Quilters’ Lunch Box Memories
August 29, 2008 by Mary Emma Allen
Filed under Home & Living
QuiltingAndPatchwork.com
All this mention of lunch boxes in the giveaways we’re conducting over at One Book Two Book brings to mind memories of my school days. We used either a brown paper bag or metal lunch box. (It seems metal lunch boxes are making somewhat of a come back.)
That’s all that was available then. If we were fortunate, we got a new one when school started. (With four in the family needing lunch boxes, book bags, pencil boxes, and clothes, new lunch boxes weren’t always in Mother’s budget.)
Many of these lunch boxes came with a thermos. (Occasionally Mother bought one separately.) In …read more




