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noodlesaintpasta t1_itctxla wrote

Reply to comment by CycleofNegativity in My local store just started selling these large sewing kits by caniborrow50cents

You must be a youngun’. In the 1900’s people would reuse these tins, or in my family, red fruitcake tins, to store things. Most grannies kept their miscellaneous sewing stuff in there. I personally had one that I kept all my little beads in (for making yarn necklaces) when I was around 4.

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CycleofNegativity t1_itdzx0w wrote

I mean, I’ve got decades of the “1900s” I remember, but that doesn’t mean I look at tins that we reused for everything and think “sewing kit”. Idk, I thought there must be something more to it that I was missing. Maybe because I sewed more than my grandma ever did? That woman cooked everything in the microwave and patched clothing with duct tape and safety pins.

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