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During the summer our thermostat is off most of the time. We don’t have AC, the heat is electric and our home is all electric. During the first 2 weeks of June I had to put the heat on for about an hour or two downstairs on a few of the colder mornings. We have fans in every room to keep the...

Back in the olden days when dinosaurs still roamed the earth and I left my parents home at the age of 19 in ‘70 I couldn’t afford a telephone for the first year on my own. So I used telephone booths to call home once a week, 45 cents for the first three mins. I always used the phone booths at...

If you’ve ever been in the home of a long time heavy smoker that they’ve lived in for many years you’ll notice that everything is covered with the patina of exhaled tobacco smoke which contains both tar and nicotine. The walls will have a deep yellow-brownish tinge and so will the window...

My grandma used to make homemade soap in the 50’s and early 60’s when I was a kid. She used cooking fat and grease that she’d saved, rendered it down, strained out the impurities and mixed it with lye. Then she would pour it into shallow pans lined with wax paper and allow the soap to cool and...

I remember my Mom using Pride liquid furniture wax very well. It smelled like gasoline to me. Eddie

Mariposa, My very first washing machine was a Maytag model J that I bought at the Salvation Army Thrift Store in ‘72 for $35.00. It had a pump and I used to use it in the bathroom which had a ball and claw bathtub in which I would wring the washed laundry into and used a broom handle to swirl...

I had an RCA 45 record changer/player like this one without the carrying case when I was in 7th and 8th grade. It had belonged to my grandpa originally. At Christmas time he used to play Christmas records on it that went through a speaker that was over the front door. Once on Christmas Eve a...

I’ll bet she did too! Eddie

No it’s not just you Launderess, I’ve noticed this too. Also lots of member names that I don’t recognize that have been members for years according to their profiles? Eddie

I agree with parunner58 about using Bon Ami powder, they also make a liquid formula of Bon Ami. If any of those stains are due to burned on grease a razor blade can be effective in scraping it off too. The secret to keeping a ceramic top stove clean is to wipe it of thoroughly EVERY time you...

When I was a telephone operator in the mid to late 70’s I worked as a Toll operator for the last year there. We each worked a 8 pair cord switchboard and we occasionally got “Mobile Calls” from people on car phones like in the ad. I remember once an older operator next to me telling the...

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Louie, I just looked at the ad that you posted today and it looked pretty clear to me and I’m viewing it on an iPad. The print was legible for me. Eddie

Ditto here Louis! Both are clear as a bell on my iPad too. Thanks Alan for incorporating both of these well liked features to the new AW format! You are really doing an impressive job with this website and its much appreciated that you are listening to our members just like Robert did before...

Matt, I believe that you just need to click on “view thread” directly below the post in all the jumbled words and all the photos in the thread can be viewed. They don’t automatically come up like they used to, but all the photos seem to be crystal clear. Eddie