I also remember my mother and grandmother mixing food dye into the white margarine, and cream separating from the milk.
I also remember the US before the coup of 1963.
Wow. That brings me back.
Mom used to save the wax paper cereal was packed in (remember that?). She’d reuse it for plates when we ate lunch or wrap sandwiches for when dad and I would work all day away from home. She’d save the cardboard cereal boxes and use them for rainy day craft projects with us kids.
WHAT??? CUT UP CARDBOARD CEREAL BOXES… AND RUIN THE PARTIRDGE FAMILY, BEATLES, OR ACHIES RECORD THAT WAS PRINTED ON THE BACK???
Nope, my sister already had those snipped out. We spent hours sorting through those box tops, too. Betty Croker coupons or some such. And a grocery bag full of S&H Green Stamps and Gold Bond stamps. oh… I can taste the glue now.
same here. mom used waxed paper to wrap lunch for us .brown paper bags made book covers and all of it. but I think most people who lived thru the “fun 1930’s”
made the most out of everything they could. nothing was wasted like today.
we even kept short pencils for doing writing at home. dad had a few he kept for work. they didn’t break like the full size ones would.
I even have a old pill bottle of short pencils in my tool box for woodworking.
same thing with food. you did not waste it. now ?
like the “old folks” who lived next door when I was a kid. all of the banana peels and egg shells went into the garden. they chopped them up first and then worked them into the soil. and now a days, less than 1% of people today grow food ?
I remember my dad saving seeds and planting them again the next year.
he used to swap seeds with some of the neighbors as well.
but, hey. the way things are going today. we all going to have to relearn the old ways like that.
And the white paper the butcher wrapped the beef in
I well remember the day when an oz of marijuana was sold in waxpaper bags
Hey! What is all this “remember when” BS. I still do. Just yesterday, I had to get a new roll from the pantry because the kitchen roll ran out. I was stomping up hamburger patties with wax paper. And sandwiches are just easier to handle with it.
Homemade bread with peanut butter & homemade jelly wrapped in wax paper. And sometimes potatoes chips wrapped in a paper napkin. Heaven!
Along with a repurposed jelly jar full of ice cold milk.
Yup. I remember that.
I also remember Dad using soup cans to patch the muffler on his car. Baby food jars were used for hardware on the workbench. Margarine tubs were “Pauperware.” Of course, now we know that margarine was killing us; not saving us. Everything that COULD be re-used or re-purposed WAS re-used or re-purposed. TV’s, radios and appliances were REPAIRED when they broke. Somehow though, us old folks “ruined the world” for Gretta Thunberg… I bet she doesn’t even have the same cell phone she had when she cried “HOW DAYAH YEOU!!!”
We used wax paper three ways. The first use was for wrapping sandwiches and other foods. Then, we would put the wax paper hanging out of our back jean pockets and “wax” the slide on the playground every time we went down. I swear, we could get up to 1 MPH easy! And lastly, we would make what was left into water balloons because the water couldn’t soak through the paper (even though we had rubbed off most of the wax during the second usage!).
Man, those were the days!
Later on, as I got older, my brother and I would use wax paper as a substrate to glue our model airplanes wings and bodies together, it would let us use just about any surface as the glue (remember the old model airplane glue?!) wouldn’t stick to the wax… of course the surface had to accept the push pins we used to hold everything together while the glue dried!!
Memories. Memories.
I have an almost full roll of wax paper in my stash next to the AL foil. Haven’t used it in probably 20 years but it’s there if I need it.
All of the sandwiches Mom made for lunches to go were wrapped in wax paper, until plastic baggies for sandwiches came along.
When I went to grammar school, there was no cafeteria. You brought your lunch from home. No refrigeration either. Egg salad sandwiches. bologna and cheese, PB&J, what ever. No one ever got sick from their lunches. Some times there was no waxed paper. Mom used the wrapper the bread came in.
77 years old and still kicking.
and returnedd the wax paper for use the next day along with the brown paper bag it all came in.
The waxed paper, not so much. But, heaven help you if you didn’t make that paper bag last throughout the week!
We also used the bread bags for storage. Still do!
Igor, Serotonin is the word we were looking for, Dopamine and Serotonin… I must be getting Alzheimer..
Since I retired 10 years ago I’ve been substitute teaching. I still bring my lunch in a brown paper bag which is reused for weeks until I can’t repair it with scotch tape anymore. All of the full time teachers have fancy totes for their lunches.
I can afford new, I was just brought up that way. Dad worked two sometimes 3 jobs to make ends meet while mom raised three boys. Iron on patches on the dungarees (not jeans) and all that other stuff.
The sandwiches I take to work daily are wrapped in wax paper.
Remember the freezer paper? Waxed on one side (toward the food) and plain on the other (to write the contents and date wrapped). My parents bought meats on sale, wrapped family sized portions in freezer paper and marked them with grease pencil (china marker). No such thing as plastic wrap or the individual freezer packages back then.
Wax paper today is not what it used to be. Not much wax, might not even be wax.
I never got the wax paper sandwich wrapper. It was a paper towel or napkin and then wrapped with plastic cling wrap. Mostly pimento cheese and PB&J sandwich with a carrot, a piece of fruit, and a thermos of cold milk.
Moi.
I also remember my mother and grandmother mixing food dye into the white margarine, and cream separating from the milk.
I also remember the US before the coup of 1963.
Wow. That brings me back.
Mom used to save the wax paper cereal was packed in (remember that?). She’d reuse it for plates when we ate lunch or wrap sandwiches for when dad and I would work all day away from home. She’d save the cardboard cereal boxes and use them for rainy day craft projects with us kids.
WHAT??? CUT UP CARDBOARD CEREAL BOXES… AND RUIN THE PARTIRDGE FAMILY, BEATLES, OR ACHIES RECORD THAT WAS PRINTED ON THE BACK???
Nope, my sister already had those snipped out. We spent hours sorting through those box tops, too. Betty Croker coupons or some such. And a grocery bag full of S&H Green Stamps and Gold Bond stamps. oh… I can taste the glue now.
same here. mom used waxed paper to wrap lunch for us .brown paper bags made book covers and all of it. but I think most people who lived thru the “fun 1930’s”
made the most out of everything they could. nothing was wasted like today.
we even kept short pencils for doing writing at home. dad had a few he kept for work. they didn’t break like the full size ones would.
I even have a old pill bottle of short pencils in my tool box for woodworking.
same thing with food. you did not waste it. now ?
like the “old folks” who lived next door when I was a kid. all of the banana peels and egg shells went into the garden. they chopped them up first and then worked them into the soil. and now a days, less than 1% of people today grow food ?
I remember my dad saving seeds and planting them again the next year.
he used to swap seeds with some of the neighbors as well.
but, hey. the way things are going today. we all going to have to relearn the old ways like that.
And the white paper the butcher wrapped the beef in
I well remember the day when an oz of marijuana was sold in waxpaper bags
Hey! What is all this “remember when” BS. I still do. Just yesterday, I had to get a new roll from the pantry because the kitchen roll ran out. I was stomping up hamburger patties with wax paper. And sandwiches are just easier to handle with it.
Homemade bread with peanut butter & homemade jelly wrapped in wax paper. And sometimes potatoes chips wrapped in a paper napkin. Heaven!
Along with a repurposed jelly jar full of ice cold milk.
Yup. I remember that.
I also remember Dad using soup cans to patch the muffler on his car. Baby food jars were used for hardware on the workbench. Margarine tubs were “Pauperware.” Of course, now we know that margarine was killing us; not saving us. Everything that COULD be re-used or re-purposed WAS re-used or re-purposed. TV’s, radios and appliances were REPAIRED when they broke. Somehow though, us old folks “ruined the world” for Gretta Thunberg… I bet she doesn’t even have the same cell phone she had when she cried “HOW DAYAH YEOU!!!”
We used wax paper three ways. The first use was for wrapping sandwiches and other foods. Then, we would put the wax paper hanging out of our back jean pockets and “wax” the slide on the playground every time we went down. I swear, we could get up to 1 MPH easy! And lastly, we would make what was left into water balloons because the water couldn’t soak through the paper (even though we had rubbed off most of the wax during the second usage!).
Man, those were the days!
Later on, as I got older, my brother and I would use wax paper as a substrate to glue our model airplanes wings and bodies together, it would let us use just about any surface as the glue (remember the old model airplane glue?!) wouldn’t stick to the wax… of course the surface had to accept the push pins we used to hold everything together while the glue dried!!
Memories. Memories.
I have an almost full roll of wax paper in my stash next to the AL foil. Haven’t used it in probably 20 years but it’s there if I need it.
All of the sandwiches Mom made for lunches to go were wrapped in wax paper, until plastic baggies for sandwiches came along.
When I went to grammar school, there was no cafeteria. You brought your lunch from home. No refrigeration either. Egg salad sandwiches. bologna and cheese, PB&J, what ever. No one ever got sick from their lunches. Some times there was no waxed paper. Mom used the wrapper the bread came in.
77 years old and still kicking.
and returnedd the wax paper for use the next day along with the brown paper bag it all came in.
The waxed paper, not so much. But, heaven help you if you didn’t make that paper bag last throughout the week!
We also used the bread bags for storage. Still do!
Igor, Serotonin is the word we were looking for, Dopamine and Serotonin… I must be getting Alzheimer..
Since I retired 10 years ago I’ve been substitute teaching. I still bring my lunch in a brown paper bag which is reused for weeks until I can’t repair it with scotch tape anymore. All of the full time teachers have fancy totes for their lunches.
I can afford new, I was just brought up that way. Dad worked two sometimes 3 jobs to make ends meet while mom raised three boys. Iron on patches on the dungarees (not jeans) and all that other stuff.
The sandwiches I take to work daily are wrapped in wax paper.
Remember the freezer paper? Waxed on one side (toward the food) and plain on the other (to write the contents and date wrapped). My parents bought meats on sale, wrapped family sized portions in freezer paper and marked them with grease pencil (china marker). No such thing as plastic wrap or the individual freezer packages back then.
Wax paper today is not what it used to be. Not much wax, might not even be wax.
I never got the wax paper sandwich wrapper. It was a paper towel or napkin and then wrapped with plastic cling wrap. Mostly pimento cheese and PB&J sandwich with a carrot, a piece of fruit, and a thermos of cold milk.