redkimba

I just found a darning egg at Lacis.com for about $4. I will keep that in mind...

PS - I picked up some sock yarn this past weekend. The yarn makes its own pattern when you knit it. I'm excited...

C.Cal Quilt Girl

That's what it was, was it also used with stencils and templates, maybe that was the same theory but a different item
Thanks for the reminder !!
:-D

quiltilicious

Well my stepson's other stepdad (man, we need new words for these relationships that are shorter!) owned a live poultry store in Jersey City and the boys learned how to kill and pluck chickens and turkeys. Something *I* never learned growing up, that's for sure.

quiltilicious

I never learned shorthand, because I wanted to be an engineer when I was in high school (and didn't want to learn any "girly" stuff like home ec - which I learned at home anyway). But years at a computer workstation writing code and later technical writing has given me a very fast typing speed - fast enough to take minutes at the PTA meeting with my laptop - I manage to catch everything that's said, as long as there is only ONE conversation going on at a time!

Helen Bankert

I know 3 people who weave rugs

cag1949

I wish I would have kept up my shorthand! I do have the books though if I ever had time to play with it again! Spend too much time on this board!

great aunt jacqui

I remember the rag man coming up our small street to collect rags, old clothes for recycling for the war...We would open our 2nd floor window and throw out the stuff. Also putting a sign in the window if we needed oil or turning it over if we needed ice.
When the ice truck came and we were outside he'd give us a piece to eat. We would have to heat the water by lighting a pilot light in the burner in the kitchen.
Putting heavy irons on the old stove to heat it for ironing.
Putting those irons wrapped in towels under the covers to keep our feet warm at night.
Having 3 generations living in one house. Walking to school, walking home for lunch. Having a small grocery store and having them add up the prices on the brown paper bag.

lab fairy

I actually had a student whose pant fell down around his ankles. I pulled out the duct tape and fixed them for him. They were taped up under his armpits until he left my class. My rule was "I don't show you my underwear. Don't show me yours." Needless to say, I have used a LOT of duct tape over the years.

Ditter43

my husband still recycles lead and makes his own sinkers....ties flies, even makes some of his own lures. He is a "tinkerer" and comes up with all kind of things. :D

Linda B

Do they still make 'paint-by-number' kits anymore? I remember enjoying that as a kid. And I loved to make impressions using magazines with heavy duty aluminum foil on top and a ball point pen. And paper dolls - I remember watching my Grandmother using tiny scissors to neatly cut out the clothes for me.