Kiwi Crones - A virtual kitchen table for the Farms' grannies and aunties

[Aunt Carol]

If people don't write up the experience of this kind of childhood it's going to get written by other people, romanticized, used for dumb policy wonkery, taken over by all kinds of retardation.

To that end, @Nique la mere de Macron write the memoir, but consider finding an up-and-coming comic artist to make it a graphic novel about your oppressed childhood. That's a license to print money and emboss awards, these days.

bath bead things. It seemed like when you put them in the bath, you would eventually end up with kind of a sad, deflated-condom-looking scrap of plastic that stuck to everything. Do you guys know what I'm talking about? Was I Doing It Wrong?

It looked like the results of dissolving a gel-cap of medicine in water, and I always assumed it was the same thing. The scrap of colorful gel-ooze kept dissolving, and was impossible to not continue poking at.

I think that's normal. If you were a grown-up lady you were just supposed to ignore it as you had your bath experience. That was the skin that contained the oil.

...whoa, heavy realization, ladies. Tide Pods were the bath oil beads of the next generation. Same dissolving skin, same irresistiblity to children, just more utility and a 2010s portion size.

 

[Sperghetti]

My grandma still has a fancy jar of these in her bathroom
God knows how long it's been sitting there but it still looks pristine.

Don't worry, they're almost certainly all fused together into one giant mass, like a jar of gummy vitamins left in a hot car.

She also had that awful "potpourri spray" and would douse entire rooms in it before she had company over.

Those were the exact cans we had in my bathroom growing up, holy shit.

 

[Waffle Iron]

I can't believe you liked the Q&A and didn't even drop your own answer whether you're a spinner or a reacharounder.

On-topic. I had a dolphin-shaped bath oil bead. I loved it and would use it as a fidget toy, pushing the gel back and forth. Of course it eventually started leaking and my hands were dirty with goop.

 

[Valstrax]

Mine kept an absolutely ancient bowl of potpourri in hers. It had turned so gray but somehow still smelled a bit like cinnamon. She also had that awful "potpourri spray" and would douse entire rooms in it before she had company over. Wyświetl załącznik 9175518
At this point the smell of potpourri is very nostalgic. (Miss you every day grandma!)

Why do I vaguely remember this?

 

[Plus Size Polka]

Potpourri simmer pots.

A bowl sat on top of a vented column that had a tea light in it. Pour water in to the bowl, add fresh potpourri, light the tea light underneath and it would scent up the room. The bowls often had kitschy designs on them.

 

[Stupid Lisa Garbageface]

Did anyone else retardly try to eat these? I was a wee lass when these were popular. Me and my sister thought they would taste like candy

I absolutely wanted nothing more than to eat one of these. I'm a little more sympathetic to the Tide Pod kids now that I've been reminded of this.