I too am of the older generation where they nipped it with the little machine. I worked in an old fashioned "mercantile" when I was in my teens and measured many yards of fabric that way. GOOD memories! I hoped it would be on the auction when the store contents were sold but it wasn't, nor was the thread cabinet which I dearly wanted. But I did buy the old time coffee grinder - oh, the smell of grinding fresh coffee beans.............(I still don't like the taste, tho). The store owner's son told me he thought I was buying memories - yeah, well - sometimes you can do that. And when I moved to town 6 1/2 years ago, I discovered that my middle son loved it (I was wondering what to do with it), so now he proudly displays it at his house with a basket of bags of coffee beans - some from the original store!
WOW - I sure got way off topic, didn't I?? Sorry......