Fairy tales. Quidditch. Hand-held drill. Do Your Brooms Come With Holes in the Handles?
It had been a long time since I needed a new broom. But, sweeping the deck, much in need of sanding, had pretty much destroyed my broom.
Broom
I had been foolish to use it both inside and outside.
My husband, who has a much better eye for bargains and is picky about the food he cooks, now does nearly all the grocery shopping.
He told me he’d been looking for a new broom for awhile, but could only find plastic ones.
Neither of us was willing to give up the old straw, or broom corn broom with a wooden handle, for today’s synthetic version.
Could You Drill a Hole in the Handle, Please?
When I saw the new broom standing in the kitchen, I thanked him and asked him to drill a hole in the handle so I could hang it up.
But, like the last mop we bought, which has a plastic handle, this has a plastic cap on the handle just made for threading a string through to hang it on the wall.
When did this happen?
History of Brooms
Invented by the Shakers in the 1800s, the flat broom we are familiar with today replaced a bunch of twigs tied around a stick.
The twig brooms are the ones we are used to seeing in fairy tales, or perhaps in a game of Quidditch.
Technology hasn’t hit the business end of the broom. It does not attract dirt any differently.
It doesn’t release dust bunnies that I have to pull off with my hands or step on to get them to let go of the broom straws.
It still doesn’t sweep that last thin line of dirt into the dustpan.
But, a hole in the handle for hanging.
I like it.
It seems freeing. It doesn’t go on to the bottom of my husband’s long list of chores.
It doesn’t require that I get out my own hand-held drill and a clamp to make sure the broom handle doesn’t move while I drill it.
Nope.
Buy it and hang it up.
Sweep and hang.
The simple things of life.
What traditional tools or household products do you hold on to?
Do your children share this tradition?
How might they be improved?
To you and the simple things you share with your grandchildren.
Carol Covin, Granny-Guru
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