The Farm News
Today we are interviewing Mrs. Brown, wife of John Brown and an acknowledged hoarder.
Mrs. Brown? What do you hoard or keep?
Why, most anything, sir! My favorite things are bits of candles and charred wood from the fire. You can do so much with them! I also make sure to use the wax from the honeycomb after I get all the honey. It is so useful!
What do you do with the wax?
I make candles, use it to seal my canning jars, wax my husband's mustache on Sunday and seal envelopes.
I heard that you reuse thread as well. What do you do with used thread?
I baste with used thread. No reason to use new thread when you are just going to rip it out. I also save all fabrics for my quilts, but most of us farm wives do that.
What do you do with feed sacks?
Feed sacks? Well, there isn't too much to do with them because they are so rough, but it makes good bedding on top of hay for the stock or a lost stranger.
We heard that you found a way to to soften it and make clothes.
What? No, no, not yet, but I am trying that.
May we see your storage room?
There are different storage sections for different products, like fabric items have to be dry, so the attic for in the basement, they would rot from the wet.
Your attic is full of seed sacks!
I am going to learn a way to use them, so I keep them. It is better than throwing them in the trash heap.
Do you throw anything away?
Hm, not anything I can think of, no.
Are you a hoarder?
Today is the first time I heard of that word, so I don't know.
If I were to ask for one for your feed sacks, would you give me one?
If you were going to use it, sure, but if you wanted it to throw it away or waste it, no.
I don't think Mrs. Brown is a hoarder. I think Mrs. Brown is a smart farmer's wife to makes use of any and everything.
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