I guess everyone does some cleaning out at the first of the year. I am not so inclined to get it all done over the new year weekend. Nor am I ready to take down all the Christmas decorations just yet. I use the excuse that Christmas doesn't end until January 6th and that works for me, so the tree will stay up until next weekend.
I was cleaning out my closet and found a sewing basket/box that had belonged to me when I was a young girl and somehow, it wound up in my grandmother's possession, then my mother's now it's found it's way back to me. I was going to throw away the contents and give it away, but, I couldn't after I looked in it.
In there were pieces of elastic, some hooks without the eyes, old sewing needles, a scissor sharpener from an Esso gas station, hem binding, some new in the original packages, some little pieces that had been wrapped around card board and pinned, buttons and pieces of paper with bits of thread wrapped around them.
My grandmother rarely threw anything away that she thought she might need as she grew up poor and lived through the great depression. I looked at those pieces of thread and thought about what she may have been thinking when she saved them. Maybe she was worried that if she lost a button and didn't have any thread, that she might not have the money to buy a new spool. Or why buy a new spool when she could save the little bit and have the money for something more important?
We all attach importance to little things in our life, save them, put them away and then someone years later will throw them away. It's a little unnerving to me.
What do you save?
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Buttons. I have a basket full of different colors and sizes. Don't know what to do with them really, but I love the sounds of my fingers whoosing through them. And I don't really sew, so they've become a novelty of sorts.
ReplyDeleteBest Wishes for a healthy and Happy New Year! Good to see you again.
My daughter's been cleaning out like crazy. I go through the trash and rescue things. Why? Because I think she'll regret what she's left behind.
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year!
I have all my dolls from when I was a little girl and I don't know what to do with them as I have boys and no grandchildren. Will someone throw them away one day?
ReplyDeleteI have some things when I was a child. I do not plan on having children so I guess I will keep them because I cannot bear to get rid of them. One of the items is a wooden stove that my grandparents built for me one Christmas. I loved that thing for years. It is now sitting in my garage with a bunch of stuff that I DO need to get rid of. LOL!
ReplyDeleteI save ziplock bags. I wash them out in hot soapy water and dry them and reuse them. Back when my first husband and I married, we were dirt poor. We picked up bottles, (back when they had a tax on them and you could take them back to the store for cash), and paid for gas for our car. I guess being poor stuck in my head. Oh, and my granddaughters play with my old Barbies & the Barbie house! LOL.
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