Middle Aged Memories

I have a picture of my Mom going to a costume party dressed as the Morton Salt Girl. Love seeing those pictures!

I remember Kiddles - some  of the first pictures, didn't they have sort of a floral smell or am I imagining that. 

It might have already been done but every so often I will smell a smell and it totally brings back the smell of cooking creepy crawlers - even writing about them conjures up the smell. 

This also might have been done - but I was recently thinking about when my Mom would make spagetti she would bring out the old Mateus wine bottles with the staw on the bottom and the all the colorful wax we would let drip down the bottles. 

I also remember for a short time some company made these wonderful frozen cupcakes - there would be a variety of flavors like chocolate, lemon, orange, vanilla, strawberry, and carmel - maybe? 

Oh two other things, we used to eat something called Sandwitch spread. It came in this plastic tube (maybe oscar myer) and it had a distinctive taste with lots of pickles. We used to adore it. 

Then the other was Ideal cookies, I still dream about them. They were made my Nabisco with such thick rich dark chocolate and peanut butter - probably would cost about 20.00 a box now a days.... sigh. wonderful things..... 

I remember dripping wax on a Mateus bottle, like Stanzie wrote.  I bought two candles that were white, but had multi-colored wax on the insidem so with just those two, it ended up looking good.

Wow, both Ideal cookies and Sandwitch rings a bell, but I don't seem to have any personal experience with them.  Maybe just saw the marketing.  I think I had a Breakfast Square or two, tho'.

Before sugar was a bad word...................

I think they all changed to "Honey ______," but the sugar still there.  Tricky!

Its it funny how just the name of something or seeing the pictures just brings the memories flooding back. I remember the breakfast squares also, weren't they somewhat dry but the icing was sweet.

I also remember eating those push up frozen sweet tubes..... you can still get them they are long tubes filled basically with sugar water and sweet flavorings. I remember just loving them and wondering my Mom thought they were too sweet. Well blech I know understand.... loved Frosted Flakes but wow talk about sugar!!! 

 A friend brought some cupcakes for dessert from some fancy bakery and oh my gosh I couldn't eat them for all the sugar...... 

Have we talked about the Spirograph?  My favorite wheel was #52, hole 1 (If I remember right)

no picture for me Meece

I remember the clear Tupperware popycycle makers, but hope I don't still have them since my son is 41.  If they're still in the back of the cupboard, I am in need of more help from the "de cluttering" site than I thought.

Yes, Marybe,

Kool-aid popsicles with toothpicks, which always broke off from the weight.  Remember how hard it was to hold those toothpicks, even with our itty bitty hands?  Many times they'd end up on the sidewalk on their way to our mouths!

Does anyone remember making Boondoggles, those colorful woven cords we wove from long, thin plastic straps?  I can still remember the smell of the plastic and the beautiful colors.  Can't remember what we did with the cords.  We just wove on and on until we ran out of straps.  This would have been back in the mid-50's.

Lane

Did anyone have a ZIP chimpanzee stuffed animal?  I got one for my 6th birthday, and still have him, although his face is now covered with black sunspots from my leaving him in the sun.  But, then, I have the same problem, ha, ha!  I used to put diapers and other baby clothes on him.  His yellow shirt has a red ZIP.  I've lost his pants and his ears have been sewn back on a few times.  He has white plastic built-in boots.  He's now 56 years old.  My favorite toy of all time.

Good memories!

Lane

  I remember this red long spool like thing that had silver plastic nubs on it and you would weave a long cord like chain on it....but I don't know what it was called. it was really stretchy.  Did you ever make chains out of gum wrappers?....you would make a strip out of the wrapper first and kept folding it....sort of the same way you would do a situpon, but miniature in size.   I had one of those gum wrapper chains hanging up in my bed room.......also one made from pop tops, but that was much later and when I was into collecting beer bottles also.    Rolling Rock, Robin Hood Ale, Black Label, Black Cat, PBR,Little Kings.........my drunken college years made possible by 3.2 beer.