Home sweet home
Bob's sister Hannah
Bob's sister Ada
Bob's brother Otto
Bob's sister Eve
Bob's sister Nan
A baby picture of Bob and his siblings (clockwise from upper left: Otto, Eve, Hannah, Ada, Bob, and Nan)
Bob's childhood home
Bob's mom and dad
Bob in his youth
Bob's cousin Alphonse
Bob's Uncle Ralph and Aunt Edna
Bob's cousin Archibald
Bob's stepbrother Herbie (who really needs to quit smoking)
Bob's cousin Chester
Bob's Great Uncle Norbert and Great Aunt Phyllis
Bob's cousin Saffron (who will do anything for a drink)
Bob's cousin Thorndike
Bob's brother-in-law Vinnie
Bob's cousin Orville, who loves the Green Bay Packers
Bob's nieces Lulu and Bitsy, the biker chicks
Bob's stepsister Eloise, with the twins, Rudy and Trudy
Bob's Uncle Henry and Aunt Rowena
Bob's niece Esmerelda (who likes to live dangerously)
Bob's Great Uncle Arthur up in Saskatchewan
Bob's cousin Louie, the grackle of grumpiness
Miss Screech, Bob's journalism teacher
Bob's nephew Winthrop, who loves sports
Bob's Uncle Seymour and Aunt Bernice
Bob's second cousin Schlomo in Brooklyn
Bob's nephew Baxter
Bob's cousin Darrell
Nigel, Bob's pen pal in New Zealand
Bob's sister-in-law Delphine, who volunteers at the animal shelter
Percy the Pickpocket, Bob's third cousin once removed (the relative no one likes to talk about... every family has one)
The Bluebird of Happiness™ (no relation to Bob)
A pair of boobies (also no relation to Bob, but included for readers who desire titillation)
A pair of tits (in case the boobies were insufficiently titillating)
Bluebird Bitter™, the beer they named for Bob
bluebird of bitterness 
There’s a group on LiveJournal called “Vintage Ads” that’s pretty much the only reason I stay on LJ, and a few of these have been featured there. I love the old ads, especially considering that a lot of the pictures were drawn rather than photographed. Some of them are works of art. The ad for Mojud stockings is worthy of Alberto Vargas…
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Seconding the Vargas reference. I’d forgot about him!
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So neat!
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What a way-back look! I remember some of these. I do know that if hubby had read any of those appliance ads and gotten me a coffee pot or an ironing board, he’d have had one very cold Christmas…
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Agreed😄
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I must be weird, because I liked getting small appliances for Christmas. My very first microwave oven was a Christmas gift from my husband, and my coffee maker and yogurt maker were gifts from my kids. All were expensive items that I would have felt bad buying for myself, so getting them as gifts was nice. 🙂
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These are awesome – some so cringy, some so weird, some so full of double-entendre 😀 And a couple even so sweet!
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I had one of those shiny aluminum christmas trees when I was a kid, that had belonged to my great-aunt. Each branch was stored in its separate paper sleeve to protect it, and had to be inserted individually into the trunk. You really needed bright colored ornaments to put on it, anything silver or gold wouldn’t show. I’m told you could get a color changing spotlight to shine on it, but I never had one.
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I remember seeing those trees with the spotlight. The story — possibly what would now be called an urban legend — was that you couldn’t use regular lights on the aluminum trees because you’d be electrocuted.
Never knew anyone who owned one, though, and had no idea each branch was wrapped separately!
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We had one when I was a kid. (We couldn’t have a real tree in the house because of my dad’s allergies.) We even had the color-changing spotlight thingy. 🙂
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Nevermind crying, I’m going to ask my husband for a can opener for Christmas and see what he says….
He just said, “If that’s what you want, go get it”
So romantic! I can’t stop laughing! 😄
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These are great! I love the one with the wives/husband circle the items
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It’s about as subtle as a sledgehammer, but whatever works. 🙂
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Drooling over that red dress Loretta Young is wearing!
(You’d need a bunch of those Rid-Jid ironing boards to take care of that skirt!)
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