tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27254015.post2911161629902546433..comments2024-03-09T10:15:11.266+13:00Comments on Unravelling: Two More Mom StoriesMeghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01350447919000146804noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27254015.post-41900037544810006882009-11-04T09:04:16.036+13:002009-11-04T09:04:16.036+13:00EVERYTHING is turning into plastic nowadays. And o...EVERYTHING is turning into plastic nowadays. And often they are not the best wrappers to preserve the contents!! I, too, miss the different textual experience of different material. I hated Dad smoking, but I miss this particular brand of cigarettes for the extra-heavy kind of foil it was wrapped in, Trapunto.Meghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01350447919000146804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27254015.post-52988195079317163902009-11-04T06:56:33.015+13:002009-11-04T06:56:33.015+13:00Great stories. I miss foil. I also remember noti...Great stories. I miss foil. I also remember noticing when candy bars stopped being wrapped in real waxed paper when I was a kid in the 80's, replaced by the wispy plastic sheeting stuff. The crackle and crumple-up-able-ness of of the paper wrapper was part of the pleasure.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27254015.post-56733982524942448302009-11-03T08:37:36.800+13:002009-11-03T08:37:36.800+13:00Wow, it's nice to know it was almost... univer...Wow, it's nice to know it was almost... universal, Carol. Interesting. I can't remember what Mom did with all the silver paper now.Meghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01350447919000146804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27254015.post-16145683696472521062009-11-03T00:29:58.273+13:002009-11-03T00:29:58.273+13:00Lucilla thinks you can eat toothpaste, too. I know...Lucilla thinks you can eat toothpaste, too. I know when I was a kid there was a very strongly banana flavoured and perfumed toothpaste which I though was pretty yummy. I also remember my mother and grandmother collecting silver paper from chocolates, and rolling it into a big ball, presumably to be sent off for recycling, but one of our dogs got to it first and shredded it while looking for the chocolate.Carolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01914350639398715648noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27254015.post-37068596611521015722009-11-02T23:12:42.350+13:002009-11-02T23:12:42.350+13:00Possibly, or it could be her second time around, L...Possibly, or it could be her second time around, Lyra, you know...Meghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01350447919000146804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27254015.post-35101050596991031142009-11-02T22:52:52.566+13:002009-11-02T22:52:52.566+13:00Lyra thinks toothpaste is soft serve ice cream- al...Lyra thinks toothpaste is soft serve ice cream- always has. I wonder if she's spent time hanging with your mom.tauerethttp://longleggedfly.squarespace.comnoreply@blogger.com