if they don’t support you, don’t encourage you, don’t defend you, don’t respect you, don’t protect you, don’t worry about you, don’t ask about you, don’t talk about you, or don’t wonder about you, then they don’t care about you. don’t stay in an unfulfilling relationship; a person that doesn’t care, doesn’t love.
People don’t often look back on the early 1900’s for advice, but what if we could actually learn something from the Lost Generation? The New York Public Library has digitized 100 “how to do it” cards found in cigarette boxes over 100 years ago, and the tips they give are so practical that millennials reading this might want to take notes.
Back in the day, cigarette cards were popular collectibles included in every pack, and displayed photos of celebrities, advertisements, and more. Gallaher cigarettes, a UK-founded tobacco company that was once the largest in the world, decided to print a series of helpful how-to’s on their cards, which ranged from mundane tasks (boiling potatoes) to unlikely scenarios (stopping a runaway horse). Most of them are insanely clever, though, like how to make a fire extinguisher at home. Who even knew you could do that?
The entire set of life hacks is now part of the NYPL’s George Arents Collection. Check out some of the cleverest ones we could find below. You never know when you’ll have to clean real lace!
Literally all I ever hear about is girls embracing their sexuality. I’m here for it all the way, but there is not enough talk about girls who don’t want to be sexual and super out there at all. Literally everything is just about sex. Or the girls who are celibate or girls who’ve had traumatic sexual encounters and don’t want sex or the girls who never want to have sex. Not a lot of those kind of girls are talked about and sex is so enforced and pressurized in our society today that many girls feel like they should be having sex because society says so. I’m here to say you don’t have to have sex if you do not want to have sex. You are just as valuable as a girl who has had sex or is having sex. Don’t think you’re a prude or a bore. You’re just as much as a delight.
