A Particular Friendship
Viewing comments for Chapter 31 "Stashing Bottles"We meet Lizzy who has just come out of the convent
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Comment from eliz100
This is an amusing story. This walk down memory lane was not bad, just a pleasant memory. I do not see any need for improvement. Have a blessed. I am looking forward to your next post.
reply by the author on 02-Mar-2024
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This is an amusing story. This walk down memory lane was not bad, just a pleasant memory. I do not see any need for improvement. Have a blessed. I am looking forward to your next post.
Comment Written 02-Mar-2024
reply by the author on 02-Mar-2024
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Thank you for your enjoyable review. I'm glad you were amused by it.
Comment from jim vecchio
Oh, how I remember those bottle-for-deposit days. I also remember years later through one of my drives through Vermont, marveling how clen the grass and roads were compared to our state. I figured people took seriously recycling and deposit laws. I wish the children of today could have a world full of the delicious penny candies that were so important to my youth.
reply by the author on 29-Feb-2024
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Oh, how I remember those bottle-for-deposit days. I also remember years later through one of my drives through Vermont, marveling how clen the grass and roads were compared to our state. I figured people took seriously recycling and deposit laws. I wish the children of today could have a world full of the delicious penny candies that were so important to my youth.
Comment Written 29-Feb-2024
reply by the author on 29-Feb-2024
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Thank you for your delicious review. . There was one candy that it was it didn't taste very good but it had a great special deal on it so we got it. It was 10 pieces for a penny. Where would we ever find that in this day?
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I just finished a candy bar that was something over a dollar and it wasn't have as good as one of those old penny candies. I'm a bit old, but did you have the little penny candies thsat were some kind of sugary confection, looked like tiny cup cake, and you ate it with a tiny spoon. They probably would use that spoon for drugs today.
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Omg yes I do remember those now yes.
They probably do use the spoons for drugs you're right is that called repurposing.?
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We have aq lot of fancy names now for sins.
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We have aq lot of fancy names now for sins.
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lol
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funny
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I may not be able to share candy with you, but hope you share more of your great words with us!
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That is sweet enough.... thank you ...sigh
Comment from barbara.wilkey
I never collected bottles, but after I drank a soda, I would return the bottle to the store for the few cents. LOL I smiled as I read this post. Thank you for sharing this with us. It's a great memory.
reply by the author on 28-Feb-2024
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I never collected bottles, but after I drank a soda, I would return the bottle to the store for the few cents. LOL I smiled as I read this post. Thank you for sharing this with us. It's a great memory.
Comment Written 28-Feb-2024
reply by the author on 28-Feb-2024
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Thank you for your delightful review . I'm so happy that it brought back good memories for you
Comment from Ric Myworld
Yes, this is a journey way back in time for me, but a period that I remember well. Now that you've brought it back, I just struggle to believe it happened so long ago, and time has passed so quickly. Thanks for sharing.
reply by the author on 28-Feb-2024
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Yes, this is a journey way back in time for me, but a period that I remember well. Now that you've brought it back, I just struggle to believe it happened so long ago, and time has passed so quickly. Thanks for sharing.
Comment Written 28-Feb-2024
reply by the author on 28-Feb-2024
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Thank you for your interesting review. I actually wrote this autobiography 20 + years ago. What's fun now is I am reading what I wrote saying "I don't remember that happening," or "oh that happened." I'm suggesting for people to write or begin their autobiography when they're around 50. When you get into your high 70s you don't remember all that stuff.
Comment from BethShelby
I collecte bottles for 2 cents each also. It sounds like you had a wonderful childhood with friend to do things with. I live on acreage away from other house ane as a only child I had no one to things with. I would have been envious of you.
reply by the author on 28-Feb-2024
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I collecte bottles for 2 cents each also. It sounds like you had a wonderful childhood with friend to do things with. I live on acreage away from other house ane as a only child I had no one to things with. I would have been envious of you.
Comment Written 28-Feb-2024
reply by the author on 28-Feb-2024
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Thank you for your vulnerable review. So you were probably able to get some good stuff too with your bottles I couldn't believe how little candy cost compared to now.
Comment from patcelaw
This reminds me of when I was a young girl and we would walk 2 1/2 miles to school. Two of those miles was long busy highway and we would pick up bottles along the way and take them to the local store and get two cents a bottle and that's how we got spending money. I enjoyed your story very much. Have a good day and God bless. Pat Patric.
reply by the author on 28-Feb-2024
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This reminds me of when I was a young girl and we would walk 2 1/2 miles to school. Two of those miles was long busy highway and we would pick up bottles along the way and take them to the local store and get two cents a bottle and that's how we got spending money. I enjoyed your story very much. Have a good day and God bless. Pat Patric.
Comment Written 28-Feb-2024
reply by the author on 28-Feb-2024
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Thank you for your delightful review. I bet walking along that busy highway you did get a lot of bottles. Wasn't it amazing how low price everything was compared with now?
Comment from Karen Cherry Threadgill
I certainly remember the days of turning in bottles for cash. This added to my allowance and helped me get Eerie and Mad Magazines at the trading book store.
I could get additional coins for the ironing. Mom hated it. Dad sometimes did his own shirts, but only if he had good pain pills. He was in pain all the time. Guess who I got my back from? Good writing. Karen
reply by the author on 28-Feb-2024
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I certainly remember the days of turning in bottles for cash. This added to my allowance and helped me get Eerie and Mad Magazines at the trading book store.
I could get additional coins for the ironing. Mom hated it. Dad sometimes did his own shirts, but only if he had good pain pills. He was in pain all the time. Guess who I got my back from? Good writing. Karen
Comment Written 28-Feb-2024
reply by the author on 28-Feb-2024
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Thank you for your delightful review. So you got Mad magazine! That's cool. We do seem to inherit some of our parents' aches & pains.
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Have a good weekend.
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Thank you. You also.
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Comment from Baltimore Born
This is a well-written story. Great details about you and your friend's entrepreneurship. This story was very captivating from start to finish. I like the passion you and your friends showed collecting those bottles. Very nice story.
reply by the author on 28-Feb-2024
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This is a well-written story. Great details about you and your friend's entrepreneurship. This story was very captivating from start to finish. I like the passion you and your friends showed collecting those bottles. Very nice story.
Comment Written 28-Feb-2024
reply by the author on 28-Feb-2024
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Thank you for your engaging review. I'm glad you enjoyed it. If you want to read any of my previous chapters you're welcome to do that in my portfolio. There's no need for writing any review just browse through them if you want to. And enjoy them.
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Okay. You're welcome.
Comment from Aisha Robins
Hi, Liz -
Not having read the other chapters, I'm meeting you and your gang without a proper introduction and with no information about what came before these events. Having "said" this, I do have some suggestions. First, I think the narrative would be more powerful if it were "tightened up." Not to the extent of doing away with the rambling voice, but focusing on the most poignant aspects of the memories. For example, the reader probably doesn't need to know the exact penny value of every type of bottle/can in order to get the point you're making about what was considered a windfall or lack thereof. Second, I think a strong opening for this chapter would be your [slightly revised] last sentence: "In my small town in Vermont, our unwritten rule about bottles was 'finders, keepers.'
Cheers -
Aisha
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reply by the author on 28-Feb-2024
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Hi, Liz -
Not having read the other chapters, I'm meeting you and your gang without a proper introduction and with no information about what came before these events. Having "said" this, I do have some suggestions. First, I think the narrative would be more powerful if it were "tightened up." Not to the extent of doing away with the rambling voice, but focusing on the most poignant aspects of the memories. For example, the reader probably doesn't need to know the exact penny value of every type of bottle/can in order to get the point you're making about what was considered a windfall or lack thereof. Second, I think a strong opening for this chapter would be your [slightly revised] last sentence: "In my small town in Vermont, our unwritten rule about bottles was 'finders, keepers.'
Cheers -
Aisha
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Comment Written 28-Feb-2024
reply by the author on 28-Feb-2024
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I guess I have to say if you're going to give me a three why do you even bother give me any score unless you're going to get money for doing a review . Also don't bother read anymore of my stuff for because it's all the same. It's all scattered. It's all dependent upon the paragraph or the previous chapters.
Comment from Carol Hillebrenner
You seem to have had an adventuresome childhood. I do remember collecting bottles and turning them in to buy penny candy, but in my neighborhood all the men sent their kids to the local tavern with a gallon glass jug to buy their beer. We never found many bottles. It was great you could find so many and swiping each other's stashes must have been exciting.
reply by the author on 28-Feb-2024
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You seem to have had an adventuresome childhood. I do remember collecting bottles and turning them in to buy penny candy, but in my neighborhood all the men sent their kids to the local tavern with a gallon glass jug to buy their beer. We never found many bottles. It was great you could find so many and swiping each other's stashes must have been exciting.
Comment Written 28-Feb-2024
reply by the author on 28-Feb-2024
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Thank you for your truthfully sad review. What are the deals we had at our mom and pop store was there was one kind of candy, though not my favorite had quite a deal. 10 pieces for a penny. So we could go in there with a nickel and get 50 pieces of candy. As I I say it wasn't the top choice but we walked out with 50 pieces of candy. Oh my gosh. I hope the kids had to go fetch the beer got more than a sneaky sip of beer.
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Fetching the beer was an adventure and we thought we were very grown up, until the day I dropped our jug on the way back home.
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Oh no. That sounds just like something that would happen with me dropping the jug. A big oof. I hope you didn't get switched with a twig. It was switching days back then you know. My grandmother from hell was very aware of that.
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My mother used a wire fly swatter once on my bare behind. She didn't realize there were broken wires in it and I had the most infected butt anyone had ever seen. After that she just wouldn't talk to me. Dad just bought a new jug but drove to get his own jug filled.
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That reminds me of a friend who got paddled. We were in a store in the kids' toy department. When she saw a Mickey Mouse paddle she said, "that would have made a pretty pattern when I got paddled...lol
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Now that is a good attitude toward one of life's little difficulties
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She had gotten into therapy and was able to be humorous about some of that hard stuff
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You sadly had tattoo marks probably from your fly swatter incident.