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Post by oh yvonne on Dec 15, 2022 15:28:11 GMT
What products you vividly remember being a part of every day life that you haven't seen again in years?
I remember..Zest bar soap. Our family was strictly Camay or Dove, but it seemed like everyone else we knew used Zest. I can still vividly recall that scent when you walk into the bathroom.
Colored Scotts brand toilet paper. Little individually wrapped rolls of colorful pink, blue or yellow tp. In later years the multi pacs became popular, but I can still remember the individual rolls.
Bosco chocolate syrup. It seemed it was in everyone's refrigerator but none of us kids liked it, it just plopped to the bottom of your glass and it was impossible to mix thoroughly so there it sat. Quick was so much better.
Mecurochrome that stained your skin red and burned like a MFer. I wore only dresses to school and perpetually had skinned knees. I'd get these enormous scabs that my mom would put band aids on and all they would do was stick to my scab and I distinctly remember standing on the toilet lid while my mom begged me to 'Stay still!" while I held my breath and she RIPPED off the old to clean and put on a new.
MG we late boomers/early Xers were a tough bunch. Then Curad came out with "ouchless' bandaids and it changed the whole game.
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Post by Just T on Dec 15, 2022 15:32:31 GMT
Oh, I forgot about colored toilet paper! Yes, our toilet paper was always colored. We were also a Zest bar household. Also, my dad was a diesel mechanic, and we always had some bar soap that had gritty stuff in it. I can't remember what it was called, but it was in a red wrapper. I bought a bar of soap at a specialty shop a couple of years ago and a cute soap dish, and it lasted about 3 days before I got tired of the gloppy mess and tossed it. LOL We also always had a real cookie jar on our counter with cookies in it. I haven't seen someone with a cookie jar in years. Our coffee pot was a fancy shaped thing that was a percolator. It looked like a tall skinny tea kettle, that's the only way I can think of to describe it.  I'm surprised I can't think of more things at the moment. I grew up in the 60s and 70s, so there are lots of things that no longer exist. LOL |
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Post by hop2 on Dec 15, 2022 15:36:57 GMT
Ivory soap but I don’t use it as it dries my skin, in fact I rarely use bar soap anymore and when I do it’s artisan bar soap
Wonder bread - was the cheapest so my mother bought it but my dad preferred oat, rye, pumpernickel pretty much anything but wonder bread - do they even make wonder bread anymore?
Coke syrup- my parents were of the generation that thought coke syrup was medicinal so if we had a cough we got a spoonful of straight from the bottle coke syrup. I haven’t seen it in a bottle in a long time.
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Post by oh yvonne on Dec 15, 2022 15:37:57 GMT
Oh, I forgot about colored toilet paper! Yes, our toilet paper was always colored. We were also a Zest bar household. Also, my dad was a diesel mechanic, and we always had some bar soap that had gritty stuff in it. I can't remember what it was called, but it was in a red wrapper. I bought a bar of soap at a specialty shop a couple of years ago and a cute soap dish, and it lasted about 3 days before I got tired of the gloppy mess and tossed it. LOL We also always had a real cookie jar on our counter with cookies in it. I haven't seen someone with a cookie jar in years. Our coffee pot was a fancy shaped thing that was a percolator. It looked like a tall skinny tea kettle, that's the only way I can think of to describe it. I'm surprised I can't think of more things at the moment. I grew up in the 60s and 70s, so there are lots of things that no longer exist. LOL Lava! It was Lava! We had a family friend who had a screening business and that's what he kept in the kitchen sink to wash his hands with. Memory triggered! I forgot about cookie jars! We had a bunch of different ones because we kids were always getting into it and breaking it, lol. My mom would get so mad, she'd buy a really cute one and it wouldn't last long. Someone would knock the lid off the counter and boom, there it went. My mom still uses an electric percolater, it sits right next to the Keurig I bought her several years ago. She never uses it, only gets used when one of us kids goes over. |
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Post by hop2 on Dec 15, 2022 15:38:46 GMT
We also always had a real cookie jar on our counter with cookies in it. I haven't seen someone with a cookie jar in years. I had a cookie jar up until June this year when I moved. It had dog cookies in it but it was a cookie jar. |
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Post by Just T on Dec 15, 2022 15:43:20 GMT
Lava! It was Lava! We had a family friend who had a screening business and that's what he kept in the kitchen sink to wash his hands with. Memory triggered! YES! That was it! |
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Post by zztop11 on Dec 15, 2022 15:44:53 GMT
We had a bread box built in as one of the drawers in the kitchen. It was lined in metal with a metal pull-top before closing the drawer. My mother kept crackers and cookies in it. Bread was stored in the oven. (And yes, she did burn the bread more than once when forgetting to take it out.)
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Post by snyder on Dec 15, 2022 15:45:05 GMT
Colored Scotts brand toilet paper. Little individually wrapped rolls of colorful pink, blue or yellow tp. This reminds me when I was about 6, my mom was in the hospital and each of us kids went to stay with an aunt and uncle because dad had to work. The one aunt went to the same church as the aunt my sister was staying with. I was so amazed at the pretty light turquoise colored toothpaste my aunt had. I squirted some one some toilet tissue and took it to church to show my sister. lol Toothpaste normally was all white back then, so the introduction of color was awesome. I'm not sure if this was its original name, but we called it corn meal mush. It was corn masa in a rectagle loaf like a loaf of Velveeta cheese. Mom would slice it and fry it and we would drizzle syrup over it. Yum!
My fried had a cookie jar collection. About 120 she had all displayed on shelving in her dining area. My mom still has a cookie jar. Its clear glass so you can see the cookies in it. She keeps cookies for the great grand babies.
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Post by Just T on Dec 15, 2022 15:47:32 GMT
I had a cookie jar up until June this year when I moved. It had dog cookies in it but it was a cookie jar. I have a cookie jar I bought because it reminded me of my childhood. It is a big white squirrel. My hometown is a little town in Illinois that is famous for having true albino squirrels. My grandma used to sit in her yard and feed them out of her hand. When I saw the jar on West Elm website, I had to get it. I have never used it for cookies, though. I mostly use it as a vase. I'll take a picture of it and try to post it. |
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Post by greendragonlady on Dec 15, 2022 15:49:32 GMT
We had the lava soap, too!
Homemade granola. Big pickle crock with homemade pickles. We didn't have a lot of commercially available stuff as staples that I can recall.
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Post by lindas on Dec 15, 2022 15:49:48 GMT
“We also always had a real cookie jar on our counter with cookies in it. I haven't seen someone with a cookie jar in years.”
We did too and I still have one and use it. Mine is an owl that I got as a wedding gift, Hoot is 52 yrs old and still makes me smile seeing him on the counter.
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Post by Just T on Dec 15, 2022 15:51:28 GMT
Here is my cookie jar.  It has fake Christmas greenery at the moment, but most of the year, it has real flowers. |
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Post by oh yvonne on Dec 15, 2022 15:55:44 GMT
Colored Scotts brand toilet paper. Little individually wrapped rolls of colorful pink, blue or yellow tp. I'm not sure if this was its original name, but we called it corn meal mush. It was corn masa in a rectagle loaf like a loaf of Velveeta cheese. Mom would slice it and fry it and we would drizzle syrup over it. Yum!
My fried had a cookie jar collection. About 120 she had all displayed on shelving in her dining area. My mom still has a cookie jar. Its clear glass so you can see the cookies in it. She keeps cookies for the great grand babies.
omg I'm dyyyyyyying because this is something I would have done! My dad insisted on only Colgate toothpaste and we used to complain it 'burned'. All the other kids got to get that pretty turquoise toothpaste and I was sooo jealous! lol. The toilet tissue thing kills me thought, we had a neighbor who sold/collected Avon. She had her whole bathroom counter filled with those Avon perfume creams in pretty jars. I used to love to go into her bathroom, take a little swipe and dab it on a piece of toilet paper so I could go around smelling it. I was such a strange kid lol. |
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Post by oh yvonne on Dec 15, 2022 15:57:11 GMT
Here is my cookie jar. It has fake Christmas greenery at the moment, but most of the year, it has real flowers. oh gosh not only is that a super cute cookie jar, I love the way you staged it! Beautiful! |
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Post by Just T on Dec 15, 2022 15:59:15 GMT
The toilet tissue thing kills me thought, we had a neighbor who sold/collected Avon. She had her whole bathroom counter filled with those Avon perfume creams in pretty jars. I used to love to go into her bathroom, take a little swipe and dab it on a piece of toilet paper so I could go around smelling it. I was such a strange kid lol. OMG, I forgot about Avon EVERYTHING and EVERYWHERE! My mom and aunts collected these perfume bottles that looked like people. If that makes sense. Like women in fancy southern belle dresses, etc. The were all over my mom's dresser. To this day I hate dusting because one of my chores was dusting, and my mom's dresser full of all her fancy bottles was a nightmare. LOL |
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Post by Just T on Dec 15, 2022 16:00:16 GMT
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Post by oh yvonne on Dec 15, 2022 16:05:00 GMT
@just T girl, we could have an entire thread devoted to Avon alone! I remember the Small World doll bottles, but I think I kinda remember the ones you are describing. I remember once in that same neighbor's bathroom me and my friend were sniffing all the jars and her older brother walked in and caught us. He 'suggested' I stick my nose way in and REALLY smell it, cause it "smelled different that way" he claimed. Dummy me did that and he shoved my nose hard down into it and I literally sucked up that super perfumey cream up into my sinuses and I thought I was freaking going to die! It burned like Satan's fire and I think I even threw up. Scared her brother and he got in SOOO much trouble from the mom, lol. I never touched those creams after that.  |
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Post by crazy4scraps on Dec 15, 2022 16:07:13 GMT
Oh, I forgot about colored toilet paper! Yes, our toilet paper was always colored. We were also a Zest bar household. Also, my dad was a diesel mechanic, and we always had some bar soap that had gritty stuff in it. I can't remember what it was called, but it was in a red wrapper. I bought a bar of soap at a specialty shop a couple of years ago and a cute soap dish, and it lasted about 3 days before I got tired of the gloppy mess and tossed it. LOL We also always had a real cookie jar on our counter with cookies in it. I haven't seen someone with a cookie jar in years. Our coffee pot was a fancy shaped thing that was a percolator. It looked like a tall skinny tea kettle, that's the only way I can think of to describe it.  I'm surprised I can't think of more things at the moment. I grew up in the 60s and 70s, so there are lots of things that no longer exist. LOL My dad had that gritty soap with pumice in it too! Was it Lava soap? We never had a cookie jar at our house, my mom always kept cookies in a metal tin or in a metal coffee can. I have cookie jars both at home and at the cabin but they are just decorative. I also keep my cookies in either metal tins or in Tupperware or Rubbermaid containers. Yvonne’s comment on the hated cookie thread reminded me that my mom always put the pfeffernusse in the same reused coffee can that had cartoon zoo animals printed on the outside!  I remember my teenage siblings using a face cleanser called Physoderm that came in a green bottle and my dad used Brylcreem in his hair. I think every house had a soap dish with those tiny flower or shell shaped guest soaps that were usually rose or lilac scented in the bathroom but no one ever dared to use them, LOL. |
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Post by crazy4scraps on Dec 15, 2022 16:09:40 GMT
We had a bread box built in as one of the drawers in the kitchen. It was lined in metal with a metal pull-top before closing the drawer. My mother kept crackers and cookies in it. Bread was stored in the oven. (And yes, she did burn the bread more than once when forgetting to take it out.) We still have a countertop bread box! DH built it himself in wood shop in high school. I keep my Costco sized box of packs of gum and TicTacs in it, LOL. |
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Post by Linda on Dec 15, 2022 16:11:25 GMT
I don't think we tended to have staples at our house probably because we moved around so much (England to Germany to England to Cyprus to England to America) and what was available wasn't consistent place to place and once we moved here, my folks didn't have much money so they bought based on price mostly. I do remember the black and white label generic items from the grocery store - when we first moved my dad even drank generic beer. My Granny had pink toilet paper in her bathroom - her whole bathroom was pink. I do remember the Lava soap though - we did have a bar of that. And I still have my mum's cookie jar - it's a chimmey with a chimmey sweep and a stork nest. Oh Google found me a picture www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/vintage-chimney-sweep-cookie-jar-10-2-3542364369 |
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Post by lisacharlotte on Dec 15, 2022 16:12:20 GMT
Scott toilet tissue - I grew up in Los Angeles and everyone who got married had paper carnations strung on their car car. The paper flowers were made with Scott tp.
Percolators - were I discovered by love of coffee at around age 8. We used to put the coffee in our little toy tea pot and add tons of sugar and milk. Now I drink it black.
Wonderbread - when I was a kid that was expensive bread. My mom baked bread as it was cheaper. I always wanted soft Wonderbread.
Bread boxes - I remember built in bread boxes, but even more common were built in cutting boards. All sandwiches in our homes were made on that little cutting board sticking out from under the counter. They were even in apartments we lived in.
Little Avon lipstick samplers and the cream perfume in the little plastic brooches.
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Post by crazy4scraps on Dec 15, 2022 16:18:33 GMT
This reminds me when I was about 6, my mom was in the hospital and each of us kids went to stay with an aunt and uncle because dad had to work. The one aunt went to the same church as the aunt my sister was staying with. I was so amazed at the pretty light turquoise colored toothpaste my aunt had. I squirted some one some toilet tissue and took it to church to show my sister. lol Toothpaste normally was all white back then, so the introduction of color was awesome. I'm not sure if this was its original name, but we called it corn meal mush. It was corn masa in a rectagle loaf like a loaf of Velveeta cheese. Mom would slice it and fry it and we would drizzle syrup over it. Yum!
My fried had a cookie jar collection. About 120 she had all displayed on shelving in her dining area. My mom still has a cookie jar. Its clear glass so you can see the cookies in it. She keeps cookies for the great grand babies.
omg I'm dyyyyyyying because this is something I would have done! My dad insisted on only Colgate toothpaste and we used to complain it 'burned'. All the other kids got to get that pretty turquoise toothpaste and I was sooo jealous! lol. The toilet tissue thing kills me thought, we had a neighbor who sold/collected Avon. She had her whole bathroom counter filled with those Avon perfume creams in pretty jars. I used to love to go into her bathroom, take a little swipe and dab it on a piece of toilet paper so I could go around smelling it. I was such a strange kid lol. I was reading something somewhere about incentives for kids to behave in school (maybe it was in a thread on here) and some teachers would go around and rub scented lip balm on the back of the kids hands if they were behaving and reading quietly or whatever so the kids could smell it! And on the topic of Avon, remember those cute little shaped pins that had a little flip open spot that had solid perfume in them? I remember always wanting them because they were so adorable but the perfume always smelled so bad! Apparently those pins are still highly collectible and some go for crazy amounts of money in online auctions! |
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Post by workingclassdog on Dec 15, 2022 16:19:35 GMT
Wonder Bread for sure.. my dad actually worked for them. I don't know what he did but I can kinda remember having a freezer full of Ding Dongs and Twinkies. His once best friend (they met at work) retired from Hostess with a great pension.
We had a bunch of Avon bottles.. in fact my mom still has them in her guest bathroom.. the old fashion car (the one I can remember) and a few others.
Swanson's frozen dinners.. they came in the foil plate.. fish 'n sticks were the only ones I would eat. She would let us have those like on a Friday night... or maybe it was like once a week. My mom usually cooked and we rarely ate out.. so that was one of our guilty pleasure dinners. I think Totinos pizza was the other 'special' treat.
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Post by padresfan619 on Dec 15, 2022 16:24:46 GMT
Rice a roni was a staple. Still is in my home. I usually go grocery shopping on Tuesdays so Monday when the fridge is bare I always have a box of rice a roni in the pantry and frozen veggies to make a meal.
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Post by lindas on Dec 15, 2022 16:34:00 GMT
Rotary phones hanging on the wall in the kitchen with a10ft cord. Everyone had one and it was usually in that harvest gold color.
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Post by tentoes on Dec 15, 2022 16:34:06 GMT
I have a cookie jar--and have my dog biscuits in it. My dog loves that jar!
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Post by tentoes on Dec 15, 2022 16:37:15 GMT
How about "party lines"? We had one at our house growing up. You could tell when someone else was "listening in" on your phone call. And LONG DISTANCE calling. Remember having to talk fast so that 3 minutes wasn't wasted? When I first got married we had a party line==with 4 people on it. Our ring was 4--and we didn't get many calls, but when the phone would ring 3 times I started getting excited that someone may be calling!
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Post by katlady on Dec 15, 2022 16:40:56 GMT
Nesquik Chocolate milk powder
Sara Lee Chocolate cake (was sold frozen)
Ivory soap
Love Lemon Shampoo (this was my favorite)
Princess rotary phone in my parents room
Swanson frozen dinners
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Post by edie3 on Dec 15, 2022 17:19:32 GMT
We had a party line! And we kept our potato chips in a Charles Chips can, even if they were store bought chips. And we loved those beef pot pies from Swansons. I always wanted the multi packs of cereals, the little boxes, but we never got them.  |
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Post by smartypants71 on Dec 15, 2022 17:22:30 GMT
We were a Zest family! I hated that smell! All the women in our family had that stupid Tupperware pitcher with the button on top that released the suction. Half the time you pushed the button it just separated the lid.
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