10 years ago: DU was talking about bread bags before it was cool...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x4151354
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They always seemed to leak. Or maybe it was because I was the youngest and they were worn out by the time they were handed down to me.
I think it's the reason they started included mud rooms in houses. 
I had the red rubber boots with the buckles. And when we would lose one of our gloves or had no gloves we would use old miss-matched socks as gloves. 
Joni Ernst doesn't understand that more people are staying that way then moving beyond. Why wasn't she somewhere with a pig, she is a repig or is that repug 
I rarely go in the Lounge these days. 
Plus, I think she spelled her name Joani. 
Thanks, ScreamingMeemie, this post was an excellent find.
It seems someone who wore bread bags was just an ordinary person with parents who didn't want to buy expensive snow boots every time their child's feet grew half a size.
When I was a kid my dad hated to turn on the heat. He couldn't sleep if the heat was on, as if he heard the gas meter ticking in his head, tick, tick, tick, a millimeter closer each tick on the way to foreclosure, bankruptcy, homelessness, and failure as artist, father, and human being.
Fortunately, since we lived in coastal Southern California, nobody in our house ever froze to death or lost any appendages when the heat was off. And the pipes never froze.
My parents now live in a tropical rain forest and drink and bathe in rainwater that falls on their roof. Possibly it's because many of their remembered ancestors lived in cold, cold winter hells that are much, much worse than Iowa. All of my great grandparents did.
Maybe it's because many of my ancestors in North America and Northern Europe would stack up their winter dead like cord wood until the ground thawed up enough to bury them.
One of my nominal great grandfathers (my grandfather was actually a Mormon bastard) was buried after the spring thaw. His resting corpse was later washed away and lost in the failure of the Teton dam.
I think great grandfather would have appreciated that. He liked to fish that river.
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I am now the old person with the thermostat issues.
and I don't remember anyone I know wearing bread bags.
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Good pics!
