I remembered phone numbers just fine back when I had to, but I'll be darned if these days I can remember my own half the time! 🤣 I do have some useless trivia numbers stuck in my brain, though. I can still remember my high school locker combination! I've told this memory to leave as it is taking up valuable real estate in my brain that could be used for something current, but it has refused to budge! 19-25-35. Aaargh! Love & hugs
When I'm not too lazy, I have this weird thing for remembering numbers: i see colours for each number. So for example 31275 is red, white, sky blue, dark blue and yellow. Nuts eh? It's like synesthesia but very restricted. Letters have colour too but that's no use to me. For numbers it's been quite helpful tho. You're fun Jillian ❤
Those puppy bobbins would also be perfect for holding embroidery floss! I used to remember phone numbers because I grew up with a landline and didn't have cell reception when that became a thing. I still know my parents' numbers, my own, but no one else's!!
I have always remembered patterns and still do on the phone keypad. Some numbers I remember however...I don't know why...perhaps they rhyme or repeat enough? Yez, I too remember the days of using the pattern to call someone on the pay‐phone. LOL You look so much in your element at the spinning wheel. The sound of it is so cathartic. It is the ultimate fidget spinner, I guess. No wonder you seem so relaxed. I look forward to spinning flax one day myself...I love linen.
I visualize as well but I think of it as a picture. I tell myself to remember the picture and it’s usually in groups…so a phone number would be 2 pictures with the first 3 numbers as one group and the last four ad a second group. To activate my recall, I literally ask myself to remember what the picture looked like and can tell you the numbers on that particular picture. I get scrambled trying to recall a series of numbers but have no trouble remembering the picture. It might be because the picture is one data point vs 7 data elements in a specific sequence. That’s actually a lot more info to sort, store and summon on command.
I bought bunny bobbins for my daughter's embroidery floss. Especially cute because we have 2 angoras. Remember the rotary phone dial and how many misdialed wrong numbers when not paying attention. The number pad was very nice. I remember my phone number growing up as well as my bf's number even though i haven't phoned those numbers in over 25 years. Can barely remember my home number now 😂
I haven't got my hot little hands on good flax yet, but I've been spinning bamboo, and I found a bit of flax seed "goo" is a wonderful aide. Flax seed from the grocery store soaked in water and goo strained. Wait - didn't I get that idea from you?
So fun to “find” you again! I’ve had my life (and my wheel) in a box with moving - I’m finally able to enjoy spinning with you again! You are so positive and encouraging.
I sometimes get numbers stuck in my head like a song, so I'm DEFINITELY in the numbers camp, but usually I'd have some sort of rhythm to the numbers so it was like a small chant.
Yes I still remember my home phone number growing up, my grandma’s and my best friend’s numbers. Those were actual put your finger in the dial and rotate the dial. I guess I called those numbers the most. Now, I only know three phone numbers. Glad my phone knows the rest.
I used to do both - remembering patterns and numbers in their own right. When I was tired, or wasn’t sure if I was recalling the numbers correctly, I’d do the pattern. The puppy bobbins are really sweet indeed, particularly using the mouth to hold the yarn. Brilliant. Would love to visit that store by the way. Bit far for me though… certainly more than two states away. Thank you for your Vlogmas episodes. They’re lovely.
Every year my neighbours set up 2 deer shaped lights in their front garden, and every year my dad sneaks into their garden and makes them look like they were *ahem* making baby bobbins 😂 (It's okay we're friends. One year, they elf-knapped elf from the shelf because they have a house key and made him party with their elf. We encourage messing with each other.) I'm trying to find a little deer statue in the charity shop this year to put with the original deer to keep the joke going.
You need to design a clamp on cup perch attachment to add to your spinning wheel! So many treasure to be found! Your antiquing possibilities are excellent! I remember phone numbers from when I was a kid, as well as licence plates and things. I don’t remember newer numbers though, cause yeah - phones! Maybe making things too convenient is letting our brains get flabby…? 😂
Waaaay back in the 70’s to 80’s I was a 411 phone operator. Before computers. I had more than 100 of the city and state’s important numbers memorized. Now I only know my own. Like you, my phone knows all my contacts. 😊
I keep thinking the squeaking of the wheel is a cat meowing.. LOL! I still remember my childhood phone number from the 80s.. and a best friend's number, as her Mom still has that number...
I still remember 2 phone numbers: my childhood home and my Grandma's house. Neither house belongs in my family anymore. 😆 But they come in handy for security codes! Thanks for the vlogmas chats!
I still remember my Grandma's number from when I was very little. 🙂 And for some reason, numbers stick in my head. I usually memorize my credit card number. Loved your video!
I remember phone numbers from the 1960s. We still had “exchange” names, although we were direct dialing. Our home phone started with TR1-xxxx and the TR stood for TRiangle. My auntie’s number was ESsex7-xxxx. We moved when I was 10, and our number was WAverly7-xxxx. This was all rotary dial, of course, so we just had to remember! The time lady was TI4- and any four numbers. She would say, “At the tone … the time will be … six … forty-one … and twenty… seconds.” Beeeep!
I just had to tell you something I came across listening to some Swedish stories about folklore creatures, and in one story they just casually mention that back in the days (the story was from1890's I think) all people that lived in small town or villages, used to have a käckla made out of the tip of a pine to use with a spinning wheel to hold blån (the not so good quality flax that are really short) so they can spin it to yarn to weave towels out of.
I remember numbers because of repetition. So, phone numbers I called many times - close friends, my dad's work, our home number - I had memorized. Anything else, I had to write down. These days, I only remember a few, because I don't have to type them in anymore. I can sometimes memorize numbers if there's some kind of hook for my memory. Like, my license plate is a palindrome, so that makes it easier to remember.
I remembered the actual numbers, but the patterns helped a bit if it was a number I dialed often. I think the first phone numbers I learned my parents had put to a song for me to remember them as a little kid, and I still remember some numbers with the rhythm they were spoken with. but in generaln if I need to remember a string of numbers...I just remember the numbers.
I am also terrible at remembering numbers, but once they're in there they stick. My grandma died a decade ago and I remember her number. I haven't called my childhood friend in probably 15-20 years and I still remember hers! My mom taught us a little song to help us remember our address and phone number as kids.
There's a bunch of loppis (flea market) places here and I'm not allowed to go to them until I've finished restoring the swedish production wheel and the clock reel I got from the two in the village...
After 14 phones. Since 2018. It's getting hard for me to remember anything about phone numbers and stuff I can't even remember the one on my 15th phone I have now.
I think that it is funny 😁 you bring up remembering phone numbers. I had my grandparents' numbers as also auntie and uncles. Many friends' numbers. I had a friend's number, and it was very like ours only by one different number. One time, his sister endup calling us instead there's. We also had to check if no one was on the party line. My mom would know a lot about what was going on listening in on others on the phone. Payphone at the movies 🎬 to call 📞 for a ride home or at the front of a stores. I love ❤️ your channel.
I'm too young to remember party lines, but they were actually still used in my hometown when I was a baby. However, I remember only needing to dial 4 numbers if I was calling someone in town. 7 digits were for calling out of town, and long distance wasn't even an option because... adult reasons my child brain couldn't comprehend (ha! now I understand that phone bills are REAL). I also still remember several phone numbers. Mostly close family because I have been in a situation where I had to go into a store and ask if I could borrow their store phone because my truck broke down and my cell was dead. I tell you, I got some weird looks and then had a whole conversation with the kid behind the counter about the importance of remembering at least one phone number other than your own (and 1-800-CALLATT doesn't count either because you still need a phone number to give them). This situation was relatively recent, post-pay-phone, and I remember thinking to myself that it would be nice if they had a payphone in the spot on the side of the building where I could see one used to be. Oh, nostalgia. For reference, I'm not yet 40, so none of this was all that long ago. Hope it was entertaining or memory inducing for some folks! =D I also realize this had nothing to do with memorizing the numbers. I don't have an issue with remembering the numbers, but it might have something to do with all the practice of remembering only the last 4 digits of a phone number I had early on.
That is a lot of alpaca to spin. Has it been prepared for spinning yet (i.e. scoured and then either combed or carded)? If it hasn't been prepared for spinning you'll need to do that first. Fortunately Evie does have a videos on how to do that, as do other people. Once your fibre has been prepared for spinning, you have four choices: 1) acquire or make yourself a spindle and then learn how to spin with a spindle. Again, there are videos to help you get going. Come to think of it, you'll probably need 3 spindles, if you are going to ply your yarn, two to make the original singles and a third to ply them. (You _can_ weave with singles but I'd suggest if you are a beginner spinner, it might be best to go with plied yarn.) 2) buy a new spinning wheel, expensive but you know that it should work and if there is something major wrong with it, that should be covered by consumer law &/or your guarantee. Then you will need to learn how to spin 3) buy a used spinning wheel. You should be able to get one more cheaply than a new one. *_Make sure you get someone who does know how to spin to check the wheel to ensure that it is a spinning wheel and that it works/can be repaired easily before you hand over your hard earned._* (This video has the perfect example of that, a bobbin winder being described as a spinning wheel.) Then you will need to learn how to spin. 4) buy an e-spinner. Pros and cons as for new and used wheels as above. Then you will need to learn how to spin. I'm seeing a bit of a theme here...
i definitely remembered the numbers. i still know a few phone numbers. i am much better at remembering numbers than words, though. i only recently stopped memorizing my credit card numbers because the computer remembers that too now. idk if i like it. i can remember the rotary phone sound too, i kinda miss mechanical sounds like that. like the sound of putting a cassette tape into a cassette player or a vhs tape into a vhs player.
I've remembered my credit card number without trying to learn it. I don't authorise websites to remember my card details, so I type it in each time. I deny doing too much internet shopping.
Evie just casually one-upping me without knowing by being able to count over 4 LOL also intentional cringe humour and intentional tackiness are both great IMO. and about remembering phone numbers: i still have memorized my childhood home phone number, and my dad's mobile number. however, I can hardly remember my own phone number these days.
My fireplace is actually pretty good for warming the living room without chilling anywhere else. Probably the one thing that's properly designed in the whole stupid building. When I could knit, I'd take yarn scraps and toothpicks and partially knit a little mouse scarf or something and use a bit of glue to hold the ball together and stick it in the christmas tree as an ornament. Heh, there was no quietly dialling a rotary phone... I only remember numbers if I can put some kind of pattern to it. I still remember the account number for a bank account I haven't had in thirty years because it had a pattern that stuck in my brain. 1192922.
I remember phone numbers, and rotary phones as well. Also using phone booths. And can handle my day without frustration even if my cellphone is at home, and I am not. 😂 What I actually find worrisome is the fact that loads of young people are absolutely incapable of using a street map. 😶
I get the kitschy thing; one of my very favorite Christmas decorations is a Santa someone made with a hooked rug fabric over a styrofoam cone. It's awful and I LOVE it; got it from a White Elephant Christmas exchange from my previous workplace. (We tried to outdo each other with really horrible gifts in this exchange and it was super fun.) However..... I really think people should just love what they love and not really worry about what others think of your particular loves. Love kitsch? Yay! Go wild! Telling cringe jokes? Hey, so long as they are not hurting anyone (do be careful of that!), then tell them! Fly your nerd flag high!
Re: remembering numbers I always made little equations or mathematical patterns/stories. My favorite one, which I will never forget, was a number that ended in 0223, and I remembered it by saying "zero, skip one, double two, three." A 268 sequence would be "2 + 6 = 8", etc. my home number ended in 5919 and I told a story in my head of Five wanting to be Ten, but it grew into Nine, and Nine times one was still Nine.... I can't explain why that was a logical way to remember the numbers to my childbrain, but I do still try to use math to remember numbers when I need to.
I know my own number, my parents old landline and my dad's number (only 1 digit different from my old number) off by heart but nothing else. I am dyslexic AF and remembering strings of numbers is really difficult for me. Second hand shops are also a massive weakness for me.
Phone numbers, as a kid Incarried a quarter and hadbmy home phone memorized. We also had wee phone books with indexed pages or even had a short list on a lable in something we always had. All phones had a directory and few people went unlisted. They had to pay for it too. Numbers were never more than 7 digits u less long distance and then, again, you had it written down. Home ohone station always had a home phone directory made by the family and the city and business (yellow pqges) books handed out by the phone company. These ditectories even had a city map so you could find addresses as listed alongside phone numbers.
I still remember the numbers I knew before I had a cell phone, some were by the number, some were by the pattern, but I don't know any, including my own, since getting a cell phone.
I do understand what you mean by intentional vs unintentional kitsch. As a for instance, most Christmas fabrics are kitschy. However, the ones you showed us yesterday, although still using a lot of the elements that make Christmas fabric kitschy, were designed by people who understood those elements and used them to satirise the kitsch. On the related subject of "so bad it's good", here's the joke from a Christmas cracker I was given, Q: Why was the snowman rummaging through a bag of carrots? A: He wanted to pick his nose. Re finger wetting while spinning flax: I saw video of one person who had the cutest little pottery "bucket", with two little holes in it for a cord or a strap. I _love_ miniatures that actually work, which this little bucket-shaped bowl did. I'm guessing but I think it would have barely been two inches in diameter. Ooh! When I started thinking about the stocking pattern, I realised that it was more complicated than I thought at first glance, as how do you work intarsia in the round? Or is there a work around? So I'm glad you've been able to obtain a pattern. I find it very annoying that telephone keypads (at least the old, physical ones) were set out the opposite way to the numerical keypad on a keyboard, viz: 1 2 3 7 8 9 telephone: 4 5 6 keyboard: 4 5 6 7 8 9 1 2 3 0 0 I normally remembered the numbers, rather than patterns, because of the confusion above. Oh, and then there are keypads for numerical locks, which are set out in two columns. Some of it is almost like remembering a rhythmic/melodic pattern, other times I'll relate it to an existing number, e.g. my patient number at the hospital is something like 165365, that is, there is one digit in the first triplet that differs from the digits in the second triplet and the second triplet is really easy to remember, as that is the number of days in a year.
I remember phone numbers by what the numbers add up to? Like my husband's number added up is divisible by 3, or another number I know adds up to 10, three times. A little convoluted, but it works for me 😅
I remember the old phone numbers in number form, but I remember my pin-codes in «finger feel» - and if a number pad is set up in a different format than the most common one (som are 🤯) I struggle 😅
I remember phone numbers from when I was, like, 4. Phone numbers for which the area codes no longer exist, and it was rotary phones then so no not patterns. I do not know my current phone number. As for patterns, I do have a bunch of passwords I don't know but can type, so I guess my fingers know them?
I FINALLY made the effort to memorise my husband's mobile number last month 😅 it felt like a risk to not know that one by heart! Of course I still remember my parent's old home number and my high school bff's home number lol
I remember 5 phone numbers still. 2 are for landlines that no longer exist, 2 for my parents, and my own phone number. I don't remember any other number. I never needed it for payphones, but our landline didn't have a screen. It miiight have had a speed dial, but I didn't know how to use it. When I was really young, my reading sucked. So for games, I would memorize how a word looked, where it was located on the page, and what it did instead of learning the actual word. I haven't heard of anyone else that did the same thing
I avoid having to memorize numbers at all costs. Patterns are still my go to, or occasionally I use a different system to reaffirm my memory. Like if I need to remember something like "369" I can tell myself that it's small to large, divisible by 3 and the end digit is the sum of the first two. For some reason this is infinitely easier then just remembering 3 numbers. Once I had to use a card reader where the number pad was flipped upside down and couldn't finish buying my groceries because my PIN just evaporated from my mind. Brains are weird.
As someone who was born in 94 and watched rotary phones, dial and pay phones become obsolete within my little brother’s lifetime. I definitely remembered everyone’s phone number and still do (sometimes) 😅
Oh, the phone number thing is so interesting. These days I only know my husband's phone number. However, important numbers from my early life are seared in my memory -- Grandma, Aunt, Dad's work, my two best friends. Oddly, one of the guys I dated in college (but not the other few). Oh, and the pediatrician for my first baby. I was an annoying nervous first time mommy. 😅 No tricks to remember. Probably just sheer repetition. It makes me vaguely uncomfortable that I don't know current numbers better.
About 10 or 12 years ago, I locked my keys and cell phone in my car. I couldn’t remember anybody’s phone number. So from that point forward, I now know a couple of key phone numbers.
I'm new to your channel (starting with Vlogmas) and trying to figure out what state you live in that's two states away from Oregon (where Pendleton is) but also you could go to Chicago for the day. The Dakotas? Anyway, loving digging into all your videos.
Thanks for asking for clarification. I was on two trains of thought and I was thinking of the last place I could shop for a Pendleton in person but I started out talking about the mill. 😅
I remember numbers. A trick I used was to set a password as specific information i wanted to force myself to remember. Its been a long time since i did that though.
Instead of a dish of water, you might prefer a sponge in a dish of water. It may be a more similar amount of moisture as licking fingers rather than dunking fingers in water. Just an idea! Loving your vlogs!
There are NO pay phones in existence anymore. No need to remember phone numbers if you have a smart phone and you can store it in a faraday pouch to protect from emf strikes. What you need is to remember passwords! I literally have a binder full of them!
I remember my old home phone number, my best friend's old home phone number and my mom's work phone number from the times before cell phones, plus her's, my dad's and my brother's cell phone numbers that they've had for some 22+ years. Oh, and my husband's cell phone number.
I usually make the person who's phone number I want to memorize the code to my phone so I am simply forced to learn it by habit of wanting to check my notifications lol
People, humans have been licking their fingers while spinning flax for several centuries. Don't come down on Eve for it. If you don't want to that's fine. But don't pick on our Eve.
Even 50 years ago people used saliva for a lot more jobs than they do now. The remaining reservation I have with finger licking for flax is that you'd end up as dry as a desert if you had a longer spinning session.
If you stick a round sponge in the cup it won’t slop out... kind of like they used for moistening the backs of stamps.
It’s so wonderful to hear your laugh everyday. Thank you for your Vlogmas.
When I was younger, I would definitely remember a phone number with my fingers, so dialing pattern, yes!.
I remembered phone numbers just fine back when I had to, but I'll be darned if these days I can remember my own half the time! 🤣 I do have some useless trivia numbers stuck in my brain, though. I can still remember my high school locker combination! I've told this memory to leave as it is taking up valuable real estate in my brain that could be used for something current, but it has refused to budge! 19-25-35. Aaargh! Love & hugs
My husband bought a pocket Geiger counter so he could identify uranium glass. He's obsessed with uranium glass lol.
This is the best part of my night for the holidays. Listening to you talk while crocheting in my rocking chair and waiting for my kiddo to fall asleep
When I'm not too lazy, I have this weird thing for remembering numbers: i see colours for each number. So for example 31275 is red, white, sky blue, dark blue and yellow. Nuts eh? It's like synesthesia but very restricted. Letters have colour too but that's no use to me. For numbers it's been quite helpful tho.
You're fun Jillian ❤
Those puppy bobbins would also be perfect for holding embroidery floss! I used to remember phone numbers because I grew up with a landline and didn't have cell reception when that became a thing. I still know my parents' numbers, my own, but no one else's!!
I have always remembered patterns and still do on the phone keypad. Some numbers I remember however...I don't know why...perhaps they rhyme or repeat enough? Yez, I too remember the days of using the pattern to call someone on the pay‐phone. LOL
You look so much in your element at the spinning wheel. The sound of it is so cathartic. It is the ultimate fidget spinner, I guess. No wonder you seem so relaxed.
I look forward to spinning flax one day myself...I love linen.
I visualize as well but I think of it as a picture. I tell myself to remember the picture and it’s usually in groups…so a phone number would be 2 pictures with the first 3 numbers as one group and the last four ad a second group. To activate my recall, I literally ask myself to remember what the picture looked like and can tell you the numbers on that particular picture. I get scrambled trying to recall a series of numbers but have no trouble remembering the picture. It might be because the picture is one data point vs 7 data elements in a specific sequence. That’s actually a lot more info to sort, store and summon on command.
I bought bunny bobbins for my daughter's embroidery floss. Especially cute because we have 2 angoras.
Remember the rotary phone dial and how many misdialed wrong numbers when not paying attention. The number pad was very nice. I remember my phone number growing up as well as my bf's number even though i haven't phoned those numbers in over 25 years. Can barely remember my home number now 😂
Patterns on the keypad. I'm so impressed watching you spin flax without even looking at your hands.
I haven't got my hot little hands on good flax yet, but I've been spinning bamboo, and I found a bit of flax seed "goo" is a wonderful aide. Flax seed from the grocery store soaked in water and goo strained. Wait - didn't I get that idea from you?
So fun to “find” you again! I’ve had my life (and my wheel) in a box with moving - I’m finally able to enjoy spinning with you again! You are so positive and encouraging.
Thank you for the giggles. I really needed this.
Ah! My Grandma got me that brass unicorn when I was a little girl. Aw, that was so special to see. Happy holidays 🎄 Happy creating 💚🧶🩷
I sometimes get numbers stuck in my head like a song, so I'm DEFINITELY in the numbers camp, but usually I'd have some sort of rhythm to the numbers so it was like a small chant.
Thanks soooo much for vlogmas! I love the casual nature and am so appreciative of your generosity in sharing your precious energy with us.❤
Yes I still remember my home phone number growing up, my grandma’s and my best friend’s numbers. Those were actual put your finger in the dial and rotate the dial. I guess I called those numbers the most. Now, I only know three phone numbers. Glad my phone knows the rest.
I used to do both - remembering patterns and numbers in their own right. When I was tired, or wasn’t sure if I was recalling the numbers correctly, I’d do the pattern. The puppy bobbins are really sweet indeed, particularly using the mouth to hold the yarn. Brilliant. Would love to visit that store by the way. Bit far for me though… certainly more than two states away. Thank you for your Vlogmas episodes. They’re lovely.
Every year my neighbours set up 2 deer shaped lights in their front garden, and every year my dad sneaks into their garden and makes them look like they were *ahem* making baby bobbins 😂
(It's okay we're friends. One year, they elf-knapped elf from the shelf because they have a house key and made him party with their elf. We encourage messing with each other.)
I'm trying to find a little deer statue in the charity shop this year to put with the original deer to keep the joke going.
You need to design a clamp on cup perch attachment to add to your spinning wheel!
So many treasure to be found! Your antiquing possibilities are excellent!
I remember phone numbers from when I was a kid, as well as licence plates and things. I don’t remember newer numbers though, cause yeah - phones! Maybe making things too convenient is letting our brains get flabby…? 😂
Phone numbers, bank numbers, license etc. I remember them all.
Waaaay back in the 70’s to 80’s I was a 411 phone operator. Before computers. I had more than 100 of the city and state’s important numbers memorized. Now I only know my own. Like you, my phone knows all my contacts. 😊
If you fit a sponge into your dip cup it becomes spill resistant because you use the wet sponge instead of flowing water.
I keep thinking the squeaking of the wheel is a cat meowing.. LOL! I still remember my childhood phone number from the 80s.. and a best friend's number, as her Mom still has that number...
I still remember 2 phone numbers: my childhood home and my Grandma's house. Neither house belongs in my family anymore. 😆 But they come in handy for security codes! Thanks for the vlogmas chats!
I still remember my Grandma's number from when I was very little. 🙂 And for some reason, numbers stick in my head. I usually memorize my credit card number. Loved your video!
We have been a thrifted/handmade christmas family for ages
I remember phone numbers from the 1960s. We still had “exchange” names, although we were direct dialing. Our home phone started with TR1-xxxx and the TR stood for TRiangle. My auntie’s number was ESsex7-xxxx. We moved when I was 10, and our number was WAverly7-xxxx. This was all rotary dial, of course, so we just had to remember! The time lady was TI4- and any four numbers. She would say, “At the tone … the time will be … six … forty-one … and twenty… seconds.” Beeeep!
I just had to tell you something I came across listening to some Swedish stories about folklore creatures, and in one story they just casually mention that back in the days (the story was from1890's I think) all people that lived in small town or villages, used to have a käckla made out of the tip of a pine to use with a spinning wheel to hold blån (the not so good quality flax that are really short) so they can spin it to yarn to weave towels out of.
Same for remembering the shape of phone numbers. I thought it was just me.
I remember my childhood phone number, my grandmother’s phone number, and have actually memorized my son’s current number. I’m ancient.
I remember numbers because of repetition. So, phone numbers I called many times - close friends, my dad's work, our home number - I had memorized. Anything else, I had to write down. These days, I only remember a few, because I don't have to type them in anymore.
I can sometimes memorize numbers if there's some kind of hook for my memory. Like, my license plate is a palindrome, so that makes it easier to remember.
I remembered the actual numbers, but the patterns helped a bit if it was a number I dialed often. I think the first phone numbers I learned my parents had put to a song for me to remember them as a little kid, and I still remember some numbers with the rhythm they were spoken with. but in generaln if I need to remember a string of numbers...I just remember the numbers.
I'd remember the song the number made when you pressed the telephone buttons!
I am also terrible at remembering numbers, but once they're in there they stick. My grandma died a decade ago and I remember her number. I haven't called my childhood friend in probably 15-20 years and I still remember hers! My mom taught us a little song to help us remember our address and phone number as kids.
Patterns on the keypad for me!😊
There's a bunch of loppis (flea market) places here and I'm not allowed to go to them until I've finished restoring the swedish production wheel and the clock reel I got from the two in the village...
Talking about things that are kitschy but know they're kitschy makes me think about Susan Sontag's essay Notes on Camp!
My antique flax wheel has 2 "distaff" holes so my husband made me a hand turned wood water bowl that fits into the second hole.
Mostly patterns on the key pad, both with phone numbers and pin codes.
After 14 phones. Since 2018. It's getting hard for me to remember anything about phone numbers and stuff I can't even remember the one on my 15th phone I have now.
I think that it is funny 😁 you bring up remembering phone numbers. I had my grandparents' numbers as also auntie and uncles. Many friends' numbers. I had a friend's number, and it was very like ours only by one different number. One time, his sister endup calling us instead there's. We also had to check if no one was on the party line. My mom would know a lot about what was going on listening in on others on the phone. Payphone at the movies 🎬 to call 📞 for a ride home or at the front of a stores. I love ❤️ your channel.
I'm too young to remember party lines, but they were actually still used in my hometown when I was a baby. However, I remember only needing to dial 4 numbers if I was calling someone in town. 7 digits were for calling out of town, and long distance wasn't even an option because... adult reasons my child brain couldn't comprehend (ha! now I understand that phone bills are REAL).
I also still remember several phone numbers. Mostly close family because I have been in a situation where I had to go into a store and ask if I could borrow their store phone because my truck broke down and my cell was dead. I tell you, I got some weird looks and then had a whole conversation with the kid behind the counter about the importance of remembering at least one phone number other than your own (and 1-800-CALLATT doesn't count either because you still need a phone number to give them). This situation was relatively recent, post-pay-phone, and I remember thinking to myself that it would be nice if they had a payphone in the spot on the side of the building where I could see one used to be. Oh, nostalgia.
For reference, I'm not yet 40, so none of this was all that long ago. Hope it was entertaining or memory inducing for some folks! =D I also realize this had nothing to do with memorizing the numbers. I don't have an issue with remembering the numbers, but it might have something to do with all the practice of remembering only the last 4 digits of a phone number I had early on.
I have like 4Kg of alpaca wool and I would love to weave it. But I don't have a spinning machine! 😢
That is a lot of alpaca to spin. Has it been prepared for spinning yet (i.e. scoured and then either combed or carded)? If it hasn't been prepared for spinning you'll need to do that first. Fortunately Evie does have a videos on how to do that, as do other people.
Once your fibre has been prepared for spinning, you have four choices:
1) acquire or make yourself a spindle and then learn how to spin with a spindle. Again, there are videos to help you get going. Come to think of it, you'll probably need 3 spindles, if you are going to ply your yarn, two to make the original singles and a third to ply them. (You _can_ weave with singles but I'd suggest if you are a beginner spinner, it might be best to go with plied yarn.)
2) buy a new spinning wheel, expensive but you know that it should work and if there is something major wrong with it, that should be covered by consumer law &/or your guarantee. Then you will need to learn how to spin
3) buy a used spinning wheel. You should be able to get one more cheaply than a new one. *_Make sure you get someone who does know how to spin to check the wheel to ensure that it is a spinning wheel and that it works/can be repaired easily before you hand over your hard earned._* (This video has the perfect example of that, a bobbin winder being described as a spinning wheel.) Then you will need to learn how to spin.
4) buy an e-spinner. Pros and cons as for new and used wheels as above. Then you will need to learn how to spin.
I'm seeing a bit of a theme here...
You can always start with a spindle!
I still remember my parents house phone number, but i learned it in primary school and it's been only a dozen years since they removed the line
i definitely remembered the numbers. i still know a few phone numbers. i am much better at remembering numbers than words, though. i only recently stopped memorizing my credit card numbers because the computer remembers that too now. idk if i like it.
i can remember the rotary phone sound too, i kinda miss mechanical sounds like that. like the sound of putting a cassette tape into a cassette player or a vhs tape into a vhs player.
I've remembered my credit card number without trying to learn it. I don't authorise websites to remember my card details, so I type it in each time. I deny doing too much internet shopping.
Evie just casually one-upping me without knowing by being able to count over 4 LOL
also intentional cringe humour and intentional tackiness are both great IMO.
and about remembering phone numbers: i still have memorized my childhood home phone number, and my dad's mobile number. however, I can hardly remember my own phone number these days.
My fireplace is actually pretty good for warming the living room without chilling anywhere else. Probably the one thing that's properly designed in the whole stupid building.
When I could knit, I'd take yarn scraps and toothpicks and partially knit a little mouse scarf or something and use a bit of glue to hold the ball together and stick it in the christmas tree as an ornament.
Heh, there was no quietly dialling a rotary phone... I only remember numbers if I can put some kind of pattern to it. I still remember the account number for a bank account I haven't had in thirty years because it had a pattern that stuck in my brain. 1192922.
I remember phone numbers, and rotary phones as well. Also using phone booths.
And can handle my day without frustration even if my cellphone is at home, and I am not. 😂
What I actually find worrisome is the fact that loads of young people are absolutely incapable of using a street map. 😶
At this point, if it's made in the US, I would call it local. And a Pendleton Blanket? What a find!
I get the kitschy thing; one of my very favorite Christmas decorations is a Santa someone made with a hooked rug fabric over a styrofoam cone. It's awful and I LOVE it; got it from a White Elephant Christmas exchange from my previous workplace. (We tried to outdo each other with really horrible gifts in this exchange and it was super fun.) However..... I really think people should just love what they love and not really worry about what others think of your particular loves. Love kitsch? Yay! Go wild! Telling cringe jokes? Hey, so long as they are not hurting anyone (do be careful of that!), then tell them! Fly your nerd flag high!
I don't remember the number but I do know that the prefix was RA. Also we had a party line for awhile
Re: remembering numbers
I always made little equations or mathematical patterns/stories. My favorite one, which I will never forget, was a number that ended in 0223, and I remembered it by saying "zero, skip one, double two, three." A 268 sequence would be "2 + 6 = 8", etc. my home number ended in 5919 and I told a story in my head of Five wanting to be Ten, but it grew into Nine, and Nine times one was still Nine.... I can't explain why that was a logical way to remember the numbers to my childbrain, but I do still try to use math to remember numbers when I need to.
I have a few phone numbers I still know, but I do have shapes for certain pass codes
I know my own number, my parents old landline and my dad's number (only 1 digit different from my old number) off by heart but nothing else. I am dyslexic AF and remembering strings of numbers is really difficult for me. Second hand shops are also a massive weakness for me.
Nope! I will take you back many years. I was a long distance operator. We still have small towns without direct dialing.☺️
Phone numbers, as a kid Incarried a quarter and hadbmy home phone memorized. We also had wee phone books with indexed pages or even had a short list on a lable in something we always had. All phones had a directory and few people went unlisted. They had to pay for it too. Numbers were never more than 7 digits u less long distance and then, again, you had it written down. Home ohone station always had a home phone directory made by the family and the city and business (yellow pqges) books handed out by the phone company. These ditectories even had a city map so you could find addresses as listed alongside phone numbers.
I still remember the numbers I knew before I had a cell phone, some were by the number, some were by the pattern, but I don't know any, including my own, since getting a cell phone.
I do understand what you mean by intentional vs unintentional kitsch. As a for instance, most Christmas fabrics are kitschy. However, the ones you showed us yesterday, although still using a lot of the elements that make Christmas fabric kitschy, were designed by people who understood those elements and used them to satirise the kitsch.
On the related subject of "so bad it's good", here's the joke from a Christmas cracker I was given, Q: Why was the snowman rummaging through a bag of carrots? A: He wanted to pick his nose.
Re finger wetting while spinning flax: I saw video of one person who had the cutest little pottery "bucket", with two little holes in it for a cord or a strap. I _love_ miniatures that actually work, which this little bucket-shaped bowl did. I'm guessing but I think it would have barely been two inches in diameter.
Ooh! When I started thinking about the stocking pattern, I realised that it was more complicated than I thought at first glance, as how do you work intarsia in the round? Or is there a work around? So I'm glad you've been able to obtain a pattern.
I find it very annoying that telephone keypads (at least the old, physical ones) were set out the opposite way to the numerical keypad on a keyboard, viz:
1 2 3 7 8 9
telephone: 4 5 6 keyboard: 4 5 6
7 8 9 1 2 3
0 0
I normally remembered the numbers, rather than patterns, because of the confusion above. Oh, and then there are keypads for numerical locks, which are set out in two columns. Some of it is almost like remembering a rhythmic/melodic pattern, other times I'll relate it to an existing number, e.g. my patient number at the hospital is something like 165365, that is, there is one digit in the first triplet that differs from the digits in the second triplet and the second triplet is really easy to remember, as that is the number of days in a year.
I remember phone numbers by what the numbers add up to? Like my husband's number added up is divisible by 3, or another number I know adds up to 10, three times. A little convoluted, but it works for me 😅
I learnt that you came to Perú, my home country! The land of the Incas! ❤
Where are you from Jill8anEve ?
I remember the old phone numbers in number form, but I remember my pin-codes in «finger feel» - and if a number pad is set up in a different format than the most common one (som are 🤯) I struggle 😅
I remember phone numbers from when I was, like, 4. Phone numbers for which the area codes no longer exist, and it was rotary phones then so no not patterns. I do not know my current phone number. As for patterns, I do have a bunch of passwords I don't know but can type, so I guess my fingers know them?
I’m 75! I remember phones you had to dial!
Funny how we still say “dial” even though it should be “tap”. Or is that just us in the U.K.?
I FINALLY made the effort to memorise my husband's mobile number last month 😅 it felt like a risk to not know that one by heart! Of course I still remember my parent's old home number and my high school bff's home number lol
I remember 5 phone numbers still. 2 are for landlines that no longer exist, 2 for my parents, and my own phone number. I don't remember any other number. I never needed it for payphones, but our landline didn't have a screen. It miiight have had a speed dial, but I didn't know how to use it. When I was really young, my reading sucked. So for games, I would memorize how a word looked, where it was located on the page, and what it did instead of learning the actual word. I haven't heard of anyone else that did the same thing
I avoid having to memorize numbers at all costs. Patterns are still my go to, or occasionally I use a different system to reaffirm my memory. Like if I need to remember something like "369" I can tell myself that it's small to large, divisible by 3 and the end digit is the sum of the first two. For some reason this is infinitely easier then just remembering 3 numbers. Once I had to use a card reader where the number pad was flipped upside down and couldn't finish buying my groceries because my PIN just evaporated from my mind. Brains are weird.
I am similar!
As someone who was born in 94 and watched rotary phones, dial and pay phones become obsolete within my little brother’s lifetime. I definitely remembered everyone’s phone number and still do (sometimes) 😅
Oh, the phone number thing is so interesting. These days I only know my husband's phone number. However, important numbers from my early life are seared in my memory -- Grandma, Aunt, Dad's work, my two best friends. Oddly, one of the guys I dated in college (but not the other few). Oh, and the pediatrician for my first baby. I was an annoying nervous first time mommy. 😅 No tricks to remember. Probably just sheer repetition. It makes me vaguely uncomfortable that I don't know current numbers better.
I use to remember number by their sound, the length of the chatter or the tone of the beep. Now my phone knows the number.
I remembered numbers.
I remember when phone numbers started with 2 letters. An example is FR5-7575. And the number was pronounced Franklin 5- 7575.
About 10 or 12 years ago, I locked my keys and cell phone in my car. I couldn’t remember anybody’s phone number. So from that point forward, I now know a couple of key phone numbers.
I'm new to your channel (starting with Vlogmas) and trying to figure out what state you live in that's two states away from Oregon (where Pendleton is) but also you could go to Chicago for the day. The Dakotas? Anyway, loving digging into all your videos.
Thanks for asking for clarification. I was on two trains of thought and I was thinking of the last place I could shop for a Pendleton in person but I started out talking about the mill. 😅
I remember numbers. A trick I used was to set a password as specific information i wanted to force myself to remember. Its been a long time since i did that though.
I refuse to set up accounts that I don't absolutely need if they require passwords. I have grown to hate "strong" passwords with a passion.
@resourcedragon I never did it for accounts. I set passwords for files I would use often and my computer with what I needed to remember.
"I hope I don't find a spinningwheel'' is the last sentence I would have expected to come out of your mouth 😂
I know! Who have I become? I sound....responsible or something! 😂
Instead of a dish of water, you might prefer a sponge in a dish of water. It may be a more similar amount of moisture as licking fingers rather than dunking fingers in water. Just an idea! Loving your vlogs!
There are NO pay phones in existence anymore. No need to remember phone numbers if you have a smart phone and you can store it in a faraday pouch to protect from emf strikes. What you need is to remember passwords! I literally have a binder full of them!
I remember my old home phone number, my best friend's old home phone number and my mom's work phone number from the times before cell phones, plus her's, my dad's and my brother's cell phone numbers that they've had for some 22+ years. Oh, and my husband's cell phone number.
I know my phone number, my mother's, and my old house phone I haven't had in 20 years.
I remember childhood phone #. Had 2 letters, then # & was a party line!
I usually make the person who's phone number I want to memorize the code to my phone so I am simply forced to learn it by habit of wanting to check my notifications lol
I remember having to have people's numbers memorized just in case of emergency or they could contact my parents but I'm gen Z so it didn't last long
Way back when, we could call information for a phone number that we didn't remember...
First time watching: more than the first half? Waiting for you to actually show me how to spin flax :(
Sorry, I have other flax spinning videos. The "vlogmas" videos are casual chat and craft videos, not tutorials.
People, humans have been licking their fingers while spinning flax for several centuries. Don't come down on Eve for it. If you don't want to that's fine. But don't pick on our Eve.
Eh, go ahead and lick your fingers. It’s good for your immune system 😉
Even 50 years ago people used saliva for a lot more jobs than they do now.
The remaining reservation I have with finger licking for flax is that you'd end up as dry as a desert if you had a longer spinning session.
Ironically tacky?