I got myself into gear eventually
By Judy Evans
@JudyEv (381750)
Rockingham, Australia
December 3, 2022 3:01am CST
After a bit of a slow start, I actually did a lot today. I made biscuits/cookies and some bacon/cheese straws to take to my BILs tomorrow for his birthday bash. I’ve done some laundry and the ironing, made some dressing for a salad for tomorrow and found some paperwork I needed. I’ve dead-headed the roses but I dodged vacuuming. That might get done tomorrow; otherwise it can wait until another day. We’ve been shopping and braved all the crowds. I’ve also done the ironing.
One of the items I ironed, probably for the last time, is the raggedy handkerchief you can see in the photo. When I was growing up, we didn’t have a lot of money and poor old Dad often got hankies for Christmas. His name was Norm and this hankie would have been his. He died in 2000 and it would have been a long time before that, that I bought him hankies. But of course, they might have been a gift from someone else though I can’t think who.
Soon it will be wine o’clock and we’ll wind down for the day.
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@Beestring (15373)
• Hong Kong
3 Dec 22
You've done a lot today. Have a good night's sleep.
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@DaddyEvil (174208)
• United States
3 Dec 22
Don't tell her that yet! It's only around 5:30 pm where she lives in Australia, I believe. 
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@Beestring (15373)
• Hong Kong
3 Dec 22
@DaddyEvil No way, it's 5:30 pm in Hong Kong now. Australia is 3 or 4 hours ahead of us.
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@Beestring (15373)
• Hong Kong
3 Dec 22
@Beestring You are correct. Sydney is 3 hours ahead of HK. But Western Australia is in the same time zone as HK.
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@DaddyEvil (174208)
• United States
3 Dec 22
It sounds like you should have started drinking early this morning and taken an all day nap instead. 
I remember mom hated running dad's hankies through the laundry. She's make up a small load for them by themselves. She couldn't stand the thought of ... uhm... anything from them... getting on anything else. She definitely wouldn't have ironed them! 
I remember mom hated running dad's hankies through the laundry. She's make up a small load for them by themselves. She couldn't stand the thought of ... uhm... anything from them... getting on anything else. She definitely wouldn't have ironed them! 1 person likes this
@DaddyEvil (174208)
• United States
3 Dec 22
@JudyEv When dad was still alive, we couldn't afford tissues, if they were even a thing back then... Uhm... Dad passed away when I was 15. I'm 59 now, so 44 years ago. Hang on a second... Tissues were definitely invented well before then but I don't remember us using them until around the time I moved out of mom's house, so around 18 years old.
We don't get colds very often but yup, we use toilet paper when we have runny noses, too.
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@JudyEv (381750)
• Rockingham, Australia
3 Dec 22
@DaddyEvil My Mum never bought tissues and for many years we didn't buy toilet paper.
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@wolfgirl569 (135583)
• Marion, Ohio
3 Dec 22
Glad you felt like getting things done. I would put that up to keep.
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@wolfgirl569 (135583)
• Marion, Ohio
4 Dec 22
@JudyEv You could keep the picture you took then.
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@JudyEv (381750)
• Rockingham, Australia
5 Dec 22
@wolfgirl569 Yes, that's probably a better idea.
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@snowy22315 (208746)
• United States
3 Dec 22
I got my dad monogrammed hankies one year. He used to suffer from hay fever and carried them all the time.
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@RebeccasFarm (91299)
• United States
3 Dec 22
Aw, bless Judy..thank you for sharing your dear Father's hankie with us. You had reminded me also of my Father, and that we often also gave him a box of new hankies for Christmas. RIP both
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@LadyDuck (502148)
• Italy
3 Dec 22
I also ironed yesterday. I still have some handkerchiefs with the initials, we used to have them in our purse when I was young. When we offered hankies as a gift, we always added a little coin in the package. There is the superstition that hankies brings tears, but if you pay for them it's fine. The person who receives the package gives you back the coin, so they are "paid" and they do not risk bad luck.
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@LadyDuck (502148)
• Italy
4 Dec 22
@JudyEv - Here in Switzerland they used to sell really pretty gift box with embroidered handkerchiefs, on top of the box there was a small bag containing 1 cent, so the one who received the gift was ready to "pay for it". I still have one of those boxes... I kept the cent.
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@LindaOHio (222222)
• United States
3 Dec 22
You got a lot done. I hope you keep the hankie as a memento.
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