<p>I remember the jello molds from childhood, but don’t recall seeing any for years. The molds themselves are probably considered collector’s items.</p>
<p>hey…I have relatives in both Greensboro and VA…and jello molds are a sign of artistic cooking. I was given the Joys of Jello at my wedding…good one!</p>
<p>Here ya go! Just in time for the Holidays!</p>
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<p>Just want you to know that in some households, those molds are alive and well! I have a distant relative that must have a cranberry mold for Thanksgiving. His mother always made it, so his wife makes it now. It is made with marshmallows and it begins to look mushy within 15 minutes of sitting on the Thanksgiving Day table.</p>
<p>–raises hand–</p>
<p>My mother made a “good for you” orange or apricot Jello salad with pineapple, grated carrot, & grated cabbage in it. I continue the tradition, minus the cabbage or my family would revolt.</p>
<p>Susan Stamberg on All Things Considered every year would give out her mother’s cranberry jello salad. I never even wrote it down because it contained sour cream and onion. Might have actually been wonderful but…no. Just no.</p>
<p>welll…some would say that the grated carrots and canned fruit cocktail are brought to a higher level with some finely chopped Pecans from Stuckeys thrown in–orange jello of course being that color pallette. My family favors cherry and walnut concoctions in dark jellos which seem to come out in a colors that matches the dining room table–a wooden mahogheny look with bernished deep red canned fruit floating in it.</p>
<p>I’m a college student, but I’ll contribute one that I’ve noticed, hand washing dishes. I grew up without a dishwasher so I can wash dishes by the sinkful, but I’m the only one in my apartment with this skill.
On the subject of Jello molds my cousin’s wife makes one for all major holidays that includes lime jello something to make the stuff whiteish and celery and something else. There are some in the family who love it, but I just can’t figure it out.</p>
<p>to mathmom: regarding my native region and exposure to jello mold habits: I grew up in Southern California and everyone on my block hailed from a different midwestern or farwestern state so we had a pretty extended range of jello styles. Since people have been describing cranberry jello combos I suspect that even the New England states have been affected…I have observed both lime jello with pineapple and cottage cheese and something called “sunshine salad” that was orange jello with pineapple and mandarin oranges…(personally, i find cherry jello is the only truly palatable one, preferably with whipped cream on it…)</p>
<p>I think the Joy of Jello as a wedding present entry is a particularly good one! The ebay posting below means you could buy your own copy plus a flag shaped mold!!</p>
<p>Raking and sweeping leaves. Shoveling snow.
NOT blowing.</p>
<p>bread baked in a can</p>
<p>pineapples and ham - baked </p>
<p>World Series on the radio</p>
<p>Ah yes, we baked bread in a can & made pumpkin pie with fresh pumpkin while watching “Gone with the Wind” in college. Also made a pineapple upside down cake from scratch in college, croissants, sprouts & yogurt. Loved pineapple on ham with cloves! May bake it that way for Thanksgiving.</p>
<p>I sure hate leaf blowers; they’re so LOUD & the operator wears ear protection but doesn’t give any to all the rest of us who suffer having to listen to it!</p>
<p>Mmaah… have you actually tried any of the “iron on” badges? They don’t work! Plus the gluey stuff actually makes them harder to sew.</p>
<p>A friend who is a stay-home dad had the perfect solution for his son’s scout badges… liquid nails. Quick and easy, and those badges weren’t ever coming off!</p>
<p>One of the first badges I earned as a Girl Scout was sewing… so that I could sew my own badges! Imagine my dissapointment as a mom when I found out Boy Scouts doesn’t have a sewing badge! I now have an Eagle Scout, but I sewed every single one of his badges. I should have gone with the Liquid Nails…</p>
<p>We made our S (also an Eagle) sew on every badge himself. He also hand-sewed a pillow for 8th grade domestic arts–a mandatory co-ed course in public middle school & a stuffed Mole (for extra credit in Chem). He is better at hand sewing than his sister.</p>
<p>Using a decoder ring</p>
<p>Cleaning an LP (the big record)
Putting the disk into a 45 (the small record)
Changing the speed on the record player</p>
<p>I once a had a job typing names and addresses on form letters. This was for the student loan department at New York state. This job is GONE and I say - good riddance!</p>
<p>Ah, yes the typing skills of all kinds. I had a summer job typing mathematical manuscripts and had to handset the formulas with little special symbols that fit somehow around the rotating type ball of the (then very high tech) IBM selectric. Being a non-math person myself, proofreading the manuscripts was a definite chore…</p>
<p>Ah, LPs. H spent half of Thanksgiving morning taking apart and putting together our ailing turntable so we could play our hmm-mm years old copy of Alice’s Restaurant. </p>
<p>Looks like we’ll either need to find a new turntable, or give in and get a CD.</p>
<p>Changing typing balls on an IBM Selectric!</p>
<p>One part-time job I used to have was at a Hillel where it was occasionally necessary to use typing balls in Hebrew or Cyrillic (for Russian.) There was a little key pasted to the desk so you could do labels or titles in those languages. Anything more than that was out of the question.</p>
<p>was there something called an “addressograph”? seems like i used that many years ago…it imprinted envelopes for mailing…using little pre-made name plates maybe?</p>
<p>Yes, addressograph!..but I never really got adept on that. Nearly undid myself once too when left unattended to use a device that bundled admissions catalogues into groups for mailing. You stepped on something that wrapped string around the bundles and you can only imagine how muddled up that could get when the student operator got uncertain or the string tangled. Needless to say, I avoided the mailroom duties when possible.</p>
<p>There was another thing called an “Autotype” on which I produced 100s of Acceptance (or otherwise) letters…</p>
<p>wearing plain white cotton underwear</p>
<p>plain white sheets (top and bottom), no fitted bottom sheet</p>
<p>ironing EVERYthing including underwear and sheets ( I confess to still ironing most things including all pillow cases and the top sheets in my guest bedrooms)</p>
<p>before ironing clothes sprinkling them with water and putting in the deep freezer (I still occasionally do this too).</p>
<p>waiting to defrost the freezer until it was cold enough to put the food outside in the snow</p>
<p>collecting glass soda-pop bottles and redeeming them for penny candy.</p>
<p>having milk (4% or 6% fat) delivered daily in glass bottles with the cream sitting on the top</p>
<p>being given a free case of soda-pop w/ each gas fill up</p>