...I don't know why it happens...I don't think I abuse my umbrellas...but every few years it happens...maybe they're just not very well made to begin with...
...to fix them...first I stitch through the black material and then around the stem a few times...some umbrellas I've had actually have a little 'eye', like on a needle, that makes this easier...but here I've just wrapped the thread around and through the cloth...
...but without the little plastic 'cap' this will just slide around and probably not last very long...
...so I need to fashion some sort of little plastic cap thingy...
...I made a form by wrapping some wax paper around one of the remaining little caps...taped that...and then slipped it off...
...then I popped it over the end of the stem I just stitched...
...and filled it with hot glue...
...let that cool off and set back up...and you'll have a new hard plastic sort of cap thingy...
...peel off the wax paper...
...and paint the new cap black...
...and the umbrella is once again usable...and you will have saved another item from the landfill...win...win...
Of course I didn't open the umbrella inside...that would be bad luck...or so I've heard...ever wonder why...of course you have...
I found this article at answerbag
Open an umbrella indoors and bad luck will "rain" on you. But why? There are two schools of thought:
The most common stems from the days when umbrellas were used mainly as protection against the sun. To open one indoors would be to insult the local sun god (especially Ra) and invite his wrath on everyone in your household.
Another theory borrows from the idea of an umbrella as a protector against the storms of life. If you were to open one in your home, the household guardian spirits might think you felt their protection was insufficient, and then they'd leave in a huff. Once again, everyone in the house is cursed.
In truth, the superstition is probably coincidental. (Someone left his umbrella opened in the hall and had a terrible day--he told his friend to keep their umbrellas shut, and it spread.)
It isn't always bad luck to open an umbrella inside. According to some, it's only considered bad if any of the following apply:
-The umbrella was a gift.
-The umbrella is black.
-The umbrella has never been used outdoors.
-There is a sick person in the house.
Other bad luck umbrella superstitions:
-Never give an umbrella as a gift.
-Never pick up an umbrella you dropped (ask someone to do it for you).
-Never place your umbrella on a table or a bed.
-If a single woman drops her umbrella, she'll never marry.
~Have a lovely day...
Superstitions, my grandma was riddled with them but she came from an age when life was precarious and you needed all the good luck you could get.
ReplyDeleteTo me, they are like magic spells, avoiding the evil eye, keeping bad luck away. Some of them are stranger than others.
Not putting new shoes on the table, now where did that come from? Turning the coins in your pocket over at the new moon. There were so many she adhered to.
It took me a long time to erase them from my life.
I only see one possible bad luck when you open an umbrella indoors: if you accidentally trigger the fuse of a bomb (that you had at home I don't know what for...).
ReplyDeleteJust mocking of superstitions!!
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