Re: Reply#73
OMG Gansky I love your story about your Grandma saving those plastic cups, washing and reusing them.
Your story reminds me of the baby sitter we had in the 50’s that used jelly glasses for her “good” drinking glasses. Remember how back in the day some manufactures, like Mary Ellen bottled jelly in jars that resembled glasses, same for Kraft with their cheese spreads, and chipped beef. The lids were pried off, rather than screw tops leaving a smooth edge for drinking glasses. Some even had painted designs on them.
Well, Mrs. Krenzer didn’t want us taking her precious jelly glasses outside for drinking while we were playing. So, she placed either a quart milk bottle or sometimes some used Shasta soda cans with the tops cut off with a can opener under the garden hose faucet that we were to use for refreshment. She babysat not only my siblings and I but at least 7 to 10 other kids at the same time too. I guess this was the 1950’s version of herd immunity, LOL!
When we told Mom about this she wasn’t happy about us drinking out of cans with sharp edges so she bought Mrs. Krenzer some cheap plastic cups to leave out at the backyard faucet, but we still drank out of the same “safer” plastic cups, that were never washed as far as I know.
Folks back then were not wasteful, very little conspicuous consumption. Maybe if we’d kept following some of these old time money savers the landfill and oceans wouldn’t be so polluted.
Eddie
OMG Gansky I love your story about your Grandma saving those plastic cups, washing and reusing them.
Your story reminds me of the baby sitter we had in the 50’s that used jelly glasses for her “good” drinking glasses. Remember how back in the day some manufactures, like Mary Ellen bottled jelly in jars that resembled glasses, same for Kraft with their cheese spreads, and chipped beef. The lids were pried off, rather than screw tops leaving a smooth edge for drinking glasses. Some even had painted designs on them.
Well, Mrs. Krenzer didn’t want us taking her precious jelly glasses outside for drinking while we were playing. So, she placed either a quart milk bottle or sometimes some used Shasta soda cans with the tops cut off with a can opener under the garden hose faucet that we were to use for refreshment. She babysat not only my siblings and I but at least 7 to 10 other kids at the same time too. I guess this was the 1950’s version of herd immunity, LOL!
When we told Mom about this she wasn’t happy about us drinking out of cans with sharp edges so she bought Mrs. Krenzer some cheap plastic cups to leave out at the backyard faucet, but we still drank out of the same “safer” plastic cups, that were never washed as far as I know.
Folks back then were not wasteful, very little conspicuous consumption. Maybe if we’d kept following some of these old time money savers the landfill and oceans wouldn’t be so polluted.
Eddie
