to this day, i still have dresser scarves put away. My grandmother, using the smallest hook they made, crocheted the lace around the edges. The clothespin bags with two kinds of pins, the spring-loaded, and the straight kind that you could use to make a little doll.
When I was a baby, my Mom nearly died after three months in a cancer hospital. By nothing short of a miracle, she survived. They used to have occupational therapy, and although she was weak and it took her awhile, she made me a sock monkey. I have it to this day. I was a little over a year old when she was there, and, at one low point, she told my Dad to take it home to me, she was never going to get well. Well, my Dad, whose heart was breaking, too, put on the tough guy face and handed it right back to her, telling her he didn't want to hear that! She was coming home, and that's all there was to it. And she did come home!
This thread has been such a joy, thanks everybody for sharing your funny, fascinating, and beautiful memories!
PS: Does anyone recall the little sprinkler tops you'd put on a (glass) pop bottle? You'd fill the bottle with water, put the sprinkler thing on top, and use it when ironing before steam irons were around?
the little sprinkler tops
yes...we used those in the early 1960’s. perhaps before but I cant say that I remember that period all that well these days.
Yes I remember those sprinklers. I also remember a nipple that you could put on a coke bottle and make a baby bottle out of it.
My brother is 5 years younger than I am and he would throw his baby bottle out of the crib when he finished it, they weren’t plastic. When the last bottle was broken my mom put those strange nipples on coke bottles.
He still threw them out but they didn’t break.
Does anyone recall the little sprinkler tops you’d put on a (glass) pop bottle?”
I still have the top. I also remember the times when about half the refrigerator was filled with clothes that had been sprinkled and needed to be ironed. I still iron everything - hankies, sheets, pillow cases, etc. My grandson laughs at me because I always insist on ironing his school pants and always put a crease down the front. Some old habits never die.
New clothing only lasts a year or two now. I have some 100% cotton blouses though that are at least 20 years old!
What a story about your dear mom. Glad you had such a devoted dad!!!
And yes, I have some of those linen dresser scarves with crocheted edges, too. I love to decorate with them at Christimas time.