPod or facebook.com/PassItOnTips, and if you know anyone who’d enjoy the podcast as much as you do – pass it on!
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Pass It On: funny, fascinating and useful retro household tips from the 1950s currently has 53 episodes available.
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The episode title 'Painting and decorating Pt. 2' is the most popular.
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The average episode length on Pass It On: funny, fascinating and useful retro household tips from the 1950s is 28 minutes.
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The first episode of Pass It On: funny, fascinating and useful retro household tips from the 1950s was released on May 6, 2019.
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