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LOL. I hoard toilet paper and keep a goodly supply in my basement. About eighteen months ago I found some Charmin on sale and took it to the basement, setting it beside the older packages. I noticed the new packages were shorter than the old ones. They had made the width of the strips narrower but kept the same number of sheet on a roll, leaving the diameter the same. About the same time Cottonelle made their rolls with fewer sheets but kept the same width and their rolls were smaller in diameter
About a month ago I found a really nice pair of well tailored, women's slacks in a thrift store made with a tightly woven polyester gabardine fabric. There were double pleats in the front and elastic in the back allowing the slacks to fit loosely around the abdomen and hips and the pockets were a full 10 inches deep. They were probably 20 years old as it is almost impossible to find women's slacks made like this today. Today they are made to fit tightly around the waist and abdomen (men's slacks, too) except for slacks (and jeans) with a full elastic waist. I haven't seen a tightly woven gabardine in years and pockets are about 6 inches deep.
Those are the VFW Bingo Slacks... for Tuesday afternoon Bingo.. Comfortable and ready for the Early Bird Menu .. Remember the men's slacks with the adjustable waist band inside behind the belt loops..
Those are the VFW Bingo Slacks... for Tuesday afternoon Bingo.. Comfortable and ready for the Early Bird Menu .. Remember the men's slacks with the adjustable waist band inside behind the belt loops..
LOL. Most of the "bingo ladies" I know today wear knits with elastic waistbands.
I'm so old I remember when our neighbor ̶̶ a milkman ̶̶ was given a brand new truck by his dairy to replace his horse-drawn cart. He permanently parked the cart in front of his house, and we had great fun pretending that it was a stagecoach. Don't know what became of the horse, although we only lived a few miles away from the Chicago stockyards.
I also remember when I became a milkman. We had three shifts: 4:00, 4:15, and 4:30 in the morning. If you caught the last shift the ice was dirty from the rust on the bottom of the ice machine, and you had to wipe every bottle before delivery. Nothing beat an ice cold bottle of chocolate milk on a hot day, though. (OK, maybe you beer drinkers would object.) My customers preferred fruit punch, which was sold at a very fair price of 35¢ per gallon.
When we finally received refrigerated trucks it took awhile to become accustomed to the long, electric cord that plugged into a receptacle at night. We would often drive down the street dragging this pigtail behind, and sometimes even the receptacle.
I really liked our milkman. Well, both of them. I only saw him about twice a year when I woke up early. Grandma was usually the first one up.
I remember the "Metrecal For Lunch Bunch". Metrecal was the original liquid meal substitute. It started out as a high protein, high energy, condensed liquid nutritional supplement for elderly and hospitalized patients, like Ensure but evolved to a meal replacement for dieters. It was the forerunner of Slim Fast and other liquid meal replacement supplements.
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Remember the men's slacks with the adjustable waist band inside behind the belt loops..
