Middle Aged Memories

Something that fascinated me as a little kid were those baby bottles you could get for a doll, where the milk would flow into the sides and it would look like the doll was drinking and the bottle was getting empty.  I have to say I like the fake drinking much better than the actual wetting that some dolls did!

Another think that popped into my head today...

Remember "reinforcements?"  That's the name I knew them by.  They were those little round circle things with adhesive on the back that you could stick over the holes of your loose leaf paper to prevent it from ripping, or repair it if it already had.  

At first they looked more like canvas, but got to a thin, cheap paper quality over the years.  That adhesive flavor was nasty.  I started every school year with a while box of them, then decorated my binder with them, made reinforcement jewelry, put them on my gym shoes, stuck them on top of mosquito bites, etc.; pretty much everything but what they were meant to do. 

I remember them, too.  But you know what memorie you jogged for me?  Licking things (other then envelopes) to activate their adhessive!  Stars or stickers to place on a school paper for a job well done, postage stamps, Book plates to identify YOUR books, labels for files (after you TYPED on them).  And I am sure, given enough time, I could think of more.

In my stamp collection, I have the first self adhessive stamp issued.  It was something special back then.  Now I challenge you to buy a new postage stamp that doesn't self-affix.

ELIMAR AND MEECE CAN PASS DOWN LOTS OF TRIVIA TO THE YOUTH OF TODAY, and they would just roll their eyes!

NM....blue laws were also in the midwest and I think west of the mississippi as well....and I so remember vending machings with the pull handle/knobs....what about coke machines with little bottles that came out of a door.....and speaking of gas stations...who remembers 33 cents/gal!!!....and hole reinforcers...I think my 24 year old daughter used them in high school or college...

It is already over 3 here, and we live right in the middle of the oilfields and refineries!

There was also Gulf, I don't remember their logo.

Once I had my own kids, it was always fun to find out that something from my own childhood was still available (at the toy store, or wherever.)  I got them a giant bubble wand one time, 'cause I loved making those as a kid.

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Speaking of bubbles, remember SuperElasticBubblePlastic?  I only got that one time as a kid.  My mom thought it smelled funny, like airplane glue, and it didn't say non-toxic on the package.  My neighbor's parents weren't as cautious.  Hee-hee.

I bought super elestic bubble plastic for my boys several years back, and we all had fun making the bubbles!  In fact, if I went out to the garage, I could probably walk right to a tube of the stuff!  

Oh, the bubble pipes, the bubbles never went up, they just dribbled down your chin and the front of your clothes!

Meece....I remember that...it was out when I was a kid (and that was back in the dark ages!!)

We don't have White Castles here, but you can find their burgers in the frozen food section once in awhille.  Their burgers were the first recipe I ever found that was a "Copy Cat" recipe.  I made it many years ago, and if I matched the flavor...I wish we did have them here. Yummy!

As I recall, you put the minced onions on the grill and laid the burger patty over them to cook.  It was yummy!

I vaguely remember putting a lid over them in a skillet.  I haven't seen you around in awhile, Patmom!