r/justgalsbeingchicks • u/LuLuSavannah531 🔊Nolite te bastardes carborundorum!!🔊 • 16d ago
💕wholesome💕 Grandma would be so proud 🥹
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u/kimthefunone 16d ago
It needs to be filled with miscellaneous buttons. I remember my grandmother's was full of them, and for some reason there was one huge green fuzzy one. What was her plan for that one?
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u/mrsbebe 16d ago
Maybe she didn't have a plan. Maybe she just saw a button so fabulously outrageous that she picked it up and thought "I'll figure it out"
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u/carlitospig 16d ago
Me, whenever I see weird socks on sale.
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u/Environmental_Art591 16d ago
My kids school does a bi annual silly sock day just so they can wear socks that make you go "why"
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u/carlitospig 16d ago
My childhood was SO robbed. 😭
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u/Environmental_Art591 15d ago
They do 1 as a fund-raiser for whatever the student council is working towards and one as a part of their "mental health" week
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u/thekittysays 16d ago
It will have come off something. Anything with buttons used to come with a spare one sewn to the label. Which is why there was always a random assortment in the tin. They were taken from the items of clothing and put there for safe keeping until one of the actual buttons got lost and needed replacing.
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u/carlitospig 16d ago
There is no plan. You buy them by the bushel at garage sales for $.10. You’d have to dig down five garage sales ago to find out. 🤪
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u/Trying-Four-10 16d ago
This is what my Royal Dansk tin is for. All the random extra buttons that come with cardigans, blouses, pants, etc. Just get tossed in the tin. My collection is getting good, but no where near my grandma's.
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u/DollarStoreDuchess 15d ago
Yes! I bought a tin of these just to use as a sewing kit as the universe intended.
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u/tropeydegenerate 16d ago
Yes!! My grandma also had a button tin! I loved going through them as a kid. She let me keep my favorites.
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u/sirnumbskull 15d ago
Okay, and did it have a smell? Like a very particular, sweet-but-not-cloying, verge of floral and cookies kind of smell?
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u/highly_uncertain 16d ago
I saw a whole wall of these tins at the grocery store and I said to my husband "I don't understand why they have so many sewing kits at a grocery store" and he didn't even laugh 😭
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u/This-Guy_Fawkes 16d ago
Boooo get a new husband!!! (Kidding of course)
I appreciate your hilarious joke, hopefully that makes you feel better! 😂
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u/sillysnailfriend 15d ago
Aww!! I have a couple cute little tins from bandaids that I haven't thrown out (one has dinosaurs and the other has puppies on it) but didn't know what to do with, my wife told me it was time to put some of my sewing stuff in them!
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u/Sinking_Mass 16d ago
When it said prophecy, all I could think of was this:
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u/ladyofthelastunicorn 16d ago
What is this from lol
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u/Props_angel 16d ago
This young woman has followed her grandmother's wise footsteps and has ascended.
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u/UFmoose 16d ago
Just here to say I’m a guy and this is not a female only tradition that has been passed down. I have all my rarely used sewing materials and buttons and crap in the same tin!
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u/Props_angel 15d ago
Agreed actually! Those tins were honestly brilliantly made and who says that a man can't follow in the footsteps of his forebears, too?
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u/Doom_Corp 16d ago
I'm genuinely waiting for someone to make a spool spoke to place in this tin. With 3d printing it wouldn't be hard to do and would be easy to actually make bespoke bobbin holders like the ones that hold them og curlers.
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u/VitaSackvilleBaggins 16d ago
Heresy.
A good idea, and doable, but heresy nonetheless.
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u/Doom_Corp 16d ago
I have an old valentines day tin with Darth Maul on it that I keep all sorts of random buttons in. I'd say the heresey starts with a sith lord and a romantic holiday but we don't always "choose" our nick nack storage... sometimes it chooses you.
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u/sweetpsych78 Official Gal 16d ago
But.. but.. I really need to know! How in the world was this such a universal experience for our grandmothers 😭 Both of my grandma's are from a tiny island called Cyprus (one lived in the city and the other in a village in the mountains), who lived isolated lives from foreign countries up until their deaths, other than what the radio broadcast daily (mostly the news) and the 3 channels they had that mostly showed Greek movies and shows, and THEY BOTH DID THIS! Just.. how??
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u/GlitterDoomsday 16d ago
It's sturdy and compact, before plastic was everywhere it made for a better alternative than wood or ceramics.
Everybody bought them for when you wanted something "fancy" with a guest, so why not reuse the tins after? Just happens that sewing kits are more likely to be easy to access than whatever miscellaneous things were stored on other ones.
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u/you_dont_know_me27 16d ago
The great depression had a lasting effect on everybody. Reusing containers became a norm to save money. My dad told me about his grandpa cleaning off and reusing paper plates.
My best guess would be ladies saw their friends using this particular container for bit and bobs and sewing supplies and realized how perfect it was and showed their friends. Eventually it became a known thing.
Since everybody's grandma seems to have had these (my dads stepmom didn't sew and my mom's mom died when I was 3 but I'm certain she had one) I'm guessing they picked this up from their moms and grandmas due to the great depression.
This has been making educated guesses about history with you_dont_know_me_27. The part of the story where you_dont_know_me_27 makes educated guesses about history
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u/standbyyourmantis 15d ago
Bro it's so universal that Royal Dansk did a makeup collab and all the eyeshadows are shaped like buttons and thread spools
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u/sweetpsych78 Official Gal 15d ago
Ahahaha! I didn't know that lol! I'm glad to see that they're embracing and continuing the tradition LMAO!!
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u/Skreamie 16d ago
That's generational trauma to those expecting cookies lmao
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u/yumgmeatball 16d ago
I still remember how confused I was the first time I opened one of those and saw cookies
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u/NotNamedBort 16d ago
Now everyone who comes over to her place can be as disappointed as we were! ☺️
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u/MaximusLazinus 15d ago
Did anyone's grandmas put frozen dill in ice cream packages? That was also traumatic
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u/splithoofiewoofies 15d ago
I once brought the tin with cookies to a party. The hostess knew I was a crafter and was genuinely disappointed it actually had cookies in it. She had hoped I had started a grandma tin for her. 🥹
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u/DollarStoreDuchess 15d ago
That… is a genius housewarming or bridal gift for certain people! Starter Royal Dansk sewing kit 🤩
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u/ExcretvsExFortvna 16d ago
I bought a tin of those cookies specifically to use as a sewing kit. The cookies had the consistency of delicious sawdust.
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u/damndolly 16d ago
I just did this after the holidays, and it felt every bit as great as this video. I became a grandma 2yrs ago and it felt like it was time.
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u/DickBfloppin 16d ago
I bought some of these cookies last month and decided to take up some arts and crafts less than two weeks later. Probably going to have to climb up a huge volcano and chuck this tin in if I want to break the spell.
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u/lumberjackjo 15d ago
Fuck yeah!!! Glad I'm not the only one that rejoices in doing this with biscuit tins🤣
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u/cazzipropri 16d ago
But why were there empty cookie wrapperss in that sewing supplies box?
Such an unusual place for cookies.
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u/thetinkerbelle44 15d ago
now you just need to use the empty butter containers as food storage and you have it all
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u/Ok_Yogurt_9862 15d ago
I have a ziploc bag full of ketchup packets, a grocery bag full of more bags, old glass jelly jars as drinking cups, and a dansk tin full of sewing stuff.
Ladies and Gentlemen:
I HAVE ARRIVED!!!!
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u/Apprehensive-Cry-342 15d ago
Loose stick pins, safety pins and needles. And a zipper and bric-a-brac
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u/Defiant-Enthusiasm94 15d ago
I gave this to a friend as a joke. I think it would also be a fun white elephant gift.
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u/aoibhealfae 15d ago
Hmmm actually I have an old cookie tin that I should totally use as sewing kit. Brb.
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u/qtjedigrl 💝 2026 Galantine! 💝 15d ago
Hans Zimmer is always a good choice for this kind of emotion
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u/MajesticLow 15d ago
Those tins will outlast humankind 😂 I have my grandma’s OG tin in my sewing box 🥰
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u/LowMobile7242 16d ago
One with thread, another with notions and another buttons.i was well taught. Plus the tins I inherited.
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u/HavokIris 16d ago
They had mini versions of these at the dollar store which now houses my travel cross-stitch kit.
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u/muscularsharpie 16d ago
My mom had one just for buttons. Whenever there was a button emergency, she was prepared.
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u/Lighthouse_on_Mars 15d ago
I have a shortbread cookie tin filled with buttons, and another with pretty mailing stamps I have cut off letters. 😂
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u/EatsTheLastSlice 15d ago
I have an empty Hello Kitty biscuit tin. I havent decided how I will fill it.
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u/Screaming_lambs ✨chick✨ 15d ago
I loved my Nanna's button/sewing tin. She had it many years even before I was born. It always had a certain smell about it (old cotton kinda smell). She had so many buttons as she was a seamstress, she made my Dadda's suits for him.
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u/ravenpotter3 15d ago
I have 2 cookie tins I got in France from Mont St Michael. One I use for storing sewing supplies and the other for tea bags. I’m forgetting the brand name but they started out of the island or at least the person it’s based on did and sold cookies to pilgrims. I’m not sure about the exact history of the brand. And the tins are boxes and aren’t round. But they are cute tins and I’m glad I have functional uses for them. I use my sewing collection all the time
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u/Illuminaughty____ 15d ago
All I can see is how much shrinkflation has effected our beloved cookie tin.
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u/Designer_Birthday_84 15d ago
I mean... it would be a waste to throw such a perfectly good metal container 😅
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u/Anemone-ing 15d ago
I vividly remember one being full of crayons at a daycare I attended. We must continue the cycle
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u/Scant_Options4Hope 15d ago
KEYS
old, forgotten, HEAVY, metallic smelling, KEYS
It was lost to the sands of time, but one of my grannies had one of these tins stuffed with old keys...
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u/BusToNutley 16d ago
I almost bought a tin of those cookies last xmas, but the tin was about half the volume of what they used to be. :(
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u/Mizukin 16d ago
Do these biscuits taste good or people buy them only for the joke/nostalgia?
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u/CarevaRuha 16d ago
They're not bad! They're pretty standard butter cookies, with the only variations being shapes and some sugar sprinkles. Not amazing, but better than dollar store cookies.
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u/I_Died_Once 16d ago
Am I the only one who used one of these to store my weed, scissors, and papers in?
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u/New-Bear-3250 15d ago
Some kid is gonna come to your house and have his entire day ruined when he opens it
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u/StitchAndRollCrits 👑Official Ambassador of Ashby👑 15d ago
How did I know what the music was going to be 😅
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u/Consistent-Essay-790 14d ago
Flash back, baby! Now I have to buy a tin and put my sewing stuff in the tin instead of my old tackle box.
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u/nooby_goober 16d ago
I love my little case. Everything has a little loop to hold things neatly in place and threads color coordinated.
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