Topic: just thought i would show my latest purchases

[chopin-liszt]

My Dad used to get into the cinema for old jam jars.
(which he had to pinch from his mum's hoard - jam and marmalade were all home-made)
I think in older times (when LSD had a sterling meaning  , Paul), not just during rationing but long before, recycling was the norm rather than something "new", Paul.
Clothes, home-made in the first place, got mended, darned, patched, repaired and handed down; glass jugs and bits of pottery got stapled together; sheets were given the "sides-to-middling" treatment to make them last longer; table scraps were fed the pigs and chickens; folk chased along the road with a bag and shovel after horses; milk was delivered daily in glass bottles and the empties collected for reuse......
I had to take lemonade bottles back to the sweetie shop.

[steph]

 :24: :24: :24: I got arrowroot biscuits with the money earned on 'empties'.  I'm just indulging in the pleasant past-time of 'remembering that smell'.  I this case the beery tap-room smell that pervaded the Off-Sales cubby hole.  cheers steph

[rosieposie]

.................and Sue, the 'Rag & Bone' man would come round every week co collect all the old 'sides to middle' sheets that had then been made ito pillow cases, bandages and dusters...........then swapped for a goldfish in a jam jar that only lived a week until he came round again!!

We still get our milk in glass bottles, delivered 3 times a week and the used bottles are washed and left on the doorstep for collection.

Arrow root biscuits....ooooh Steph, now there's nostalgia!......whatever happened to Peek Freans Milk & Honey biscuits..the oval ones like a hoey Jammy Dodger?

[Trebor]

That reminds me of when my mum sent me to get a pummy stone off the rag and bone man  but i got a balloon instad and it burst so i went back and gave him my woolly jumper for a new one you can imagine what mum did .Still she never sent me again

[bubbles]

 
milk was delivered daily in glass bottles and the empties collected for reuse......

My milk is still delivered in glass bottles, (though only three times a week) and they take the empties back to reuse!!!