THE WAY WE WERE......LOOKING BACK IS FUN

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  • Tinkerbells
    Tinkerbells Member Posts: 211
    edited August 2014

    Melissa! I forgot about that one! Classic!

  • MelissaDallas
    MelissaDallas Member Posts: 7,268
    edited August 2014

    Remember when sewing was thrifty? I was just looking on a website that carries lots of old fashioned and fancy fabrics-Liberty of London & Swiss lawns are $45 dollars a yard(!!!)

  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited August 2014

    Melissa, you're sister is too cute!! 

    They sell them on a site that rhymes with T-say. 

    Not sure if it's against the rules to say the site. LOL

    I loved those lunch boxes.

  • Blessings2011
    Blessings2011 Member Posts: 4,276
    edited August 2014

    MelissaDallas - I made some of my own clothes in high school because it was so much cheaper! I made a gorgeous hot-pink dress with a low cut neckline for our Senior Dinner. I saved a fortune on that dress by making it instead of buying it.

    Today I could probably get it at Walmart for $15. The fabric alone would cost me three or four times that!

    When I took up quilting, I had no idea I'd go broke doing it. No wonder our grandmas cut up old clothing and made patchwork quilts, and instead of expensive batting, used worn-out blankets.

  • duckyb1
    duckyb1 Member Posts: 13,369
    edited August 2014

    My grandmother had one of these....I use to try to use it.........

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  • Blessings2011
    Blessings2011 Member Posts: 4,276
    edited August 2014

    Ducky!!! We had my Nana's old Singer treadle sewing machine on our covered back porch the entire time I was growing up. I used to love to "sew" on paper grocery bags, with no thread. It made perforated lines I could tear apart. (I was easily amused......)

    Then one day my aunt decided the machine belonged to her..... and POOF it was gone. 

    Sure wish I still had it today!

  • OncoWarrior
    OncoWarrior Member Posts: 5,234
    edited May 2015
  • MelissaDallas
    MelissaDallas Member Posts: 7,268
    edited August 2014

    I know Blessings! I'm guessing I'm spending at least $150 to $200 on a full-size quilt. I made a lot of my (very cute) clothes as a teenager as well. Made a grecian style Vogue dress for a 9th or 10th grade dance.

    Slowdeepbreaths, my sister is indeed a hoot, but I think she was kidding. She was joking this morning about filing an ACLU discrimination complaint on people who don't open their garage sales before seven a.m. so she can go before work on Friday. Says it affects her income;)

    Ducky, a lot of quilters love and use the old Singer machines. They may just do straight stitch, but they do it exceptionally well. Lots of them have big harps which makes quilting easier. They are also simple to work on and maintain yourself. My local quilt shop has a Featherweight club that is very active.

  • Monis
    Monis Member Posts: 472
    edited August 2014

    My grandmother had that exact sewing machine.  My mother now has it, as my grandmother has long passed away.  I told my mom that it is something I would like to have when the time comes to pass it along again (Hoping that won't be for a while yet!).

  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited August 2014

    Melissa, that's too funny. I'm really liking your sister...love a great sense of humor!

  • april485
    april485 Member Posts: 3,257
    edited September 2014

    My aunt had that Singer machine and my stupid uncle (hated her husband!) sold it after she passed away. It was my grandmother's machine and I would have loved to have it. Someone paid him a lot of money for that thing cause it looked brand new even though my aunt used it quite a bit. Wow, that brought back a flood of memories of my aunt. She died in 1980...

  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited September 2014

    april, how very rude of him!

  • april485
    april485 Member Posts: 3,257
    edited September 2014

    Thanks slow...he was a jerk! They were only married for a short time and he got everything cause she did not have a will. He then warehoused their son (he had Down's syndrome) in a group home in FL (all of his relatives live in CT!!) and moved home to Greece where he was from. My aunt never wanted her son in a facility like that. He was her whole world!

    My cousin ended up dying just a couple of years later from congestive heart failure (or a broken heart if you ask me) and so I am kind of bitter about that SOB. My dad tried really hard to get custody of him so we could take him, but my uncle would not come home to sign the paperwork.

    Whew! Thanks for letting me vent! Felt knod of good to get that off my chest.

  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited September 2014

    That's horrible April. 

    I hope Karma comes back to bite him in the butt.

    What an ass!!

  • AZ85048
    AZ85048 Member Posts: 2,613
    edited September 2014

    april485 - I'm so sorry.  What a evil thing to do.  But Slow is right.  Karma's a bitch!

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  • duckyb1
    duckyb1 Member Posts: 13,369
    edited September 2014

    imageRemember these.......loved them....

  • AZ85048
    AZ85048 Member Posts: 2,613
    edited September 2014

    ducky - Wax lips!  (And candy cigarettes...)  I loved those things!  

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  • duckyb1
    duckyb1 Member Posts: 13,369
    edited September 2014

    AZ....i use to eat them by the box full.............LOL.....

  • duckyb1
    duckyb1 Member Posts: 13,369
    edited September 2014

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    I still have some of this stuff.......that is probably how we all got cancer......ever open one of those up  and smell the chemicals........LOL......when I give someone left overs I say......keep the container or throw it out...I don't want it back............

  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited September 2014

    I remember those wax lips and candy cigs! 

    I remember the Tupperware lady too!

  • OncoWarrior
    OncoWarrior Member Posts: 5,234
    edited May 2015
  • MelissaDallas
    MelissaDallas Member Posts: 7,268
    edited September 2014

    I'm still using my Canisters.

  • OncoWarrior
    OncoWarrior Member Posts: 5,234
    edited May 2015
  • duckyb1
    duckyb1 Member Posts: 13,369
    edited September 2014

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    Everyone had to have a least one of these styles.LMAO...........

  • Alyson
    Alyson Member Posts: 4,308
    edited September 2014

    Chairs - tick had them.

    Tupperware - tick oh dear still have quite a lot.

    And I learnt to sew on a treadle Singer sewing machine which my grandmother had used as a tailoress.

    Have been meaning to post this for ages

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    Not sure who these people are!!!! Gee that was 42 tears ago.

  • duckyb1
    duckyb1 Member Posts: 13,369
    edited September 2014

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    Remember this book......it was my first.........LOL....See Dick.....See Jane........See Dick Run, See Jane Run.........LMAO..........OMG...I hated that book...........

  • magdalene51
    magdalene51 Member Posts: 2,214
    edited September 2014

    My mom got her Singer featherweight in 1936 when she got married. It was electric, not treadle. She sewed all our clothes, all six of us. Often matching. Matching shirts for brother & dad. I never had a store bought dress until high school. She kept sewing all her life; the last dress she made was my wedding dress (actually for our 10th anniversary renewal of vows, since we were married by a jp) in 1987, from a length of eyelet silk my father brought from China in 1948. She actually made the pattern from pieces of other patterns, and made up what was missing with newspaper. Best seamstress ever.

  • april485
    april485 Member Posts: 3,257
    edited September 2014

    Thanks AZ...made me LOL!

    Ahhh, wax lips, candy cigs and tupperware! Holy toledo I am getting up there. That wedding was almost around the same time as my first one (my starter hubby...ha! was married to that man for 27 looooong years so not exactly a starter..lol) which was 1975

  • Alyson
    Alyson Member Posts: 4,308
    edited September 2014

    We were married 1972. A friend still has the pattern which my dress was adapted from.

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    These were the books I learnt to read.

  • OncoWarrior
    OncoWarrior Member Posts: 5,234
    edited May 2015

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