Friday at Scraps I did a lot of shelf stocking as Saturdays are busy, so you need plenty of merchandise for customers to buy. Plus my boss was not there so I just stocked shelves. I saw so many patterns that I wore in High School. While I did not wear my dresses this short, my father would never have allowed that, I did wear maxis, this one is 1971 and was only $1.00 which was expensive in those days.
At the checkout there is a box of free magazines, well this is not a magazine but they gave it to me for free cos it was in the box. I would have gladly paid for it. It is men's socks from 1953, there are several I will make and there is one vest pattern in there as well. I wonder if my dad wore socks like this. The book has $.50 on it for the price.
I love working here for a few hours a week, it is like being in my grandmother's sewing room and you never know what you are going to find. You can tell by the contents of each box I unpack and price and set out what generation the person donating was from.
