I'm so old I Remember when:

[jxp]

Those paper bags on ice cream did help to slow the melting.

We still have one small grocer that always takes out my bags. Service like that is rare these days.

And a tip for the helper has gone from a dime or a quarter to a dollar or two, depending on how full your basket is.

 

[NanaK]

And a tip for the helper has gone from a dime or a quarter to a dollar or two, depending on how full your basket is.

The store owner often pushes them out.

 

[NanaK]

There is an Aldi in a city not far from me. My MIL goes there sometimes. I've never been.

I recall someone here mentioned German chocolate cake. You shouldn't have done that to me.

I may have to go check them out.

 

[jxp]

It can be a tough choice. Many stores switched to plastic to save the trees the paper bags were made from.

My sister knows a lady who makes reusable bags from feed sacks people give her. They're heavy duty, very well made, and just as kitchy as you please. She donates the proceeds to her local animal shelter.

 

[Nomadicus]

I got a dime for a tip by a few and a rare tip of a quarter. Mostly none. People didn't always have a dime. Now the going tip is a dollar bill. I try and be prepared when I think of it ahead of time. When used to paying with debit card I've been guilty of not having cash on me.

 

[jxp]

There is an Aldi in a city not far from me. My MIL goes there sometimes. I've never been.

I recall someone here mentioned German chocolate cake. You shouldn't have done that to me.

I may have to go check them out.

This time of year, I'm a sucker for their white and dark chocolate drizzled caramel corn. Not so much their version of lebkuchen, though. Some things are just better homemade.

Last year my brother and I did a taste comparison between their panettone and the one carried at Wegmans. Both were tasty but side-by-side in a blind taster, the "real" simple ingredients used in the cheaper one from Aldi won hands down.

 

[jxp]

The store owner often pushes them out.

He's probably the most underpaid employee working there.

 

[member 655102]

All around me we have long leaf pine. I see truck after truck load some days. One day I will ask just what all they are used for.

I remember when pine stumps where use in making gunpowder.... in central FL there was a place we drove by where they got loaded onto railroad cars and shipped out. To where I don't know. What kind of gun powder I don't know. As kids we were just told for gun powder. The tree tops made treated poles for phone and electric lines to run on then.

Those are most likely going to be used for construction building.

 

[Debbie292d]

My sister knows a lady who makes reusable bags from feed sacks people give her. They're heavy duty, very well made, and just as kitchy as you please. She donates the proceeds to her local animal shelter.

We buy everything in the largest bag possible and save our feed sacks and dog/cat/parrot/sunflower seed bags for a lady who makes those at one of the poultry swaps we go to. I don't know what she does with the proceeds, maybe keeps it, but we got a bag out of the deal.

 

[member 655102]

And Aldi got fancy and started putting handles on their bags!

I hardly ever shop at Aldi but I do still remember back when it was just paper bags before they made those fabric ones.