"Reading all these comments. Man, I sure miss having babies! Aren't they just the best?????????"

"I still have some. Don’t know where I got them."

Reading these last 2 comments together made me laugh so hard!! Jshep, one of these days we will tell you how you get babies.

I went to a luncheon sponsored by my woman's club and since we were donating disposable diapers to a local charity a crafty member made favors for the table by folding napkins into a diaper and using a big blue diaper pin. She filled the diapers with chocolate candy. I saved my diaper pin and I wonder where on earth she found enough to make favors for everyone. My baby is 61 years old also and I wish I had saved some of the cute pins I used. I had birds, ducks, flowers, etc. Many happy memories.

Someone is having a bad day. This board is about supporting one another and having a sense of humor. Don't take yourself too seriously. Noone else does.

Good grief. I never knew a discussion about diaper pins could lead to "rude and snotty" words.

really - she blocked me a while back with a very ugly personal message!!

I went to a baby shower abut 8 years ago, a friend of the future grandma. One of the games that I got caught having to play, was can you diaper a bear. The bear was about the size of a 3 month old, and then they said you are blindfolded and its a cloth diaper! I just looked at all the young people around me and thought really? It took me less than a minute and when I stood the bear up the diaper didn't fall off. It was a little difficult getting the pins thru the 4 layers of diaper since I folded it over at the tops to make it small enough. Remember one size fits all! just fold to make it smaller.:) I think it took the other girl (friend of the mother to be) about 15 minutes and it didn't stay on. If I remember correctly they move on to a different game quickly. I told them I had two in diapers and we were in the military, cloth was cheaper than those fancy disposables. But when the girls had to go to a sitter I had to provide disposables, so I did have to use them sometimes.

Grandkids are more fun and you get to give them back at the end of the day, and you don't lose sleep,

This was a fun post, I remember when I had my daughter, she was the first and now is 49yrs old, when I changed her diaper, I accidently pinned her to it, I didn't know I had done that till I picked her up off the changing table and she stared to scream, them like a dummy I put rubbing alcohol on it so it wouldn't get infected (nope didn't know what I was doing) laugh about it now but I didn't then, I cried and called my husband and told him I was going to be put in jail for abusing our baby, he just laughed at me. MEN! I still have her diaper pins and the one I pinned to her.

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Originally Posted by PurplePansies (Post 8542487)

I was pinning blocks together the other day and, when the pin wouldn't slide right in, I automatically just ran it through my hair. Anyone else remember doing that with diaper pins? (My "baby" is 45!)

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Running the business end of the pin through my hair at change-time was something I did back in the day when I used to babysit (teen years), cloth diapers and rubber pants were in vogue back then. Swore by it as a mom, too, especially when fastening bulky double diapers.

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Originally Posted by lberna (Post 8542512)

Oh my gosh. What a walk down memory lane. I still have a couple of them. How about rubber pants. I used to buy Gerber rubber pants because I could get them at my grocery store.

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Yuppers, put all my kids through rubber pants. Yes to Gerber! Nothing beat the old Gerber's!

Gerber rubber pants were truly the only rubber pants I found that stood up to being laundered with the diapers, unlike cheaper brands which would rip, tear, and fall apart when subjected to the rigors of my old top-loading agitator washing machine.

Diapers and rubber pants were hung to dry on the clothesline.

Did everyone double and triple diaper in their homes, too?

Was always double diapers when I babysat, so did the same with my own gang... double diapers with rubber pants (daytime), triple diapers with rubber pants (nighttime), and I remember diapering my baby brother the same.