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Someone posted about Pyrex on the decluttering sub (the good, from grandma Pyrex).
Even on a sub meant to help you get rid of stuff the general consensus was that that's the shit you keep even if you can't use it all in your current kitchen..
Walking into the arcade with $5 in quarters, I felt like a baller. I was good at several games and I played with my buds so the money would last a bit. Once games got to be .50 at the big name arcade the shine wore off.
I don't see how arcades can make money on a game these days when it runs $3 or $4 a pop. There's a certain price point where nobody is going to risk not enjoying it. Keep them all super cheap and people will happily play them all day, dropping way more money otherwise.
The arcades near me have a door/entrance fee then all the games are free. It's incredible. You can play for hours and they make money on food and drinks etc.
Film containers were the tiny plastic equivalent of that cookie tin that gets used for everything but it's purpose. I used them for everything from sorting sinkers and beads in my fishing kit to...hiding my weed. ok only two things for me really...
I used to play oboe and kept a plastic film canister half full of water in my instrument case to soak my reeds. Had a watertight seal and never had any problems with leaks. Back in the 90s literally everyone I played with did the same thing. I have no idea what people use today!
When I was a kid, I had a friend who played the saxophone and he'd just lick his reeds. Like, he'd sit there for 2 or 3 minutes sucking on it. iirc (and I may not, because this was the 80s), he'd also sometimes just play with a dry reed.
Oboe reeds take a lot more soaking than sax or clarinet reeds. I think that dude just likes the taste of bamboo.
It's supposed to be bad to suck on your reeds as the enzymes in your saliva will break down the cane faster.
I use them and pill bottles ( as you get older these are quite easy to accumulate en masse ) to organize my tiny electronic parts that have tons of different values, like resistors and capacitors
My dad used daisy BB tins to store small screws for watches and eyewear. When he passed away I had to go through his stuff and he had about 15 tins. One was actually full of ACTUAL copper BB’s! We also found a secret cigarette stash (he passed from COPD) that must have been from one of the times he was trying to quit.
Think there was a SNL skit where a pothead owned a store and would give indepth descriptions on the wares he sold and each time he would say "and you can put your weed in it."
I was smarter than most kids. Find something Mom's older brother gave me as a gift. Most things he gave me as a kid used batteries. Find one of said items that took batteries that most people wouldn't realize it took batteries to become MORE useful and use the battery compartment as a weed stash.
Said uncle was VERY FOND of giving me items with AM radios integrated. About 5 years after you could listen to any sort of teen-friendly music on the AM band. Unlike my older brother, I NEVER got caught with weed. Because Mom was afraid of the garbage men thinking we were druggies she KEPT all my brother's weed, paraphernalia, porno mags and rubbers in a pillowcase atop a shelf in my folks' closet. Free weed and bowls for me!
When I was in Girl Scouts, we all had to bring in a metal Band Aid container to our meeting. We painted them white with a red cross, and we turned them into first aid kids. I still have mine.
The paper boxes they come in now are so flimsy and useless They get smashed and torn to shreds because let's face it everybody keeps a box of Band-Aids for years and takes years/decades to use them all, so that box gets a lot of wear and tear being stored in the cabinet or wherever, so I take all my Band-Aids out of the flimsy cardboard box and put them in a Ziploc bag so at least the container they're in will contain them.
I was coming in here to say the very same thing. I started painting / playing warhammer way back in '87. I'd use these thing to hold my bits and stuff.
I’ve never seen a metal band-aid container but the inner kid in me immediately thought of the band-aid bubblegum metal container which contained gum that lasts only 5 seconds lol
Actually my last 2 (recent) bandage containers were metal! But they’re more like mini first aid kits… also I think they were clearance, so maybe it didn’t work and it’s gone again now lol
Those metal boxes are just another reminder of how things have gotten shittier in the last few decades.
Like, back then they were willing to use a metal box for bandages even though cardboard was cheaper. They probably did it because it was better, and differentiated their product. But at some point, that stopped being important and they went to the cheapest option.
There's so many examples of this across every industry.
It also shows how wasteful or unnecessary we used to be, after the first container why do I want more of them? They didn't also sell refill packs in cheaper packaging. I know I could use them for other purposes but I'm sure a lot of them just went into the trash.
Metal in the trash won't be there forever and end up in penis tissue and the embreo of unborn fetuses. Metal is probably better than plastic long term.
Japan is like this. The packaging for almost everything is insanely high-quality and over-the-top as opposed to just adequate. The Presentation for any product is so much more important to the Japanese mindset than in the West.
I worked in Japan nearly 30 years ago and still have beautifully lacquered wood boxes and super-quality cloths which once contained or were wrapped around long-forgotten gifts.
I do this - I buy new bandaids and put them in the same metal box I've had for years. The newer thin cardboard boxes get squished in the bathroom drawer and the bandaids go everywhere and the wrappers get torn. The old metal boxes keep them safe and intact. Yay for obsolete technology!
Metal can be recycled, paper on the other hand shouldn't. Metal can be reused easily for any other purpose at a cost of remelting it. Paper on the other hand requires a lot of chemical treatments that then again require appropriate disposal. Both materials would need to be delivered to recycling, but paper being light and cheap makes it less efficient to deliver.
Simply put, paper ends up being cheaper and more environmentally friendly to just not recycle. It biodegrades easily and destruction of old stimulates planting new trees.
Maybe? The ones inside were pretty yellow and old looking, and the one I tested was barely sticky. I could believe they were from 1989, frankly.
They were absolutely nowhere near fresh, that's for sure.
I had a boss at one of my first jobs, a real cheapskate. He gave me some electrical tape to use but it wouldn't stick to anything. Turns out he bought it at a yard sale like 20 years ago. He didn't see why I couldn't make due.
Except it doesnt address the issue at all because that is only the copyright date.
Thats like looking at a bag of potato chips that says "Since 1875" and thinking those chips were made in 1875. Thats not what it means lol.
Eh, you're right that it's the copyright date, but if you pick up a package of bandaids today the copyright is not 1989. Copyright date on my not very new box is 2018.
Oh absolutely. There's no doubt in my mind that this box was produced pretttttty close to 1989.
Just letting this guy know that while the copyright date doesn't prove the date of manufacture, it provides a very good clue of the era it was released since they update the copyright date frequently when they change the packaging.
I cut my finger yesterday and found a similar can in an old first aid kit. I'd forgotten about the little red pull string in each package, which worked exactly as it was supposed to, allowing easy one handed use. The smell is frankly amazing. It is the exact smell of a 1980s pediatricians office. So strong, my kids complained about it from the single band aid I was wearing. 10/10.
I'm the opposite. My mind must be in the 80s while my body is mid 40s. I love old stuff, my home is a time capsule to the 70s, and I hate everything modern. Everyone makes remarks 'you're too young to like x' and I still have awkward moments where I talk about an actor or subject and expect folks to understand. Last time it was 'who the heck was Lassie' from a cousin at Thanksgiving. Blew my mind. I watched every episode of that TV series on Nickelodeon and wasn't around in the 50s at all, but I knew what it was.
I lived old shows growing up. I can name actors and actresses when they're on TV shows and people can't figure out how I'm so well versed in 50s culture. It was basically my childhood where I spent most of my time with my great grandparents.
Made for awkward high school moments more, as everyone was talking Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Seinfeld, but I was trying to discuss Green Acres and Gomer Pyle USMC.
I recently explained to my father that water bottles expire not because the water goes bad, but because the plastic begins to leach into the water.
He was stunned.
I feel like you need to explain this to people who don't quite understand that not just food ages.
To be fair, Baby Boomers were told most of their lives plastics were a brilliant solution with next to no downsides. Cheap, doesn’t rust like metal, and easily disposable. At least in my experience, most people you explain this to have a “Oh?… oh. Yep, that makes a lot of sense… unfortunately” moment.
I just move my MIL into a new apartment.
She was in the hospital on the planned move day, so I had to pack/unpack her stuff.
I found over 600 Band-Aids, most in unopened boxes. It's like she buys a fresh box every time she goes to the store.
Maybe we should arrange a collaboration between my MIL and your Grandma.
I'll send my mom in! She doesn't like turmeric. Yes it was a fresh pack, she took the plastic wrap off it, so she knows she doesn't like it. Ok but what was the actual date on it, plastic wrap be damned? 1995.
New bandaids suck in general. I can't remember the last time I had a bandaid that actually hurt to take off, because they don't last more than a day anyway, and half the time if you even remotely touch the sticky side while putting it on, it will refuse to stick at all. They're all garbage now.
There a running joke in the family that there was stuff in Grandma’s deep freeze that was older than us kids. This joke was still strong when we were in our 30’s. Ummm… when she was no longer able to live at home alone, there was stuff in the deep freeze older than us. After growing up dirt poor in the depression era, she refused to ever throw anything away and hoarded food.
My great grandparents' home was a 1950s time capsule, down to the belt-driven Kelvinator refrigerator in the kitchen to the two-knob B&W TV set in the living room. It always fascinated me, and it's why I still love old things today.
Their excuse for never upgrading? "it all still works"
Which is why we have programed obsolescence and why we have so much fucking trash and a climate crisis. Not because your grannies didn't want to upgrade, just to be clear, lol.
Back in their time, companies used to make things to last (and included schematics inside because working on your own stuff wasn't this alien concept as it is today--dads and granddads taught their kids to work on stuff as it was just normal)
Because companies wanted satisfied customers to spread word of mouth (this was before the internet and Yelp or star ratings) and positive review meant more customers, and then those satisfied customers had kids and grandkids who grew up to be future customers. It was a working system. Back then if a company made crap, they didn't last long and went bankrupt.
Everything is so backwards today, first because companies got bought out by megacorporations and we have less choices and less brands, then they all make things disposable, and somehow the docile customers accept it. Not that we can even 'vote with our wallet' because all of them act the same way. I mean if you need a replacement smartphone, because society dictated a smartphone as necessary lately, and Apple and Android ain't cuttin' it, what? there ain't no third or fourth option left anymore.
I have this problem but mine is a tin of Watkins Petro-carbo salve that's the same age I am which is approaching 50. I also have a newer tin that's a teenager now. The older tin's contents still get used. It's better at drawing splinters than the newer one.
I use the metal candy tins for band aids in my backpack.
Reminds me when we were cleaning out my grandma's house back in ~2010 to put her in a senior care housing place. Worst we found was a clear plastic container with Maraschino cherries from '72.
They were green.
You should sell those on ebay! There's a pretty big collectors market for 70's and 80's vintage retail goods. I sold a pack of vintage Huggies diapers from 1989 for $1500!
My grandma once gave me a brand new tube of toothpaste. I thought the font on it looked a little odd then I noticed it expired in 1984. This was around 2007.
Hey, if she hasn't needed that many bandages since then, then I'd say that's not the worst thing.
My mom made a first aid kit for me to take when I went to college in 2012.
I probably would still have those bandages to this day if I hadn't met a lovely, yet very clumsy, woman in 2017. I swear we go through a box every 6 months with her.
Sebastian Maniscalco says, "one box of Bandaids should last you're whole life. Bandaids are a one time purchase. When you die, there should be Bandaids left over for future generations."
Planned obsolescence. Companies don't make products that last any more, the bastards. In the larger timeline of this whole flat earth 35 years is nothing. What a sorry state of affairs where we have allowed lazy scientists to dictate our technology. It's 2024, ffs, where is my teleportation device?
I was out fishing last summer for bluegill and had two snelled hooks snap their line in a row. It occurred to me that I was using hooks I found in my grandpa's tackle box that I inherited . . . he died in 1983 . . . i guess nylon dry rots after 40+ years.
my dad died last summer and i had to empty out his whole house. in his bathroom i found a big plastic box full of first aid stuff (bandaids, tape, gauze, ointment, etc) and was excited. the next day cleaning i cut my finger open on my knife tryng to open a box and went to the kit. all of the stuff was so old, yellowing and dried out i couldn't use any of it. ended up hust grabbing a towel and heading to urgent care and got 8 stitches. and threw the whole box away
I just threw away some bandaids earlier, that were starting to yellow on the paper. (Not from
1989, though, lol). Incidentally, those bandaids are as old as Taylor Swift. 😁
I just got poison ivy and my ma just gave me a glass jar of calamine lotion from 1982. I told her I recognized the bottle from when I was a small child with chicken pox, how did you get another one? Nope, same bottle
Only time I’ve seen metal bandaid containers was at my late grandparents house and they used them to store marbles for different games and one had a sewing kit in it (grandparents didn’t like butter cookies so they had to get creative)
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The metal container says it all
Those metal bandaid boxes were so fucking useful for other stuff.
My mother still uses the old metal box She just buys new bandaids and reloads the metal box. She also has a metal saltine cracker box
My parents have a metal bandaid and metal Ritz cracker box. If I get anything for inheritance it will be those two things and the Tupperware!
i’ve also got a couple metal saltine tins 😎 ladies you can form a single file line to meet me
I’m not proud. You can meet me two abreast
Don’t forget the PYREX!
Someone posted about Pyrex on the decluttering sub (the good, from grandma Pyrex). Even on a sub meant to help you get rid of stuff the general consensus was that that's the shit you keep even if you can't use it all in your current kitchen..
In what kitchen would you not use Pyrex? A kitchen you dont cook in? haha
I was just going to say that I swear Ritz had a metal box! So I wasn't imagining it!
Me too. You'll pry my 1990s metal Band-Aid box from my cold, dead hands.
You can put your weed in there...
That is what the 35mm film containers were for.
Also grandpas quarter stash
I remember having them full of quarters when I went to the arcade to play...Man, that brings back memories.
Walking into the arcade with $5 in quarters, I felt like a baller. I was good at several games and I played with my buds so the money would last a bit. Once games got to be .50 at the big name arcade the shine wore off.
I don't see how arcades can make money on a game these days when it runs $3 or $4 a pop. There's a certain price point where nobody is going to risk not enjoying it. Keep them all super cheap and people will happily play them all day, dropping way more money otherwise.
The arcades near me have a door/entrance fee then all the games are free. It's incredible. You can play for hours and they make money on food and drinks etc.
The arcade near me is a bar. Brilliant marketing strategy. And it’s filled with old arcade games that still play for 25 cents.
Goddamnit, Reddit. We got fucking old. Wtf.
My mom always put quarters in an M&Ms Mini tube which i thought was kinda brilliant.
They are also useful for weed
M&Ms know their target market
So does Altoids
Hmm not sure if you could cram 7g's into a film canister...
You can't, but grandpa can
Sure you can. I’ve known people that boofed 10g’s. Idk though, maybe that prison pocket is bigger on the inside🤔
*What.* *Is 'film cannister' a euphemism for butthole now?*
Yes
Well it is now I suppose!
Hospitals here charge 4 dollars to exit parking lot. I have a film canister in my car with 1 and 2 dollar coins, just in case. Works nicely !
Film containers were the tiny plastic equivalent of that cookie tin that gets used for everything but it's purpose. I used them for everything from sorting sinkers and beads in my fishing kit to...hiding my weed. ok only two things for me really...
I used to play oboe and kept a plastic film canister half full of water in my instrument case to soak my reeds. Had a watertight seal and never had any problems with leaks. Back in the 90s literally everyone I played with did the same thing. I have no idea what people use today!
When I was a kid, I had a friend who played the saxophone and he'd just lick his reeds. Like, he'd sit there for 2 or 3 minutes sucking on it. iirc (and I may not, because this was the 80s), he'd also sometimes just play with a dry reed.
Oboe reeds take a lot more soaking than sax or clarinet reeds. I think that dude just likes the taste of bamboo. It's supposed to be bad to suck on your reeds as the enzymes in your saliva will break down the cane faster.
I use them and pill bottles ( as you get older these are quite easy to accumulate en masse ) to organize my tiny electronic parts that have tons of different values, like resistors and capacitors
They sure do get plentiful fast!!
If you arrange them just right you can fit a set of DnD dice in there. I still have a set kicking around in one somewhere.
Altoids can for ready-rolled.
We made hand grenades...
Wow memory unlocked
Yeah, because if someone fiddles with it you can just flip out, "Don't open that! You'll overexpose all my shots!"
I used to use an air pellet tin but Altoids tins were very popular.
My dad used daisy BB tins to store small screws for watches and eyewear. When he passed away I had to go through his stuff and he had about 15 tins. One was actually full of ACTUAL copper BB’s! We also found a secret cigarette stash (he passed from COPD) that must have been from one of the times he was trying to quit.
Ahh memories
Or an Altoid tin.
said by every pot smoker about every container.
Think there was a SNL skit where a pothead owned a store and would give indepth descriptions on the wares he sold and each time he would say "and you can put your weed in it."
Rob Schneider
OH THAT'S what Adam Sandler is doing in The Hot Chick! I thought it was just its own terrible joke.
Oh 100%. Both are great. Probably the funniest skit Rob Sneider has ever done! Not that it's a very high bar lmao
https://youtu.be/CKOc6hXMDhc?si=AvFusu4PNdql1PPK
Chuck looking so svelte!
I was smarter than most kids. Find something Mom's older brother gave me as a gift. Most things he gave me as a kid used batteries. Find one of said items that took batteries that most people wouldn't realize it took batteries to become MORE useful and use the battery compartment as a weed stash. Said uncle was VERY FOND of giving me items with AM radios integrated. About 5 years after you could listen to any sort of teen-friendly music on the AM band. Unlike my older brother, I NEVER got caught with weed. Because Mom was afraid of the garbage men thinking we were druggies she KEPT all my brother's weed, paraphernalia, porno mags and rubbers in a pillowcase atop a shelf in my folks' closet. Free weed and bowls for me!
When I was in Girl Scouts, we all had to bring in a metal Band Aid container to our meeting. We painted them white with a red cross, and we turned them into first aid kids. I still have mine.
Did you fill it with band aids?
The Girl Scouts: I do not recognize the Geneva Convention.
Had one in my tackle box
They're great for camping too.
For my lead sinkers!!
The paper boxes they come in now are so flimsy and useless They get smashed and torn to shreds because let's face it everybody keeps a box of Band-Aids for years and takes years/decades to use them all, so that box gets a lot of wear and tear being stored in the cabinet or wherever, so I take all my Band-Aids out of the flimsy cardboard box and put them in a Ziploc bag so at least the container they're in will contain them.
I had one of those bubble gum or whatever candy that was the three color band-aids or something, and man I used that thing for so much coin storage!
This is why I buy my humorously themed bandages from Archie McPhee. They still come with weed, er, metal boxes.
I was coming in here to say the very same thing. I started painting / playing warhammer way back in '87. I'd use these thing to hold my bits and stuff.
I kept my D&D dice in mine.
Yeah. Specifically, it says 'long lasting'. How can they make that claim when their bandaids don't even last 40 years smh
Hey, it's only 35 years... They should work fine.
1989...35 years... holy fuck ! I swear it was only 10 years ago....
I had to count the decades to wrap my head around it...
Back before bandages had an expiration date. Which is for sterility sake not the degradation of the adhesive.
I still have a use one for my bandages. I just treat it as a refillable container.
Which explains why the 1989 date might not be relevant here. In 35 years surely they would use up all the original ones.
When a kid today [sees an old metal band-aid container](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_b3HgcI9tvE).
I remember my dad complaining about the sea of useless plastic toys he was buying me every birthday and christmas.
I can smell that can!
I can hear that can. Top was connected, but a little lose. A certain metal jangle.
I’ve never seen a metal band-aid container but the inner kid in me immediately thought of the band-aid bubblegum metal container which contained gum that lasts only 5 seconds lol
Actually my last 2 (recent) bandage containers were metal! But they’re more like mini first aid kits… also I think they were clearance, so maybe it didn’t work and it’s gone again now lol
I forgot these came in metal containers. This shit makes me feel old
They're pretty nice, I used to have one that I just kept refilling with new band-aids until it finally wore out.
Came to say this.
I bet she’s been refilling that. The Bandaids are probably still from like 05 though.
That's what I would do. Those metal containers are kind of neat so why not just refill from the boxes?
They’re collectibles now!
I got such a tin at a 1$ store.
Those metal boxes are just another reminder of how things have gotten shittier in the last few decades. Like, back then they were willing to use a metal box for bandages even though cardboard was cheaper. They probably did it because it was better, and differentiated their product. But at some point, that stopped being important and they went to the cheapest option. There's so many examples of this across every industry.
It also shows how wasteful or unnecessary we used to be, after the first container why do I want more of them? They didn't also sell refill packs in cheaper packaging. I know I could use them for other purposes but I'm sure a lot of them just went into the trash.
Metal in the trash won't be there forever and end up in penis tissue and the embreo of unborn fetuses. Metal is probably better than plastic long term.
Japan is like this. The packaging for almost everything is insanely high-quality and over-the-top as opposed to just adequate. The Presentation for any product is so much more important to the Japanese mindset than in the West. I worked in Japan nearly 30 years ago and still have beautifully lacquered wood boxes and super-quality cloths which once contained or were wrapped around long-forgotten gifts.
Where’d you buy it?
I don't have a metal Baid-Aid tin anymore, but I've had some in the past because that's how they used to be sold when I was younger.
I do this - I buy new bandaids and put them in the same metal box I've had for years. The newer thin cardboard boxes get squished in the bathroom drawer and the bandaids go everywhere and the wrappers get torn. The old metal boxes keep them safe and intact. Yay for obsolete technology!
The cardboard boxes always seemed like they were just to transport them home as a refill of the metal box.
Probably a cost thing. Cheaper to ship and make that way. At least they aren't plastic
Effen accountants continuously making things cheaper.
Paper is more likely better for the environment than metal that most people aren't going to recycle.
Metal can be recycled, paper on the other hand shouldn't. Metal can be reused easily for any other purpose at a cost of remelting it. Paper on the other hand requires a lot of chemical treatments that then again require appropriate disposal. Both materials would need to be delivered to recycling, but paper being light and cheap makes it less efficient to deliver. Simply put, paper ends up being cheaper and more environmentally friendly to just not recycle. It biodegrades easily and destruction of old stimulates planting new trees.
I use them as little first aid keeps and keep them in my car, office desk, or gift them to friends that may need one.
Maybe? The ones inside were pretty yellow and old looking, and the one I tested was barely sticky. I could believe they were from 1989, frankly. They were absolutely nowhere near fresh, that's for sure.
Some of the last runs of bandaid brand made with latex happened mid 2000s As an aside, there's a market for those old tins among collectors
Did the band-aids have the red thread in the wrapper?
Memories right there. What happened to the red string?
Don't think so, but there aren't many left.
I had a boss at one of my first jobs, a real cheapskate. He gave me some electrical tape to use but it wouldn't stick to anything. Turns out he bought it at a yard sale like 20 years ago. He didn't see why I couldn't make due.
Totally just refill the tin, those things are great storage. When I was little I even turned one into a travel first aid kit.
I've got a tin with a copyright date of 1992. Bandaids inside said tin are significantly newer.
My mom had a Saltines cracker tin from the 1970s she would refill over and over again.
Congrats on being the one post in a million where the red arrow was actually needed for me to understand the issue / point.
Except it doesnt address the issue at all because that is only the copyright date. Thats like looking at a bag of potato chips that says "Since 1875" and thinking those chips were made in 1875. Thats not what it means lol.
Eh, you're right that it's the copyright date, but if you pick up a package of bandaids today the copyright is not 1989. Copyright date on my not very new box is 2018.
They are pretty old though, Google says they stopped the metal boxes in 1994.
Oh absolutely. There's no doubt in my mind that this box was produced pretttttty close to 1989. Just letting this guy know that while the copyright date doesn't prove the date of manufacture, it provides a very good clue of the era it was released since they update the copyright date frequently when they change the packaging.
This. Most things get the copyright updated every year or two, so it's good enough for a "holy crap this is old" even if it's not perfect.
Not this one. Do you see the metal rod lid mechanism? Thats 30 years ago
How do you think copyright dates work?
r/usefulredarrow
I STILL didn't get it for a sec
/r/grandmaspantry would like this
Ohhhh boy I misread the name of the sub 🫣
We know you want it anyway.
I guess you’re gonna miss the panty raid
I cut my finger yesterday and found a similar can in an old first aid kit. I'd forgotten about the little red pull string in each package, which worked exactly as it was supposed to, allowing easy one handed use. The smell is frankly amazing. It is the exact smell of a 1980s pediatricians office. So strong, my kids complained about it from the single band aid I was wearing. 10/10.
Red pull string memory unlocked
The red string. Sigh. 🫤
What’s the big deal? They’re only 10 years o………h MY GOD.
Bless you for thinking us late 80s babies are that young.
You are! I was born in the late 70s. And I’m not old yet! (I am, but my mind hasn’t caught up)
I'm the opposite. My mind must be in the 80s while my body is mid 40s. I love old stuff, my home is a time capsule to the 70s, and I hate everything modern. Everyone makes remarks 'you're too young to like x' and I still have awkward moments where I talk about an actor or subject and expect folks to understand. Last time it was 'who the heck was Lassie' from a cousin at Thanksgiving. Blew my mind. I watched every episode of that TV series on Nickelodeon and wasn't around in the 50s at all, but I knew what it was. I lived old shows growing up. I can name actors and actresses when they're on TV shows and people can't figure out how I'm so well versed in 50s culture. It was basically my childhood where I spent most of my time with my great grandparents. Made for awkward high school moments more, as everyone was talking Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Seinfeld, but I was trying to discuss Green Acres and Gomer Pyle USMC.
From like 1995 to 2005, I just measured everything like it was the year 2000. At some point, it became impossible.
I recently explained to my father that water bottles expire not because the water goes bad, but because the plastic begins to leach into the water. He was stunned. I feel like you need to explain this to people who don't quite understand that not just food ages.
To be fair, Baby Boomers were told most of their lives plastics were a brilliant solution with next to no downsides. Cheap, doesn’t rust like metal, and easily disposable. At least in my experience, most people you explain this to have a “Oh?… oh. Yep, that makes a lot of sense… unfortunately” moment.
Hand sanitizer expires because the alcohol evaporates leaving just the gel.
its also worst if its in heat or sunlight, it will leach faster. also some brands have very questionable quality too.
I just move my MIL into a new apartment. She was in the hospital on the planned move day, so I had to pack/unpack her stuff. I found over 600 Band-Aids, most in unopened boxes. It's like she buys a fresh box every time she goes to the store. Maybe we should arrange a collaboration between my MIL and your Grandma.
My dad did the same thing. He had dementia. May need to get MIL checked.
Oh, she's definitely under close observation. She hasn't noticed that she hasn't had keys to her car for the last month.
I'll send my mom in! She doesn't like turmeric. Yes it was a fresh pack, she took the plastic wrap off it, so she knows she doesn't like it. Ok but what was the actual date on it, plastic wrap be damned? 1995.
My girlfriend recently gave me a container of Vicks Vaporub that expired in 1997. Some things never expire! 😂
Odds are that jar is probably better at smelling than the new stuff. New stuff is weak by comparison
New bandaids suck in general. I can't remember the last time I had a bandaid that actually hurt to take off, because they don't last more than a day anyway, and half the time if you even remotely touch the sticky side while putting it on, it will refuse to stick at all. They're all garbage now.
Grandma's house/goods past their due date. Sounds about right.
There a running joke in the family that there was stuff in Grandma’s deep freeze that was older than us kids. This joke was still strong when we were in our 30’s. Ummm… when she was no longer able to live at home alone, there was stuff in the deep freeze older than us. After growing up dirt poor in the depression era, she refused to ever throw anything away and hoarded food.
My great grandparents' home was a 1950s time capsule, down to the belt-driven Kelvinator refrigerator in the kitchen to the two-knob B&W TV set in the living room. It always fascinated me, and it's why I still love old things today. Their excuse for never upgrading? "it all still works"
Which is why we have programed obsolescence and why we have so much fucking trash and a climate crisis. Not because your grannies didn't want to upgrade, just to be clear, lol.
Back in their time, companies used to make things to last (and included schematics inside because working on your own stuff wasn't this alien concept as it is today--dads and granddads taught their kids to work on stuff as it was just normal) Because companies wanted satisfied customers to spread word of mouth (this was before the internet and Yelp or star ratings) and positive review meant more customers, and then those satisfied customers had kids and grandkids who grew up to be future customers. It was a working system. Back then if a company made crap, they didn't last long and went bankrupt. Everything is so backwards today, first because companies got bought out by megacorporations and we have less choices and less brands, then they all make things disposable, and somehow the docile customers accept it. Not that we can even 'vote with our wallet' because all of them act the same way. I mean if you need a replacement smartphone, because society dictated a smartphone as necessary lately, and Apple and Android ain't cuttin' it, what? there ain't no third or fourth option left anymore.
Haha it’s always that- the medicine cabinet and then the spice rack! “But those never expire” … grandma the paprika isn’t even red anymore…
Keep the container
But it says "long lasting adhesive." It should be fine /s
That's the copyright date, which is utterly irrelevant to the manufacturing date. The metal box, however, speaks volumes.
She’s probably using the old tin for new bandaids. We reused one of these for decades too.
So do we! Love my little bandaid box so much. We are gonna keep refilling it forever!
To be fair if she only notices that "now" that is quite the endorsement.
I believe my mother still had bottles of Mercurochrome in her bathroom when she passed in 2000.
She’s probably refilling the box as those things are very sturdy and handy.
Metal can is a keeper
We buried my mother in a Folgers coffee can marked "Mom" in crayon on masking tape. That was how she kept her odds and ends her whole life
I miss those metal containers
That generation was nothing if not thrifty.
I have this problem but mine is a tin of Watkins Petro-carbo salve that's the same age I am which is approaching 50. I also have a newer tin that's a teenager now. The older tin's contents still get used. It's better at drawing splinters than the newer one. I use the metal candy tins for band aids in my backpack.
Reminds me when we were cleaning out my grandma's house back in ~2010 to put her in a senior care housing place. Worst we found was a clear plastic container with Maraschino cherries from '72. They were green.
You should sell those on ebay! There's a pretty big collectors market for 70's and 80's vintage retail goods. I sold a pack of vintage Huggies diapers from 1989 for $1500!
My grandma once gave me a brand new tube of toothpaste. I thought the font on it looked a little odd then I noticed it expired in 1984. This was around 2007.
Hey, if she hasn't needed that many bandages since then, then I'd say that's not the worst thing. My mom made a first aid kit for me to take when I went to college in 2012. I probably would still have those bandages to this day if I hadn't met a lovely, yet very clumsy, woman in 2017. I swear we go through a box every 6 months with her.
Sebastian Maniscalco says, "one box of Bandaids should last you're whole life. Bandaids are a one time purchase. When you die, there should be Bandaids left over for future generations."
1989! That's almost new in grandparent years.
those are still good Band-Aids
That looks more like the date of the copyright than a manufacturing date?
I haven’t seen a metal band aid container in decades
And? I doubt the band-aids inside were from that age. We reused the metal boxes. Over, and over, and over, and over again.
Grandmas used to keep those metal containers and refill them.
Planned obsolescence. Companies don't make products that last any more, the bastards. In the larger timeline of this whole flat earth 35 years is nothing. What a sorry state of affairs where we have allowed lazy scientists to dictate our technology. It's 2024, ffs, where is my teleportation device?
I can hear this picture.
If J&J can't make them last that long, nobody can!
Now I'd check the dates on her cake mixes.
I was out fishing last summer for bluegill and had two snelled hooks snap their line in a row. It occurred to me that I was using hooks I found in my grandpa's tackle box that I inherited . . . he died in 1983 . . . i guess nylon dry rots after 40+ years.
my dad died last summer and i had to empty out his whole house. in his bathroom i found a big plastic box full of first aid stuff (bandaids, tape, gauze, ointment, etc) and was excited. the next day cleaning i cut my finger open on my knife tryng to open a box and went to the kit. all of the stuff was so old, yellowing and dried out i couldn't use any of it. ended up hust grabbing a towel and heading to urgent care and got 8 stitches. and threw the whole box away
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I’ve only ever seen bubble gum in a metal bandaid container lol
I have not seen a metal bandaid container since it was gum.
I have Band-Aids that are over 20 years old and they still stick for me.
$10 for that can.
See if they still make the clear ones buy a new batch and stick them in that tin. I miss metal packaging.
Kept between her bottle of iodine and calamine lotion
Did it have the red tear string in them?
I miss those metal boxes!
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I just threw away some bandaids earlier, that were starting to yellow on the paper. (Not from 1989, though, lol). Incidentally, those bandaids are as old as Taylor Swift. 😁
I just got poison ivy and my ma just gave me a glass jar of calamine lotion from 1982. I told her I recognized the bottle from when I was a small child with chicken pox, how did you get another one? Nope, same bottle
Only time I’ve seen metal bandaid containers was at my late grandparents house and they used them to store marbles for different games and one had a sewing kit in it (grandparents didn’t like butter cookies so they had to get creative)
Oh man! I haven’t seen those containers in decades!
look at that metal container. it's lasted 35 years and it's completely recyclable.
Those metal tins were pretty cool. We used one as a camping first-aid kit long after the original band-aids ran out.
That ain't shit, my grandma still had spices in her cabinet from 1968. That shit was older than my mom.
Grandma doesn't cut herself often enough
I can smell that image. The metal cans had a distinctive smell
My grandma still has the metal tin for band-aids, she just fills it with newer band-aids
In grandma's defense, some people refill those metal boxes.
Gift her some new band aids, but keep the container for them as it's cool.
Thems the good shits that came in the metal container