![]() ![]() i really like the tip you mention of hanging it and i'll be drilling a hole in the handle of mine and putting on a zip tie or strap as soon as possible or until you figure out shipping costs to the PNW and i'll just buy one of yours. OIF: great looking broom that is for certain. He also raised his broom corn and may have made his handles. ![]() Wholesale value at $78/week was good money. Remembering that unskilled labor was paid $1 per day. By the way, they say in the thirties he would load up his Model A with brooms inside and tied to the top and go from town to town selling to stores at 50 cents per broom. Being faster than me, he could do 13 dozen and still get some farm chores done. I know he hired at least some people to help, so I'm thinking he wound the brooms and had someone else stitching them. I assume he wasn't twice as fast as I am, but I'm not fast. At 45 minutes per broom, that is 19 -1/2 hours per day. If we assume they were good Christians (PC - can I use that word?) they worked six days. Interestingly, one newspaper article said Mr. At a tractor show I talk to people about making brooms (everyone is interested for three minutes) so I can only make about six in a day. Material cost is about $5 per large broom. ![]() I sell full sized ones for $25 or $35 depending on the location (Ok, so crucify me, I'm like Robin Hood, charge the rich folks out the nose and make a deal for the simple country folks), small ones for $15. Anybody getting sick of hurling yet (how's that for turnabout?) If I'm undisturbed, I get up to one every 45 minutes after two or three. It takes me an hour to make a full sized broom. Where in Georgia? I spent time in Marietta/Smyrna area as a child (Lockheed). The challenge gained moderate spread on the platform in the following weeks (examples shown below, left and right).Great questions. On June 8th, 2019, TikTok user launched another challenge titled "Broom Challenge" which involved performing several gymnastics moves using a broom (shown below, left). A TikTok video by received over 732,300 likes and 2,900 comments in the same period (shown below, left). For example, a tweet by Twitter user received over 23,100 retweets and 67,100 likes in one day, with the video accumulating over 867,000 views. On the same day, multiple users on Twitter, Instagram and TikTok posted videos of themselves performing the challenge, with hashtags #broomchallenge and #broomstick challenge gaining popularity on all platforms. Oh my God! Yo, no strings, nothing! What? So NASA said today is the day, the only day that your broom can stand up on its own, and watch this. Okay so NASA said today was the only day a broom can stand up on its own because of the gravitational pull…I didn’t believe it at first but OMG! □□□□□ /M0HCeemyGtĪlright y'all. The tweet received over 51,500 retweets and 217,100 likes in one day (shown below), with the video accumulating over 5.4 million views. In the tweet, a video of performing the trick was attached. On February 10th, 2020, Twitter user tweeted that on that day brooms could stand upright on their own "because of the gravitational pull," attributing the claim to NASA. On February 8th, 2020, Time24 News reported on the trend, with no such claims made by NASA being discovered. In early February 2020, the false belief regained popularity on social media for example, on February 7th, Instagram user saquinhodelixo posted several photographs of brooms standing upright, claiming that NASA said that on that day the rotation of the Earth would make the brooms stand on its own. ![]() In March 2020, CNN aired a news segment about the trend, also debunking it (shown below). In February 2012, claimes that the approach of the equinox allowed brooms to stand upright gained prominence on social media. On March 17th, 1999, Snopes posted an article "Egg Balancing on the Equinox" in which it debunked the false belief that eggs and brooms can only be balanced on their ends on vernal and autumnal equinoxes. ![]()
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