I really like clothes pins, don't you? Seeing one reminds me of an old fashion summer. My mom used to hang most all of our wash in the summer. The sheets always smelled so fresh. Those were the days my mom changed our sheets daily! I'm serious, I can't imagine doing that I change mine once sometimes twice a week but every day, three beds!
The reason for this post today is I have been going through a little more than two years worth of several magazine, I got so far behind I had piles of them so I stopped all subscriptions and decided to go through one each morning. I think I have 4 or 5 left! Any way I got off track a little. As I said I was going through a magazine, Mary Jane's Farm Girl. There was an article on clothes pins. The only american clothes pin company closed in 2007 and this couple who lived on a farm noticed the cheaply made clothes pins not made in the USA and how the springs weren't as strong and sturdy, the wood wasn't as good and no protective coating on them.
Hmm I think to myself. I have a basket of clothes pin on my refrigerator I use to hang out a few thing on the line and I mostly use them as chip clips...any one else do that?
I took a look at them, I bought them at Walmart within the past 5 years so they can't be the ones made in the USA. Then I remembered out in the garage I have a pail of them, the ones I used when Mr. Man and I were first married. I compared the two and I am lucky to have some of the ones made right here in the USA. The picture above is my old original clothes pins.
Now see the comparison.
Can you guess which one is made in the USA and which is from another country? If you guess the one on the left is made here you're right. Can you see the difference?
I bet you thinking to yourself I need to take a look at my clothes pins.
Hugs,
Tania
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