Be careful using melamine dishes too, they leech chemicals. True they bounce when dropped and are light but perchance the benefits are outweighed by the possible harm to our health, especially when we are feeding children.
Who would have thought a thread on long versus short skirts would produce such a sweep of topics, very interesting.
Stephen
Melamine ! Is that that unbreakable plastic used for camping and travels abroad ?
That is good to know, Stephen.
I better consider getting rid of those.
I like my stainless steel bowls better, anyway.
Barbara wrote:Melamine ! Is that that unbreakable plastic used for camping and travels abroad ?
That is good to know, Stephen.
I better consider getting rid of those.
I like my stainless steel bowls better, anyway.
Interesting:
Melamine is used in almost all hospitals.
One nurse told me that they used to toss those melamine dishes away as they could not be properly sterilized.
But apparently, hospitals do put them through the dishwasher.
By the way, have you partaken of hospital fare recently? It is all fast food now and mostly tastes like cardboard.
Well, when fabrics are made of plastics, and we know that plastics outgas and are implicated in Lupis, then of course wearing plastics (polyester blouses, skirts, and dresses (women), slacks and shirts (men), and socks (men and women), and sleeping with polyester (fleece blankets, polyester-filled comforters, polyester/cotton sheets, polyester-filled pillows, and polyester-filled mattress protectors) and then walking on polyester-blend rugs will certainly cause health problems. All those tiny polyester fibers can be airborne and inhaled into our lungs.
Back on topic: So, that is why I sew my own clothing and that of my husband. It makes sense: I use cotton fabrics, preferably organic cotton, and I pick out patterns that I can adapt so that the clothes are modest. Shopping for clothing in stores and even online has been a waste of time and fuel. By the time I get home and then wash the garment, if I do find something, the garment shrinks or it bleeds as the coloring is unstable.
Once, I had to toss out a garment as it faded and stunk after I washed it. The coloring or fabric smelled like petroleum.
Oh, my mom sent me a box of expensive black polyester yarn one hot summer so that I could make a knit skirt. By the time it reached me, many of the polyester fibers had liquified. There were actually drops of black goo on the bottom of the box with some of the yarn still wet and matted. I had to toss it. Polyester cannot be left in the sun.
Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on me a sinner.
Oh my gosh, Maria !
Thank you, this is really really educational for me.
I didn't fully realize that polyester is actually PLASTIC ?
Someone else made an allusion to that, too, earlier in this thread -- to give THEM full credit --
and I have been worrying about the repercussions of that ever since I read it.
I wanted to inquire more, but got caught up in a thorny project.
You filled in the blanks anyhow. Thanks, really !
I did instinctively switch to either the Beech sheets [Bed Bath and Beyond 5 or 7 years ago had this wonderful Turkish-made product
which they changed to cheap Chinese-made Beech by the next year. So I am still hunting up the original Turkish ones. Turkish
100 % cotton towels are the best - see Cost Plus' selection of elegant patterns, if there are doubters !]
or 100 % Dupioni Silk from Jo-Anns [though I recently decided I didn't like that name which sounds too close for comfort to
"being duped" - !! Just a side note].
I have to think about some of the rest of things you mentioned now.
I have started using the Turkish cotton towels etc. for under my feet.
But so many other things are important to become alert about and change.
I can't believe your polyester yarn dissolved in the heat ! A shocking statement about how dangerous ALL the
use of plastics really IS.
About hospitals, thanks to God, i have never been a patient at one since my tonsils were taken out - I am SURE totally
unnecessarily, probably a fad at the time.
Probably a testimony to the barbaric operation, my throat bled and I had to return back.
I remember how much I absolutely hated being at the hospital for even overnight, then returning for probably
another night caused me acute misery.
I am sure I scented right at that early age how full of demons these places ARE. That's why I was almost panicked
at the age of 6 . I probably could FEEL the bad spirits in the air and around the entire processes
taking place.
I was never homesick when I went away to college, not for a minute. So it was NOT simply because of being away from home.
Whereas, at Girl Scout camp off in the wilderness and stuck with a roomful of 50 or 60 girls sleeping by the fire, I had the same
reaction : I couldn't sleep a single wink. All the other girls, less sensitive, snored contentedly away.
I am clear now that these reactions were due to the discomfort of bombardment by the demons around the other girls, too.
So it isn't JUST hospitals. However, a big concentration of demons prowl the hospital corridors.
[I guess I am in a talkative mood ! Sorry !
But I am hoping my memories will trigger others of you to remember their own experiences growing up or
when in closed places with lots of people from various backgrounds - in short, not handpicked friends at a teenage slumber party,
but from ALL walks of life, as occurs in a hospital setting, too.]
I was reading some days ago that the Eco friendly product 'bamboo' supposedly found in some clothing is neither so Eco friendly in its production nor do you end up with bamboo but rayon. Cannot say I understood the ins and outs of how all this happens but feel a little care and scepticism in considering the claims for products might be appropriate.
Thanks, Stephen.
I saw some Bamboo stuffing for like pillow and that kind of thing which sounded great. I got it for pets.
Now I will be aware to skip the clothes-bamboo items !
By the way, for men, Jo-Ann's means Jo-Ann Fabric stores. It seems a fairly good chain for those of us who
like fabrics ! Independently owned stores would be great, but many have disappeared or been bought out
by Jo-Ann.
StephenS wrote:I was reading some days ago that the Eco friendly product 'bamboo' supposedly found in some clothing is neither so Eco friendly in its production nor do you end up with bamboo but rayon. Cannot say I understood the ins and outs of how all this happens but feel a little care and scepticism in considering the claims for products might be appropriate.
Different natural fibers can be used to make rayon: corn and bamboo are just two. Unfortunately, GMO corn can be used for making rayon. Since fabrics are not food, manufacturers do not have to disclose the source of the rayon.
In India, they grow a lot of GMO cotton, which is used to make a lot of our fabrics. I try not to buy Indian cotton for that very reason. Also note that the fabrics coming from India, both rayons and cottons, are not very sturdy as they tend to develop holes rather easily. In addition, the colors are not very color-fast and tend to bleed over several washings so that they can stain other clothing.
I have noticed that some of the large bath towels which I bought from Costco several years ago were not color fast. My husband likes blue towels, but the pretty blue towels turned from blue, to purple, and then to pink, and I did not use chlorine bleach. I made the mistake of putting a couple of white wash cloths in the same wash with these towels (after they had been washed for about five times. Those wash cloths came out pink and even with bleach, I have not been able to restore their original whiteness. Since the latest blue towels appear to be much more color fast, Costco seems to have changed vendors.
Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on me a sinner.
