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  1. sheeplady

    If you had a conversation with a person in 1770 would they understand?

    I grew up in the Adirondacks. They say there's places up there that no person's ever looked at yet, but I don't believe it. It's over 6 million acres and has less than 150,000 permanent residents. Very easy to get lost. Where I lived, it wasn't uncommon for people to get lost, particularly...
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    If you had a conversation with a person in 1770 would they understand?

    Where I grew up, you were a "hick" and you lived in the "sticks." Your relatives (and you were often related to everyone else, even if it was your 3rd cousin married their second cousin's ex) were "folk" and "kin" and sometimes "kinfolk." I remember a slight difference in usage... I think your...
  3. sheeplady

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Nobody can ever hold a candle to Mister Rogers. If they buried Fred Rogers in the soured ground of Pet Sematary he'd still come back and do a better show than anything currently on TV for kids.
  4. sheeplady

    If your home burns, what would you grab quickly to salvage??

    My kids and my husband. Maybe my pets, but I am not running back into a burning house and risking my kids watching themselves lose their mother or father for a pet. It takes less than 20 minutes for a house to be engulfed, and more like 10 if you have lots of MDF or such. If I had the time...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I have to watch a lot of kids television and movies. I've long been a fan of kids movies, which are mostly what my husband and i went to the theatre to see before kids. I say I watch because I don't use the TV as a babysitter- I don't give my kid a device and send them to their room. I might be...
  7. sheeplady

    Did the Rules of Etiquette Provide a Greater Sense of Safety For Women?

    The Speed Queen is going to be the closest to a 1970s washer you can get. We went to an appliance shop and the guy saved us like $400 by going with an in-matching Maytag dryer... which the salesman said was the same thing, just cheaper. We also got a scratched model (the washer, I think?) and...
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    Did the Rules of Etiquette Provide a Greater Sense of Safety For Women?

    Or it's so cold they freeze when you just put them DOWN while waiting for your Dunkin. And it's a cold ride home and heaven help you if you don't have a garage (we never did). For a washer, we bought a Speed Queen. I am in love with the thing. Newer machines don't let you set the fill on your...
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    Did the Rules of Etiquette Provide a Greater Sense of Safety For Women?

    That was a delightful read. Eta: I don't think that women today feel all that less safe, its just that now we have a platform to express it and have more men actually paying attention. For instance, there is a certain amount of caution I exercise walking alone at night; my husband doesn't...
  10. sheeplady

    Agony column?

    So, I went and picked up the kids from the cabin and checked the bed for obvious signs of bugs under the mattress cover. I also checked over my kids. My daughter had one not-so-obvious set of bite marks (you'd have to know the way these things bite to notice it)- also, its significantly healed...
  11. sheeplady

    Golden Era Things You've Revived Or Repaired For Use

    We have a corning ware one that was missing one of the percolator parts, so we used it as a teapot. So while I can't answer your other questions, it does take quite a bit longer to heat up compared to a metal vessel of the same size, if that is a consideration. Conversely, it keeps the beverage...
  13. sheeplady

    Agony column?

    It's ok. It is getting a little comedic at this point. And I've either got a ball bearing in my rear axle or a rear differential going.... which was not part of the $2,200 I just dumped into my car... Last day I'll be up in ny doing house renos, heading back to virginia tomorrow. Feeling better...
  14. sheeplady

    Agony column?

    Urgh... I'm in the middle of the final house repairs so this will be short. Went and stayed at a family rented cabin over the weekend (part of a normal week-long once a year trip, a bunch of us rent a house in ny state cvlose to old house we are getting ready to sell) and came back with an odd...
  15. sheeplady

    Agony column?

    Right now I have a number of things coming to a head: a phase of a client project, my daughter and son are returning to daycare after 6 weeks home with me, I've been managing the last 4ish weeks as a work-at-home single mom (husband is finishing the house so I've not had a real break and have...
  16. sheeplady

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I do the cheesy family cards. I make the kids wear matching outfits I make. We send them at New Years though, and take pictures from either across the year or the week before. I am totally cheesy and love camp... so, yeah. "It's so gaudy and sparkly and so... so gaudy... I love it" applies to...
  17. sheeplady

    Pin curls coming out!!

    Also, I know some women nowadays use homemade flaxseed gel as a setting lotion... but I'd assume that if vintage women used that, they'd be reference to it in women's magazines, including recipes and how-tos. As a reference point, I doubt making your own setting lotion was common, basic...
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    Pin curls coming out!!

    I know that damaging my hair helps me with my sets, so I wonder if a perm did the same thing. I have very fine and slippery hair with a tendency towards greasiness and build up. I tried a lemon treatment (usually used to lighten hair, which was a pleasant side effect). I put the lemon juice on...
  20. sheeplady

    You Know You Live in a Small(ish) Town When...

    Either of those equally warm my heart when it comes to the person in question, considering the percentage and the diversity of African DNA (as in places in Africa). While it is entirely possible to share multiple segments, it really doesn't matter. As I said, they are "one drop people. I am...
  21. sheeplady

    You Know You Live in a Small(ish) Town When...

    I am significantly Eastern European on my mother's side. Growing up, a certain person on my father's side of the family made a big deal out of whiteness and how my mother's family was from Eastern Europe, blah, blah. In other words, my mother was less white than my father, and oh my goodness...
  22. sheeplady

    Pin curls coming out!!

    Are you using setting lotion? Have you tried a different hair spray? Hair sprays vary dramatically. Some are, for instance, more "moisturizing" or "drying." The moisturizing ones don't work on my hair, but I have fine hair without much volume. Another trick is to spray your hair with hair...
  23. sheeplady

    Vintage Things That Will NOT Disappear In Your Lifetime

    That's good to know!
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