Flour Sacks
 

The spousal unit and I went to visit his mom in Idaho, and before we headed back this morning, we stopped at the WinCo grocery store...things are LOTS cheaper there than they are here!
Guess what I found in the baking section? 25 lb bags...$12.78

:D Well Charlee, How many did you go home with?

So, that was 3 bags.... now what are you planning to do with the 75 lbs. of flour and perhaps 6 fat quarters? Remember, if you are baking, it will cut down your quilting time.

Charlee, that is sooo cool! Wish they sold that around here!

~grin~ I didn't come home with any...I don't bake enough! I was pretty sure they were still out there tho, just didn't know where....now we do! ;)

Those are great, but yeah, not sure what I would do with all that flour!

Heck, just throw the flour out and use the flour sacks in a quilt!!!

Ah, Charlee, you're too young to have had to wear flour sack dresses. During WWII, uniforms took up so much production, fabric always wasn't available. Grandma was able to get good material for my dance costumes, but many of my everyday dresses were flour sacks. Pretty, usually, but not soft and smooth like the percale and silky material for my 'fancy' dresses. Did you catch the switch in terminology? Grandma never called it fabric - either yard goods or material.

A fun find!

Actually Rose...I DID wear flour sack blouses... :)

These sacks that I found felt really nice, but I suppose that could have had something to do with the flour in them...

Mom said "cloth" or "material".... :)

oooohhh.....I see flour and I think bread, cookies, noodles, pasta.....all the things that are bad for ya! LOL

Donate the flour to a food bank??? if they transfered it to ziplock bags...then you can take home the good fabric bag.

It's kind of fun to know that it's out there in fabric packaging, but I'm like many others and have changed to using whole grain flours etc as the white flour is just plain bad for you. Too bad. I'd sure like to have my cracked wheat, barley, oats etc packaged up in fabric. I'd probably feel like I was getting a little more for my money which is I something I haven't felt in quite a long while.

I would have bought one. Just so I could say I did. LOL.

When my grandmother died I didn't have much money to spend a the estate auction. What I wanted was her sewing machine but what I ended up with were the only toys she kept for us. They were printed on flour sacks. I think there were three. I only have one. I am pretty sure I gave the others to my sisters. I hope this isn't too much of thread hi-jack to share it with you.

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Reverse side

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I can tell you that in the late 60s when I was a small child this little guy ran a million miles on the floor of my grandparents' house and then slept with me most nights I was there.

I use enough flour that if I find it in sacks like that I am going to buy 50lbs or so!

Oh Mary! That's not a hijack at all!! What a wonderful story, and what memories you must have attached to that toy!

I didn't know they printed anything on the sacks like toys...thanks for sharing that! :)

Now that I think about it, I am pretty sure they were printed on feed sacks. Probably chicken feed.