Depression era hand warmers

[Grouse]

You can take two newly boiled hard boiled eggs with you in your pockets as hand warmers.  They stay warm for quite some time and will warm your hands well.

If you drive a ways from home prior to entering the woods, they may not be too warm when you get there, but if you are walking out the door at camp, they last for awhile. And when they are no longer working as hand warmers, you can eat them.

My grandmother used to send her kids to school in the winter with a few of them in their pockets.  Kids used to walk to school back then.

[grampy]

My grampy told me of this! 

[Grouse]

I've tried it and it works well.

[sbuff]

We use to do that on the walk to buss and school then eat for breakfast.  Kind of reminds me when I had bacon fat on toast as a child. 

[airedale]

I have heard of putting heated smooth stones in old wool socks and keeping them in pockets for hand warmers, I like the egg idea and having them for a snack.

I once read somewhere that live Button Quail were kept in pockets as hand warmers.

Al

Edited February 19, 2022 by airedale

[Merlot]

1 hour ago, Grouse said:

I've tried it and it works well.

You mean the eggs or walking? lol...imagine that...walking to school. 

[Grouse]

Both.  LOL!

[Lucky118]

I don't  want to smell  like a warm fart walking through the woods lol

[Jeremy K]

I think ill just resort to giving the kids cigarettes to fight their hunger pains ... You think eggs grow on trees around here

[Paula]

My father said that was their breakfast when they got to school in the morning

[eaglemountainman]

1 hour ago, Lucky118 said:

I don't  want to smell  like a warm fart walking through the woods lol

There have been many times that I smelled like a warm fart in the woods, and it had nothing to do with boiled eggs.........well, maybe a few times.