Avrelia has the weirdest deja vu evah

[avrelia]

I occasionally look through LifeHacker striving to improve my productivity. It leads to more waste of time, but for a good cause.

But this day I had a blast from a past with this, rather useful advice: How to re-purpose old pantyhose. The very same advices I used to see in the old women's magazines I read in Soviet Union during perestroyka. We didn't have an overabundance of stuff in the stores then, so we usually did everything out of everything else, didn't throw away packaging, old pantyhose, and newspapers and re-purposed anything that could be re-purposed. And yes, we did keep onions in pantyhose.

So yeah.. it gives me a certain perspective on life in USA

They also advise to make Sbiten. I concur. It is supposed to be good. ;)

Comments

[missmurchison.livejournal.com]

I remember the storing-onions-in-pantyhose advice from previous recessions in this country. Old advice never dies, it just gets recycled.

[avrelia.livejournal.com]

How come it feels simultaneously less weird and more weird?

I mean, using old pantyhose for onion storage is a perfectly good notion, and yet...

[missmurchison.livejournal.com]

I hear you. Because it makes you imagine legs made of onions? Or onions shaped like legs?

My fav was using them to hold slivers of soap so they could be used like a loofah and you wouldn't waste the tiny bits of soap. Probably because my mom bought into that one and we were nagged to use the bizarre things.

[avrelia.livejournal.com]

Out of strange re-usage I remember that we used to crotchet cleaning things for dishes out of the plastic net that onions and potatoes were packaged in

[missmurchison.livejournal.com]

If you turned them into fishnet stockings, you'd have a perfect circle of recycling insanity!

[turtle-t.livejournal.com]

Сколько прекрасных практических идей и ностальгических воспоминаний! :)

Я имею в виду не только Ваш пост, но и комменты к нему :)

[avrelia.livejournal.com]

идея хранения лука в чулках для меня всегда была одной из наиболее странных идей экономии по-советски. Поэтому забавно узнать, что она жива и в США.