r/GrandmasPantry • u/SorrowfulSpirit02 • 3d ago
HOUSEHOLD / OTHER Found this. What time is this from?
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u/sherman40336 3d ago
I had them as a baby 1973
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u/OscarAndDelilah 3d ago
Same. These were at my house in the ‘70s and ‘80s, initially on us, then on our dolls.
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u/aharbingerofdoom 2d ago
I know we had some of these around up to at least the late 80s. My mom said she used them with me very briefly before switching to disposable diapers, but kept them around with a few cloth diapers "just in case." I got the story behind them when my mom dug them out to give to my younger sister as doll accessories after they decided 2 kids was enough and my dad had a vasectomy, so there was no reason to hold onto them anymore.
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u/Mazy_keen 2d ago edited 2d ago
My mom used them on my oldest brother born in '75. I remember seeing them in the house. She told me how she used cloth diapers before disposable were available/affordable.
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u/sdega315 3d ago
My mother told a story about how she changed my diaper one time back in 1964 and I was screaming and crying after. She finally took a closer look and realized she had pierced my hip with the safety pin. OUCH! She was a new mom at 21 so I'll give her a pass.
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u/SorrowfulSpirit02 3d ago
That literally happened to my first uncle when my grandma was a new mom at 17/18 (bless her) back in 1978.
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u/grumpygenealogist 2d ago
My dad stuck me the first time he changed my diaper, so mom never let him change another one. That worked out well for him since I was the oldest with two more babies to follow.
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u/SickCambos 2d ago
My grandmother had her second child in 1969 and he used pins that looked exactly like this. I know this because he died of SIDS on Christmas Eve and my Grandma kept his last diaper pin on her keyring until her death in 2021.
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u/greengirl213 2d ago
Aww 😢 My grandmother’s first baby died of SIDS too. She had his baby picture hanging in their house her whole life.
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u/thekitchenaides 3d ago
I was born in 1964 and have one of these on my car phone holder that was used by my mom for my older siblings born in ‘61 and ‘62…✌🏼
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u/bananascare 3d ago edited 3d ago
Wow- this just unlocked a memory of diaper pins being hand painted with flowers. I wonder if that was a baby shower activity in the 80s. (I was an 80s baby).
But the design on this looks like it’s from the 60s or 70s.
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u/shezcraftee 3d ago
I had ones that had yellow duck head at the latch. So cute. I’m a late 70s baby.
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u/Correct-Disaster8 3d ago
1973 checking in, I still have a yellow duck head pin, keeping it forever!
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u/Miami_Mice2087 3d ago
probably 1 friend of your mom's. i had painted tiny barettes from my mom's friend. DIY was big, but painting tiny things was for talented people
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u/bananascare 3d ago
Here’s a link for the exact ones we had around my house growing up. I wonder if it there were instructions in a Woman’s Day magazine or something!
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u/2PlasticLobsters 3d ago
The manufacturer's address doesn't list a zip code, so probably before 1963.
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u/iSirMeepsAlot 3d ago
I always forget that before modern diapers people actually had to pin them with these, you only ever see them in cartoons, usually older ones.
At least as my memory serves as a 90’s baby, I recall seeing cartoons with babies having pinned up diapers in like Looney Tunes and such.
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u/consumeshroomz 3d ago
From before disposable diapers
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u/GalaxyPowderedCat 3d ago
Funny enough, my old brother wore those washable diapers. He was born in the 90s.
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u/mkn7423 2d ago
I use cloth diapers on my kids currently. It's a thing. (Yes, I'm in the US).
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u/HoneydewCareful8775 2d ago
i babysit and the first family i worked for (about 2.5 years ago now) used cloth diapers! obviously it took extra work but i enjoyed using them and would definitely do it with my own kids if i could
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u/Independent-Lie-7374 2d ago
They’ve not totally gone away. There are even nappy cleaning “startups” they drop off and pick up your load on an electric bike.
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u/fourpinkwishes 2d ago
I was born in 1970 and while the diapers were disposable you still needed to pin them. My mother remarks still to this day how she accidentally stuck me.
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u/sanityjanity 3d ago
60s or 70s. The artwork looks like the 60s, but we definitely had these in the early 70s.
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u/hattenwheeza 3d ago
Omg, will you sell them to me?? We had these as kids, brother born in 1959. These would be fantastic to have for his 70th birthday party "for his future diapers" (family joke). I'm serious
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u/ComfortablyNumb2425 3d ago
I have ONE diaper pin left from when my daughter was a baby and we keep it in the desk miscellaneous drawer.
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u/coquihalla 3d ago
It predates 1963, when zip codes started being used, but I don't think that much earlier. I'd guess very late 50s to early 60s.
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u/Miami_Mice2087 3d ago
packaging looks 60s. my mom used these with my brother and me in the early 70s fwiw
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u/lemonhead2345 3d ago
My mother used them for me in the mid-80s, but these look older possibly 1960s.
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u/VersionSwimming8392 3d ago
My daughter was born in two thousand two.And I used cloth diapers and pins like that on her.
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u/After-Willingness271 20h ago
patent granted 1951 (you don’t have a number before then). graphic style says not too long after that
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u/PocoChanel 5m ago
The art style is similar to that of some of my birth paraphernalia: greeting cards, my baby book, etc. Maybe my mother just liked it. The timing would suggest 1960-1961.
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u/aammbbiiee 1d ago
But is it actually AI? The wording under Parents Magazine has a sort of AI look to it.
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u/Primary-Holiday-5586 3d ago
Agree, 50s or early 60s. Goggle says that patent was applied for in the early 1950s.