Dear Daniel–What was that? “Somethin’ about Alabama foolishness?”
Daniel, nearly three, and Josh, one-and-a-half, exuberant about their new shirts.
Josh, still for once.
I wonder whatever happened to those chairs?
David doesn’t look all that happy about the shirt his son’s wearing.
It’s hard living in a house divided.
Debby can barely restrain her son, probably because she’s preoccupied by wondering, like me,
Why does the plastic stay on the lamp shade?
Note to family: You were all home for birthdays–Terri’s, and Daddy’s sixtieth.
Why does the plastic stay on the lamp shade?
I think she has one of the two reasons sitting in her lap, there 😉
Good point!
It seems to me that growing up, my mom always left the plastic on the lamp shades, too. Didn’t they have elastic around the bottom and top for easy removal to clean and easy replacement after?
For easy removal, yes, since decorators say the FIRST thing you do when you buy a lamp is remove the plastic. However, I think our parents, especially those who lived through the Depression, meant for things they spent money on to last decades. Keeping the plastic protected the shades from dust (and smoke, because even if no one in the house smoked, guests did, and no one expected them to go outside to do it).
Therefore, though my mother never had plastic on her furniture and rugs like a lot of houses I went into, the plastic stayed on the lamps.
Mamaw woulda beat me if I took the plastic off when we lived with her. Like you, I think it had to do with living through the depression.
I knew lots of grannies who would never have bought plastic wrap, storage bags, or containers. They washed out their bread bags and used them again and again for storage, and kept any kind of margarine, sour cream, and other plastic containers for reuse.
We still keep most of our plastic containers to portion out raw food and freeze it for all the dogs. Tim’s ice cream containers are exactly the size Rex needs for a meal. I feel a little better about plastic now because we can recycle everything but styrofoam in our neighborhood.
I’d totally forgotten the bread-wrapper thing.
I also keep all my margarine containers. Fortunately, sandwich meat now comes in Glad containers you can keep and reuse forever. I have like thirty of them now.
I know; those things rock! And when they finally split or crack, we recycle them.
Yeah, we use those a lot, too.
plastic bread wrappers
They are also good for wrapping your dogs leg in when it has a broken limb. Just ask Larry and Wayne who found this one of the funniest things they had ever experienced in their young lives. :>) debby
Re: plastic bread wrappers
HA HA HAAAA. I will never forget that weekend. Remember Debbie hollering in her sleep, “One more time!”
And Gina got sick, y’all had to leave early, and Mother took pity on me and my freezer of uneaten food and sent some money–probably twenty dollars, which seemed like two hundred at the time.
Poverty is vastly over-rated. But there’ll always be a place for bread wrappers.
We just weren’t allowed to use the room.
Yes, the room.
God, my family was so freaking British…
One satisfied An Aries Knows (everything) reader.
Lame comment! Just letting you know I read. : )
Hey, if you’re satisfied, I’m satisfied. Though the slug isn’t out of the garden yet.