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Re: Which items from the past do you still use?
« Reply #36 on: Tuesday 11 December 07 00:00 GMT (UK) »
dennford.    do not mind using the sewing machine ,
 but an iron, what's that  ??? ???

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Re: Which items from the past do you still use?
« Reply #37 on: Tuesday 11 December 07 00:13 GMT (UK) »
Two cake tins that someone made years ago for my gran.  They are really thick metal and solidly made, so good for making Christmas cake, the outside doesn't burn before the middle is cooked.  I also have her recipe book which she started writing at the beginning of 1900s.  Many of her recipes are back in modern recipe books.

That's about it, I'm the exact opposite of a hoarder, so  have hardly anything old in our house.

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Re: Which items from the past do you still use?
« Reply #38 on: Tuesday 11 December 07 00:40 GMT (UK) »
I have an old stone hot water bottle
originally used as lemonade bottles
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Re: Which items from the past do you still use?
« Reply #39 on: Tuesday 11 December 07 15:42 GMT (UK) »
Having recently been re-acquainted with a good old fashioned hot water bottle, (& wondering how I've ever coped without it!!!)  I was wondering which other items from the past are still used reguarly by Rootschatters?

Debbie  :)

Definitely the hot water bottle. I always thought an electric blanket was rather a SCARY THING. I mean, you're laying on loads of wires producing ELECTRICITY for gawd's sake. One slight break in those wires could lead to...well....a shocking experience at the very least, couldn't it???

Not to mention sleeping enveloped in an electric field.

Maybe it's me and my paranoia, but I always thought this was a REALLY BAD THING. Like living next to an electricity pylon.

I got rid of my electric alarm clock for the same reason.



I'm glad I'm not the only one with a complete terror of the electric blanket .... I think it sounds too much like electric chair!  :o

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Re: Which items from the past do you still use?
« Reply #40 on: Tuesday 11 December 07 21:30 GMT (UK) »
Mum's rolling pin and some of her baking tins, odd bits of cutlery that were Grandma's, Mum's sewing basket and button tins, Christmas baubles that were mum's and some that were Grandma's, mum's food mixer (she died in 1981) and a cherished collection of real silver 3d bits that I put in the Christmas pudding. Oh, and a garden roller made by my grandad (d.1925) who was a blacksmith.
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Re: Which items from the past do you still use?
« Reply #41 on: Tuesday 11 December 07 22:17 GMT (UK) »
Aunt Wins beautiful treadle Singer sowing machine, must be from the 1930s
It is the most beautiful piece of furniture as well as being a joy to use. Once I inherited that I slung the electric one.

Oh, and Mums darning mushroom, comes in handy for a lot of little sewing jobs.
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Re: Which items from the past do you still use?
« Reply #42 on: Tuesday 11 December 07 22:34 GMT (UK) »
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Re: Which items from the past do you still use?
« Reply #43 on: Tuesday 11 December 07 22:36 GMT (UK) »
Only reason I got rid of old treadle Singer was that it didn't work well anymore and even after having it serviced I had bother (it was suggested problem was using cotton thread but the machine was built long before synthetic threads were used).
My mother had an old darning egg and a few years ago I asked her for it whenever she would be finished with it (my sister doesn't mend anything so wasn't interested)- next package there it was and I use it constantly.
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Re: Which items from the past do you still use?
« Reply #44 on: Wednesday 12 December 07 12:21 GMT (UK) »
Actually Stoney...let's try an English website LOL  :D

http://www.platemates.co.uk/?id=manufacturer&manufacturer.id=18

Debbie  :)

No luck on the English site or the other one, unless my un-named pattern is one of the ones without an image - just my luck!  :-\


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