I'm so old I Remember when:

[jxp]

I'm so old I remember actual toy stores.

There's one in the town south of me and one in the big city where my grandbabies live. Fun to find ways to tempt them away from the electronics.

 

[EmmaDonovan]

I think I still have this model in storage somewhere - with his hat! 1970s Breyer. I've always loved dapple grays.

 

[AntiqueB]

I think I still have this model in storage somewhere - with his hat! 1970s Breyer. I've always loved dapple grays.

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I have that one, too! "Old Timer"

 

[Rick589]

Has anyone here ever driven by a billboard with incorrect spelling? How many different sets of eyeballs does a billboard have to pass by before ending up along side a road? Yet, I have seen several over the years with grammar and spelling mistakes. Maybe it’s just the area I live in.

 

[Rick589]

My great grandmothers house had a milkdoor and a milk man actually delivered milk in glass containers....

glass bottles with the crimped paper capsWe had a milk box outside, in the winter we’d let the milk freeze a bit so we could have ice milk. Of course, after thinking about this, I’m not so sure I know why we thought that was a treat.

 

[RoyalChick]

glass bottles with the crimped paper capsWe had a milk box outside, in the winter we’d let the milk freeze a bit so we could have ice milk. Of course, after thinking about this, I’m not so sure I know why we thought that was a treat.

We didn’t have a box but left empty yoghurt pots on the step for the milkman to pop on top of the bottles.
If we didn’t the birds would peck through the foil milk bottle top and eat the cream!

 

[Rick589]

we didn’t the birds would peck through the foil milk bottle top and eat the cream!

Now I would never ever had considered birds to be an issue with milk bottles. Then again I was a kid at the time and never actually thought too far outside of my little box.

 

[Nomadicus]

I'm so old I remember living in the waning days of the Great Depression. One of those memories is how my dad would add a table spoon of water to a ketchup bottle that had some on the sides of the glass bottle it came in but wouldn't pour. He shake that bottle with the tablespoon of water until it would. Waste not Want not years.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

I'm so old I remember living in the waning days of the Great Depression. One of those memories is how my dad would add a table spoon of water to a ketchup bottle that had some on the sides of the glass bottle it came in but wouldn't pour. He shake that bottle with the tablespoon of water until it would. Waste not Want not years.

Memories! When a jelly jar was virtually empty, my dad would fill it about half full of milk, shake it vigorously, and enjoy a little fruit-flavored shake before discarding the clean jar. I do it now.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Also, when using jarred pasta sauce, I'll put a couple of teaspoons of hot pasta water in the jar and shake it good to get the last of the sauce out.

I haven't found a good way to get gravy out of a jar other than scraping with a rubber spatula, though. Not watering that down.