Easier to be OS in the olden days?

PenniesMake£s

englishrose89 wrote: »

How did you get on with the tights Pennies?

I just sewed up the holes they weren't too big so a few quick stitches did the job. I am glad to have done this.

lessonlearned

My son gets through work socks like nobody,s business. You are putting me to shame I must have a go at darning.

Btw - I just remembered this.....

My mum used to cut one Mars Bar to share between three of us. This was common practice I don't think anyone ever had a whole Mars bar to themselves.

We still managed to work, rest and play though......:rotfl:

For those too young to remember that was the tag line of the advert.

"A Mars a day, helps you work, rest and play"

Probably good news for the dentists too.......;)

Old_Joe

meritaten wrote: »

well, darning isn't rocket science, but, there is a bit of 'technique' to doing it. I think there is a tutorial on good old 'Youtube'.

Used to have to darn my clean socks as a youngster and if it was botched, it was cut out and told to do it properly! - mind you I was in a Home at the time :rotfl:

meritaten

the secret to good darning my nan told me, was to never let the fabric go into a hole - but to darn when it got 'thin', that way you darn the old fabric in and it 'feels' much nicer for the wearer. but, even Sunday socks (Very *holy*) would be darned and god help you if you complained!

PenniesMake£s

lessonlearned wrote: »

My mum used to cut one Mars Bar to share between three of us. This was common practice I don't think anyone ever had a whole Mars bar to themselves.


)

My mum used to do this too and would wonder out loud, while chopping it up, how anyone could manage more than a slice of such a sickly sweet thing...and I was always thinking that I easily could...I have made up for it since unfortunately for my waistline:o

That has reminded me how routine things were in my home growing up (in the 80s), we would go as a family every Saturday morning for the big shop and come home afterwards for lunch of Heinz tomato soup with a "french stick" as we called it followed by aforementioned slice of mars bar. Sunday afternoon was always a walk as a family around the local park with duck pond. My dad polished all the shoes on a Sunday evening. Lovely predictable routines for a child. There is so much choice these days that I pop into various supermarkets as and when I need things, and always having to visit the expansive toy aisles and clothes sections to browse, I don't usually buy anything, good oldstyler that I am but I like to look.

What I especially loved about those YouTube videos of the 1940s house from the iwm was how simple the rooms were. How few toys were in the boys room and how all the things were just the necessities and a few luxuries.

meritaten

simple rooms? lol, we lived in the front room of nans house and although it was a fairly decent size 13x13 we had
a three piece suite
dining table
four dining chairs
huge oak sideboard
pouffe
later the tv went on the sideboard - but my parents gave the old huge 'wireless' to my nan to make room for it.
in the back living room my nan and granch had
three piece suite
dining table and chairs
sideboard
AND an upright piano! which nan always claimed she couldn't play - but she could! I came in a couple of times and caught her playing classical music. I think she said she couldn't play because she was a quite shy woman and wouldn't want to play in front of others.

oh and because there was no floor space to play on - I used to play under the table!

PenniesMake£s

Haha, I stand corrected meritaten lol. Wish my kids would play under the dining room table, I could put a big tablecloth over it and the place would look nice and tidy :rotfl:

meanmarie

My late MIL knitted the socks for the household and always used nylon yarn with the wool at heels and toes, they lasted longer.....if socks not handknitted, running some nylon yarn through those areas on new socks should extend their life.


Marie

Amberkitten5

lessonlearned wrote: »

My son gets through work socks like nobody,s business. You are putting me to shame I must have a go at darning.

Btw - I just remembered this.....

My mum used to cut one Mars Bar to share between three of us. This was common practice I don't think anyone ever had a whole Mars bar to themselves.

We still managed to work, rest and play though......:rotfl:

For those too young to remember that was the tag line of the advert.

"A Mars a day, helps you work, rest and play"

Probably good news for the dentists too.......;)

We got the Mars Bar cut to share between five of us - to this day I couldn't eat a whole one. If I do have one now I open the wrapper - cut it into half a dozen slices and then eat 2 or 3 of them, wrapping up the others for another day. I also remember sometimes getting Fry's Cream - it came marked out into seven pieces, so Mum and Dad got a piece of that as well.


My mum and her mum before her, baked every day - and I still much prefer home-baking to chocolate and sweets or shop bought cakes and biscuits. Nice warm pancakes - or scones, cakes and biscuits fresh from the oven win hands down every time and are nice and quick to make.

lillibet_dripping

mardatha wrote: »

The book is "All Quiet on the Home Front" by Richard Van Emden and Steve Humphries

Right person, wrong book!!:rotfl:

Just had a call from the library to say that this book is now in. Whilst browsing to reserve it, I also came across the 'Jambusters' book.

Looking forward to my next read.....