bearisgray

Does anyone else remember when they used to be handed out free as advertising pieces?

I just checked the Jo-Ann web site - they have two available - one for $4.99 and one for $6.99.

Tartan

​Yes, I have a couple.

jbj137

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*** Just about all stores have at one time or another given them out.
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*** I have about 6 of them.
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Eva Knight

I have some that were given out as a freebie.

susiequilt

As my mother and I were leaving a hardware store my mom picked one up and out the door she went. I told her she had to pay and she put it back! No longer free at that time.

osewme

Hardware stores used to give them out all the time. Not anymore!

nativetexan

before i moved, i had a long door as my cutting table and my husband had put three yard sticks on the front edge. Great for measuring.

cashs_mom

I have one 3 ft one and one 4 ft "yardstick" that were both freebies. I haven't seen any free yardsticks in ages.

However, one of our clients gave out plastic back scratchers last year. I hadn't seen those in years either.

ube quilting

I like to collect them when I see them at flea markets. Great old advertising pieces.
peace

quiltingcandy

It was a surprise to me how much they cost, when I told my daughter they used to be free at the hardware stores, even drug stores, you only paid for metal ones. (My dad had a couple of those, which I failed to take when we were cleaning out the house.)

Dime stores and fabric stores would give out thimbles with their names on it.