Christmas can be a very challenging and stressful time for parents when money is in short supply. Many parents feel that they have failed in some way when they have to say to their children that Santa probably can't afford that particular present this year because the elves are also caught up in this world financial crises and there's not enough money to buy enough ingredients to make all those things this year.
Don't let the kids asking for things you can't honestly afford to buy them for presents get you down. That is not what Christmas is about, never has been or ever will be. Christmas is a time to give gifts with love, not with the thought that you are going to be 'in hock' for the next six months to pay for something. Christmas is a time of love and sharing the good things in life and those 'good things' aren't often about expensive presents.
Christmas stockings need to be filled with love and joy, not 'whiz-bang gadgets' that get put aside as soon as the next present comes along. The kids will rarely remember any of those gifts but what they will always remember is the way in which they were given
If you give with love it will always be remembered for the rest of their lives.
How do you give love in a Christmas stocking? Easy ~ fill it with thoughtful little inexpensive items that are fun, tasty, pretty, different, funny or really related to a special interest they have in something. If the child is old enough to read then find a special book in a book exchange library that they have enjoyed or buy them comics instead of books.
If you have 2-3 children, you don't have to give the kids full packets of sweets/candies/lollies each; get a bunch of packets, mix them all together in a big bowl and sprinkle them among pretty, coloured cellophane paper that you have added into the stocking to 'bulk' it out. As the kids pull out the stocking filler and hear the crinkling, cracking and see the candies/lollies/sweets fall out from between the sheets of paper, they 'feel' that they have received presents.
And once they see how well packed it is with thoughtful little 'bits-n-pieces', they will know that "Santa" spent time to do that for them and so they know it was done with love. This is the truly irreplaceable, always remembered gift.
Showing posts with label mature women in nylon stockings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mature women in nylon stockings. Show all posts
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Saturday, September 19, 2009
Mature Women in Stockings Today
Most of the older women in our society today remember the days when they first had to wear stockings. Most of them probably started out with a suspender belt and 'graduated' to wearing a corset or girdle. The stockings fabric used then was either silk or cotton depending on their financial circumstances and held up by suspenders attached to the suspender belt, corsets or later a girdle.
The difference between a corset and a girdle is a corset was usually made with stays made from whalebone sewn between pieces of the fabric and laced up at the back to hold everything in place where a girdle was made from an elasticised fabric to surround and 'hold in' a woman's stomach and bottom. The girdle was more comfortable to wear but still had and has certain discomforts. Girdles are still worn today by many mature women simply because they feel very uncomfortable and undressed without it. As the saying goes "old habits die hard".
Many mature women wearing stockings today do so because they feel very undressed without them if they are wearing a skirt or dress. No doubt they had probably been severely chastised at some point in their lives for wearing 'bare legs'.
The stockings worn by mature women in years gone by had other uses too apart from the social acceptability derived from being 'properly' dressed.
The shoes of the day were usually made from leather and the leather was not as soft and pliable as it is today. The process of leather tanning back then was more for longevity rather than comfort to the wearer. It would have been most uncomfortable to have worn a pair of those shoes without socks or stockings to protect against the rough rubbing of the shoe on the foot. The blisters caused by this friction burning would have hurt and would certainly be well remembered by our mature women wearing stockings today.
The other thing to note is today we all shower or bath every day but back then a bath once a week was what most of them had available to them. Water was not so readily available in most of the homes and often had to be carried in from a water tank outside. Keeping feet clean was and still is today, another reason our mature women wear stockings.
The difference between a corset and a girdle is a corset was usually made with stays made from whalebone sewn between pieces of the fabric and laced up at the back to hold everything in place where a girdle was made from an elasticised fabric to surround and 'hold in' a woman's stomach and bottom. The girdle was more comfortable to wear but still had and has certain discomforts. Girdles are still worn today by many mature women simply because they feel very uncomfortable and undressed without it. As the saying goes "old habits die hard".
Many mature women wearing stockings today do so because they feel very undressed without them if they are wearing a skirt or dress. No doubt they had probably been severely chastised at some point in their lives for wearing 'bare legs'.
The stockings worn by mature women in years gone by had other uses too apart from the social acceptability derived from being 'properly' dressed.
The shoes of the day were usually made from leather and the leather was not as soft and pliable as it is today. The process of leather tanning back then was more for longevity rather than comfort to the wearer. It would have been most uncomfortable to have worn a pair of those shoes without socks or stockings to protect against the rough rubbing of the shoe on the foot. The blisters caused by this friction burning would have hurt and would certainly be well remembered by our mature women wearing stockings today.
The other thing to note is today we all shower or bath every day but back then a bath once a week was what most of them had available to them. Water was not so readily available in most of the homes and often had to be carried in from a water tank outside. Keeping feet clean was and still is today, another reason our mature women wear stockings.
Saturday, August 29, 2009
Mature Women in Nylon Stockings
Mature women who wear nylon stockings today grew up in an era of hats, gloves, and nylon stockings. I remember when nylon first came out and my Mum bought her first pair. Oh, they felt so lovely and silky soft.
Back in those days a lady always wore a corset (sometimes called a girdle depending which country you come from) and these held the stockings up by suspenderst with crocodile type clips. These blasted things were unbelievably uncomfortable! How would you like having to sit on metal clips digging into the back of your legs?
Perhaps its just the era that they grew up in, or perhaps it is now that they can afford the total luxury of super fine fabrics, but either way, many of our mature women today are the ones who wear the best nylon stockings.
But it's not the nylon that they grew up with because technology has taken over the womens stockings industry the same as everywhere else, and the majority of the fine stocking silkyness now comes from a product called spandex. Which, as a stockings wearer, I can assure you is immeasurably more comfortable than the original nylon material used.
Book mark this blog and come back to it frequently to hear the stories of womens stockings.
Back in those days a lady always wore a corset (sometimes called a girdle depending which country you come from) and these held the stockings up by suspenderst with crocodile type clips. These blasted things were unbelievably uncomfortable! How would you like having to sit on metal clips digging into the back of your legs?
Perhaps its just the era that they grew up in, or perhaps it is now that they can afford the total luxury of super fine fabrics, but either way, many of our mature women today are the ones who wear the best nylon stockings.
But it's not the nylon that they grew up with because technology has taken over the womens stockings industry the same as everywhere else, and the majority of the fine stocking silkyness now comes from a product called spandex. Which, as a stockings wearer, I can assure you is immeasurably more comfortable than the original nylon material used.
Book mark this blog and come back to it frequently to hear the stories of womens stockings.
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