I was an Avon lady in the late 90's. Even with the beard, I'd knock on the door, and men should shout their wives and say "The Avon lady's here". There are lots of jobs - polceman, fireman, etc, that only have a masculine term. An Avon lady is one the few jobs that only has a feminine term

I stopped doing it because everyone assumed I was gay. I didn't care anyone thought I was gay, except, any women I happened to like did too, and I still had a sexuality of which to speak back then.

Yeah but you know to me it gets really old and has gotten really old to me, for a very long time.
What I mean is all the various terminology. As you yourself once said, it is words.

I actually hate to see some of the terms leave because they were founded by hard working people.

The 'Avon Lady' started way back when women were not accepted in 'men's' jobs. I suppose with
World War II things began to change because the men were at war and the women had to work.
My grandmother was even a 'rosie the revitor'.....reveter.....reviter....whatever.

In addition and primarily Avon sold women's products. Back in those days, many of those products
were considered personal.

Now I guess they should call it Avon Sales Person.....or some such as that.

A friend of mine and myself sold it for two months back in the mid 70's. She talked me into it and
we lost money because we were buying everything ourselves.

BouldRake wrote: I was an Avon lady in the late 90's. Even with the beard, I'd knock on the door, and men should shout their wives and say "The Avon lady's here". There are lots of jobs - polceman, fireman, etc, that only have a masculine term. An Avon lady is one the few jobs that only has a feminine term

I stopped doing it because everyone assumed I was gay. I didn't care anyone thought I was gay, except, any women I happened to like did too, and I still had a sexuality of which to speak back then.

That is very nice Lady BouldRake

Beanie babies is a huge scam like Bitcoin.

valerie wrote:

Marcel-R6 wrote: How many ex husbands do you have?

Oh yeah watches forgot that one will edit my post.

HaHa!

Two and that was Two too many!

ohh dear , dear , you are are long way from Elizabeth Taylor number of husbands
Please hurry up

valerie wrote: @Marcel-R6 An ex-husband would collect knifes and watches. It actually made it easy to buy him gifts.

@shadecat Only collect the hard stuff. Spend the paper. To prepare for what might come, take a little of your cash to the bank and exchange it for.... change. Always save your change. I like books too! Oh but decorative tins can take up lots of room. I use to keep my large popcorn tins I would get from walmart at Christmas. I'd fill them with ornaments or other Christmas stuff. I have some smaller cookie tins. I always buy the famous Denmark butter cookies at walmart every Christmas. Well, most every Christmas. The tins are beautiful and I have bought many of the small ones for gifts to the mailman, etc.

@hlrive My best friend I grew up with, up north by Chicago, she is Polish and her parents long since passed were very Polish that lived through the depression. Her father worked at one of the major soap factories, Proctor Gamble or one of those. He brought home lots of products that was made in the factory. I guess they got a big discount and/or some that may have been mislabeled or some what damaged. They always washed their dishes with bar soap. I remember her mother telling her to go to the basement and get some soap. In their basement was lots of long shelves and on the shelves was lots of products. Several containers of lard, shortening (didn't use cooking oils back then), can foods, laundry detergents, bar soap, etc. Not a little. A LOT. I was only 8, 9, 10, 11 years old but I always enjoyed going in their basement to see all the goodies on the shelves. I have not seen my old friend in many years but she never did that. Guess who does? She told me that her parents went through such hard times that they stayed prepared. Fortunately, they never had to live through hard times again but they were certainly prepared for it. Something about that, had a large impact on me. So I do the same. I don't have a basement and I don't have a huge stockpile but if something were to happen and I could not buy food, I probably always have enough on hand to last me 1 to 2 years.

My family was the same way the only things that we had to buy was Toilet paper and medicines at the store. The basement was full of home canned goods, and we had 2 large freezers full of meat. We raised all of our own chickens, pigs, and cows, so we had plenty of food at home.

valerie wrote: @ Micshad I bought a lot of avon in the 70's and I think my grandmother use to buy some back in the
50's and 60's. Later when I worked at a hospital, a friend at work sold it and would come around on the
night shift handing out books, I would always order something from her. I never really liked much of the
Avon products but I did like their pretty cologne bottles. In the 60's I was a 'love's Lemon' girl....loved
that stuff. In the 70's I was a 'Heaven Scent' girl. There was a few avon scents I liked over the years.
One came in a red bottle and I think the name of it was 'Charisma' and then there was one that came in
tall yellow bottle....can't remember the name of it. I bought a lot of their nail polish and roll on's and
some of their lotions, bubble baths, and oils. We use to keep some of the perfume bottles after they
were empty and oh.....they use to make a cream perfume in a jar....remember those? It came in fancy
jars and then later in the 80's I think they changed to calling it a perfume bath cream or some such
that came in color jars. Oh....I think I liked their honeysuckle too!

That reminds me and I can't think of the name, of decorator stuff that people would have home
parties....something like 'Home Decor' name or some such. I had a lot of that stuff at one time
all over my walls. Also had some of the figurines. Here again, it was a lady at work that sold it
so I was always ordering from her.

Trying to trace family history is no doubt a big job. I never got very far with it. I did find an old
picture online of my great great grandfather and grandmother on my father's side. He was a
doctor and had a long beard. His wife had a mean look on her face and her waist looked like it
was only 14 inches.

PS. After typing something long, copy it. That way if you're booted, you can paste it back in.

Do you remember the Daisy stuff for kids? Mom would buy that for me when I was a kid. That's how long she dealt with Avon. i liked Timeless powder and perfume. Still have powder. One of the cream sachets was called "Wishing." It was a very small white container with a gold wishbone on the top (I have that jar yet). I loved the Soft Musk and Skin-So-Soft body lotions. Have a lot of lady figurine jars, steins, and mom had the 'blue collection" and "Ruby Red" collection. I also have a lot of "men's" bottles, too, when men used to wear after shave. The cars, the hunter's stuff, etc. Good thing I let my ex have his Avon stuff when I kicked him out in the '70s, or I'd have 30 more bottles to contend with.

All women look mean in most pictures. No one was supposed to smile back then. I just got done helping a friend on what I could find in a couple hours on her brick wall...I can help others but I can't find my own brick wall! Oh, well. I'll just keep trying. When I get tired of them, I go back to my Brown, Reed, and Berger's to try to straighten them out. Have a Lewis E. Brown (my g-grandfather) living 3 doors down from Lewis E. Brown (another branch). Love every minute of it.

@Micshad No, can't say as I remember the daisy stuff.

Made me think of when I was a kid and collected comic books. There was a drug store that was
on my way home from school and I would stop in there almost every day and buy candy, silly toys,
but mostly 'Archie Series' comic books. They were $0.12 cents and some times they would have
the double feature comic books for a quarter. I did buy a few others too such as 'Baby Huey', 'Dot',
etc. I had stacks of them and I would read some over when I didn't have new ones to read.

Then Vietnam came along and one day my grandmother ask me if I would donate my comic
books to the 'boys in nam'. You know, I think that was one of the hardest things I did when
I was a kid, let loose of all those comic books. Not sure how many I had..... 300 to 500 or maybe
more.

Years later when I think back on it, I just wonder how many of the 'boys in nam' actually liked
reading 'Archie series comic books'? Maybe so but I suspect they were more into superman
and super hero comic books. I do often wonder what became of all those comic books. Could
they still be floating around Vietnam some where?

The reason why they did not smile in their pictures back then was usually due to their teeth.

sweetpie3000 wrote: Beanie babies is a huge scam like Bitcoin.

David you are something else. What, I am not sure.

valerie wrote:

sweetpie3000 wrote: Beanie babies is a huge scam like Bitcoin.

David you are something else. What, I am not sure.

I know the right word

But since I'm a friendly guy I'll let it slide......

I hear ya on the money! Used to have collection of world money. Coins and paper that belong to my fiance' who passed. I still have his stamp collection. Don't know what to do with it! The tins I find the prettiest are the ones I have bought from kids selling door to door. They usually have chocolates in them. I have one that is so pretty. It is a teal color with decorative print and has a hummingbird sitting on a long on the lid. I just love it. It is a small tin only about 4" around and about 6" tall. It is my favorite. I have another small one that looks like a lattice garden. It is a small one too. I have a few from Wal Mart but I like to collect the more unusual ones.

shadecat wrote: I hear ya on the money! Used to have collection of world money. Coins and paper that belong to my fiance' who passed. I still have his stamp collection. Don't know what to do with it! The tins I find the prettiest are the ones I have bought from kids selling door to door. They usually have chocolates in them. I have one that is so pretty. It is a teal color with decorative print and has a hummingbird sitting on a long on the lid. I just love it. It is a small tin only about 4" around and about 6" tall. It is my favorite. I have another small one that looks like a lattice garden. It is a small one too. I have a few from Wal Mart but I like to collect the more unusual ones.

I use to buy a few products from the candy/cheese companies out of Wisconsin. Some of them
I would buy simply because the tin was so pretty. The Danish butter cookies sold at walmart,
they have the big decorate ones at Christmas AND although I have not noticed the small ones
in the store, they sell the small ones online AND you don't usually know which decorative tins
you'll get. I ordered half a dozen of the small ones online a couple of years ago and every one
of them had a different decor tin.

Anyway, I do understand the attraction to the decor tins because many are very pretty.

I collect video games and game consoles.

Yarn. Well--other craft supplies too...and odd shaped bottles... But mostly Yarn. At the moment I have an entire floor to ceiling bookshelf (custom built by the other half)--1 foot deep, 6 ft wide, 8 ft tall, full of yarn of all kinds. Plus 2 stacks of the 72 Qt sterlite/rubbermaid containers.

And that's just inside. Out in the shed another 6 or 8 sterlite/rubbermaids....

Oh, and I also have about 150 dried gourds, all ready to be cleaned and decorated.

And probably a 1/2 a cord of dried seasoned mesquite waiting to be carved.

And then there is last year's 4 point buck skull, cleaned and ready to be scrimshawed, inlaid with semi-precious stones, and the horns leafed....

But I'll get to that when it speaks to me. I have to wait for the mesquite, gourds and skulls to speak to me--otherwise they get messed up. That's the way it is with stone also--anything organic, so to speak. I leave it around, and contemplate it occasionally.

And then one day--POOOF! I see what is waiting inside to come out, and HOW it wants to be expressed. Then it's just a matter of "tracing" (sort of, but not quite) what I see.

Thank goodness it happens like that, because without that special "vision", for lack of a better word, I can barely draw stick figures LOL.

The same thing happens with dried fungi--those flat ones like large plates that grow out of pine trees. When dried and wood burned, they can be really cool.

But I promised my other half NO MORE YARN until I used some up. SO--I made a bathroom set-- a copy of one I saw online that was hand crocheted in some village somewhere--fair trade, organic cotton, etc.--that cost over 350.00! for a crocheted cotton bathroom set--tank cover, lid cover, and bathmat. Not even curtains to match--so I designed my own curtains, and am finishing them up now .

I am also crocheting a set of curtains for my office window, and then will start on curtains/throw pillows.etc. for the living room.....

@chrystalia I have a lot of yarn but not a huge amount. I have several tote bags full. I made several orders, to say the least, back a few years ago. My intent was to make granny squares in various colors and make 3 bed cover throws for each of my children. I need to get back to that. I had told myself if I make just one granny square a day, which would only take a few minutes, that in 30 days, I would have 30 granny squares. Guess how many granny squares I have?

I will tell you. One. I have only made one.

@valarie. People are buying beanie babies as investment. People are selling rare beanies babies 5k dollars each. 5 years later beanie babies became worthless. Now you can find those rare beanie babies for under a bucks each.

Don't do that then. Problem solved, glad to be of service.

BouldRake wrote: Don't do that then. Problem solved, glad to be of service.

And peeps say I'm the sarcastic one

Thanks Bould