A new brush for old!

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Since Little One’s hair has grown longer and longer, it’s been more difficult to brush without getting into a terrible tangle. So in the end I gave her my nice hairbrush as that seemed to work the best (after washing it of course). I went back to an old hairbrush I used as a teenager, which I had rediscovered in my parents’ house after they died. Fast forward a year or so, and Little One used the brush so much the bristles actually wore away in the centre. Meanwhile my old brush, which was plastic, snapped because the plastic had obviously degenerated over the years! So we had one decent set of bristles with no handle, and one nice wooden brush form with no bristles! I bought Little One a nice new brush, but then I wondered if I could use the usable parts of the others. I didn’t really have high expectations, but it seemed worth a try. I pulled the bristle pad out of the wooden handle, then managed to rip the pad out of the plastic head, and with some glue (which I recently bought to repair something else) I combined the good parts and pressed the rubber pad down with some of the weights from my kitchen scales (I have a set of the old-fashioned sort with separate weights). Rather to my surprise, it actually worked really well! So now I also have a nice ‘new’ brush. That was a few weeks ago already and so far it’s looking as good as the genuine article! All rights reserved. © Text and image copyright Fleur 2024.