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Paper Roses

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14. Boy, do I temember that. It was my job as Mom shopped to keep squeezing the bag.

Reply to lamp_shade (Reply #13)

Mon Dec 16, 2013, 06:40 AM

Dec 2013

By the time we finished and drove home in our 1940's Plymouth, the stuff was sort of orange. Can't quite imagine what it must have tasted like.

When we got to the store, Mom would have us of each carry back the empty Clorox glass bottles for a 5 cent refund.

Speaking of laundry, we had a wringer washer. Mom would do sequential loads, starting with whites, then colored clothes. Same water. Then roll the machine to the sink to wring the clothes and add them to the rinse water. Wring again, rinse, wring, then out to the line to dry.

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Flashback...down memory lane. [View all] Paper Roses Dec 2013 OP

I miss the old cotton ones, too Warpy Dec 2013 #1

LOL so true re: bread wrapper DURHAM D Dec 2013 #2

Maybe they swipe Mom's can of Pam Warpy Dec 2013 #9

Oh my KC Dec 2013 #22

Fountain pens. My favorite color was periwinkle blue. lamp_shade Dec 2013 #3

In grade school we were taught to write with straight pens with changeable nibs No Vested Interest Dec 2013 #10

Oops lamp_shade Dec 2013 #12

Same for me. Mrs. DeLoach was our writing teacher. trof Dec 2013 #23

I buy really good paper towels. A whole roll will last me a year or more because I lamp_shade Dec 2013 #4

Years ago I bought a box of SOS pads - Qty 4. I still have them... lamp_shade Dec 2013 #5

I think that also MuseRider Dec 2013 #6

I still hang my sheets on the clothes line to dry. malokvale77 Dec 2013 #7

I'm also from the "burn your bra" generation, RebelOne Dec 2013 #15

A playground teeter-totter that was just an aging plank attached to a fulcrum...no handles, etc. libdem4life Dec 2013 #8

RE milk delivery - The milk was not homogenized; No Vested Interest Dec 2013 #11

If you live in an area where the weather got below freezing, Remember when: Paper Roses Dec 2013 #18

WE used to have a Kennedy's butter and eggs store nearby. Paper Roses Dec 2013 #20

I wasn't as conscious of the price of milk, but bread was 20cents per loaf. No Vested Interest Dec 2013 #21

Remember the bag of oleo with the red belly-button? lamp_shade Dec 2013 #13

Boy, do I temember that. It was my job as Mom shopped to keep squeezing the bag. Paper Roses Dec 2013 #14

Sandee mainstreetonce Dec 2013 #16

Where do you buy the genie bra? I'd look to look into this. Paper Roses Dec 2013 #17

It is advertised on tv. mainstreetonce Dec 2013 #19

Here's the Website or just Google Genie Bra. RebelOne Jan 2014 #24