[Home-on-the-range] home management tips

Tue Jul 17 20:04:11 UTC 2012

Hello to All:

The Telephone Pioneers make metal color tags that are to be sewn into 
clothes.  They come in a variety of primary colors.  I have a sighted friend 
sew them into my clothes, sewing in more than one color tag if a garment has 
several colors in it.  If I am discarding a pair of pants I have someone cut 
out the tag so that it can be used again.  Several years ago, I ordered 
about twenty packages of tags.  They were free of charge then. I have 
several friends who are seamstresses as are   their teenage daughters, who 
learned from mom as part of their home school curriculum.  The moms will 
often send the girls to sew in the tags.  Some time ago, I took the time to 
sort all of the color tags into empty medicine bottles.  All of the tags 
that say yellow were put in one bottle.  I labeled it with a Braille label 
and then did the same with all of the other color tags and bottles.  My 
sighted friend then wrote in print with magic marker pens the corresponding 
names of the colors on each bottle.  I put all of the bottles in a large 
Tupperware container and I keep them with my sewing kits on a shelf.  Now, 
when there is "color tagging" to do, I don't need to sit there handing out 
tags.  If a person doesn't have time to stay here and sew them in,  she can 
take the tags and clothes with her and  bring them all back when the work is 
finished.  There is a notch or pointer at the bottom of each tag which is to 
be pointing downward with the Braille facing away from the sewer and the 
wearer of each garment.  If the pointer/notch is pointing upward, the 
Braille dots will be covered up by the fabric.  This happens occasionally 
and can be fixed in a handfull of minutes.  One mom and daughter said to me, 
"This is foolproof if I just watch what I'm doing."       Each tag has two 
letter abbreviations for the color: bn = brown, bl = blue, bk = black, gd = 
gold,  gn = green, gy = grey, or = orange, pk = pink, pp = purple, rd = red, 
(or sometimes I have seen the ed sign used only for the color red,) sl = 
silver, tn = tan, and wt = white.  They are tiny and you don't even notice 
them at all.  The clothes are washed and dried with the tags inside.  Of 
course, you don't have to organize your tags as I did.  Yes, it was quite 
the investment of my time but it has payed off in great dividends for my 
friends who sew for my husband Jim and me.         Hope this helps, not for 
just a few days, but long term for anyone looking for a way to identify 
colors they wear.            ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Serenqa Nickell" <scnickell1980 at gmail.com>
To: "'NFB of Kansas Internet Mailing List'" <home-on-the-range at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, July 16, 2012 6:11 PM
Subject: Re: [Home-on-the-range] home management tips

>I used to use safety pins to identify the colors of clothing.  I'd put them
> in the tags of pants, shirts, etc in different ways to identify the 
> colors.
> Sometimes I'd use more than one for a certain color.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: home-on-the-range-bounces at nfbnet.org
> [mailto:home-on-the-range-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Dianne Hemphill
> Sent: Monday, July 16, 2012 10:02 AM
> To: NFB of Kansas Internet Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [Home-on-the-range] home management tips
>
> - just thought of another helpful tip. I'm getting ready to work out and
> have a  lot of shoes- as many of you might. Those that tie can be easily
> found as a pair by always tying one of the laces on each of the shoes of
> that pair together...figured this out the old fashioned, embarrassing way-
> Dianne On Jul 16, 2012, at 8:45 AM, Cindy Ray wrote:
>
>> If there are things that you need to have identified, invite a friend or
> neighbor to come in and help you to get them identified. Then follow the
> marking rule or one similar mentioned by Diane. If it is hard to keep 
> track
> of where you are placing things, and to keep them in order, make a 
> recorded
> list of locations and the things kept in them until you know for sure you
> remember them well.
>>
>>
>> On Jul 16, 2012, at 8:28 AM, Dianne Hemphill wrote:
>>
>>> Hi everyone - just listened to July 10th Matilda Z. (New Line) where a
> woman is requesting tips on how to manage  by herself while her sighted
> husband  is in a medical  rehab facility...she  is looking for ideas - 
> would
> some of you like to pull some useful ideas together to provide some
> practical tips that she can use almost immediately? I am thinking she does
> not have any of the tech items that might relay info or even, perhaps 
> ideas
> on how to easily identify items in her cupboards, pantry , refrigerator,
> freezer, etc. Not sure of her many challenges as she leaves this wide 
> open.
> Perhaps, we could give her our top 10 or more ideas that allow us to do 
> our
> everyday home management  tasks. I'll start:
>>> 1. Try to keep everything organized and in  its special place. This 
>>> means
> you must put things back as soon as you have finished using them. If you
> tend to leave things out around the house and then can't find them, your
> life can be an endless frustration.
>>> An idea for always finding your purse, for example, hang it on your
>>> bedroom door knob: place a rubber band around items that feel the
>>> same, such as your shampoo and conditioner so you can tell one from
>>> the other by simply remembering that the rubber band is always on the
>>> conditioner: , for example, and: keep your cupboards tidy and
>>> periodically, take out items that you don't use frequently - clutter
>>> is not our friend.  Dianne
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