Pins and Teeth Alert!!!!
06-26-2011, 04:01 AM
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I HAVE BEEN SEWING 4 DAYS IN A ROW AND ONLY PUT ONE PIN IN MY MOUTH. DON'T THEY SAY IT TAKES 21 DAYS TO BREAK OR MAKE A HABIT? IT IS SO FUNNY NOW I AM SO CONCIOUS OF IT AND THATS A GOOD THING.
06-26-2011, 06:44 PM
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Originally Posted by bearisgray
I put the pins on my shirt - instead of a pincushion -
06-26-2011, 07:07 PM
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Originally Posted by featherweight
My Home Ec teacher told us many years ago that if she caught us with a pin in our mouth she just may give us a whack on the back.. That has stuck with me all my life. I never do that. She said that if we have one in our mouth and got startled, we may swallow it. OUCH!!
06-27-2011, 05:54 AM
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I broke myself of the habit after I started working for a sewing machine company where I also taught sewing and realized that if I put the pins in my mouth and everyone else did too it was a great way to catch the swine flu that was going around. End of story end of putting pins in my mouth.
Originally Posted by BarbZ
I was having my teeth cleaned the other day and my hygenist new I sewed a lot over the years, and she asked me if I held pins between my teeth much. I said yes I do a lot, knew it was a bad habit. Well she told me she could see the wear on one of my front teeth from it. I thought they were starting to just crack (with age LOL) and she said no, she has seen this happen to other clients. Also cutting thread with your teeth is a bad habit. Soooooo I am trying very hard to stick the pins in a cushion from now on. Thought I would pass this along. :-D
06-27-2011, 11:02 AM
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I sewed some wide elastic on a small tomato pin cushion for my left wrist. Works great and always right where I need it. Only have to roll my wrist a little to reach my pins. My daughter puts pins in her mouth even tho I made her a tomato wrist pin cushion. Aghhhhhh.
06-28-2011, 01:58 PM
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That's good info. Because I teach out of my home I've learned to be very careful about putting pins in my mouth. I sometimes have to share with my students and those kind of germs I can do without.
06-30-2011, 01:29 AM
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Originally Posted by donnajean
I would be afraid of swallowing the pin if I put it between my teeth.
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