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Having reluctantly put away my Christmas decorations, I'm now re-arranging my furniture. I haven't yet bought a calendar for this year but I'm hoping the weather will warm up so I can walk into town. Many of the charity shops produce their own calendars so I'm intending to buy one from them.
 

It is cold here, and there is frost inside the windows. Actually some of it feels like a thin sheet of ice. I haven't seen that since I was a kid.

Today, I'm just going to work on my list, put some books on my husband's Fire, brush the dog. I have paperwork that needs to be taken care of in 3 folders: insurance, medical, and general. I might make fudge ... I've been procrastinating about doing that for years. This is when procrastination comes in handy, when I want to eat my baking/cooking, but cannot muster up the will power to make it. This has saved me from weighing a literal ton!
 
I was just checking my email and my sister-in-law sent me these 2 things my mother-in-law always said.


What if this life is truly death.
Think upon it, before birth we were dead for billions of eons, perhaps this is the afterlife and the past was life.




I WISH YOU LUCK
I WISH YOU JOY
I WISH YOU FIRST A BABY BOY
WHEN HIS HAIR BEGINS TO CURL
THEN I WISH YOU A BABY GIRL
 

StarSong said:
I worked for and with Jewish-owned apparel manufacturers from the early 70s through the early 2000s, have had many Jewish friends (most of my closest friends are Jewish), dated several Jewish men, my godparents were Jewish (as were most of my parents' friends), and for four years I had a Jewish roommate (who spent a year in Israel on a kibbutz and was fluent in Hebrew). I knew her family well and in the beginning was able to pass as Jewish when near her bubbe. (I knew enough about Judaism and Yiddish to squeak by until Bubbe accepted me.)

To be clear, I never suggested that ALL Jewish men were skirt-chasers. But those who were (and their were plenty with eyes for young, attractive shiksas) backed away when they got told off.

Your friend apparently bundled, sewed, trimmed, pressed or performed other sewing floor labor, which was very different from management (which I was). Virtually ALL people in that category were/are paid by the piece (with a minimum wage guarantee).

Unless it was a very small company, the owner was unlikely to have any interaction with her. Supervision over employees in that category was left to the floor lady or floor man. And you're correct that some of those folks could be ruthless.

Jewish women were subservient or deferential to men? Not hardly. Maybe in some ultra orthodox communities that I didn't have contact with, but those would have been very scarce in the Los Angeles garment industry.

My lifetime of experience: American Jewish women tend to be well educated, liberal, politically astute, generous and kind, unafraid of stating their opinions, career-driven professionals who delight in their children, and who don't take a back seat to anyone - certainly not to their husbands or other men. I learned a lot about asserting myself from these powerful women.
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Thank you for the clarification.

As what you first wrote was, to me, different than saying men had wandering eyes. I don’t think I said Jewish woman were subservient to men, but I do think they were deferential to men. Most woman in the 1960 and 1950 were, regardless of the religion, in my experience.

Yes, my friend was not in management.
 
Kaila said:
I had a rough night with my illnesses; therefore, feeling more poorly today, and I will have to try, and hope for some extra daytime sleep.

Watching a few wild birds out my window first
(cardinal and finches, so far)
and I am having warm beverage and food, and dropping in here, for a little comradery, social interaction, and smiles, to add to my day.
My thanks to my friends, here.
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Hope you are feeling better
 
Knight said:
Going to be a very busy day. Boning out a pork shoulder to combine with about 10lbs. of the 20lbs. boneless chicken breast I bought today. The purpose is to coarse grind those two together to make these 3 kinds of sausage, Italian sweet sausage, Andouille & Chorizo. Will set aside some to be the topping for home made pizza tomorrow then vacuum seal & freeze the rest of the sausage. Not done with future prep. Dragging out the slow cooker to cook about 3 lb. of chicken breast to shred for tacos. Cube some for chicken noodle soup, last slice some breast length wise for breading. Was thinking about smoking some of the breast but decided not to.
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Or you could just buy a TV dinner 😊
 
StarSong said:
Will she take ownership of her new home before her lease is up on the rental?
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yes she's hoping to get out well before.

She made me laugh because the agents who rented the property to her were less than helpful when giving her notice to leave..for example they gave her notice on Christmas day knowing full well that she works full time, and that Christmas day and until the 4th of January no real estate agents would be open for her to search for rental or saleable properties leaving her very little time to find anywhere to live and to arrange for a whole 3 bed 2 bath house and garage to be emptied ... so when they called her yesterday to ask to be allowed to come and take photos of the property to put on the website for sale, she told them NO... she told them to use the same pics they used when it was up for rent, she wasn't about to have all of her personal goods photographed and placed online.. they spluttered and protested, but she is well within her rights...
 
Vida May said:
I know darn well the US had a huge textile industry. Now everything comes from somewhere else, and buying already made clothes for less than we can make them, is just wrong.

I am nostalgic for the days when the woman was all industries rolled into one. We could make everything the family needed with our own hands. Today we are so dependent on others we could fall faster than Rome. And I don't get to parade around like a queen because of being valued for my domestic skills.

As for fashion. All I care about is being comfortable and having clothes easy to get on and off. But I like your explanation "projecting sales, managing purchasing and the other mathematics" even better.
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Bulk manufacturing is nearly always a lot less expensive than making things at home by buying single parts from retailers. Building a car from parts is exponentially more expensive than buying one that rolled off the assembly line.

My sister was a whiz of a home sewer. When I started purchasing trim, we were shocked to realize she was paying (literally) more than 10X the amount for 7" nylon pant or skirt zipper that I was paying. The difference in button prices were even wider.

Of course, I was buying identical items by the thousands in one go, they weren't individually packaged, and I bought directly from YKK, Talon and button dyeing companies (nearly all buttons on women's garments were dyed-to-match back then). Same volume pricing applied with lace, fabric, etc. I paid 7¢ per yard for 1" white eyelet when prairie skirts were hot as a pistol (and one time literally placed an order for a million yards - the company owner nearly had a stroke when he saw the purchase order but eventually thanked me for my foresight). My sister was paying over a dollar a yard for that eyelet trim at her local fabric store.

The US stopped producing fabric domestically partly because of international price competition and partly because the process is highly polluting. Wealthy countries are appropriately reluctant to permit factories to dump dyestuffs, finishing chemicals (including formaldehyde) and other pollutants into their rivers and groundwater. Poorer countries are oftne less persnickety about pollution, minimum wage, safety standards, child labor and so forth.
 
Went to Petco this morning and bought my dog’s food. She would be so upset if we ran out. Going to the mall later to return some items that did not fit. The window in my side door shattered last week. My neighbor helped me board it up. I had already planned to buy a new door in the Spring but now I need to get busy and locate one in stock or get one ordered and hope it will not take months to get it.
 
WheatenLover said:
It is cold here, and there is frost inside the windows. Actually some of it feels like a thin sheet of ice. I haven't seen that since I was a kid.

Today, I'm just going to work on my list, put some books on my husband's Fire, brush the dog. I have paperwork that needs to be taken care of in 3 folders: insurance, medical, and general. I might make fudge ... I've been procrastinating about doing that for years. This is when procrastination comes in handy, when I want to eat my baking/cooking, but cannot muster up the will power to make it. This has saved me from weighing a literal ton!
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I am happy to hear that you are keeping busy and sticking to your lists. Personally, I enjoy the feeling of getting something done....good for you!
 
Kaila said:
I had a rough night with my illnesses; therefore, feeling more poorly today, and I will have to try, and hope for some extra daytime sleep.

Watching a few wild birds out my window first
(cardinal and finches, so far)
and I am having warm beverage and food, and dropping in here, for a little comradery, social interaction, and smiles, to add to my day.
My thanks to my friends, here.
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Aneeda72 said:
Use a long spoon, a clothespin to hold your nose shut, and a throw away apron. Although why anyone would want to stir sh!t is beyond me. Have a good time
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Naw - I say we dive right in and make a big splash. Good time? always. Want to come along? It's a big boat.
 
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