"I get blamed for everything in this house!"

Poor Clare. Poor, poor Clare.

To add to the digression within this thread even further , in Moscow, Idaho, a short 25 mile drive, it is also legal for women to be topless. One of the leaders in the fight for this to be legalized was observed exercising her right in front of a nightclub in Moscow, in the middle of winter, in 10 degree weather. What a cause to fight for, the right to go topless in 10 degree weather!

WOW Georgia, I'm not online much lately, and I just seen this thread. I wasn't aware of that birthday tradition. It's new to me. I do know though that African Americans used to/still do stuff money in their bra. I used to see them pulling money out of their bra at the check-out, and I was embarrassed for them. That is so tacky. I'm sure money has been in crazier places but it's different if you don't know it.

Honi, my great grandmother used to carry her cash in a silk pouch that was snapped to the straps of her "brassier" and tucked inside the front. The item actually could be bought at lingerie stores for that purpose of hiding your money.

Never understood that but apparently it was her way of safe-keeping her money. She carried it that way until the day she died at age 98.