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What treasures from your past have you dug up lately?

Milk bags are great... can't believe that actually came out of my mouth (or fingers on the keyboard) :lol:
Seriously, these remind me of going to visit my grandma as a kind. We'd drive across the border to... milk bags. I found them strange, but acceptable. Now I would avoid them because of the plastic bag... can't recycle that stuff. And I haven't voluntarily drunk a glass of milk since about 1992 anyway.
 
I curated my sticker collection yesterday. I've been collecting stickers since I was a young child in about 1990. I have rarely used them, just collect them for some unknown reason...yesterday I actually had an occasion to use them, so I went through the entire collection to weed out ones I didn't want anymore. Of course I ended up keeping about 95% of them. Some of the older ones were interesting. I had one from the early 90s that had a huge CRT monitor and keyboard with the words "Computer Cool!" written over the top. I also have a shimmery World Cup USA '94 sticker with a dog headbutting a soccer ball. My favorites were the lava lamp, "groovy!" and numerous Lisa Frank unicorn stickers.
 
Cracked open another old box of random stuff. Contained, among other things, a Your Sinclair magazine, no 73 from January 1992, a Star Trek mag from November 95, and my old teaching materials. I think it’s time to let those last ones go.

ETA: My old Sony Ericsson T29 from 2000. Unfortunately, the spring clip that held the battery in had broken in storage and the battery has started to expand. That was an awesome phone.
 
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Avro Arrow said:
Inside the outer bag are three individual sealed bags. Just put one of the bags in your pitcher, snip off the corner, and you're good to go! :D
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We had milk bags in my East German childhood. I didn't think I would ever see something similar again. Here is one standing in the pitcher, although it does not have a handle. I guess a handle would have made handling easier?

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My mother recently threw the plastic thing away as there is no need for it anymore.

The bags were standing side by side in a big plastic box in the shop, and you had to lift one by one, waiting for it to stop dripping to find out whether it actually had a hole or was just dripping from standing in some milk that was collecting at the bottom of the plastic box. Apparently some always had a hole. I hated that.

We re-used the plastic bags to wrap the school sandwiches (which were first wrapped in paper of course).

We also had milk in glass bottles, sealed with an aluminium foil lid that you just pulled off.
 
Astra said:
We also had milk in glass bottles, sealed with an aluminium foil lid that you just pulled off.
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When I was a little kid, my mother had a milk delivery service (even though you could buy it in the supermarket). I guess the milk was fresher, plus we'd get butter and cream.

I use glass bottles again. I don't like plastic, but the best value for milk is in the gallon plastic jugs. Just don't go through milk very quickly, so some of it goes into old style glass milk bottles refrigerated and one plastic container that goes in the freezer. Milk does well with freezing. In the refrigerator, one bottle will go in the back in the coldest spot, the other a little forward of that. Milk stays fresher longer this way. The tops can be purchased from companies, as they're still made. There's a little cottage industry of milk bottle collectors out there too. It's remarkable how expensive some vintage ones will sell (I've seen several hundred dollars paid for one!).
 
An old tablet. The present of the year in my country is to wrap and give second hand things. So I’ll give it to my four year old niece for Christmas.

Brandy Butters said:
Ubba Bubba Bubble Gum

Found it in a shop, first time in years.
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I loved those as a kid! I remember how fun it was to form bubbles with them. :D
 
Is that the same as Hubba Bubba Bubble Gum?

I found something I've been missing for the last couple of years...some of me that I'd hidden away.
 
Tinsel said:
Is that the same as Hubba Bubba Bubble Gum?

I found something I've been missing for the last couple of years...some of me that I'd hidden away.
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It is. I spelled it wrong. It used to come in lots of flavours, but it was only original on sale the other day, and now I can’t find it again.
 
Brandy Butters said:
It is. I spelled it wrong. It used to come in lots of flavours, but it was only original on sale the other day, and now I can’t find it again.
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I'm sorry. I used to love that gum as a child.

It seems all of the great bubble gums are gone. :(
 
I realized I should've posted this image in this thread.

These are baby light spuds. They insert into the yoke of smaller baby (5/8-inch pin) movie and video lights.

I made these, along with Baby-to-junior spud adapters and a 6-inch Mitchell-to-Mitchell camera riser in the late-90s/early 2000s.

These light mounts have a 1/4-20 female thread in the bottom so I can make my own light mounts (like a wall plate or pipe clamp or whatever).

I can't find my spud adapters yet. I'm still looking. The riser I sold to my boss back then.

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