Did anyone have patches sewn on?

Stick-on soles. They weren't as good as shoes though.

My gran was a tailoress so frequently had patches sewed onto jeans and the like!

My father was a gambling man, down in ,,,,,,oops sorry!

They left another hole from where they took the patch, which was not quite so noticable.

Then there was invisible mending for that cigarette burn on the new suit!

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We were the recyclers' of our age in a different way and we didn't even know what recycling meant.

Nothing was thrown away until it was no longer able to be repaired. Even things like metal buckets or watering cans - if they leaked they were repaired with a soldering iron. You could even buy rubber spouts for when pot teapots had their spouts broken.

Now everything is cheaper to replace with less bother. Interesting article yesterday in the Daily Mail.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/news/article-3810615/Five-decades-changed-personal-finance-Money-Mail-began-wages-paid-cash-Fridays-tax-95.html

For the bigger holes there was a little nut and bolt and a couple of wasshers sold.