Remember When!!
Comments
-
In the age before seat belts, I remember playing 'astronaut' in the car. I'd lie on the floor in the passenger's side with my feet on the front seat, and would pretend I was blasting off into space as my dad drove down the bumpy, unpaved country roads. (I can't remember if my mom knew about this.....probably not!)
0 -
Remember riding in the back of a pickup truck? Talk about lack of safety!!
0 -
sitting on the tailgate, which was down (my brother got a concussion when he fell off the back end, I remember my mom making him stay awake all night, and the he missed a whole summer of baseball because of it. He was so mad!)
0 -
0 -
ruthbru, I can relate to that!!! I still reuse plastic containers for leftovers, and it still sometimes surprises me what's in them, even though I filled them!!!
0 -
Oh, so true!!!
0 -
Funny - I never gave up real butter for a 'spread', but I do re-use cottage cheese & sour cream containers regularly.
0 -
MinusTwo, you reminded me of when we were all told butter was bad and hydrogenated margarine was good! Never liked margarine so I'm glad butter is okay again!!
0 -
Remember these fun ways to pass the time?
0 -
ruthbru...loved those, especially the loom! I made my Mom so many pot holders!
0 -
Ruth, I remember Pick-Up Sticks and Old Maid. Thanks for the reminder.
0 -
My Dad would play Pick-up Sticks with us for hours. Thanks for the happy memories.
0 -
Looming potholders!!! Wow!! I probably made hundreds!! We could change the size and shape of loom so tried all sorts of weird shaped pads, coasters, and even doll blankets!!
0 -
Remember embroidered pillow cases and dish towels?
0 -
Yep! Still have the ones I did as a kid!
0 -
Anyone know how to tat?? I have hankies with tatted edges from one of my grandmothers. Who uses real hankies anymore???!!!
0 -
Real hankies? No, but I have about 10 from 60 years ago and I am going to make masks from those. Yes, one of them has tatted edges . Don't ask me why I saved them, I have no idea.
0 -
Tried to learn once. Had to have 2 thingys looked like knitting needles together somehow. Too complicated for me. It’s a dead, dieing art. Maybe YouTube
0 -
Gramma, I know why I have saved the fancy hankies I have--my grandmother created the fancy edging and they are associated with good memories. Also, they were my backup plan when the facial tissue shortage occurred. I was able to get some tissues just in time before we had to resort to the hankies!
0 -
I did learn how to tat using a shuttle (not the needle kind like I think Spookiesmom is mentioning) a long time ago and once made a very small bookmark. I still have my grandmother's tatting shuttle and may have to try again. In just looking online for tatting, I see I have a lot to (re)learn about tatting--I couldn't read any of the abbreviations used in the directions!! I did find a lot of lovely examples and will try to post a couple below. Funny how we keep the hankies for the memories--but they might have come in handy if tissues had disappeared.
0 -
Here are some more ways we entertained ourselves.
0 -
An aunt had roller binds on the windows with a ring on a string to pull with. The ring thing had needlework around it. Was it tatted? I was fascinated with the rings, probably about 6-7 years old.
0 -
Ah geeze, I’m sorry. Just occurred to me what I was referring to with 2 needles is hair pin lace, not tatting. Still another dieing art.
0 -
Spookiesmom, That ring pull might have been tatted, or could easily have been crocheted. Crocheting over a ring is pretty easy and that's how a lot of old suncatchers were made.
0 -
My grandma had those ring pulls. I think they were crocheted. I had one that I pretended was a life preserver for my Ginny doll.
0
