WHAT COMES AROUND GOES AROUND

Now we know that great grandmother probably sent her husband to St. Hilare to carry a 50# sack of flour home on his back. He would have gone for other supplies as well.

Grandpa and Grandpa in later years went to Piggly Wiggly on the first of the month when they got their social security check. Between the two of them, they recieved $60. Not all of it was spent, they saved on that amount.

When my brother and I were little, Mother picked up the phone by the kitchen table and called Riverside Grocery. She wrote her list on the top of the kitchen table in pencil, crossing out as she went. It was NOT a big store but big enough to have meat, some fresh fruit and veggies, and dairy. If you went into the store, it smelled like rotting onions AND there were fruit flies.

I was looking at a site today for Hornbacher's, which is a group of markets here in Fargo. They deliver. It states delivery is free if you spend greater than $50 AND the groceries are delivered in about two hours. I am considering it for the coldest part of winter.

Who does your shopping for you? I did see a cute little gray haired lady with a printed list at the 32nd Street store. She had her hair done up in a French roll, her cheeks were painted pink and she had nail polish. She must have been Mrs. Claus herself. I am thinking she was in her seventies.

It isn't like I need a $50 bag of flour but wouldn't it be great if you ordered cases of soda or water and someone else carried it into the house for you? Do you think the eggs would get to the house unbroken and the bread would not be smushed?

One would hope the dates on dairy would be at least 10 days. Old Trunks is not remembering the milk came from Riverside, rather it was delivered by City Dairy. Mr. Silk was the milkman who clanged the glass quarts. Other milk bottling companies in Thief River Falls were Land O Lakes and Bridgeman.

Would you buy groceries on line if available in your town?

I wonder if your mother ever asked you to stop at the store on the way home from school to pick something up. Tom relates their family had a charge account at the Red Owl in Sabin, MN. He would walk the rail tracks home, one time the cream he was to get slid through the bag and broke on the tracks. Old Trunks knows he got in trouble.

Old Trunks wonders how many times Mother said to Daddy, "Stannnnnnnnnnnn, would you stop at the store and get ........." And he would forget and have to go get it anyway. :)