There was a tin milk carton sitting on the back stoop of our home. The milkman drove down the street and delivered glass quart bottles of fresh milk and butter and sometimes eggs. He picked up the empties my mom left in the box, clean and ready for a trade. The filled bottles had a cardboard top. My sisters and I grabbed for the tops when the milk bottle was finished. We spun them. When I think of it, milkman delivery was a good deal. Mom got essential groceries, and the kids got a cheap toy.
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Now, it comes in plastic and we complain about the disposal. Yikes! Life is so complicated these days.
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Yes, plastics are a HUGE problem. Going back to heavy glass may be worth the added expense and heating. No easy solutions.
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I did not drink out of a glass milk bottle but i recall a birthday party game called Drop the Clothespin in the Milk Bottle. You kneel on a chair on try do trop the clothespin directly into the narrow milk bottle on the ground. Sounds very quaint but I was rather competitive about the game. I guess someone drank from the milk bottle!
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Great game! Better than spining the milk bottle LOL
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I’m saving your prompts to ask the grandchildren… not sure I can use glass as they are too young to understand and know that we used to even have milk delivered… but maybe their parents can chime in on this one. I’m enjoying your prompts.
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Kids should hear about the milkman, glass bottles, and how their grandmas’ childhood played out.
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Good idea… I’ll include them in learning about pops milk delivery. I wish we still had it
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No glass milk bottles for me. Sadly, it was soda in glass bottles for me of which I drank way too many although I did eventually kick the habit and rarely drink it now. It is amazing to see how things have changed over the years. Weekends In Maine
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I am loving these diverse prompts, Antoinette. They are very creative – and immediately cause me to tumble down Memory Lane!
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My dad was a milkman for a few years out of college, but when I was a kid milk delivery was unheard of, except one year when we lived in Ireland. The jays would peck through foil cap on the top of the bottles and get at the cream on top. But now milk delivery is back, at least a bit. A handful of houses in our neighborhood have the metal boxes on the front porch. (I still buy mine at the supermarket, though.)
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What a beautiful memory. Thank you 😊
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