“Happiness is homemade” is a saying that has been printed on many images and has been featured in many kitchens. “Show may be easily purchased; but happiness is home-made article” was printed in the Daily Milwaukee News (Milwaukee, WI) on May 8, 1864.
 
“After all, happiness is largely homemade” was printed in the “Business & Finance” column by B. C. Forbes (1880-1954) in the Shreveport (LA) Journal on July 16, 1934.
 
“Happiness is Home-made” was printed in the “Dorothy Dix’s Talks” column in the Journal and Courier on September 9, 1938. “Happiness Is Homemade” was printed in the “Dorothy Dix Talks” column in The Times-Picayune (New Orleans, LA) on December 20, 1940. American journalist and columnist Dorothy Dix (1861-1951) was a pioneering female journalist.
   
     
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8 May 1864, Daily Milwaukee News (Milwaukee, WI), “Facts and Fancies,” pg. 4, col. 5: 
Show may be easily purchased; but happiness is home-made article.
 
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1 April 1869, Gallipolis (OH) Journal, pg. 1, col. 5:
Show may be easily purchased; but happiness is home-made article.
       
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21 May 1913, Great Falls (MT) Daily Tribune, pg. 2, col. 2:
The best brand of happiness is the home-made kind.
 
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16 July 1934, Shreveport (LA) Journal, “Business & Finance” by B. C. Forbes, pg. 6, col. 7:
After all, happiness is largely homemade.
 
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9 September 1938, Lafayette (IN) Journal and Courier, “Dorothy Dix’s Talks,” pg. 6, col. 3:
HAPPINESS IS HOME-MADE
The very best brand of happiness is strictly a home-made product. Nothing you can buy in the market places of the outside world has the sweetness, the flavor, the heartening and strengthening qualities of that which we brew on our own hearthstones.
   
20 December 1940, The Times-Picayune, (New Orleans, LA), “Dorothy Dix Talks,” pg. 34, col. 7:
Happiness Is Homemade
The next thing that women should remember in formulating their philosophy of life is that happiness is a homemade product. It doesn’t come put up in cans and it isn’t for sale over the counter.
 
OCLC WorldCat record
Happiness is homemade : eight topics for homemakers
Author: A J Bueltmann
Publisher: [St. Louis, Mo.] : Concordia, 1971.
Series: Parent guidance series, no. 3.
Edition/Format:   Print book : English
 
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Happiness is homemade
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Jordan North 9th Ward (West Valley City, Utah). Relief Society.
Publisher: Granger, UT : Jordan North 9th Ward Relief Society, Kansas City, Kansas : Cookbook Publishers, Inc. [1977] ©1977
Edition/Format:   Print book : English
 
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Happiness is ..... homemade
Author: Midland Christian School (Midland, Tex.). Ladies Auxiliary for Christian Education,
Publisher: Olathe, Kansas : Cookbook Publishers, Inc., [1984] ©1984
Edition/Format:   Print book : English
 
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Happiness is homemade
Author: Jane J Thomas
Publisher: Sisseton, S.D. : Lowell Lundstrom Ministeries, 1987.
Edition/Format:   Print book : English
     
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Happiness is homemade
Author: Rhonda S Hogan; Susan Winget
Publisher: Fort Worth, Tex. : Brownlow Pub. Co., ©1999.
Edition/Format:   Print book : English
 
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Dana Clover
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OK everyone…  whats your Motto?  don’t have one? Well.. It’s time!  Mine is = “Happiness Is Homemade” #happy09
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Google Books
Title Happiness Is Homemade: Big Blank Baking Cookbook to Write In
Author Blank Publishers
Edition illustrated
Publisher Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Print Us, 2018
ISBN 1792184778, 9781792184772
Length 122 pages
 
Google Books
Title Happiness Is Homemade: Black Marble Blank Cookbook Recipes with Table of Contents - Recipe Journal to Write in Gift for Women, Girls and Mom for Mothers Day
Author Delicia03 Publishers
Publisher Independently Published, 2019
ISBN 1088531652, 9781088531655
Length 108 pages
 
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Ivanka Trump
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Happiness is homemade! 🦃 #ThanksgivingMemories
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