HOW TO SPLIT A SHEET

One of the ways of saving money during the depression days of the 1930s was splitting down the middle a bed sheet that was wearing too thin in the middle. Then the two halves would be reversed and sewn together where the two selvedges would become a finished seam, pressed flat, of course. The now thinner material on the outer edges would be hemmed on a sewing machine and the sheet could last another year or two. 

But today you can't do that anymore, at least, not easily. Sheets don't have a selvedge; they have hems all the way around. I have never ripped out a new hem to see if a selvedge were hiding inside it, but I doubt that's the case. You see, we are not meant to save money that way. We are to buy more sheets. This sounds like an example of the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer. I have found the same situation going on in other areas of our lives, but of course, they are not now coming to mind. You may know of some of them too. ***