What did YOU do today?

[Rick W]

My mom passed away in December, so this week I spent the whole week going through junk and tossing the useless junk on the street for the biannual junk heap pickup the city has. She saved everything. There were bread bags from a grocery store called Alpha Beta that closed in the 80s. Receipts from Sears, Wards, Gottschalks. She saved broken spatulas, worn out non-stick pans, pens. There were about five shoeboxes full of old pens. Little tin cans that are decorative to entice people to buy whatever was in them. Dozens of bottles of every type of cleaner. A week of hauling junk to the curb, and I'm still nowhere near finished. I saved the good cookware that was made in USA. I think a few things were made in Canada. I found an old Wapak cast iron skillet. Wapak went out of business in 1926. The bottom of the skillet is pitted from the days before sulphur was removed from natural gas. I cleaned it up and re-seasoned it.

Anyway.....I feel like I'm never going to complete this task.

So sorry about your Mom passing. In my prayers.

But I have to say, she sounds like my kind of woman. Why would you throw out all that stuff that you might use someday for something else?

 

[superj]

alpha beta? i haven't heard that store name since the 80s.

we must have had them in socal too, or i just remember from going to my grandparent's house in vallejo regularly