Middle Aged Memories
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No, it was not Harriet Tubman!
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Yes, the Harriette Carter catalog, I think. My mom let me order from Spencers once, I think. I was in a Dr. Waiting room with DS a couple of months ago and there was a HC catalog. We had fun passing the time looking at those "must have" items.
I think of dickies every time I watch Big Bang.
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Ding, ding, ding! That's it.
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This one is from the Harriet Carter online catelog:
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That Fingerhut is way too modern. The Spencer Gifts...pretty sure I flipped thru that exact one oh so many years ago!
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Sorry about the poor quality.
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That is certainly vintage...but I must be wrong about the Fingerhut catalog then. I thought it was one of the "gift" catalogs with the wild and crazy items, like Spencers & Harriet Carter. ???
Also, remember the redemption catalogs for the "S&H green stamps" and "gold bell stamps" (there was a red kind too???) That wasn't mail order (for us, anyway.) There was a redemption center a couple miles from home. I got a tennis racquet. Good quality and I still have it. My mom got a wall clock. Anyone else?
Remember when actual things came free in big detergent boxes? I remember bath towels. I think the detergent was called Breeze.
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I have a couple of lovely cobalt blue Depression glass measuring jugs that our elderly neighbour where I grew up got from the Corn Flakes box in the 50's.
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Eli: I think the first catalog I ordered from was Miles Kimball. Now I love Vermont Country Store. Yes, I saved green stamps & gold strike stamps. I got my first "good" watch with green stamps - a Longine Whittnauer - and it still works. Geez - almost 50 years ago. Hope it's OK to jump in. I've mostly been lurking for some time.
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Miles Kimball! How could i have forgotten that? Perused many a mailing of that one. (We'll see if NativeM can hunt one of those down.) Vermont Country Store is newer isn't it, specializing in some of the retro stuff? I wonder if I might like getting on their mailing list?
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Have spent the past couple of hours off/on reading from page 50 on but only to page 55.
Eli - All My Children is coming back online as well as One Life to Live. I confess to being a soap addict though with SoapNet not so bad and not so much as to interrupt daily life to watch. But if I'm home they're on. But I do so miss my As The World Turns. It was my dear GM's favorite.
I personally don't remember getting stuff in detergent boxes. I think by the time I was on my own in 1974 that had stopped. Did get a bunch of towels when we first moved here with purchases from local grocery.
I occasionally still get a Fingerhut catalog. There's always Lillian Vernon and Carol Wright, too.
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Yup, those other two catalogs also ring a bell with me. Gosh! How many were there? That's five already, not counting Fingerhut!
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OUt here we had S&H green stamps and Blue Chip Stamps. S & H closed when I was a child, but I was collecting Blue chip up until my first baby was born. I redeemed my last ones on a busy box for his crib.
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Elimar--I remember Mom collecting S&H Green Stamps. The redemption place was an hour's drive away, it was a big deal to go get something. I don't remember what she got with them.
Minus Two--I live the Vermont Country Store. I've actually been in it once or twice, maybe I'll take another road trip and visit it again someday. It's a neat place! Miles Kimball is another fun catalog!
Elimar--The VCS catalog is fun to get and look through. They also sell online.
Luvmygoats--I remember Mom getting dishes and cookware from the local grocery store, one item was free if you bought so much worth of groceries, one item was on sale every week or so. Took a while to get a whole collection that way.
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Native: Thanks for the Vermont Country Store picts. Reading their catalog is like a trip down memory lane - and our parents memory lane too. Can you post a link here so everyone can get a catalog mailed? Oh yes - on line is OK, but there's nothing like piling up in bed with a new VCS catalog.
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Thought you all might like this quote from a story of two women talking about their Junior High slumber parties: "...But eventually the wonder of it faded, and the memory, like the albums and fan magazines, was packed away in tissue paper in the closet of her youth...".
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So my "youth closet" is a fabulous roomy walk-in closet. My "now closet" is one of those metal clothes poles you see at yard sales that hold a very minimal amount of stuff!
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I hope y'all don't mind me popping in, but OMG Joni, I do the same thing! I'm so ashamed, but at least I have some company who is not quite crazy, right?
My closets have all my cute clothes but I feel like they're full of spiders so every single thing needs to be washed before I can try it on. It's just a huge job. I finally ran out of room to hang my clothes, so I bought some of those poles. I tell my friends I'm planning a yard sale, haha.
About reading books when you were a kid - our school had a Scholastic Book Sale every month and I loved to get those. My favorites were Pippi Longstocking and books about the sea and fish. I wanted to be an oceanographer like Jacques Cousteau!
I remember one of the things my mother bought with our S&H Green Stamps was one of those starburst clocks. When we had a garage sale about 15 years ago, the hipsters were buying all of our vintage stuff up. A giant painting of a matador (Spanish themed living room with gold sculpted carpet, some crossed swords, matching red velvet 60's style chairs, a red stereo and a gold patterned sofa - cool!) We also sold one of those floor-to-ceiling lamps that had three adjustable cone-shaped lightshades.
Uh, I think the prednisone is keeping me up...
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I'm going to see if I can fit all that into my metaphor closet.
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Remember Glowworm?
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I had one for my eldest but the hat was purple striped. I thought of it just the other day when I found my grnadson's "Glow Seahorse".
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Even as a kid, I loved old cartoons. This was vintage by the time I saw it, but I thought I would share one of my favorites and you will probably remember it too. Great opening song, another great song in the story AND "Am-scray Angel-puss!" What's not to love!
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Eli - I've had this open all day and just watched the video. I forgot how cute that was. I think I'll have to watch the others listed on the side.
DD had a glowworm but I think she was afraid of it.
Saw an ad today for Crayola chalk 24 colors. We were lucky to have white as a kid.
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Eli - Little Lulu was great. Thanks for the link.
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Isn't that the one that came with a flavorless white candy stick to lick and stick into the powder?
Yesterday I was in my backyard, near where my DH takes boxes from storage that I have emptied, some with things from my childhood. Anyway I looked down and there was a tiny doll shoe in the dirt. I immediately recognized it as a shoe from a doll I got in first or second grade. You moved here arm up and down and her head and waist twisted.
Her name was Dawn and the shoe is about 1/2 in long. How could I remember that so quickly, since the doll was long gone 40+ years ago?0 -
This is a hoot! Haven't thought about dawn in years! Believe that mine came with stage and she was a dancer!
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Yes, to the white stick, Meece.
The Dawn doll had some serious eyeliner!
I mentioned those wax lips on another thread, but also here are the "wax bottles" otherwise known as Nik-L-Nips. Classic!
Don't you just remember the flavors of these things? Nothing else tasted quite like them.
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We raided my Mom's jello boxes - poured the 'powder' in our palms & licked. No cost thrills.
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