Not at all wierd. Newspaper is a good insulator and it probably made the house warmer. They may have been poor, but they were pretty smart and very resourceful! My Gramma used to cover up with the paper sometimes in the fall or spring to take her afternoon nap. Did all ya'lls old folks take naps in the afternoon too? We had to be SOOOO quiet while they slept. Then when they woke up, everyone would have coffee. Kids had coffee milk..Still have my coffee that way!! BTW, I DO have at least one ancestress who came from KY. Her name was Dicy. She was either an Anderson or a Webster...not sure, but in the 1836 (first Texas) Census she was 44 years old. Then in the 1850 fed census she was 45. I like to think that I inherited her anti aging genes! She was married to Peter Whetstone who founded the town of Marshall TX. If there are any Anderson's out there, let me know. They were closely associated (living next to) Bailey Anderson in that first TX Census and named a child Anderson, so I really feel like she was an Anderson. Jan At 10:00 AM 9/18/1999 -0500, Leona Crist wrote: >Ok, maybe I will be throwing this out there and nobody elses's home did that, but I'll give it a try anyhow. My grandparents were so poor that on all of their walls in their house, instead of wallpaper, paint, they hung newspaper or magazines on the wall.. I revisited this home after about 20 years (long after they had passed away) and the funny thing was that they same paper was on the walls. They house was just about to fall in, but for memories sake I picked some off the walls and have it put away. That probably sounds pretty weird to everyone, but its a neat memory. Leona > > >