A Bit Of Nostalgia

[Canary42]

I recently bought a copy of Readers Digest (the first for over 50 years) and was surprised to find it hasn't changed much, some of the regular features (e.g. Word Power) still there, and bizarre articles like "knitting a hat for your dog".

It was the latter which inspired this post's nostalgia because it included how to make a pompom using two circles of cardboard with a hole cut in the middle.

When I was a kid we used the cardboard milk bottle tops with hole ready made, sadly long gone, they were superseded by flimsy tinfoil the birds pecked through. [Sigh]

[barry1010]

I remember making pompoms that way for my mother to sew on to my sisters' knitted hats and jumpers. The things I did for fun!

[Cloverjo]

I used to love Readers Digest. Especially the little ‘filler’ items at the end of the bigger articles. And the ‘Laughter is the best Medicine’ page. Interesting stories, too.

[Bobbisox1]

I used to buy all my music collection from them ( tape cassettes)

[davebro]

Do they still have that fantastic prize draw. I was almost a winner once (they said).

[douglas9401]

I get all the Readers Digest stuff I need from Rondy's posts.

[barry1010]

davebro, they had to stop those competitions, they got in to serious trouble both in the UK and the US for their shocking marketing practices.

[Canary42]

It was their marketing that made me abandon them over 50 years ago, although I still occasionally buy their stuff in charity shops.

[Buenchico]

>>> " . . . it included how to make a pompom using two circles of cardboard with a hole cut in the middle"

That is indeed nostalgia for me. I made loads of those things as a kid!

I also remember filling lots of rubber moulds with plaster of Paris to make various ornaments and some basket weaving too.

A little more nostalgia . . .

[brian j john]

Nostalgia's not what it used to be is it .

[barry1010]

I made a lot of plaster figurines, too, and paint them using teeny pots of paint. I can smell that plaster of paris now, I have a strange olfactory memory that means I really smell things that aren't there.

[barry1010]

I am now reminded of the most fabulous shop in Birmingham that I used to buy my moulds from - the Midlands Educational, I'm sure there were other branches around the country.

[brian j john]

Nostalgia ,,,,

There was a time when time didn’t matter only the time of day
And living was living in hope which would never pass away
Well it was a Monday morning when weekend was done
Fear was the fear of being what we had become

Oh what happened to you
Whatever happened to me
What became of the people we used to be
Tomorrow’s almost over today went by so fast
It’s the only thing to look forward to the past