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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 20810" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>mstang, lots of people where I live STILL use wood heat! In fact, up until three years ago, the house I lived in had just a wood stove for heat! If you have wooded land and a way to cut and haul the wood, it's a free source of heat in the winter. It's also a heck of a lot of work, really messy, and a general PITA! I hated it, and it scared me to death! But still, when the power was off for a week after an ice storm, we were still warm!</p><p></p><p>Is there even still such a thing as "penny candy"? I doubt it. We LOVED it! Where I grew up in St. Louis, there was a small store by our house and the lady who ran it had probably thirty kinds of candy in big glass jars. Thinking back on it now, I don't know how she ever had the patience ... I'd take fifteen minutes deciding how to spend a dime, then when she have it all counted out in the little brown bag, I'd change my mind and she'd have to start all over again! Then my brother would start picking out his! And a lot of times we didn't have actual money to pay for the candy - we'd bring in dirty old Coke bottles for the deposit and take out our "proceeds" in penny candy. The woman was a real saint!</p><p></p><p>Today anybody giving their kids little candy cigarettes would probably get reported to CPS, but we loved them! They came in that cute little box, and we felt so <em>grown up</em>! Pitiful, ain't it! We had the little wax "Coke" bottles with the sickly sweet stuff inside them, and the flat, dried up bubble gum that had a real baseball card inside the pack. And around Halloween there were the big red wax lips and the black licorice-flavored moustaches that you'd play with for a while and then chew like gum. We thought we were hysterically funny with those big red lips on! And those brown and white striped things with the peanut butter stuff inside, and the "root beer barrels". Remember them??</p><p></p><p>I once tried explaining to my kids about the candy "dots" on the strips of paper and they looked at me like I had suddenly sprouted antenneas on my head! I don't know what their real name was, but we just called them "dots". The lady at the store would tear you off a strip about a foot long for a penny, or if she liked you, it might be a few inches longer! We LOVED them and they kept us busy for hours gnawing them off the paper. And if some of the paper was stuck on them, you ate that too!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 20810, member: 1883"] mstang, lots of people where I live STILL use wood heat! In fact, up until three years ago, the house I lived in had just a wood stove for heat! If you have wooded land and a way to cut and haul the wood, it's a free source of heat in the winter. It's also a heck of a lot of work, really messy, and a general PITA! I hated it, and it scared me to death! But still, when the power was off for a week after an ice storm, we were still warm! Is there even still such a thing as "penny candy"? I doubt it. We LOVED it! Where I grew up in St. Louis, there was a small store by our house and the lady who ran it had probably thirty kinds of candy in big glass jars. Thinking back on it now, I don't know how she ever had the patience ... I'd take fifteen minutes deciding how to spend a dime, then when she have it all counted out in the little brown bag, I'd change my mind and she'd have to start all over again! Then my brother would start picking out his! And a lot of times we didn't have actual money to pay for the candy - we'd bring in dirty old Coke bottles for the deposit and take out our "proceeds" in penny candy. The woman was a real saint! Today anybody giving their kids little candy cigarettes would probably get reported to CPS, but we loved them! They came in that cute little box, and we felt so [i]grown up[/i]! Pitiful, ain't it! We had the little wax "Coke" bottles with the sickly sweet stuff inside them, and the flat, dried up bubble gum that had a real baseball card inside the pack. And around Halloween there were the big red wax lips and the black licorice-flavored moustaches that you'd play with for a while and then chew like gum. We thought we were hysterically funny with those big red lips on! And those brown and white striped things with the peanut butter stuff inside, and the "root beer barrels". Remember them?? I once tried explaining to my kids about the candy "dots" on the strips of paper and they looked at me like I had suddenly sprouted antenneas on my head! I don't know what their real name was, but we just called them "dots". The lady at the store would tear you off a strip about a foot long for a penny, or if she liked you, it might be a few inches longer! We LOVED them and they kept us busy for hours gnawing them off the paper. And if some of the paper was stuck on them, you ate that too! [/QUOTE]
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