The composition and variety of food were often connected with the standard of life of the inhabitants. Sauces, gruels of podders and smashed potatoes compensating bread in the past, they were the old kinds of meals and dishes. Then meals of flour were often eaten - cooked, baked, roasted and fried. Soups, considerably thickened, were eaten as breakfast and, often as the main dish at noon. Milk and milk products belonged to the most important products of the animal produce. Meat was eaten seldom, only during holidays or family feasts, because families sold cattle to buy other necessary products.
Family and annual customs are an inseparable part of the life of the Myjava people. Those rites of the past have lost their original sense. For their regularity, social and amusing contents later, sone of them have been preserved to the present. The family customs are connected with significant family events (birth of children, recruiting, weddings, funerals, etc.). Annual customs are divided into cycles of the winter and summer solstices, and spring and autumn equinox. In winter, a cult of forefathers prevailed, as well as prophesying and telling fortune. In spring, it was a cult of the earth, water, flora and, in summer, a cult of the sun and abundance in the nature.
To the way of life of the Myjava people in farms and towns there belonged a popular prose and folk-songs. The repertory of the stories consisted of tales, superstitions, humouristic stories and of stories from life of the people. The topics of the folk-prose are found in the real-historic and present lives. To one of the oldest topics, narratives of Hussites and Anti-Turkish struggles belong. To the newer ones themes about the revolutionary years 1848-49 belong emigration, local tales and a period of the two world wars. Those are also topics of the popular songs from Myjava, in which hard work, optimism and ethic principles of the people are emphasized. The music of the Myjava folk-songs contains the oldest signs of the agricultural culture, period of the shepherds’ and Wallachian culture, a modal inter-stratum that arose on a base of new harmonic thinking from the 18th century, and a new Hungarian musical expression that influenced mainly military songs and csardas. The folkloric traditions of Myjava are joined by a musical-instrumental expression. In the past, till the beginning of the 20th century, bagpipe was the mostly used solo instrument near Myjava. After the World War I, it was a button accordion.