Vintage Food Packaging

[Rallygirl]

OMG! One very full dumpster; one kitchen emptied of expired food! Cupboards scrubbed and new food careful put in place. Ahhhhh,.....

As a compulsive neat freak, I have to say that this was the single most cathartic event of my entire life. There have never been enough things in my own house to pitch and toss like I did today. In all seriousness, I used three boxes of garbage bags ans still ran out.

I have a box of de-moused and emptied packaging sitting OUTSIDE my back door that now needs to be researched. More to come in a few days,...

[4NDR01D]

I look forward to seeing what you rescued.

[Saroyan]

That sounds like an epic event!! I don't think I've ever tossed out that much trash in one event- ever!

[Rallygirl]

For some reason (maybe nausea) I was not as intersted in the old packaging as I had imagined. But some of the more interesting finds,..

1. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Ooze Flavored Gelatin
2. A four pack of specially boxed Jurassic Park Jello with dinosaur Jigglers cutters
3. Sue Bee canned chicken and dumplings with a metal "key" to open the can with an expiration date of (hang on) 1978
4. A few outlines of mice that had been flatten by falling cans
5. More pre-upc code items than you could shake a stick at

[livnxxxl]

Wowzers! That was a lot of stuff. You definitely had your work cut out for you there.

[MegoMark71]

holy crap 1978, you have done a good thing.

[Rallygirl]

Before I left Wednesday, I took all the new food and neatly organized it in MILs pantry. By the time I was done, with the exception of dairy, bread and meat, she easily could have been set for at least a year.

But, and you just knew there was one of those,....she called from the grocery store last night; she had locked her keys in the car. There she sat with TWO full shopping carts; easily $500 of food. Even though she could barely pay her property taxes Tuesday, she still has this insane need to buy, buy, buy and fill up the house. After growing up dirt poor, to her a full house means she must be rich

I know at her age, she will not change. She will probably die under piles of un-needed crap. Sigh,..