UPdate . . . They still make diaper pins, much to my surprise & delight. You can buy 6 of them at Bed Bath & Beyond Baby store for $1.99. Unless you want the fancy ones for a dollar more. Glad I found them. Problem solved.
Darn . . . can't even trust good old fashioned safety pins to be what they were in the good old days!
You know how it is when you NEED a BIG safety pin and nothing else will do? Searched and searched and searched NO big safety pins in the whole house. Well darn, thought I had a bunch in a tin box. NO tin box so must have given them to someone thinking I could easily replace them. Good intentions aught to be worth something. Shouldn't they??
Covid taught me to search online before you leave the house. Not everyone has 'ordinary' items in stock these days. Plus, you know you can't always trust the web either. And, since you can't trust clerks to know where anything is anymore, like you could in the good old days.
I've learned to print out the picture from the stores web page and go directly to customer service and show it to them. Inevitably they have to call someone, or 2-3 someone's and often give up and call the manager of the store who then has to look it up. tee-hee.
But . . . hay that beats me having to walk up and down every aisle.
What was the old ad for the Yellow Pages? "Let your fingers do the walking". Did we ever dream the day would come when we'd no longer have telephone operators to look things up for us? Or, never again to have that big fat FREE directory with everyones name and address at our finger tips?
Times have changed. And, so has the quality of safety pins. I only wanted BIG ones. Have dozens of every OTHER size. But, oh NO the manufacturers know that when you need a BIG safety pin you'll not only pay the price, you will also be willing to take on MORE of those small ones that you don't want. Gerrrrrrrrrr.
So be warned my friends don't buy Fiskars. At one time that was a brand you could trust. NO more. Cheap, flimsy, metal got all bent out of shape the first time I use one.
from your friend in the kitchen, Judy
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