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From: "Betty McCollum" <>
Subject: Re: [ARIZARD] Morning
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:40:52 -0600
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So, they were probably useful for many things!
Betty Mc
----- Original Message -----
From: "Susie Pack" <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 4:09 PM
Subject: Re: [ARIZARD] Morning


> My mother told me that my first "crib" was an apple crate!
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Betty McCollum" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 10:11 AM
> Subject: Re: [ARIZARD] Morning
>
>
>> June:
>> What about a dresser for your bedroom made of apple crates? I wasn't
>> lucky enough to have one but knew someone who did and I thought it was
>> great. You stood two boxes upright, and put one crossways between it.
>> Betty Mc
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "June Ramsey" <>
>> To: <>
>> Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 7:03 AM
>> Subject: [ARIZARD] Morning
>>
>>
>>> Wake up coffee time!!!
>>>
>>>
>>> Morning speaking of making thing's from cans never seen that, but i
>>> remember
>>> mom would take nail kegs pad and ,cover the tops and gather material and
>>> tack it on to them and made a nice seat to put around the table. or
>>> where
>>> ever needed, also there was in most homes i know it was at our's a long
>>> bench the length of the table that sat at the back next to the wall. Our
>>> family wasn't that large. Mom, Dad' my two brothers and my self, but
>>> that
>>> was part of the "furniture" ha
>>> We always was having company. I remember a saying my grandpa Gillihan
>>> had
>>> .Don't mind them comer's and goer's, but dam them comer's an
>>> stayer's.Ha!
>>>
>>> Remember when we had those old what we called cane bottom chairs? Mom
>>> and
>>> dad redid the seats of them by striping i believe narrow strips from
>>> white
>>> oak You soaked them in hot water to make them soft then weave the in the
>>> bottom and when they dried they would be real tight.Put a thin cushion
>>> on
>>> the seat to help save your "bottom" from splinters .Really they weren'
>>> to
>>> bad.
>>>
>>> At least we had a loving mom and dad and we had i think better food then
>>> than we do know.Much more healthy than the food from stores.Big stone
>>> jars
>>> in cellar of sour kraut, and pickles and all kinds of canned vegies.and
>>> fruits. Had all the peanut's ,molasses(dad had a mill), pop corn
>>> ,watermellons, cantleope's?, mom baked alot of lasses cakes,
>>> gingerbread,
>>> cookies. We made peanut brittle, pop corn ball's, you cooked mollasses
>>> and
>>> pulled and teisted made it into taffy and we would have taffy pullings
>>> at
>>> parties. Ha!
>>> Got to hush fore i get wound up. Love and God Bless June
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: <>
>>> To: <>
>>> Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 3:59 AM
>>> Subject: Re: [ARIZARD] recycling
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I remember helping my mother make the foot stools out the juices can.
>>>>
>>>> My Aunt and Uncle would safe us the cans. we made them for everyone
>>>>
>>>> in the family from grandparents to Aunts and Uncle to cousins to
>>>> neighbors
>>>>
>>>> even gave away as wedding gifts.
>>>>
>>>> sharron
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Gen" <>
>>>> To:
>>>> Sent: Monday, November 9, 2009 10:51:28 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
>>>> Subject: Re: [ARIZARD] recycling
>>>>
>>>> Y'all are making me think of other things, like 'having more time than
>>> money!' Remember when people would make miniature furniture from
>>> vegetable
>>> cans? Talk about needing the patience of a saint!!! And I remember
>>> seeing
>>> a
>>> few 'ferris wheel' plant stands in peoples yards using either coffee
>>> cans
>>> or
>>> lard cans as the 'vases'. Or how about the big juice cans made into foot
>>> stools or childrens seats, when you added a bit of padding on top, and
>>> sewed
>>> material around them. Always looked like huge flowers to me. My mom
>>> would
>>> use the 3 lb coffee cans to make some really pretty TP holders, and
>>> she'd
>>> always make them as a wedding shower gift. Now they don't make coffee
>>> cans
>>> anymore, and I don't know anyone that uses gallon size vegetable cans;
>>> about
>>> the only substitute I think might work.
>>>> Ahhhh, it's getting late, hope everyone stays healthy, dry & warm.
>>>> gen
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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