People used to buy clothes at stores.

{Yesterday, in the backyard}

Elliot: Guess what, Mom? Did you know that a long time ago, people used to have to buy their clothes at STORES???Me: Ummmm. What? *Dumbfounded* You mean like at Target?

Elliot: Yeah!

Me: You know, people still DO buy clothes at stores...most people, actually.

Elliot: But WE don't! YOU make all our clothes!!

Me: Well, actually...I didn't make those jeans you're wearing. Or that tee shirt...Auntie Kricket bought that for you. But I do make a lot of your clothes, don't I?

Elliot: You didn't make these jeans?

Me: Nope.

Elliot: Oh.

That conversation blew my mind a little bit. First, because he sees making clothes as the norm in our house, and buying clothes as the exception (even though it isn't...we still buy most of our clothing). And second, that he imagines buying clothes in a store as part of an ancient history that's been improved upon by home sewing, as though shopping for clothing was old-fashioned or something. Upon further questioning I discovered that this was due in part to "Secret Life of Machines: The Sewing Machine," which he watched with Mr Rae the other day, and which hails the sewing machine as the "first machine to enter the home." Hah!

Kids are funny.