Somethings have NOT improved with time...

Yeah, like this week-end when I discovered my thinning white hair with it's new cheeky-haircut was a "sun-magnet" and I have a sunburned head..and my ear-tops. How silly is that?

And it really hurts..

How does Charles Barkley do it? Does he not go out in the sun? And he's so much closer to it than I am.. Maybe that's why all those bikers wear "do-rags" huh?


Thought when you think abut it, do-rags are not going to much help if you crash..Hmmm...

And pans.

We spent a lot of money on some pretty good pans. And Mr. B is pretty particular about not
putting them in the dishwasher..

But they are not holding up like they should. I remember my Mother having the same old pots & pans my whole life (so far) when I was a kid.

And I'm more than certain Daddy didn't spend very much money on them. As a matter of fact, Mother probably got them at the "supermarket" on the weekly plan...or with her S&H Green Stamps.

Remember those? I used to help her. There were some Blue ones as well, but I can't remember what they were called. Were the blue ones called Blue Chip stamps? Somehow that sounds familiar...{Update! Yes they were! Lookie what I found.....}


I remember saving the books, putting rubber bands around them and finally, finally having enough for the item, whatever it was......

........probably pans.


Some supermarkets offered double stamps on certain days..


We used to get one plate at a time at the supermarket...then it was encyclopedias..I never got a whole set..I think I had the first three of 3 different ones. I never quite got to the LMN's..it was always A ~D, E ~H and I ~ K..

I don't think houses have gotten better either. I mean, I can drive past an empty lot and one week later there's a house. I've seen them in the building stages and it looks like toothpicks and paper mache if you ask me.

When Daddy was a carpenter, it would take quite a while to build a house, but it was sturdy. Plumb, straight and level too. Built to last.

And TV's? OK OK they were smaller (in screen size) and much huger in sheer girth, but when a tube went out, you didn't just go out an buy another whole TV....you took it to the TV repair person-guy and he fixed it...
Your radio too. Every town had a "Small Appliance Repair" shop - those are all but extinct.


Geeze, I'm getting old..carrying on about the "good old days"..

Maybe with our sad economic situation, we will go back to "repair, reuse and recycle"..

I kinda hope so. I think it'd be great to have my toaster fixed. You know, the one that's made out of real metal..not plastic??

Well, one thing that I'm glad we get all the time - a new day. And tomorrow is one of those..so make it special and do something remarkable...like fixing something instead of buying new...and ask you grocer about those S&H Green Stamps...

-me