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PipsMom  31878

If you can find some small insulated wire  like that on the inside of appliances they come in (blue, green or brown), strip back the insulation and pull out one single tiny stand of cooper....you can make a needle by doubling it over to make a loop for the thread, twist closed and pass the other end through the ribbon. The way they did beading in the old days when not much was available 

The wire from twist ties (with the paper on it ) like you get from the bakery sometimes has tiny stiff wire in it too

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Marlene  10791

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   58 minutes ago,  PipsMom said: 

If you can find some small insulated wire  like that on the inside of appliances they come in (blue, green or brown), strip back the insulation and

pull out one single tiny stand of cooper....you can make a needle by doubling it over to make a loop for the thread, twist closed and pass the other end through the ribbon. The way they did beading in the old days when not much was available 

The wire from twist ties (with the paper on it ) like you get from the bakery sometimes has tiny stiff wire in it too

Oh!  Now I have it figured out!  You know copper wire theft is BIG in the US.  Thieves strip things like street lights for the valuable copper wire.  On my way to let the FBI know it's ladies making beaded bows for their Shih Tzus who have caused all this expensive carnage!

PS - I worked for an eye doctor for many years.  Folks were always losing the tiny screws that join the temple hinge piece to the frame front.  I always used to tell them they could strip a bread tie and wire it back together in a pinch.

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PipsMom  31878

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We safe....wrong kind of cooper wire....lol..to thick

I can remember granddaddy taking apart a car starter motor just to get the roll of cooper out of it. Carefully he would coil it and tie it off and use it on other items when it was needed.....The older generation re used everything ....a lesson the now generation should learn. 

When I moved over here and in NZ.... I found out some fuse boxes took a thin strand of wire to use instead of a fuse as we know it...works like a charm ...

 

Marlene  10791

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Oh shoot I've already given out all your contact information to the FBI.........maybe you can get in the witness protection program.

I was born in the early 40's to parents who had been through the depression.  I remember lots of things like hot salt in a sock if you had an earache, cloves in cotton stuck in your tooth if you had a tooth ache, Vicks on your chest if you had a cold (Man I hated that one!) brushing your teeth with baking soda when you ran out of toothpaste, rolling a pencil over an almost empty toothpaste tube to get ALL the toothpaste out.  We moved into a house with a floor furnace, the first morning I got up and ran over that floor furnace leaving a burned "grid" on my feet - Daddy poured canned milk ove the burns.  Rinsing your hair with warm beer to make the curl last (ick - warm beer smells horrible!).  Picking up spools of thread with my toes to strengthen my feet because I was pigeon toed.  Iodine that STUNG and merchurochrome (sp?) that didn't. Using kleenex and then napkins if you ran out of TP.  Making margarine in a plastic squeeze bag with a capsule - you kept squeezing until the capsule burst and dyed the margarine yellow (like butter).  White bread.....mayonaise sandwiches, ketchup sandwiches, dipping a half a lemon on a saucer of sugar and sucking the juice. Sitting on the porch once a year with a pomegranate cut in half, digging out the seeds and spitting them with Mama yelling - be careful the juice stains!  The ice man coming to deliver ice for the "ice box" and how he hit the neighbor boy Spike with his truck one day.........

 

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I didn't come alone till 1957 and remember some of your memories to this day that my mom still did like yours

Worst memory to date is when I had tonsillitis (a lot)....... Mom would take a thin stick ( forgot what she used now for a stick), wrapped cotton around like a big Q Tip, wrap it with sewing thread and tied it off.,,,,,, Then dip idodine onto the cotton and swab my infected tonsils ...gag 

But you know what.? I  still got my tonsils.

 

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Marlene  10791

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Nuff said  -  we should start an old timer's thread.  But then again everyone else would be bored and say "what the heck?!?"

BTW - I had my  tonsils out at 8 which was "the way it was back in the day".

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PipsMom  31878

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Will add a Old Bones sub catogory now 

 

 

Marlene said:

We didn't have TV until I was about 12.  Daddy bought one just so he could watch the "Friday Night Fights".  Neighbor kids used to come over, knock on the the door and ask if they could "watch TB" and there would be 5-6 little kids in front of the TV while we went on about our business. We had a "party line" on the telephone.  You listened for "your ring" and then answered.  Did I EVER pick up the phone on someone elses's ring!?!?  Shame on you for askin

Oh yeah, ease dropping was the Favorite way to find out all the gossip. Especially when it involved the neighbor and his girl friend conversations......" Don't wear panty hose tonight" still sticks in my head