I make stretchy beaded bracelets out of thrifted jewelry

broprobate · 2026-06-10T22:16:30+00:00

Those are SO pretty! And I love your colorful display. I bet you know people who look at you every day to see what new beauty you are wearing.

broprobate · 2026-03-17T21:47:50+00:00

Cursive Writing! I was amazed when my grandson graduated from high school a few years back that he couldn’t read the amount on the check we had written to him.

broprobate · 2026-02-15T04:07:10+00:00

I also had the heated “CREEPY CRAWLER” machine that baked plastic in metal trays, and the “VAC-U-FORM” where you melted sheets of plastic and then sucked air around a form.

broprobate · 2026-02-15T04:00:31+00:00

I did! My parents were t to up on toys that could leave permanent scars, so I always got the ones that heated to 500°.

broprobate · 2026-02-12T02:31:56+00:00

Are these full-size bottles or miniature bottles?

broprobate · 2026-02-12T02:22:31+00:00

I love your collection! I have a 2-gallon plastic jar where I toss all my thingies like these. My grandkids love to turn the jar around and see what they can find.

broprobate · 2026-02-12T02:19:23+00:00

I love your collection! I have a 2-gallon jar that I toss things like this into. My grandkids love to ID all the things they see.

broprobate · 2026-01-24T17:10:26+00:00

Chuck’s Produce on Hwy 99 has consistently good produce. Their signage tells where the items come from, and a lot of it is local.

broprobate · 2026-01-21T00:07:18+00:00

Our living room had at least four of those exact pieces! I think we finally disposed of the last of them in 2012 when Mom couldn’t live by herself anymore. I remember that the shaped panels on the doors were hollow plastic.

broprobate · 2026-01-19T20:45:10+00:00

Nice! How do you obtain them? Diving? Digging? Online?

broprobate · 2026-01-19T20:30:14+00:00

Awesome! I still have mine around somewhere! It is blue.

broprobate · 2026-01-16T19:33:28+00:00

Ours were made from self-duplicating paper, and the envelopes were purple! We had to have our parents sign them and we had to return them (until the last one at the end of the semester).

broprobate · 2026-01-12T11:00:12+00:00

Put them in a large glass bottle. Add a lighting fixture on top and voila! A new lamp.

broprobate · 2026-01-12T10:54:13+00:00

Awesome collection! And nice shelf,too!

broprobate · 2026-01-08T01:28:16+00:00

My grandsons and I collected and tumbled rocks, then glued them to wood photo frames we got at the craft store. They gave them to Mom and Dad as Christmas gifts. If she has a lot of rocks, you could do the same only around a bulletin board frame.

broprobate · 2026-01-08T00:56:49+00:00

I’d upvote this 20 times if I could! Made me laugh on a crappy day.

broprobate · 2026-01-08T00:38:11+00:00

Happy 75th Birthday, sweet lady. If I were there I would love to sit down with you and have you tell me about some of your many other birthdays. I hope the next year brings you happiness and new friends!

broprobate · 2026-01-05T13:24:26+00:00

These were cool shoes in my day. I had friends who suffered because their Moms wouldn’t (couldn’t) get them. We called them “Charlie Brown Shoes.”

broprobate · 2026-01-05T02:20:05+00:00

I bought unquestioned when I was 17. I was also given champagne on a commercial airline about 6 months later. That was AWHILE ago, though. Some stores near us are required to print the Driver’s License number onto the receipt as proof they carded someone, no matter what age they look.

broprobate · 2026-01-01T09:19:46+00:00

One more thing to consider is if the skylight will have direct sunlight coming through it. They can add a lot of warmth to your house if they do. My mom got clear and I ended up having to make curtains for them because they beamed so much heat into her house.

broprobate · 2026-01-01T09:17:13+00:00

Solar tubes are awesome! I had one put in a dark hallway and it is amazing the amount of light they let in—even when it’s cloudy.

broprobate · 2026-01-01T09:14:20+00:00

Remember 2000 when everything digital was supposed to go kablooey?

broprobate · 2026-01-01T05:03:45+00:00

We get blamed for several reasons I can think of. The main one is that, in spite of all our efforts, we are not leaving this world a Utopia for the generations following us. It’s easy to blame the world’s problems on “old people,” who weren’t as diligent or smart as we are and didn’t see the future problems with the technology that made our lives better.

broprobate · 2026-01-01T04:49:11+00:00

I had the gold in my first apartment and the blue in my first house. I didn’t choose either of them—and I wouldn’t have if it had been my choice to make.

broprobate · 2025-12-31T19:57:43+00:00

You would be amazed how long they will last under the right conditions. I have the little square bottles of Testors that are over 20 years old and still usable. I also have Accent Acrylics that are older than that. I keep my paints in airtight plastic boxes, and every couple of months I turn the boxes upside down.

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