I'm so old I Remember when:

[Nomadicus]

I'm so old I remember when the news broke about the Manson murders.

 

[sourland]

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.

Grew up under 'waste not want not.' Not a bad practice at all

 

[Sammster]

I'm so old, my first job was at a five and dime

 

[MROO]

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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He's a "her"... Breyer's "Old Timer." My sister and I collected (and still have) them. "The Old Gray Mare" has always been one of my favorites, with or without her hat!

 

[MROO]

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.

A piece of warm bread works great ... and there's no evidence left to rat you out!

 

[Nomadicus]

I'm so old I remember when the teachers read story books to us in early grade school that always ended in "And the lived happily ever after".

 

[RoyalChick]

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.

Ummm. I do that. Also with dish soap, shampoo etc.

 

[sourland]

I'm so old, my first job was at a five and dime

I'm so old that I remember going to the five and dime every two weeks when my father got paid and getting a packet of potato sticks.

 

[jxp]

I'm so old I remember when the news broke about the Manson murders.

I saw a preview for a show last night. I didn't even remember what it was called but the opening voiceover said "Munich 1972" . I immediately had a involuntary visceral reaction even though that was the summer I would turn only 12. There are somethings you remember in your soul.

 

[jxp]

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!

Are you certain it was birds? Sounds more like something a squirrel or a coon might do.