You Might Be an Old Home Owner if...
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...if you go back and look in your Purchase & Sales paperwork to see if you missed the small print, where it said "Some Assembly Required"!
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You can't remember the last time you were "bored" It was a time long ago before you sold your soul
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phil wrote:You can't remember the last time you were "bored" It was a time long ago before you sold your soul
Ha ha! Seriously! What is "bored"?!
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An aunt used to say, "Only the boring get bored."
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...you find something in your garage that even after a reasonable amount of research, you still can't ID three months later because no one has ever seen anything like it before, although..maybe...once...what was that thing anyway they saw, because it was kind of similar, maybe?
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Lily, those are all called widgets or what-chuma-call-it's. They come in left and right hand varieties.
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This one we've fallen to calling "That measuring thing with the pins that seems useful". I need to find more weavers to talk to, I think.Gothichome wrote:Lily, those are all called widgets or what-chuma-call-it's. They come in left and right hand varieties.
So far, this is the closest thing I've found to it, a tapestry loom (but we'd be missing pieces if so):
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You sure that ain't a curtain stretcher?
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Neighmond wrote:You sure that ain't a curtain stretcher?
Neighmond! You nailed it! *dances around*
I'd never even heard of them before. Now I have! Almost hijacked the thread in excitement. I'll go put the rest of the info elsewhere.
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Lily left the valley wrote:Neighmond wrote:You sure that ain't a curtain stretcher?
Neighmond! You nailed it! *dances around*
Maybe we need a "what on earth is thing thingamajig?" thread in the antiques emporium
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