http://countrylife.lehmans.com/2007/10/04/holiday-gifts-unplugged/ Your online simplicity village Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:07:56 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://countrylife.lehmans.com/2007/10/04/holiday-gifts-unplugged/comment-page-1/#comment-64 Diane McIntyre Wed, 10 Oct 2007 01:29:28 +0000 http://countrylife.lehmans.com/2007/10/04/holiday-gifts-unplugged/#comment-64 This isn't really about holiday gifts, although I am working on my next order which will include gifts for my family and my order will include some games and toys that don't need electricity or computer chips to work. Finding "unplugged" things is difficult, especially in our area - semi-rural. That means the old ways are still there but technology is digging in and taking hold. I can no longer get replacement rubber rings for my "flip lid" Ball jars here. Thank heaven Lehman carries them. My latest "unplugged" find?? A darning egg! I knit socks. Binding off the toe has always been a little difficult because you have so few stitches on two needles and must lace a third needle through the last few loops to sew the toe closed. I've had an egg for years - made for me by a friend in Canal Fulton, Ohio. I showed my method to another friend and she wanted an egg too. Where did I find one? Lehman's. She is so happy. AND, it works beautifully. Oh, yes. I still darn socks. I use embroidery floss because I can't find darning thread anywhere. AND, I've taught my daughter, age 22, how to darn socks. She is exceptional at it! This isn’t really about holiday gifts, although I am working on my next order which will include gifts for my family and my order will include some games and toys that don’t need electricity or computer chips to work. Finding “unplugged” things is difficult, especially in our area – semi-rural. That means the old ways are still there but technology is digging in and taking hold. I can no longer get replacement rubber rings for my “flip lid” Ball jars here. Thank heaven Lehman carries them. My latest “unplugged” find?? A darning egg! I knit socks. Binding off the toe has always been a little difficult because you have so few stitches on two needles and must lace a third needle through the last few loops to sew the toe closed. I’ve had an egg for years – made for me by a friend in Canal Fulton, Ohio. I showed my method to another friend and she wanted an egg too. Where did I find one? Lehman’s. She is so happy. AND, it works beautifully. Oh, yes. I still darn socks. I use embroidery floss because I can’t find darning thread anywhere. AND, I’ve taught my daughter, age 22, how to darn socks. She is exceptional at it!

]]> http://countrylife.lehmans.com/2007/10/04/holiday-gifts-unplugged/comment-page-1/#comment-51 Pat Veretto Fri, 05 Oct 2007 22:23:28 +0000 http://countrylife.lehmans.com/2007/10/04/holiday-gifts-unplugged/#comment-51 I love to give (and receive!) gifts that don't cost anything to operate. I still have a grain mill I got from you about... 20 years ago. Still works and hasn't cost me a dime in all that time. :) I love to give (and receive!) gifts that don’t cost anything to operate. I still have a grain mill I got from you about… 20 years ago. Still works and hasn’t cost me a dime in all that time.

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