breetheflea
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Post by breetheflea on Feb 22, 2024 2:26:22 GMT
The board seems very slow, and I was inspired by some random video on Facebook... Pretend you are in grade school again: IMG_4980 by BreetheFlea, on Flickr I found these candy bars at Grocery Outlet for about $1.50 in January, fell in love, and now they aren't selling them anymore. I am not paying almost $6 (online) for a candy bar, but the two I had were really good. They look like a Kit Kat but taste more like a really good Hershey's with Almonds but a little bit saltier. Now it's your turn to share something.
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Post by katlady on Feb 22, 2024 2:34:54 GMT
breetheflea Dr. Bronner’s is actually a local company. They sell their chocolates at Sprouts. Unfortunately, the retail price is close to $6. ETA - I think it is weird that they make/sell chocolate because they are more well-known for soaps and cleaning products.
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Post by mom on Feb 22, 2024 2:35:05 GMT
This is kinda random, but I saw a Tik Tok of some dishes that were found at Goodwill that I absolutely loved and now I am trying to convince DH that I need the whole set. They are from Gumps San Francisco. Here's the Tik Tok I saw: link
And here is a close up of the plate that I found. linkI think they are so pretty and would look so good in my dining room.
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Post by dewryce on Feb 22, 2024 2:42:11 GMT
This is kinda random, but I saw a Tik Tok of some dishes that were found at Goodwill that I absolutely loved and now I am trying to convince DH that I need the whole set. They are from Gumps San Francisco. Here's the Tik Tok I saw: link
And here is a close up of the plate that I found. linkI think they are so pretty and would look so good in my dining room. If you can’t convince him the whole set is essential, you could just get enough plates and maybe accent plates or bowls to serve your immediate family.
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Post by peano on Feb 22, 2024 2:44:28 GMT
@breetheflea, is that chocolate made by the same guy who makes Dr. Bronner's soap? I'm part of a Facebook group called Generation Jones, which is for people who don't really identify with Baby Boomers. Gen Jones people were born 1954-1965. Somebody recently posted a photo of this toy called Creepy Crawlers. You had metal molds, neon colored goop that you poured into the molds, and then put in an oven. Once cooked, voila, you had spiders and centipedes and beetles and...Everyone in the group always commented that they always had burns all over their fingers from handling the hot metal molds. Awesome toy for a 7-year-old. link
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Post by Zee on Feb 22, 2024 2:47:44 GMT
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Post by mom on Feb 22, 2024 2:48:19 GMT
This is kinda random, but I saw a Tik Tok of some dishes that were found at Goodwill that I absolutely loved and now I am trying to convince DH that I need the whole set. They are from Gumps San Francisco. Here's the Tik Tok I saw: link
And here is a close up of the plate that I found. linkI think they are so pretty and would look so good in my dining room. If you can’t convince him the whole set is essential, you could just get enough plates and maybe accent plates or bowls to serve your immediate family. Thats my plan B....but Im starting with the whole set.
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Post by dewryce on Feb 22, 2024 2:50:52 GMT
Smart woman being all strategic
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Post by dewryce on Feb 22, 2024 2:52:17 GMT
@breetheflea, is that chocolate made by the same guy who makes Dr. Bronner's soap? I'm part of a Facebook group called Generation Jones, which is for people who don't really identify with Baby Boomers. Gen Jones people were born 1954-1965. Somebody recently posted a photo of this toy called Creepy Crawlers. You had metal molds, neon colored goop that you poured into the molds, and then put in an oven. Once cooked, voila, you had spiders and centipedes and beetles and...Everyone in the group always commented that they always had burns all over their fingers from handling the hot metal molds. Awesome toy for a 7-year-old. linkLike my generation’s Easy Bake Oven!
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Post by quiltz on Feb 22, 2024 2:52:29 GMT
peano Creepy crawlers were the bomb in elementary school. Yes, the finger burns but this was fun!
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Post by quiltz on Feb 22, 2024 2:56:49 GMT
Bugles - the salty corn based snack like Fritos.
They are not sold in Canada anymore so when I go to Buffalo, I head to Dollar General and buy some.
I used them to make *Santa hats* with my home-made nuts & bolts this year at Christmas.
I lightly dipped the round ends into melted white chocolate & then into tiny round decorating non-perils. Put a very tiny mini-marshmallow at the tip. They looked so cute in the mix.
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Post by katlady on Feb 22, 2024 2:57:11 GMT
@breetheflea, is that chocolate made by the same guy who makes Dr. Bronner's soap? I'm part of a Facebook group called Generation Jones, which is for people who don't really identify with Baby Boomers. Gen Jones people were born 1954-1965. Somebody recently posted a photo of this toy called Creepy Crawlers. You had metal molds, neon colored goop that you poured into the molds, and then put in an oven. Once cooked, voila, you had spiders and centipedes and beetles and...Everyone in the group always commented that they always had burns all over their fingers from handling the hot metal molds. Awesome toy for a 7-year-old. linkYes, the soap and the chocolate are the same company. As for the Creepy Crawlers, I had something similar, I can't remember the name. The metal plates brought back the memories. ETA - Here is the one I remember: linkAnd for anyone else old enough, a lot of the toys we had back then were made of real wood, not plastic like they are now ... Booby Trap, Lincoln Logs, Fischer Price Circus Wagon.
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Post by katlady on Feb 22, 2024 2:58:03 GMT
Like my generation’s Easy Bake Oven! My mom wouldn't let me have an Easy Bake Oven. I am older than you, and that thing has been around forever!
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breetheflea
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Post by breetheflea on Feb 22, 2024 3:03:08 GMT
breetheflea Dr. Bronner’s is actually a local company. They sell their chocolates at Sprouts. Unfortunately, the retail price is close to $6. ETA - I think it is weird that they make/sell chocolate because they are more well-known for soaps and cleaning products. The closest Sprouts to me if I'm looking at the right store is 173 miles away. I'm debating whether it's worth the drive. Grocery Outlet is a discount/clearance store, which is why they probably will never have them ever again
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Post by katlady on Feb 22, 2024 3:04:02 GMT
breetheflea Dr. Bronner’s is actually a local company. They sell their chocolates at Sprouts. Unfortunately, the retail price is close to $6. ETA - I think it is weird that they make/sell chocolate because they are more well-known for soaps and cleaning products. The closest Sprouts to me if I'm looking at the right store is 73 miles away. I'm debating whether it's worth the drive. Grocery Outlet is a discount/clearance store, which is why they probably will never have them ever again Yeah, we have Grocery Outlet here too.
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Post by Lexica on Feb 22, 2024 3:06:56 GMT
@breetheflea, is that chocolate made by the same guy who makes Dr. Bronner's soap? I'm part of a Facebook group called Generation Jones, which is for people who don't really identify with Baby Boomers. Gen Jones people were born 1954-1965. Somebody recently posted a photo of this toy called Creepy Crawlers. You had metal molds, neon colored goop that you poured into the molds, and then put in an oven. Once cooked, voila, you had spiders and centipedes and beetles and...Everyone in the group always commented that they always had burns all over their fingers from handling the hot metal molds. Awesome toy for a 7-year-old. linkI had one!
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Post by snyder on Feb 22, 2024 3:13:16 GMT
@breetheflea, is that chocolate made by the same guy who makes Dr. Bronner's soap? I'm part of a Facebook group called Generation Jones, which is for people who don't really identify with Baby Boomers. Gen Jones people were born 1954-1965. Somebody recently posted a photo of this toy called Creepy Crawlers. You had metal molds, neon colored goop that you poured into the molds, and then put in an oven. Once cooked, voila, you had spiders and centipedes and beetles and...Everyone in the group always commented that they always had burns all over their fingers from handling the hot metal molds. Awesome toy for a 7-year-old. linkWe had Creepy Crawler machines as kids. The one you linked is more "modern". lol The original one is the one that was really bad for burns. I think they quit making them because of the burn hazzard.
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Post by AussieMeg on Feb 22, 2024 3:16:10 GMT
I had been lamenting the fact that Nestle stopped making Banana Quik (or Nesquik) for many years. Every single time I went to the supermarket, I would check to see if by some miracle they'd brought it back. But every week I was disappointed, with only the strawberry or chocolate Quik sitting on the shelf. Then about a year ago, DD bought me a tub of it online, for the whopping price of $26! Since then I have found it in a lolly shop that specialises in international lollies / candy / cereal etc. It "only" costs $9, which is still a lot more than the strawberry and chocolate Quik from the supermarket.
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Post by dewryce on Feb 22, 2024 3:18:25 GMT
Like my generation’s Easy Bake Oven! My mom wouldn't let me have an Easy Bake Oven. I am older than you, and that thing has been around forever! I didn’t realize it had been around that long, or that we were different generations! Our parents were insane letting us use it unsupervised. Especially since 6 of us neighborhood kids got together to do it and you know things go topsy turvy with so many involved! Loved, loved, loved my Lincoln Logs and those wooden sticks/wheels used to form different shapes. Also, my thick plastic 3-piece Barbie Dream House with working windows, doors, closets and the pool with a working shower. Such good quality toys.
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Post by dewryce on Feb 22, 2024 3:20:04 GMT
I had been lamenting the fact that Nestle stopped making Banana Quik (or Nesquik) for many years. Every single time I went to the supermarket, I would check to see if by some miracle they'd brought it back. But every week I was disappointed, with only the strawberry or chocolate Quik sitting on the shelf. Then about a year ago, DD bought me a tub of it online, for the whopping price of $26! Since then I have found it in a lolly shop that specialises in international lollies / candy / cereal etc. It "only" costs $9, which is still a lot more than the strawberry and chocolate Quik from the supermarket. I should be happy DH doesn’t know this exists. Probably going to try and buy it for him.
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Post by peano on Feb 22, 2024 3:39:28 GMT
snyder, the oven in the article you linked was the one we had. And I remember that commercial!
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Feb 22, 2024 4:06:41 GMT
I had a co-worker who made chocolate covered potato chips to our sort of 'pot luck' at Christmas time. Problem is that most of us couldn't get in to share.. I did once and they were delightful!!
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Post by Zee on Feb 22, 2024 5:07:11 GMT
I had a co-worker who made chocolate covered potato chips to our sort of 'pot luck' at Christmas time. Problem is that most of us couldn't get in to share.. I did once and they were delightful!! I don't trust coworkers not to just melt chocolate chips and call it good. I'm picky about homemade chocolate covered treats, I admit it!
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Post by mikklynn on Feb 22, 2024 13:25:04 GMT
These are the roses I bought at Costco for myself. I love that my grandson likes when I buy flowers! 20240215_122252 by Mikk Lynn, on Flickr
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breetheflea
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Post by breetheflea on Feb 22, 2024 14:40:41 GMT
I never had an Easy Bake oven... I don't know if I've ever seen one outside of the shelf at the toy store. I had a Barbie house, that someone gave us, it had an elevator you raised and lowered with a string...
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Post by crazy4scraps on Feb 22, 2024 15:05:26 GMT
@breetheflea, is that chocolate made by the same guy who makes Dr. Bronner's soap? I'm part of a Facebook group called Generation Jones, which is for people who don't really identify with Baby Boomers. Gen Jones people were born 1954-1965. Somebody recently posted a photo of this toy called Creepy Crawlers. You had metal molds, neon colored goop that you poured into the molds, and then put in an oven. Once cooked, voila, you had spiders and centipedes and beetles and...Everyone in the group always commented that they always had burns all over their fingers from handling the hot metal molds. Awesome toy for a 7-year-old. linkI never had one of those toys but my friend did so I got to use it when we played at her house. You didn’t put the molds in an oven though, it was more like a mug warmer kind of setup. You put the filled mold on top of this thing that heated up and once the goop was cured you could pull the creepy crawlers out of the mold. I would imagine kids got burned by taking the hot mold off of the burner thing to replace it with another filled mold. I have much older siblings that are in that later Boomer generation and one of the toys I “inherited” from them was a Shrinky Dink Maker. Basically it was a little red plastic box with a clear hinged lid. It had a perforated nonstick panel inside that sat over a concealed lightbulb. You plugged the thing in and it would get hot enough to shrink the shrink film pieces that you stuck in the box and you could watch them wriggle around until they were fully shrunk. Of course we got burned with that thing too but it was fun and so much better than trying to hold down the little pieces that blow around when you try do shrink them with a heat tool. I don’t remember getting rid of it but I also don’t know where it went either. Sometimes I see videos on Instagram where people make cute jewelry with shrink plastic pieces they cover with resin.
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Post by ntsf on Feb 22, 2024 15:15:23 GMT
gumps closed a few years ago. it was in downtown san francisco for 150 yrs.
I am in that age group and never had easy bake oven or anything like that.
we did make lead soldiers in molds.. from my dad's childhood.. they were soldiers of ww 1
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Post by iowgirl on Feb 22, 2024 15:28:28 GMT
Bugles - the salty corn based snack like Fritos. I used them to make *Santa hats* with my home-made nuts & bolts this year at Christmas. Bugles are my favorite! I make "Bugle Dip" that goes so well with it. It is finely chopped cucumber (seeds removed), some garlic powder to taste, mixed into softened cream cheese. Super simple, but it's always requested in the summer! I have made the Santa Hat mix several times! This year I made Santa and Elves hats! I dipped some Bugles in Red candy coating and some in Green. The green were the Elf hats. I redipped the wide open end and then dipped the red ones in white Nonpareils and the green ones in red/white/green Nonpareils. I used tiny dehydrated marshmallows for the Pom on the tip. SO fun! Looked awesome in the mix along with Christmas M&M's.
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Post by **GypsyGirl** on Feb 22, 2024 15:47:29 GMT
mikklynn - Those roses are gorgeous! Enjoy! Like my generation’s Easy Bake Oven! I'm a good 20 years older than you I suspect and I had an Easy Bake oven. I was 7 when I got it for Christmas, so the second year they were out! Absolutely loved it and am convinced it sparked my love of baking. I was baking all sorts of cakes and goodies by the time I was in middle school. When DD was in grade school I got the newer version for her one Christmas. She enjoyed it but not to the extent that I did. My youngest sister got the Creepy Crawler maker for Christmas one year and the rest of us were quite envious. It was the coolest thing! I really don't have any memories of getting burned, but surely we must have? I'm part of a Facebook group called Generation Jones, which is for people who don't really identify with Baby Boomers. Gen Jones people were born 1954-1965. I find this very interesting that people born in the mid-50s don't identify as Baby Boomers. The ones born in the 60's I understand, but the entire 50's were in the middle of it all.
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Post by 3boysnme on Feb 22, 2024 16:01:23 GMT
I just looked. You can get them on Amazon for $13. Bit steep for potato chips even with chocolate, but I might have to give them a try! I used to eat Lay's chips and then take a bite out of a chocolate bar to mix them up in my mouth! LOL! 'Twas pretty good!
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