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multigraincracker

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2. My new thing are those black metal clips.

Reply to Kali (Original post)

Sun Apr 6, 2025, 10:56 PM

Apr 2025

Little tiny ones and the big, almost an inch wide one. Have a life time supply now.
For a few year now I’ve been collecting match books. They don’t make them anymore. Advertising ones. Got a couple of gallon ziplock bags full of them. Looking on eBay, some are going for big bucks.

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what happened to safety pins? [View all] Kali Apr 2025 OP

I was always able to find good ones at fabric stores like Joanns radical noodle Apr 2025 #1

I will have to check them out Kali Apr 2025 #6

Probably still in Grandma's sewing box radical noodle Apr 2025 #10

My new thing are those black metal clips. multigraincracker Apr 2025 #2

binder clips? Kali Apr 2025 #5

They went away with the rubber bands. Twoflower Apr 2025 #3

I get my rubber bands from broccoli and asparagus Kali Apr 2025 #4

You can still get rubber bands at stores like Target and walmart. Also Amazon. Fla Dem Apr 2025 #17

I'd like the basic measuring spoons, not these clunky Tadpole Raisin Apr 2025 #7

oh yeah Kali Apr 2025 #8

Yes! And the crme de la crme? REAL copper bottom Tadpole Raisin Apr 2025 #9

Revere Ware! Morbius Apr 2025 #14

A couple of years ago at a yard sale they had a multigraincracker Apr 2025 #11

I'll try that. There were a few things of my mom's I wanted... Tadpole Raisin Apr 2025 #12

I wish I still had my old manual typewriter from college..... lastlib Apr 2025 #13

I have a perfectly good safety pin holding up my pants GenThePerservering Apr 2025 #15

all the new ones bend like they are made of soft lead or aluminum Kali Apr 2025 #16

I have a jarful Marthe48 Apr 2025 #18