Remember When....

[DCMom]

Did anybody have a full set of Funk and Wagnalls encyclopedias? You would buy them at the grocery store. Each week they had a new one. We collected the whole set.

Laurel

OMG, yes!

When my parents passed away, I just couldn't bring myself to get rid of them. Maybe they will be worth something to Antique Roadshow or something someday ::

We actually had two sets; we had the Encyclopedia Brittanica that we bought from a door to door salesman. We also bought the ElectroLux I still use from a door to door salesman. Remember those? We had a milkman, too. Glass bottles with paper tops...it was WHOLE milk! What would the food police say...oh, wait there wasn't food police

[Blackcat31]

OMG, yes!

When my parents passed away, I just couldn't bring myself to get rid of them. Maybe they will be worth something to Antique Roadshow or something someday ::

We actually had two sets; we had the Encyclopedia Brittanica that we bought from a door to door salesman. We also bought the ElectroLux I still use from a door to door salesman. Remember those? We had a milkman, too. Glass bottles with paper tops...it was WHOLE milk! What would the food police say...oh, wait there wasn't food police

We have milk delivery services here still. glass bottles and all. My mom still uses the service...she gets eggs and butter from him too.

When I was a kid, we drove to the farm with whatever containers we had available and filled those with milk that came straight from the cow.
Each morning before having cereal, we had to shake the milk to mix the cream in that had come to the surface.

[DCMom]

Remember wringer washing machines?

Yep! And I knew how to use it at a young age...every Monday if it didn't rain because the clothesline was the the dryer. Tuesday was ironing day, I stood on a kitchen chair until we got one of those newfangled adjustable height ironing boards, !

Lord, I'm feeling old but it is kinda fun to stroll down memory lane.

[DCMom]

We have milk delivery services here still. glass bottles and all. My mom still uses the service...she gets eggs and butter from him too.

When I was a kid, we drove to the farm with whatever containers we had available and filled those with milk that came straight from the cow.
Each morning before having cereal, we had to shake the milk to mix the cream in that had come to the surface.

I still have a milkman, but he brings Kemps brand

I used to love to spend summers with my aunt and uncle on the dairy farm. Fresh everything, every day. Huge garden, cows, pigs, chickens. Its was fun for us 'city kids' to become 'country kids' for the summer.

[Size18]

Originally posted by DCMom
it is kinda fun to stroll down memory lane.

Is it ever! I'm really enjoying this thread.

[Size18]

Originally posted by DCMom
Yep! And I knew how to use it at a young age...every Monday if it didn't rain because the clothesline was the the dryer.

Me, too! We had a wringer washing machine (until the early 70's) and an outdoor clothesline. If only I got a dollar for every load of diapers and rubber pants I laundered and hung!

[Luna]

I thought of this thread today while watching my dcks drink their smoothies...remember PAPER drinking straws??? They were terrible!

[Size18]

Originally posted by Luna
remember PAPER drinking straws??? They were terrible!

Were they ever. Yes, I do remember them.

[Size18]

Remember when people used to roll their own cigarettes with those cool machines? You slipped an empty cigarette tube over a hollow rod, added tobacco, then swiped the deck of the machine across the lower plate/platform, and out came a homemade cigarette. I remember always seeing cigarette machines in the homes of people who smoked.

[lovemylife]

... every household had a sewing machine to it's credit, and the woman of the house knew how to use it? Unlike today, where tailor shops have become (more or less) the solution.

I have a seeing machine in my kitchen, in the storage cabinet. I use it all the time. Why waste money?

[Unregistered]

Remember when people used to roll their own cigarettes with those cool machines? You slipped an empty cigarette tube over a hollow rod, added tobacco, then swiped the deck of the machine across the lower plate/platform, and out came a homemade cigarette. I remember always seeing cigarette machines in the homes of people who smoked.

We use a machine to roll our cigarettes. Saves a ton of money

[Size18]

I have a seeing machine in my kitchen, in the storage cabinet. I use it all the time. Why waste money?

I know few people (today) who still actively sew. Those I do know are older and of the more mature crowd. Such a frugal hobby/pastime.

[Size18]

We use a machine to roll our cigarettes. Saves a ton of money

That it does.

[Luna]

I know few people (today) who still actively sew. Those I do know are older and of the more mature crowd. Such a frugal hobby/pastime.

I do a fair bit of sewing, and it isn't necessarily inexpensive. I buy fabric at yard sales and thrift shops or I reclaim fabric. If you're buying new fabric plus thread, zippers, buttons, elastic etc. it ain't cheap. Not to mention it is VERY time-consuming, at least it is when I do it ::.

[Cradle2crayons]

Remember when people used to roll their own cigarettes with those cool machines? You slipped an empty cigarette tube over a hollow rod, added tobacco, then swiped the deck of the machine across the lower plate/platform, and out came a homemade cigarette. I remember always seeing cigarette machines in the homes of people who smoked.

The rare time my husband and I will smoke, we roll our own as well we have an electric machine and a manual thingie