A sewing kit would be nice.
By Judy Story
@jstory07 (142692)
Roseburg, Oregon
March 17, 2025 12:11am CST
The nineteen year old next door came over and asked me if I could sew two buttons on her shirt. I asked her if her mother had a needle and thread. She told me her Mother did not even know how to sew.
I asked her if she knew how to sew the buttons on and she did not. So I showed her how to thread the needle and sew the button on. She put both buttons on. She thanked me for showing her how.
So I am going to look on ebay and get her a nice sewing kit.
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18 responses
@MarieCoyle (42004)
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17 Mar
How sad that her mom did not know how to sew on a button. I even made my sons both learn how to sew on a button. Granted, they didn't want to, but they have both had to do it, so I am glad I did. That would be so nice, to give her a sewing kit, Judy. 
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@MarieCoyle (42004)
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18 Mar
@jstory07
My boys can fix a tear or sew on a button, I think that's about it. They just don't want to...but hey, I tried. I supplied them both with a small sewing kit if the need arises to have to fix something.
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@allknowing (142792)
• India
17 Mar
You did a nice thing to teach her that Nice of you to buy her a sewing kit
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@Ghostlady (1649)
• United States
17 Mar
How nice. Tom bought me a sewing machine and I was going to take sewing lessons as the only sewing machine I ever used was very very old in a cabinet like thing. But I worked all week and no one gave lessons after 5pm or on the weekend..so it sits in our garage now. All the places that used to teach sewing no longer exist here. I can sew a straight line and fill a bobbin etc. but nothing fancy, and lost on patterns. I took Phys Ed in high school instead of taking Home Ec.
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@GardenGerty (162783)
• United States
17 Mar
What a great idea!! You already gave her the gift of knowing how, and now for the tools.
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@BarBaraPrz (49095)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
17 Mar
That should be taught in school, in a class called Basic Life Skills, along with such things as how to change a tire or rewire a lamp.
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@BarBaraPrz (49095)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
17 Mar
@jstory07 It should be compulsary for BOYS as well as girls, for one year anyway. And the girls should be encouraged to take shop, too.
@RebeccasFarm (93143)
• United States
20 Mar
Wow amazing they did not know how to do it.
Nice of you Judy.
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@FourWalls (72728)
• United States
17 Mar
That is so cool! I’m afraid I’ve lost that skill. They issued us a sewing kit in boot camp to sew buttons back on our uniforms.
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@RasmaSandra (83408)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
17 Mar
Wish her mother had known to show her but so nice you did and will get her a swing kit,
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@Deepizzaguy (108028)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
17 Mar
That is very nice of you to get your n neighbor a nice sewing kit.
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@Deepizzaguy (108028)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
18 Mar
@jstory07 I am in agreement with you.
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@andriaperry (118549)
• Anniston, Alabama
17 Mar
That's a wonderful idea. Your an amazing woman.
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@terri0824 (5054)
• United States
24 Mar
That was nice of you showing her how to do it, instead of you doing it. Now someday she will be able to show her own child how to do it and reflect back on when you showed her how.
@xstitcher (33606)
• Petaluma, California
21 Mar
My mother did tons of sewing. She made clothes for me when I was little.
