b....is for....
I'm joining in again with Toni from ChickChat in her weekly A-Z meme. b is for boxes. Boxes . I love them. They come in all shapes and sizes. Some empty, some pre-filled, mmmm chocolates..... When I was very small, hat boxes were a common sight on the shelf of many a woman's wardrobe. These held the "best" hat, the one brought out on Sundays to wear to church, or maybe to wear to a wedding. The beginning of the year brought boxes that held new school shoes. When we moved house, as we did so often, boxes were begged from friends or from shops that had empty ones after delivery of their goods and we would fill them with our books and toys . Years later my own children had large toyboxes for their toys and when we moved these were simply closed, locked and loaded onto a truck, no repacking necessary. Back in the 1990s, I worked in a shoe factory, where one of my jobs was to inspect the finished pairs of shoes and pack them into their shoe ...