Show of hands please. How many are old enough to remember.

[Liberal Veteran]

Waking up in the morning and looking outside on the front porch for milk, eggs, and juice that "magically" showed up during the night?

[kick-ass-bob]

1. The Easter bunny left milk and juice too???

:7

[Liberal Veteran]

6. Yeppers. And he visited more often!

I think that was before he joined a union!

[Spinzonner]

2. The old days

before they had plumbers for sex

[MuseRider]

3. ME!

The little silver box that would keep it cool on the corner of the porch.

[finecraft]

19. We had one of those boxes on our porch too!

My brothers would put their frogs, snakes, etc. in the box before they came into the house for dinner. Before they went to bed, they would take them out of the box and put them back in the woods. Woe to the brother that forgot his "little treasures" and left them in the box overnight.....especially when the milkman came the next morning! Know what else I remember from those days? Lightening bugs. :)
Millions of them. We would run around in the fields and woods just after sunset catching them and put them in an empty canning jar with holes poked in the lid...or some cheesecloth put over the top.(We made sure we set them free before we went to bed.) We never see them anymore. :cry:

[Liberal Veteran]

20. Yeah...wtf is up with the fireflies being so rare?

It was so magical watching them take flight at dusk. Sometimes they were just yellowish, but a few were on steroids apparently and had a really bright green-yellow color and always flew a lot higher it seemed.

[finecraft]

22. Last time I saw some was about 5 years ago

We went back to our old family summer cabin in Northern Minnesota (one last time before we put it on the market), and we spent a couple of nights there. Brought back very old (and very fond) memories of summers long ago. We were sitting outside by the lake listening to the loons, and there were the biggest fireflies out that I had ever seen. There were just a few of them, but I swear they would light up as bright as a flashlight! That was the first time my son had seen a firefly - and he was 18 years old at the time!

[kick-ass-bob]

23. the power on our street went out last summer in the middle

of the night so I went outside to look around - and there they were - about a hundred million little lights floating around the trees.

Trust me, they are still there. THat was quite a sight to see.

I recently found out that they don't have them on the west coast - something about they can't get by the Rockies or something like that - so they never made it there. That was bizarre to me. My friend in Sacramento who visited had never seen a firefly before.

[finecraft]

25. Glad to know they are still around!

I grew up in Northern Illinois, and have lived in South Louisiana for many years now. My husband grew up here, and he assures me that when he was young there were a lot of fireflies here. Have not seen a one since I have been down here (about 25 years now).

[tinfoilinfor2005]

34. We don't have them in the Florida Keys, but

we have little things that light up in the ocean at night. Living on a boat, I see them all around me and they remind me a little of fireflies.

[MuseRider]

39. We still have lots

of lightning bugs. When the drought was bad we never saw them but last year they were back with a vengeance. I can walk into the back yard where is it very, very dark and it is almost like an acid trip, they make you dizzy. Now that we have mansions instead of pastures and woods surrounding us it will probably not ever really get dark enough to experience that again.

[demnan]

4. Me!

And milk always came in those lovely glass bottles and tasted much better than it does today!

[Drifter]

5. I Do ...

but just barely. OJ and milk I believe.

My folks still get their milk and OJ from Byrne Dairy, in glass containers that you return.

Cheers
Drifter

[sweetladybug]

9. Yes I remember those days. When myI children were young I had

milk and dairy products delivered to my home 3 x a wk.

[Red State Rebel]

7. We had a "bread man" at one time

You could buy bread, rolls, etc. Had to be in about 1960.

[randr]

8. The clip clop of the horses hooves

as they trod the cobblestones on their way to delivery. Even the ice truck was horse drawn. There was also a fresh produce cart and a rag man. The coal was the only delivery made with a motorized vehicle. This was in the late 40's in Wilmington, Delaware.
Thanks for the memories.

[Bunny]

10. Yeah, I remember that, but we only got milk and on rare occasion,

eggs. That's about all we could afford.

[Liberal Veteran]

13. We'll, I only vaguely remember it...

Most of my life I lived in the country in Georgia and we didn't have any of those citified conveniences, but we lived in New Mexico for about a year and that's where I remember it from.

[ret5hd]

11. guess my age...

i'm not old enough to remember the milk, etc...
but i am old enough to have had a paper route when i was 13--
(before paper routes were a business for adults and before the thought of a barely teenager out alone in the middle of the night evoked fear)

[lpbk2713]

12. I don't remember that but I do remember....

milk in real glass bottles that you had to turn back in and the milk always had the cream at the top. And I remember margarine with that orange glob that you had to knead in with the rest of it.

[LiberalEsto]

14. Don't forget the big chunk of ice

they put in the milkbox on hot summer mornings.

[ConcernedCanuk]

18. The MILKBOX - I remember that - the hole in the side of the house

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with a door on the inside and outside so ya could grab your milk/whatever without going outside

and you had to get it quick in the winter up here or it would freeze - worse yet it could break the glass bottles, and yeah - it was us kids' job to clean THAT up

cream on the top inch or so that you mixed in if'n ya wanted it to be "homo"

that was when butter(margarine really) had that orange "dot" you broke and squished the plastic bag all up to make the white margarine yellow!

[LiberalEsto]

41. Interesting. We had a metal box

that looked much like the boxes doctors have outside their offices for blood test pickups.

[stellanoir]

15. believe it or not

we still have a milk man who comes weekly, mid mornings on Thursdays.

He almost went out of business in the 70's but won the Megbucks lottery, fixed up his truck, bought some real estate, and sent his oodles of kids to college. Smart dude.

[Liberal Veteran]

16. That must be nice...

I kinda miss those old conveniences.

[democrank]

17. Yes indeed.

I remember how much the cream at the top of the milk bottle was savored. And the eggs? Farm fresh from a neighbor.

Just the other day I was thinking about the "Bond Bread" guy who regularly stopped at my aunt`s house with an enormous handled tray he slid from the back of his truck. The kids gathered around hoping, just hoping my aunt would break down and purchase a sweet treat along with her breads.

[comsymp]

21. Mr. MacLean

was my Grandmother's milkman and I remember him well (and fondly) - Borden. He came late enough in the morning that there was no magic to it.

[NV Whino]

24. I'm not really that old, but

I remember the ice man delivering ice for ice boxes. Precursers to the refrigerator. All depends on where one lived as a kid. I also remember playing with the milk box at a family friend's place in Denver. They still delivered milk to the box in the early days, although I don't remember orange juice.

[tjwmason]

26. I woke up to milk on the door-step this morning

Just like every morning. Pints of milk were specifically exempted from European metrification because we British wouldn't stand for it.

[jswordy]

27. My mom was too frugal for the milkman, but...

...we had neighbors who got stuff from him! I remember the little silver insulated boxes outside their doors, with the diary company logo on them, where he'd leave the stuff. Bet those little boxes are worth $$$ now at antique shops.

[Glenda]

28. the milk did magically appear.

But the eggs, we had to go across town to a woman with chickens, and she would pick out the eggs for us.

[ChickMagic]

29. Yeppers

I hate to admit it, but yeah.

[supernova]

30. I did! Yes, and the laundry too!

My grandma didn't get eggs delivered but she did get milk delivered and had laundry service. :-) She got it back washed and then hung it out to dry when they delivered it. She didn't have running water, so no washing machine.

[Redstone]

31. And if we got up early enough, the milkman

would let us ride in his truck to the end of the road and back.

Of course, the price was that we carted the bottles to the houses for him. Smart guy, yes?

Redstone

[underpants]

32. I grew up in the backroom of a Bob Evans

Thanks for conjuring that memory back up

[ScreamingMeemie]

33. We used to get our potato chips that way.

:hi:

[peekaloo]

35. Milk and doughnuts!

Krispy Kreme glazed.

[bertha katzenengel]

36. I vaguely remember milk deliveries.

With that memory is the one of my great-grandmother making sun tea. I thought that was so cool. I felt like I was drinking the sun.

[Jack Rabbit]

37. Should I admit this?

:hi:

[tinfoilinfor2005]

38. Our milkman also had sour cream and cottage cheese

and you could order other things ahead of time. Also eggnog over the holidays. We lived in a bitter cold climate so our milkman knew where we kept the house key in case we were gone, so the goodies wouldn't freeze.

[AlCzervik]

40. yes, the milk bottles with the paper tops.

[ConcernedCanuk]

42. the metal thingies that hung in them to "order" "skim" or (blush) - HOMO??

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[DrZeeLit]

43. Moi, aussi! (didn't you love the bottles and the cream at the top?) n/t

[skygazer]

44. I remember

But I was already up, feeding the horses and cleaning the barn. It wasn't all that long ago for me - up until the mid-70's we still got milk and eggs delivered.

[tsakshaug]

45. yes

milk from crecent creamery. Metal box on the back steps.
Ole the egg man came by on Saturdays delivered eggs and talked about the old country with my father over some coffee- it was always his last stop.
The cleaner came by twice a week for my father's shirts and sometimes suits- we kids would fight over who got the cardboard from the shirts.

[tjdee]

46. Why didn't you get them at the store?

I'm not being cheeky--I always wondered.

A freshness issue I guess?

I can't imagine items like that being handled by a guy (I think of the bottled water man)...just because of the sheer number of people who need those items daily.

You had to wait for milk, if you were out?

Um, I don't know why I'm so mystified by this.

[finecraft]

47. Well, we lived out in the country

on a small farm and the grocery store was about 40 miles away. (In the nearest city) We only went to the grocery store twice a month.
We grew our own vegetables, and canned fruits and vegetables we harvested during the year for use during the winter. We had a basement in our house, but there was a "root cellar" which was down a few steps from the basement. It was sort of like a cave carved out of the rock under our house. We would put all the onions, potatoes and garlic we grew down there to keep it cool and dry...along with all the things we had canned. And I'll let you in on a secret...my Grandfather made the best plum wine in the world from plums we grew in our little orchard of fruit trees.....and we kept that down in the root cellar too!

[KitchenWitch]

48. My hand is up!

[politicat]

49. It still happens here, if you're willing to put up with a Repuke Company

or live in certain areas.

www.royalcrestdairy.com

I loved the convenience, but hated the fact that the money was going to rethugs. So we found a company that is politically neutral, equivalent product, somewhat cheaper, but we have to pick it up. And the milk is essentially organic.

And the milk comes in glass bottles.