Years ago, when I had no money and no debts, I bought a set of diaper pins for my first child (now 53). These were the pins that had little plastic ducks and rabbits for their “heads”. Much to my horror, the plastic heads on a couple of them split, allowing the wire of the pin to protrude, thus endangering my baby. I went to the store to buy a new set and found that the card now contained 3 pins, instead of 4.
I was angry and I wrote a letter of complaint and sent it off to the company, complainng about the quality of the product and the price increase (less product for the same price.) This must have been in 1960.
Much to my surprise, I received a letter of apology and explanation. It seems that their manufacturing plant had suffered a fire that interrupted their process and some of their plastic was contaminated with water which made it brittle. They enclosed multiple cards of their diaper pins for me. I never bought another diaper pin for 4 children!
I don’t remember the name of the company, but it hardly matters. Nobody uses diaper pins any more.
I saw a teenage girl in San Francisco a few years ago with a 'ducky' diaper pin through her bottom lip.
That’s because so few use diapers. In Obamaphone land they slap a tiny pair of Nike gym shorts on the little ones and wait for the first of the month check to replace them when they are soiled.
My kids are now at or approaching 30. By the time they came along, basically everyone was using disposable diapers. Not me! When I had teenagers come to babysit they had no clue how to make up the diapers so on those occasions I’d have Pampers on hand. I recently saw a diaper service truck .. thought those had gone out of business a long time ago.
Conservative business owners understand that business is about both being profitable and treating the customer well.
It’s a shame you don’t remember the company name now; perhaps they are still in business, but have modernized their product line. I’m sure lots of Freeper parents would love to patronize such a service-oriented business.