What if our flour, sugar, cornmeal,etc. ....
09-29-2011, 09:04 PM
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Being from central TX where everything is burning down or drying up, I suspect we wouldn't be able to afford to buy them. I can't even imagine how much more expensive cotton is going to get. It was going up anyway before the draught. The lake that is used for all our surrounding cities is at an all time low. They are having to get our water closer to the lake bed then ever before. Our water has a yellow cast to it. They assure us it is safe to drink. No thank you. We have lost our lawn, trees and shrubs are fading fast. I will get of my soap box. It is just such a serious problem for us here.
Robin in TX
Robin in TX
09-30-2011, 12:39 AM
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Originally Posted by rob529
Being from central TX where everything is burning down or drying up, I suspect we wouldn't be able to afford to buy them. I can't even imagine how much more expensive cotton is going to get. It was going up anyway before the draught. The lake that is used for all our surrounding cities is at an all time low. They are having to get our water closer to the lake bed then ever before. Our water has a yellow cast to it. They assure us it is safe to drink. No thank you. We have lost our lawn, trees and shrubs are fading fast. I will get of my soap box. It is just such a serious problem for us here.
Robin in TX
Robin in TX
09-30-2011, 05:09 AM
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Originally Posted by incoming2me
Originally Posted by Sandra Henderson
Clynns:
I use to get to write Santa and ask for....
from using the S&H Green Stamps store! It was right next to Winn Dixie and as a kid, I'd "window shop". lol I was more ready to get those stamps from the cashier at checkout and keep them safe until I got them home to put them in "the book" than my mother! I'm ONLY 44!!!!~
Great idea!~
Folks don't think twice about paying for a glass from the dollar store 1.00. How much do they think that glass costs?!?! VERY LITTLE.... It's all doable.
I use to get to write Santa and ask for....
from using the S&H Green Stamps store! It was right next to Winn Dixie and as a kid, I'd "window shop". lol I was more ready to get those stamps from the cashier at checkout and keep them safe until I got them home to put them in "the book" than my mother! I'm ONLY 44!!!!~
Great idea!~
Folks don't think twice about paying for a glass from the dollar store 1.00. How much do they think that glass costs?!?! VERY LITTLE.... It's all doable.
The cashier would stick her finger in the dial and turn it to dispense the correct number of stamps?
Fabric packaging would be pretty neat to see a comeback in some form.
But... food safety is much more of an issue these days.
I don't even see french bread sold in the long paper bags at the stores without being in a plastic sleeve as I remember years ago.
After being so accustomed to our current ways of packaging food.. I think I'd almost be skeeved out if it didn't come packaged and sealed!
09-30-2011, 10:56 AM
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"SOME" of the good old things are ok, but I think I like most of these days. I like my air conditioner, computer,having more than 1 car to drive. Maybe even the fact that not many women worked outside of the house. No wonder those ladies of the past could make quilts.
09-30-2011, 11:01 AM
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Lets see...
I buy about one bag of flour per year, havent bought a *bag* of sugar or corn meal in a couple decades.....
Would we have to wash the FORMALDEHYDE out of the bag after we emptied the flour out of it, before we sewed with it ?
Did you know the cloth groceries bags were tested by permission of grocery shoppers in several grocery stores a few months ago, and over 90% of them had some level of salmonella and/or E. coli contamination? Do you realize how many people do NOT wash their cloth grocery bags after every use ? It was interesting.. just a thought.....
I buy about one bag of flour per year, havent bought a *bag* of sugar or corn meal in a couple decades.....
Would we have to wash the FORMALDEHYDE out of the bag after we emptied the flour out of it, before we sewed with it ?
Did you know the cloth groceries bags were tested by permission of grocery shoppers in several grocery stores a few months ago, and over 90% of them had some level of salmonella and/or E. coli contamination? Do you realize how many people do NOT wash their cloth grocery bags after every use ? It was interesting.. just a thought.....
09-30-2011, 12:56 PM
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Well, the price of fabric these days is not cheap either & I would wonder about the shelf life of the products. Then, of course, there is the expense of changing machinery to accomodate sewing instead of handling cardboard & plastic. I don't think we will ever go back to the "good old days."
09-30-2011, 03:02 PM
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I have a picture of my mother, grandmother, and great grandmother wearing dresses made from flour sacks. My mom always said she had the prettiest dresses when she was little. I'll try to add the picture when I post my latest finished quilt.
09-30-2011, 03:29 PM
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Originally Posted by Sandra Henderson
Originally Posted by Scissor Queen
It's not really practical anymore. When those products came in fabric bags people mostly cooked from scratch. Plus when those products came in fabric bags more people than not sewed.
Not in the same category, but Coca Cola when it comes to pkg. and advertising...PENNIES is what it costs for the actual product. So much of what we buy goes for pkg and advtsg.
Well, I may travel in a small circle, but everywhere I go, folks would rather grow a cotton or bamboo plant, than cut down a tree. AND I"m NOT an enviromentalist. Also, everyone know of is a quilter , or has a quilter in their family these days or KNOWS one... It's BIG business!~The more I think about this, the more intrigued I become with the idea.
I go into a health food store and SEE what people pay for "soy ink and recycled boxes". The thing is, they have NO Idea what that actually COSTS!~
Sorry, I guess growing up in small business and have had my own for a very long time, I just look at things differently.
thats why all the bagged cereals, the laundry soap in bottles, etc is all shipped in cases nice square, flat topped...
also, putting it out on shelves @ the market.. takes a lot more space to shelve the bags of brown sugar type stuff compared to the cake mix type stuff in boxes.. and since companies pay for the space on the market shelves, less space saves $$
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