Which items from the past do you still use?

[Willow 4873]

My mum was a brilliant cook - everything home made as money was short and they were bring up three of us

Pies, pastys, cakes, tarts, stews even pork pies

I can cook but she made it into an art form

Still miss her 

Willow x

[aspin]

My mum was a brilliant cook - everything home made as money was short and they were bring up three of us

Pies, pastys, cakes, tarts, stews even pork pies

I can cook but she made it into an art form

Still miss her 

Willow x

You hit the nail on the head there Willow 
you still miss her
I miss my mother too and I am nearly 70
She died 17years ago last Saturday 15.12.1990
She made great scones
It was a fire oven we had at home  and she would just put her hand in the oven to feel the temperature
but I have to say my Nana was a great cook she did everything from jam pickles preserves cakes etc
In fact I still make her Date and walnut recipe and Christmas pudding
Elizabeth

Elizabeth

[Elaine168]

Elizabeth and Williow, thanks for sharing that. I thought maybe I shouldn't keep thinking I miss my Mum, and she only died 3 years ago. Mind you she'd be telling me to 'stop mithering and get ready for Christmas'.

Wonder what our children will be saying they still use of ours, living in this throw away society?
Elaine

[KathMc]

Elaine,

My dad died 3 years ago and I still miss him every day, always will, and will never apologize for it.  He too would tell me to stop all the nonsense, have a drink, and enjoy the holidays.

And I've already told my kids our cookie jar will be THE family heirloom, so don't fight over it.

http://www.janicewise.com/jonal_cookie_jars.html

They laugh at me, but when I am gone, I bet they are fighting over it.  (a long long long long time from now!)

Kath

[Willow 4873]

My mum has been dead over 3 years my dad 9 years and I still miss both of them

I just wish I had started the family tree earlier as my dad would have been chuffed with what I have found out

I haven't got any kids so I don't know who will end up inheriting my stuff but I'm hoping my Wii will be a museum piece by the time I go 

Willow x

[PaulaToo]

Mum was interested in her Welsh ancestry, she would have loved what I have found out, but she would not have loved the fact that her parents were not married until after she was born.
Dad liked history, he would have been really pleased about all I have found about his family, going back centuries with wills to back it up. How he would have laughed that one chap inherited 'a mucke carte with 2 payre lugge wheles.'
But how could I have told him that his father, who he was told died in a fall working on a roof, had really died in an assylum....
I've inherited their enthusiasm, but I'm glad they never found out the family secrets.

[millymcb]

Lovely picture Milly,


Love the outfit, could have been made yesterday.  it is such a classic style.   

Hate to say it but my basket is the same as well, why does it seem heavy these days I wonder?  When it's empty too!   

Rabbit B   

Actually... baskets are another thing from the past I can now see the benefit of.  They do get a bit heavy to carry around all day but you can fit all sorts in them, and you don't have to rummage around like with a handbag to find the things hidden away at the bottom, and you can set them down on a table and they stay upright rather than folding in on themselves and hiding their contents.  And your sandwiches don't get squashed.  (Wrapped in grease-proof paper of course...another recent re-discovery - they taste really fresh and not like plastic!)

  :)Milly

[aghadowey]

I use my woven baskets all the time. One with sort of square corners is kept for grocery shopping- perfect for transporting eggs & veg- and I keep it by the door with re-usable plastic & canvas carrier bags. Also have a newer one which I keep near the stairs and use it to gather up stuff to be taken upstairs or downstairs when I going. Another very old and more fragile one if in utility room cupboard- use it to keep plastic carrier bags tidy. Another old one lost it's handle about 40 years ago and was given a leather strap instead- it's my sewing basket and hold mending, pincushion, etc.

[millymcb]

I think we should have a campaign to re-introduce the proper shopping basket... might catch on now everyone is anti-plastic bag.

I have another darker oval shaped basket that I used to use for cookery at school (in the 1970s) which had previously been my grandmothers.. so it could easily be from 1930s, 40s possibly 50s....and that is still going strong too.

Yet again proving the point that they made things better in the olden days!


Milly