Remember When!!

ruthbru

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!)

ceanna

Remember riding in the back of a pickup truck? Talk about lack of safety!!

ruthbru

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!)

ruthbru

ceanna

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!!!

Beaverntx

Oh, so true!!!

MinusTwo

Funny - I never gave up real butter for a 'spread', but I do re-use cottage cheese & sour cream containers regularly.

ceanna

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!!

ruthbru

Remember these fun ways to pass the time?

JACK5IE

ruthbru...loved those, especially the loom! I made my Mom so many pot holders!

Aussie-Cat

Ruth, I remember Pick-Up Sticks and Old Maid. Thanks for the reminder.

MinusTwo

My Dad would play Pick-up Sticks with us for hours. Thanks for the happy memories.

ceanna

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!!

grammamuses

Remember embroidered pillow cases and dish towels?

Spookiesmom

Yep! Still have the ones I did as a kid!

ceanna

Anyone know how to tat?? I have hankies with tatted edges from one of my grandmothers. Who uses real hankies anymore???!!!

grammamuses

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.

Spookiesmom

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

Beaverntx

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!

ceanna

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.

ruthbru

Here are some more ways we entertained ourselves.

Spookiesmom

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.

Spookiesmom

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.

ceanna

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.

MinusTwo

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.