Have any hairpins? bobby pins?

Nope. Not into lockpicking.

Hair pin, no. All the others, yes.

None in my apartment. I do have needle and thread somewhere. I have lots of q-tips.

Like @tinyfaery, no to hairpins, but all others readily available to hand.
I use bobby-pins from time to time to catch the strays that get loose and tickle my eyelids.
Safety pins I use for quick repairs, the large ones for running a drawstring through whatever needs a drawstring, and, because I sew, I have bunches of straight pins.

However, I can’t find a Q-Tip to save my life.

I have some bobby pins from holding the kids graduation caps in place. And I have a bunch of safety pins from pinning race bibs to shirts.

And I have a sewing box.

We called these hairpins Kirby grips and there were always some lying about the house when we were kids. I don’t think I have any in my flat nowadays. I do have straight pins and I used one five hours ago to hang a present above my patio doors. I don’t think I’ve seen a safety pin since the kids were in nappies.

All of the above except hairpin.

I have all of the above.

Bobby pins, safety pins and straight pins- we use them from time to time. I inherited the hat pins.

No hairpins but all the rest and I know exactly where they are. I did have to sew a button on recently, so I did use a needle. I haven’t used a bobby pin in a very long time.

I’m in my mid-50s and don’t recall ever seeing a hair pin. Mom had an old metal Sucrets tin filled with bobby pins that were used to hold hair curlers in place and to clean wax out of our ears.

There are plenty of safety pins on hand. Most are in the sewing kit, a couple in a bathroom drawer, and one or two in the backpack in case of a clothing emergency. All straight pins are in the sewing kit.

The last time one was used, a straight pin, was to unblock a tube of Crazy Glue.

In the second grade at summer school/camp we had games and activities on the playground. One of the third graders fell off of some equipment and broke his arm. The activity director didn’t have access to a telephone but I knew there was one behind a locked door. I got a couple of bobby pins picked the lock in about a minute.

I metal detect for coins and other items, some beaches I find bobby pins and old style pull-tabs that were removable.

i have a supply of safety pins, straight pins that used to come in shirts, and Perky pins with the large white head. I use the straight pins frequently as test probes and to clean electrical connectors. They are attached to a magnet on the wall in my garage and in my tool box.
I used a straight pin recently to clean out a water nozzle for my fish pond.

^I had no doubt that you would have a collection of pins.

I have one diaper pin. I broke the button at the top of my zipper on a really nice pair of shorts the other day and couldn’t find another button to replace it, so the first mate found a safety pin in the bottom of her bag. So, now it holds up my pants.

No hair pins. Lots of bobby pins and safety pins. At least 50 of each in each gig bag and a few packages of each in the room where I keep costumes and gig bags.. Straight pins are in the sewing zone upstairs – in the same room as the costumes (since that’s mostly what I sew).

I’ve got a nice collection/selection of hat pins. I haven’t used them much in the last decade.

I could not find a hat pin. Although I have considered collecting them since they can be very pretty.

I could find bobby pins. I just them to pin up my hair when it’s hot sometimes or to hold on my hat if it’s windy.

Yes, I have straight pins. I have a sewing kit. So there is a little box of them in there.

I also have safety pins of various sizes in my sewing kit and in my bathroom drawer. Sometimes, the neckline of my blouse or dress is a little too revealing for me, so I use a pin to close it a little more.

I see @BellaB collects hat pins! This does not surprise me :-)

No hairpins (I save those for driving), but I have the other three — two of which live in my sewing kit. The other helps keep my mortar board in place when I attend graduations.

@cookieman, my graduation hat looks like something from Harry Potter. No way that thing is going anywhere. I always feel like shouting Gryffindor when they put it on my head (we have special hat fitters who put them on for you so you don’t look more ridiculous than they intend).

I buy bobby pins and use them all the time. I used them today when I put my hair in a ponytail. My hair is cut in layers (long layers) and when I put it up, half of it falls out.

Safety pins, sewing pins and needles I have too. I sew (or I should say I think about sewing).

Yep, I have all of them and could find one pretty quickly. I use them all for theater type things.

Oh, thanks for the reminder! I forgot hat pins. They’re another once-common item. My mother encouraged me to keep an ornamental one in the lapel of my coat because it made such an effective weapon of defense. This was without explaining to me (as a young teenager) what I might be needing to defend myself against.

I have hairpins, bobby pins, safety pins, and straight pins all ready to hand for various purposes. I’ve never picked a lock with a hairpin, but sometimes when I put my hair up I still use them as a secure and invisible way to anchor the arrangement. I can still buy hairpins at my local drugstore, and that tells me that somebody besides me is using them.

Everywhere I will live now and forever will have have all ducts, vents, etc. full of: hairpins, earrings, earring keepers, nosespins. I does not matter what I do. They will be there.

I have bobby pins, straight pins, and I’m out of safety pins, but I think they are good to have in the house.

Bobby pins I use now and then to secure some fly away hairs when I put my hair up.

I needed a safety pin recently for a pair of slacks that the button had popped off and I still wanted to wear them.

The last time I used straight pins was sewing a pillow case.

When I was kid we made “stingers” our of bobby pins. We bend them is such a way that they were spring loaded and if you touched your victim on the arm the pin would snap and sting.
I don’t remember how we did it.

@Earthbound_Misfit: The whole getup is so silly looking, but the hat is extra goofy. I honestly don’t wear mine sometimes and just wear the gown and hood. Now, if I had “special hat fitters” I may change my mind. ;^)

At the grad school I went to, they just wear the hoods over regular clothes. No gown, no nothing.

Oooh, @LuckyGuy, I remember those! I was the youngest and smallest so I was covered with little red marks from my sisters thwapping me with those bobby pin stingers. (I was clumsy, too, so I never was able to make them, myself)

@canidmajor I just looked on youtube and there are plenty of videos explaining how to make them. Look for bobby pin stinger. Now I need to find a few.

Won’t my sisters be surprised if after more than half a century I finally get to sting them! :-D

@canidmajor They were easier to make if you took off the rounded plastic tips. And they stung more. :-)

Revenge will be sweet! :-)

@flutherother, until you mentioned it yesterday, I don’t think I’d ever heard of kirby grips. And then last night, the next page in the novel I’ve been reading referred to kirby grips, and I thought, “Hey, I know what those are.” Once I’m in bed with my book, I don’t get up to look things up, but of course I still want the answers to everything.

@LuckyGuy, when I was in about fourth or fifth grade, the boys at school made those stinger things and snapped them at us. I thought it especially unkind that they used a women’s accessory to annoy us. At that age, girls thought all boys were stupid, and that was proof. But they sure did have a knack for (a) folding things and (b) pestering girls, and especially a + b.

I have all the things you listed. I’m a very organized person which, I believe, comes from a childhood where I had almost nothing. So being prepared is very important to me.