Comments on: Grandma needs bail money

By: Valerie

Valerie — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 08:24:15 +0000

Hi – your blog made me laugh out loud. No small feat on rainy Sunday morning when nothing but boring housework and grocery shopping beckons. Fantastic photos and how creepy are some peoples houses. Though when I’m gone, will someone be rummaging through my place going ‘Oh my God! Look at this!!’?
Best wishes Valerie

By: Whak

Whak — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 21:17:26 +0000

I must be old. I can remember buying Janitor in a Drum new at the grocery.

I have that same ugly tote bag. Lower left corner, right? Mine is a donation gift from the National Federation of the Blind. Sweet irony of life. I will give it points for being impossible to destroy. I have carried rocks, bricks, firewood, pinecones and library books. It has been on several vacations and many Girl Scout outdoor events. It still looks just like it did the day it was born.

The devil’s tote bag will outlive us all.

By: Jenny

Jenny — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 16:06:29 +0000

I didn’t either (didn’t really go near that stuff) but I have to confess that when looking at the photo later, I noticed that and wondered what the hell it was. Thanks for clearing that up! I wonder how they fit a whole janitor in there.

By: Meghan

Meghan — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 15:22:59 +0000

Sorry… didn’t even see it!!!

By: BitchOnWheels

BitchOnWheels — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 03:49:30 +0000

Please tell me that one of you snapped up that green ‘canister’ of JANITOR IN A DRUM from the laundry room cleaning product cavalcade.

By: Seattle Dave

Seattle Dave — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:04:03 +0000

We used to get Trader Vic’s grenadine in that same bottle when I was a kid in the ’70s. I used to use it to make my Roy Rogers. Funny I never noticed the pretty girl on the bottle. I guess I wasn’t interested yet.

By: Melissa

Melissa — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 03:13:52 +0000

I cannot BELIEVE you did not totally snap up that awesome monkey carved out of the coconut. It’s a TREASURE, I tell you. Did you get the peppermill at least?

By: laura zeck

laura zeck — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 21:18:25 +0000

I love that Darigold calendar – could do some great things with that and then super cool funnel! Good Scores – so was this the Bail Money sale? The one at the end?

By: Jan Deibert

Jan Deibert — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:51:05 +0000

I had a strainer and wooden “smasher” like that from my grandmother (there was also a metal stand with it). I think it was used to de-seed berries for jam. I have kicked myself many times over for giving it to goodwill . . .

By: Meghan

Meghan — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:22:12 +0000

It was too gross and to carry it around was just too much. If I could have had a plastic bag to toss it into, no problem. That was nice the case…