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Re:#80 In 1971 $419.95 was a helluva lot of do-ray-me for a TV when you consider that min wage was $1.60 per hr. this TV would have cost a min wage worker 256 hrs. of work! Today TV’s are relatively inexpensive in comparison. My family had a ‘69 Sears 19” color TV that was very similar to...

That’s a real nice ‘87 Ford Ranger, looks almost like new. I owned a 2002 Ranger Super Cab that I bought new. It had a V-6 and automatic trans. I’d read that these Rangers had governors on the engine. And once while driving to LA on Hwy 5 I found out first hand about the governor on the...

“Still in all homeless people are taking them moreso than ever” Well if it only costs a homeless person a quarter to unlock a shopping cart that they can then take off the property and use for the storage and transport of pretty much all of their worldly possessions that’s a small price to pay...

Regardless if it’s only a deposit it’s still an unnecessary nuisance. Many people these days pay for most everything with a card and don’t have change in their pocket or purse. Plus, when the cart is returned is there an attendant that dispenses the refund, or is there an automated process...

The very idea of a store charging the customer to use a grocery cart is preposterous! For cryin’ out loud every week I load up a cart at Target with $100 to $120 worth of groceries and other merchandise! If they expect a quarter to use the freakin’ cart they can keep their GD merchandise and...

Dan, Thanks for posting this, it was interesting. My paternal grandma still made Lye soap when I was a kid in the 50’s and early 60’s. It was brown and she used it for house cleaning. There’s a family story about how my Dad was burned by lye when he was a toddler. At the time grandma used...

Barkeepers Friend works great for polishing Stainless Steel. You might want to try it on a small area and see if that does the trick. Eddie

Re:#9 I too agree with Pete! You really only need a couple of basic cycles on any washer along with the ability to select different temps, an extra rinse if desired and an extended wash time for heavier soiled loads. All the rest of the multitude of cycles offered on many of todays washers...

Ryne, I'm really sorry that your Whirlpool has crapped out. But I read somewhere at least 5 years ago (maybe in the Maytag FAQ’s online, not sure) that sometimes unusual operation problems can be remedied by running a Clean Washer cycle. According to what I read this cycle recalibrates the...

RE:#53 “Another thing too is you couldn’t be on the phone and internet at the same time since dialup instead was still the norm 19 to 20 years ago.” Oh how I remember this! It was terrible just trying to get a connection to the internet in the first place on Dial Up, and then frequently you’d...

Re:#49 Hydrox chocolate sandwich cookies are way better than Oreo’s. The filling in the Hydrox cookies is what makes them better than Oreo’s, not as greasy. When I was growing up we never had Oreo’s in our home, but my Mom bought Hydrox cookies regularly. I haven’t seen Hydrox cookies in a...

Pete, That’s a spot on description of these so called informative You Tube videos done by AI. A good 50% of the info is BS. Eddie

Here’s the finished dinner ready to serve. Eddie

I have everything ready to go. The turkey breast will go into the oven at 12:30pm. Yesterday I baked the Apple Pie and prepared the Yam casserole and dressing which will only need to be placed into the oven finish heating while the turkey breast rests before carving and while I make the gravy...

We’ve been using a Sunbeam Heated Mattress pad on our Cal King bed for 4 years with no problems whatsoever. The control can be programed to turn off the electricity after 10 hours. It never over heats and it keeps us both nice and warm, especially David’s feet which are prone to getting cold...

You can place your topper over the heated mattress pad Mark, but you won’t get nearly as much warmth from the heated pad if you do so. I know this from personal experience. We get much better and even warmth from our Sunbeam Heated Mattress pad by not covering it with the regular mattress pad...

I’ll second that thought Tim! An alarm clock going off is one of the WORST sounds in the world. Eddie

Re:#’s 18 and 23 Looks like a stray Kleenex or two made its way into that load of towels. And the filter looks like it needs a good cleaning too. Both would be user errors. Eddie

I guess I just always go against the popular opinion on washing machines. Back in ‘87 when we purchased our excellent White Westinghouse FL set Consumer Reports gave them mediocre at best reviews. Most people had very negative viewpoints on FL’s, TL’s were King like Robert said. We had 7...

If they still built front loaders like they used to when this POD ad was produced I’d still be buying an FL whenever I needed a replacement. I’m not ignorant! I don’t like the new FL’s that take an hour or more to complete a load. And I really don’t like the temperamental spin cycles that...