Comments on: Bamboo Clothes Pins

By: kasseopeia

kasseopeia — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 03:39:55 +0000

Wow, I thought I’d never see them again. When I first set foot in my mom’s native Abra, my relatives there used those sipits to secure their clothes to make-shift clotheslines by the river. They propped up long pieces of bamboo using river rocks, string some wire and let their underwear and shirts flap in the cool wind. That is an experience one must have at least once in their lives: washing clothes by hand in a cool river and hanging them with traditional sipits on make-shift clotheslines! Complete with tapis and palo-palo. Kidding! *lol*

By: carina

carina — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 00:10:31 +0000

hahaha…ang dami kong nasira nito nung bata ako, hehe

By: shalimar

shalimar — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 19:44:57 +0000

makes a good name holder for a native style dinner….

By: choy

choy — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 04:27:54 +0000

there was a radio announcer in the 60’s who had a signature song that he would sing a cappella:

“Bumili ng sipit, Bumili ng sipit
Pampatangos ng ilong.
Bumili ng sipit, Bumili ng sipit,
Pampatangos ng ilong!”

so there’s another idea for your bamboo “sipits”. hehe

By: Maria Clara

Maria Clara — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 19:23:11 +0000

Itâ€™s one of our creativity and ingenuity skills. We utilize whatever raw materials available to us and very sturdy too no metal wire to snap. Environmentally friendly! If they are crafted well they are good even on fine and delicate apparel including silk. The best way to condition them is on blue jeans as the roughness of the jeans will smooth the rough edges of the bamboo.

By: bagito

bagito — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 17:36:30 +0000

Wow! Naabutan ko pa to when I was little, only to be replaced by those A-shaped, multi-color plastic clothespins. Edel, I remember the one you’re talking about as well, like the ones used in pants hangers, di ba? Oh the memories. Marketman, I’m glad pareho tayo ng generation (I’m just a few years younger than you) since wala pa akong 40. Hehe.

By: noemi

noemi — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 17:10:15 +0000

i remember this, too.

By: edel

edel — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 16:04:35 +0000

there’s a wooden version of this bamboo clothespin decades ago.. two pieces of wood with metal spring(?)

By: elaine

elaine — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 15:39:13 +0000

I believe naabutan ko pa itong mga bamboo clothespins but we hardly used it as it’s quite a pain to use it, but they are indeed cool and if you’re a bit crafty, you can just stick a magnet on it and use it to hold notes on your fridge and yeah, a nice place card holder for a pinoy themed meal… These clothespins bring back childhood memories indeed.

By: mrs m

mrs m — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 15:37:52 +0000

wow mm, organic clothes pins.
environment friendly and it should go together with bio degradable clotheslines too.
plastic ropes and these bamboo clothespins just doesn’t fit.
mom used to keep the split ones to start fire for the wood burning stove we had and also for making siga to smoke the mango trees at the back of the house.