2024 Fashion On The Ration Challenge

maryb

A lot of the Miss Silver books and others by Patricia Wentworth are available on Kindle Unlimited if you have it

Laura_Elsewhere

I like Miss Silver- she is wrongly dismissed as a Marple-clone, but the characters and books and plots are very different- both good cosy reading!

we have quite a good little Lending Library here in our Village Hall!

alicef

@annieb64 I'm not suprised it took you a while to find the books 2nd hand - there are quite a number!

@maryb sadly I don't have Kindle Unlimited - though I shall look out for a free trial.  I'll have to, (old style), borrow what I can from the library.

Thank you @Pipney_Jane ; @Laura_Elsewhere; @PollyWollyDoodle for the thumbs up

Right - no more faffing about.  I'm going to get the flannelette dyed today!

thriftwizard

Right - not something that was around in WW2 - beanbag beads? I suspect I'd have used a fleece (or two!) well-scoured, and the finished item would just have been - lumpy & sheepy - but shall I cough up some coupons for a big (4 cu ft) bag of beads? I found a "Cars" duvet cover, 100% cotton, in decent shape at the recycling warehouse last week & knew DGS would kill for it, or something made from it, as he's not in a full-size bed yet & he's mad about Cars in the way that only a 2 y.o. can be. To preserve L1ghtning McQueen's shape as best I could, a child-size beanbag chair seemed a good option, so I've made one this morning. There's enough fabric cut off the ends for a gym bag, too, if he needs one when he goes up to pre-school next term. What d'you think; should I charge myself some coupons for the beads? 

Laura_Elsewhere

thriftwizard said:

Right - not something that was around in WW2 - beanbag beads? I suspect I'd have used a fleece (or two!) well-scoured, and the finished item would just have been - lumpy & sheepy - but shall I cough up some coupons for a big (4 cu ft) bag of beads? I found a "Cars" duvet cover, 100% cotton, in decent shape at the recycling warehouse last week & knew DGS would kill for it, or something made from it, as he's not in a full-size bed yet & he's mad about Cars in the way that only a 2 y.o. can be. To preserve L1ghtning McQueen's shape as best I could, a child-size beanbag chair seemed a good option, so I've made one this morning. There's enough fabric cut off the ends for a gym bag, too, if he needs one when he goes up to pre-school next term. What d'you think; should I charge myself some coupons for the beads? 

I think beanbags were around, albeit small ones like we used for throwing anc catching in primary school (that probably dates me!!)- but you'll never guess what a beanbag was filled with? It's a bag, y'see, filled with... wait for it...  

Mind you, I'm not sure a modern beanbag chair would really work with the heavier weight of the actual beans, or rice or wheat, or whatever; I don't know what the coupon-cost of the filling would be... 

Cherryfudge

Just a thought: beans aren't fabric and don't appear to have been rationed, so perhaps thriftwizard can get away with that one, as they are (obviously) damaged ones that can't be planted and are too old and dry for consumption?

Laura_Elsewhere

Cherryfudge said:

Just a thought: beans aren't fabric and don't appear to have been rationed, so perhaps thriftwizard can get away with that one, as they are (obviously) damaged ones that can't be planted and are too old and dry for consumption?

That depends on which category of our merry mob she's in! We're all doing this for different reasons- for me, I would count the modern beanbag-filling because it's using resources and synthetic ones at that, and that's my own personal driver, to reduce how much my buying causes new things to be manufactured- but others are doing it to save money, or to change their relationship with clothing, or build their self-esteem with better-quality clothing, or make more space in the spare-room wardrobe by limiting their clothes-buying, or, or, or...! 

Everyone does it from a different angle... 

PipneyJane

thriftwizard said:

Right - not something that was around in WW2 - beanbag beads? I suspect I'd have used a fleece (or two!) well-scoured, and the finished item would just have been - lumpy & sheepy - but shall I cough up some coupons for a big (4 cu ft) bag of beads? I found a "Cars" duvet cover, 100% cotton, in decent shape at the recycling warehouse last week & knew DGS would kill for it, or something made from it, as he's not in a full-size bed yet & he's mad about Cars in the way that only a 2 y.o. can be. To preserve L1ghtning McQueen's shape as best I could, a child-size beanbag chair seemed a good option, so I've made one this morning. There's enough fabric cut off the ends for a gym bag, too, if he needs one when he goes up to pre-school next term. What d'you think; should I charge myself some coupons for the beads? 

No.  I don’t think you should. In 1942, you would have re-used horsehair from a dead sofa.

Sounds like you will be in line for the “World’s Greatest Grandma” award @thriftwizard

- Pip

Cherryfudge

PipneyJane said:

 In 1942, you would have re-used horsehair from a dead sofa.

I wonder when horsehair stopped being a 'thing' for stuffing furniture? Presumably over a few years with the increase in motor vehicles. When I was small, our settee, which I suspect was inherited, was stuffed with horsehair, and there was horsehair as a binding agent in the plaster on the wall of the house. I don't remember it being comfortable, but it was certainly durable.

thriftwizard

It was in the ceilings, too, as we discovered when ours fell on us in bed in about 1986... one way to get me out of bed on a Sunday morning!