Well, Brenda, I didn't know there was a beach in IN? But then I haven't ventured that direction, even though I'm from OH! Very interesting! Cathy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brenda Daniels" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 12:45:29 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [PD-LIFE] Flour sack material 50-55 years ago my mother made my panties and bras out of flour and feed sack material. I liked the feed sacks best because they had flower patterns on them. I also had dresses to match. We moved to Indiana when I was 6 and my bra and panties made a great swim suit since we lived two blocks from the beach. No one on the beach ever made fun of my homemade clothes. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Well, weren't you from OH too, Tracy? That's exactly how we ate too, with grilled cheese & soup. I remember tomato soup too, when I was little. I remember allot of mushroom soup too! Chicken noodle, mostly Campbells. Wasn't any other soup other than Lipton, & would when I was older to make my own sometimes eat Mrs. Grass's soup & add my own noodles! Cathy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tracy" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 10:45:46 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [PD-LIFE] Tomato soup We always had tomato soup and toasted cheese sandwiches. Couldn't have soup with out the sandwich. Can't remember if Mom used milk or water but the toasted cheese was either cut in "butterflies" or 3rd's. 3rd's is how I still do it to this day when I make toasted cheese.   tracy     --- On Thu, 1/22/09, eppleys wrote: When I was a kid, my mother made tomato soup with milk and added hard boiled eggs to it, don't remember that I particularly liked it but anytime I ever complained I would get, " you don't know what's good." ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Would that be for your hands when they extremely dry? Sounds like that or for your cows udders? I don't know, I'm sort of asking! These conversations are keeping me on the edge of my compter chair! Cathy ----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected], [email protected] Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 9:24:26 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [PD-LIFE] Fuller Brush In York, PA, at the Eastern Market on Fridays, they have a Fuller Brush booth.? I get their Vanilla and Petrocarbo salve there. Connie -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 12:53 am Subject: [PD-LIFE] Fuller Brush Hi! ? For those of you that don't know you can buy Fuller Brush products on www.QVC.com ? Pam in IN. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Mackeral & milk gravy in the same sentence? Wow! Giggling. What's milk gravy is that with hamburger? And potatoes? If so I want the recipe? Cathy ----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 10:24:18 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [PD-LIFE] Tomato soup LOL...my father still tells me that! usually it's when i comment on how nasty mackrel/milk gravy, limburger/onion, etc are....too funny... sue (in chilly, apparently-winter-is-this-week-this-year NE Florida) -- ...frame every so-called disaster with these words~in 5 years will this matter? -------------- Original message -------------- From: "eppleys" <[email protected]> anytime I ever complained I would get, " you don't know what's good." ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Yes, Lodge is like that too, with cast iron, products my husband has pointed me that way! We're getting to the point where we buy if we're right there at Outdoor World in Orlando, just to pass the time, but we've gotten that product online as well! And he's checked around to see how prices here are locally with Lodge too! Ya got to! And just get them wherever! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mary Sayman" <[email protected]> To: [email protected], [email protected] Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 6:00:11 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [PD-LIFE] Fuller Brush on line Actually, you can buy Fuller Brush and Stanley Home products (remember the great degreaser they had?) direct on line. Just do a google search and it will give you the sites. If you buy it form QVC, it will most likely cost you more than going direct. Don't get me wrong, I love QVC and HSN, but why pay more when you don't have to?! Hugs, Mary -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 12:54 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [PD-LIFE] Fuller Brush Hi!   For those of you that don't know you can buy Fuller Brush products on www.QVC.com   Pam in IN. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

My mother-in-law has sworn by QVC for years! I've even benefited by her buying quite a few things for me there. I never imagined fuller brush products there, but I never watch it either, but interesting all the same. I guess they're great products, & why not offer them through there?! They've been around for many years! How many? More than 50?! That's awhile if so! Thanks, Pam. Cathy ----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 12:53:30 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [PD-LIFE] Fuller Brush Hi!   For those of you that don't know you can buy Fuller Brush products on www.QVC.com   Pam in IN. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

See, I find it so facinating how some have had these experiences, being from that background & even nowadays it draws you back,June Rose, by going to auctions or you just go back by having friends that share that! I wish you would share that with your relatives, Mary, so you can be open with them, & share your past, so when it's your time, they'll know to keep it for posterity. Yes, having those sacks, I would want to use the material, & be creative, back then, do you know if they still sell bags like that. I think they're more water proof maybe, from little experience from the 1960's, I know they've been using bags of that nature, so they can expell moisture, perhaps for the protection of the feed. Anyone know!? Cathy ----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 7:47:41 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [PD-LIFE] Flour sack material I too, grew up with my clothes being made from feed bags, because my parents had several hundred chickens. Curtains and towels were also made from the bags. For several years now, while attending auctions in Berks County, we've seen piles of fed bags (about 10-12) being sold for up to $100 and more. June **************A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just 2 easy steps! (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100000075x1215855013x1201028747/aol?redir=http://www.freecreditreport.com/pm/default.aspx?sc=668072%26hmpgID=62%26bcd=De cemailfooterNO62) ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

The aprons I have that I was looking for and have since found are of feed sacks.? I am willing to sell them.? Can't remember who from the list was interested..? Connie -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 7:47 am Subject: Re: [PD-LIFE] Flour sack material I too, grew up with my clothes being made from feed bags, because my parents had several hundred chickens. Curtains and towels were also made from the bags. For several years now, while attending auctions in Berks County, we've seen piles of fed bags (about 10-12) being sold for up to $100 and more. June **************A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just 2 easy steps! (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100000075x1215855013x1201028747/aol?redir=http://www.freecreditreport.com/pm/default.aspx?sc=668072%26hmpgID=62%26bcd=De cemailfooterNO62) ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

We used flour sacks also? Had several sewing factories in my and nearby towns.? You could get remnants for nothing.? My mother made my clothes inot my -----Original Message----- From: Brenda Daniels <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 12:45 am Subject: [PD-LIFE] Flour sack material 50-55 years ago my mother made my panties and bras out of flour and feed sack material. I liked the feed sacks best because they had flower patterns on them. I also had dresses to match. We moved to Indiana when I was 6 and my bra and panties made a great swim suit since we lived two blocks from the beach. No one on the beach ever made fun of my homemade clothes. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

In York, PA, at the Eastern Market on Fridays, they have a Fuller Brush booth.? I get their Vanilla and Petrocarbo salve there. Connie -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 12:53 am Subject: [PD-LIFE] Fuller Brush Hi! ? For those of you that don't know you can buy Fuller Brush products on www.QVC.com ? Pam in IN. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I bought Dutchmaid clothing while living in MA.? Yes, to the parties.? I remember them being made in PA also.? Really quality and well worth the money.? Became close friends with the lady selling it and years later our youngest daughter married one of her sons? Connie. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] To: PADUTCH-LIFE rootsweb <[email protected]> Sent: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 9:08 pm Subject: [PD-LIFE] Dutchmaid Clothing I also remember the Dutchmaid Clothing line.? Didn't you have to have a "Dutchmaid Party" to order the clothing?? Sort of like a Tupperware party.? Also, I think it might have been based in Ephrata, Pa.? I'm not sure about that one though. Linda ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Thanks Mary! I could not remember the name of the degreaser seller. Does anyone have the hostess gift, from early 90's maybe, that was a large beige dutch oven? I love mine and am wearing it out. I was hoping to find one to buy. Maybe I should have a Stanley party?   tracy --- On Fri, 1/23/09, Mary wrote: Actually, you can buy Fuller Brush and Stanley Home products (remember the great degreaser they had?) direct on line.

I too, grew up with my clothes being made from feed bags, because my parents had several hundred chickens. Curtains and towels were also made from the bags. For several years now, while attending auctions in Berks County, we've seen piles of fed bags (about 10-12) being sold for up to $100 and more. June **************A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just 2 easy steps! (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100000075x1215855013x1201028747/aol?redir=http://www.freecreditreport.com/pm/default.aspx?sc=668072%26hmpgID=62%26bcd=De cemailfooterNO62)

We always had tomato soup and toasted cheese sandwiches. Couldn't have soup with out the sandwich. Can't remember if Mom used milk or water but the toasted cheese was either cut in "butterflies" or 3rd's. 3rd's is how I still do it to this day when I make toasted cheese.   tracy     --- On Thu, 1/22/09, eppleys wrote: When I was a kid, my mother made tomato soup with milk and added hard boiled eggs to it, don't remember that I particularly liked it but anytime I ever complained I would get, " you don't know what's good."

I can remember when my dad would make a trip to the feed store (GLF or Ward & Van Scoy's and then Ag-Way in the area where I live) and he would ask my mother if she wanted to ride along. Most every time, she would say yes because she needed a certain feed sack pattern to finish up a dress or blouse or curtains. My dad would back into the loading dock, then go in to the counter to tell the man how many sacks of feed he needed, and which kind (cow, chicken, hog mash, calf manna) then tell him mom was already out there picking out which bags she wanted. They'd load the truck with the sacks my mother pointed out - even if they had to move several others to get to it - and then we'd be on our way home. Dad would ask if mom had any preference about which bags got emptied first. The sacks were made out of some of the finest cotton material ever made. It had to be tightly and finely woven to keep the feed (especially hog mash and calf manna) in the bags, which was made even tighter when they were pre-washed before use. My mother didn't make my underwear or coats, but she made everything else. I think I may even still have a kitchen towel made from feed sack material. If I do, I've put it away for posterity's sake, not that anyone going through my things after I'm gone would even have an inkling about what it is. My mother was an excellent seamstress and an avid knitter. As I grew older, I started making my own clothing from the skin out, including my coats. I, too, became quite a seamstress. It was very thrifty and it was like therapy. I'd close myself in my sewing room for an evening or two and have a new outfit to wear in a couple of days. I no longer sew. I was looking at the cost of patterns a while back and was amazed that they cost $15-20+. YIKES!! But I am thinking about getting a new sewing machine so I can sew some curtains, drapes, and pillows, and make repairs. It is all so confusing these days with every thing being computerized. Hugs, Mary -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brenda Daniels Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 12:45 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [PD-LIFE] Flour sack material 50-55 years ago my mother made my panties and bras out of flour and feed sack material. I liked the feed sacks best because they had flower patterns on them. I also had dresses to match. We moved to Indiana when I was 6 and my bra and panties made a great swim suit since we lived two blocks from the beach. No one on the beach ever made fun of my homemade clothes. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Actually, you can buy Fuller Brush and Stanley Home products (remember the great degreaser they had?) direct on line. Just do a google search and it will give you the sites. If you buy it form QVC, it will most likely cost you more than going direct. Don't get me wrong, I love QVC and HSN, but why pay more when you don't have to?! Hugs, Mary -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 12:54 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [PD-LIFE] Fuller Brush Hi!   For those of you that don't know you can buy Fuller Brush products on www.QVC.com   Pam in IN. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

LOL...my father still tells me that! usually it's when i comment on how nasty mackrel/milk gravy, limburger/onion, etc are....too funny... sue (in chilly, apparently-winter-is-this-week-this-year NE Florida) -- ...frame every so-called disaster with these words~in 5 years will this matter? -------------- Original message -------------- From: "eppleys" <[email protected]> anytime I ever complained I would get, " you don't know what's good."

I also remember the Dutchmaid Clothing line.  Didn't you have to have a "Dutchmaid Party" to order the clothing?  Sort of like a Tupperware party.  Also, I think it might have been based in Ephrata, Pa.  I'm not sure about that one though. Linda

50-55 years ago my mother made my panties and bras out of flour and feed sack material. I liked the feed sacks best because they had flower patterns on them. I also had dresses to match. We moved to Indiana when I was 6 and my bra and panties made a great swim suit since we lived two blocks from the beach. No one on the beach ever made fun of my homemade clothes.

Hi!   For those of you that don't know you can buy Fuller Brush products on www.QVC.com   Pam in IN.