RedQueenWildBoy
Junior Acolyte
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You know those tiny insignificant mysteries that stick in your head and annoy you for years? I'm hoping someone can help me resolve a very minor one!
When I was about 9 in 1998, I was a member of my local Brownie pack and loved collecting Brownie-related things (I was a wholesome kid, I even made Patrol Leader eventually). I especially liked finding old Brownie annuals in second hand shops, the older the better. I loved annuals from the 70s and 80s, and enjoyed looking at the slightly dated details from the time. One of the regular features in these books were pages of household tips, such as how to recycle kitchen roll tubes into pen holders or make a draught excluder out of old pillowcases, that kind of thing.
While reading an older annual, one "handy tip" stood out to me as bewildering - I even remember reading it through and looking at the accompanying illustration again and again trying to figure out what I was missing. The tip (as I remember it) was to collect used foil tops from glass milk bottles, put them in some water (maybe with other additives?), and stand some knives and forks in said water. There may have been another step to this process. The desired outcome of this endeavour was not described.
This is either a completely false memory, a partial false memory from 9-year-old me misunderstanding something unfamiliar to a small millennial, or an actual thing that some people did with their cutlery in the early '80s. Can anyone help me figure out which?
When I was about 9 in 1998, I was a member of my local Brownie pack and loved collecting Brownie-related things (I was a wholesome kid, I even made Patrol Leader eventually). I especially liked finding old Brownie annuals in second hand shops, the older the better. I loved annuals from the 70s and 80s, and enjoyed looking at the slightly dated details from the time. One of the regular features in these books were pages of household tips, such as how to recycle kitchen roll tubes into pen holders or make a draught excluder out of old pillowcases, that kind of thing.
While reading an older annual, one "handy tip" stood out to me as bewildering - I even remember reading it through and looking at the accompanying illustration again and again trying to figure out what I was missing. The tip (as I remember it) was to collect used foil tops from glass milk bottles, put them in some water (maybe with other additives?), and stand some knives and forks in said water. There may have been another step to this process. The desired outcome of this endeavour was not described.
This is either a completely false memory, a partial false memory from 9-year-old me misunderstanding something unfamiliar to a small millennial, or an actual thing that some people did with their cutlery in the early '80s. Can anyone help me figure out which?