Nope. Not familiar with a darning egg. But I am familiar with eyestrain, and if she thinks she knows eyestrain, oh, honey–just wait until they invent portable phones!
As if post-war needlework wasn’t complicated enough, this next “novel idea” suggests hooking a window shade to a sewing machine to serve as an extension table.
Screw eyes and hooks? My sentiments exactly. Forget that. And this last one? Oh, dear. I have no words.
I Don't Get It 
Fagoting? Do we even want to know what that is?
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No, especially not large, open fagoting. It’s not something a housewife should do unsupervised.
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Consenting adults!
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Wow–even though the fashions were super cute, I am glad to have been born after the need for daring darning eggs and large open fagoting.
Here is my secret for short-cutting the housekeeping: Housecleaner. We gave up cable and I took on an extra project to pay for it. Down with housekeeping!
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You are a smart woman. I don’t know if I could give up cable, but you have a lot of projects on your plate. I bet your housekeeper doesn’t darn socks.
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Sadly they don’t even do windows. No darning, no. When socks have holes, they hit the trash. Wasteful, I suppose. But a daring darning egg probably costs as much as one pack of socks. Maybe two.
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Totally. I chunk them as well. You are reminding me that my front window needs cleaning.
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Use a (clean) sock with holes! We should get paid for these ideas. Realizing now that we should team up to write a guide for today’s housewife. It would be a bitchen’ read.
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Somebody told me to do that for Venetian blinds, but I’ve only gotten as close as putting the clean sock near the window. Eight days ago.
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We clean the same way, building ourselves up for it slowly. Totally should write that book.
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I have knots in my feet that already make it feel like there are walnuts hidden under my rug. Why would you want knots in the rug?
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…not that there is anything wrong with that….
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