# Who else saves wishbones? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 21, 2013, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-saves-wishbones/651021 "2013-02-21T22:54:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2013, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-saves-wishbones/651021/1 "2013-02-21T22:54:11Z")
I just finished pulling all the meat off a rotisserie chicken so I could make buffalo chicken egg rolls for lunch, and as I was cleaning the wishbone off I thought how much fun it’s going to be when my grandsons are old enough to make wishes on one. So I turned around to hang it up in the family wishbone drying spot, and realized I have three other wishbones up there ready to go…two turkey and one chicken! That means at least one turkey one has been there since November 2011! And I wondered how many other people save wishbones until they are dry and then make wishes on them? I haven’t actually done it since my kids were little, but I keep saving them! ---
**Author:** ![gwendee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/35a633/32.png) [@gwendee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gwendee)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2013, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-saves-wishbones/651021/2 "2013-02-22T00:13:39Z")
we save them, but I don’t have your kind of patience. Ours never hang up for more than three or four days. If my son wasn’t around to wish with I’d have to take it to the neighbors’. ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2013, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-saves-wishbones/651021/3 "2013-02-22T00:23:29Z")
My mother-in-law often has one on her windowsill, but never more than one. ---
**Author:** ![JohnM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/848f3c/32.png) [@JohnM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnM)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2013, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-saves-wishbones/651021/4 "2013-02-22T00:31:39Z")
Not turkey or chicken, but I’ve got two goose wishbones on the windowsill, one from this past Christmas and the other that has to be four or five years old now. If you’ve never seen one, [here](http://www.flickr.com/photos/joanmazza/3449587283/) is a good image. ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2013, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-saves-wishbones/651021/5 "2013-02-22T00:37:59Z")
McSorly’s alehouse (lower Manhattan, NYC) is reputedly, the oldest bar in NYC. They have dusty old wishbones (some dating to the 1890’s) hanging from the old light fixtures. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2013, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-saves-wishbones/651021/6 "2013-02-22T01:06:51Z")
My families have never had the tradition, sadly. [hijack] In about 1958, when I was 14, we had a scavenger hunt party. Really cool. One of the items on the list was a wishbone. I thought “never gonna find this.” Second house on the block had one.[/hijack] ---
**Author:** ![Silvorange](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@Silvorange](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silvorange)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2013, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-saves-wishbones/651021/7 "2013-02-22T01:14:09Z")
When I was a kid, I would soak them in vinegar until they turned rubbery. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2013, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-saves-wishbones/651021/8 "2013-02-22T01:15:59Z")
We did it when I was a kid, but I don’t think I’ve ever done it with my kid. I must rectify that. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2013, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-saves-wishbones/651021/9 "2013-02-22T01:54:59Z")
Only Turkeys not Chickens but yes. ---
**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2013, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-saves-wishbones/651021/10 "2013-02-23T03:53:53Z")
That goose wishbone looks huge! And unbreakable! And it’s not that I have patience, I just really forget I have the wishbones, and currently there is no one around the house I want to make a wish with. The grandboys are all too young, the kids are too old and out of state most of the time, and the SO lives too far away.