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Thread ID: 91598	2008-07-12 03:57:00	Did you have a safe in your house?	Roscoe (6288)	PC World Chat

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688092	2008-07-12 03:57:00	Came across this very helpful tip from Aunt Daisy (1880? - 1963) pioneer commercial broadcaster 1933 - 1963. "To keep tiny flies out of the safe, keep a small spider in one corner. Put a few grains of sugar in every other day and he will keep your safe free of tiny flies in return for an undisturbed home." (I wondered what was the remedy for large flies. A large spider?) Reminded me of the safe we had in our Hataitai, Wellington, house in the 1950s. We could not afford a fridge - they were for the rich - and so we had an outside safe attached to the side of the kitchen. It had wooden, louvre type, vents on either side and a very fine (usually rust coloured) mesh over the vents. It was about 400x400x400. In our present house, the area where the safe was still exists and as there were empty spaces above and below, we utilised that space for a broom cupboard. Because, obviously, milk went sour much quicker in a safe, my mother was very strict about not mixing today's milk with yesterday's milk. The latter might turn the former sour. Even when we finally could afford a fridge it was still a rule that you did not mix the milk. Wellington still had their milk delivered daily by horse and cart until the late 1950s and the milk still came in glass, reusable, bottles. (These days they call it "recycling".) Delivering milk by horse and cart had one main advantage - you did not need a driver. The milkman simply said, "Walk on," and the horse knew how far and when to stop. Because the cart would roll back, when the horse stopped on Wellington's hills, there was an automatic brake which consisted of a roller running behind one of the rear wheels. When the cart stopped it rolled back on the roller. Don't see that clever invention on today's cars. I believe that, if you were a milkman, (there were no milkpersons) you were obliged to deliver the milk in the cool of the early morning.	Roscoe (6288)
688093	2008-07-12 04:01:00	I have always liked to have fresh milk delivered every day In England they still have milkmen or maybe now they are persons the carts are electric though have been all my lifetime.	gary67 (56)
688094	2008-07-12 07:29:00	C "To keep tiny flies out of the safe, keep a small spider in one corner. Put a few grains of sugar in every other day and he will keep your safe free of tiny flies in return for an undisturbed home." Now a spider that eats flies isn't going to care about sugar. That would attract the flies I'd say. Husbands parents had one. Then again he grew up in a shack with 1 cold tap, a coal range, a large metal tub for baths once a week and and an outdoor long drop his dad used to empty out every now and then. Apparently this was actually in the 20th century.............	pctek (84)
688095	2008-07-12 11:12:00	Now a spider that eats flies isn't going to care about sugar. That would attract the flies I'd say. Husbands parents had one. Then again he grew up in a shack with 1 cold tap, a coal range, a large metal tub for baths once a week (whether you needed it or not!) and and an outdoor long drop his dad used to empty out every now and then. Apparently this was actually in the 20th century............. You sure about that? He didn't just dig another hole and move the long drop structure???	johcar (6283)
688096	2008-07-12 20:49:00	Now a spider that eats flies isn't going to care about sugar. That would attract the flies I'd say. Husbands parents had one. Then again he grew up in a shack with 1 cold tap, a coal range, a large metal tub for baths once a week and and an outdoor long drop his dad used to empty out every now and then. Apparently this was actually in the 20th century............. I grew up with the items you mention and no electriity. Lighting was from gas. And no radio. A chamber pot under the bed. Milk delivered to the back door, as was bread and meat. Most carriers etc used horse and cart. A motor car was a novelty. We used to play cricket in the middle of the street. And we did have a safe. Hanging under a tree outside the back door. Just too high for me to reach. At this definately was in the 20th century. 1030's to be exact.	JJJJJ (528)
688097	2008-07-12 21:38:00	You sure about that? He didn't just dig another hole and move the long drop structure??? Yes. He put it into some large tank, to be used for I don't really what to know. Husband fell into this tank one day when he was 3. Obviously he was rescued before drowning.	pctek (84)
688098	2008-07-12 21:39:00	I grew up with the items you mention At this definately was in the 20th century. 1030's to be exact. Er.........1930s? Husbands was in the 1950's. Now I know my mother had a washing machine and electricity etc then..........	pctek (84)
688099	2008-07-13 01:48:00	We did have a safe. I well remember Aunt Daisy and the shows were obviously taped in so far as it was "Good morning and its a fine day" Look out the window and it is hosing down. :-)	Sweep (90)
688100	2008-07-13 09:07:00	I was renting a house a few years ago that had a meat safe . We used it for veggies and things, not game to keep the meat or milk in there . As for long drops . . . . . err, we still have one for a work toilet .	joemac (9739)
688101	2008-07-13 10:29:00	I was raised on a farm. We had a safe fixed to the outside wall of the kitchen. Mother use to bake bread. Got milk from the cow. We also had a fridge. It was a big side by side two door thing. Had a flushing outside toilet. You had to pull on a long chain to flush it. :)	Trev (427)
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