Unfortunately, that can’t buy much of a fridge unless you want to pay close to a “grand”! Growing up, my folks had friends who owned an appliance store & we received several cardboard containers over the years to play with. It spurred our imaginations & occupied our time.
When my parents purchased a new washing machine, we made a fort out of the box. The box was blue on the outside. It rained and we stayed in the box. Afterwards, we were also blue on the outside. Don’t see colored cardboard these days.
And now a days big appliances are delivered with cardboard corner guards and wrapped in plastic sheeting and there is nothing to make a cardboard fort or Wendy House.
We used to scavenge the boxes from Sears and other appliance stores. Back then, if you asked nicely, they would carefully open the boxes to put the appliance on display. They would save them for us kids. The hard part was bringing those big boxes home on your bike! I can still picture the forts, spacecraft, train engines, club houses, etc. I wouldn’t trade ANY of those moments for all the electronic devices kids have now.
Templo S.U.D. over 7 years ago
ain’t that grand?
swadeparker Premium Member over 7 years ago
Refrigerators didn’t cost 300 dollars when pluggers were kids.
grandpa.davey over 7 years ago
Unfortunately, that can’t buy much of a fridge unless you want to pay close to a “grand”! Growing up, my folks had friends who owned an appliance store & we received several cardboard containers over the years to play with. It spurred our imaginations & occupied our time.
brain Les over 7 years ago
yep, gigantic card board boxes were super great to play with/in.
david_42 over 7 years ago
When my parents purchased a new washing machine, we made a fort out of the box. The box was blue on the outside. It rained and we stayed in the box. Afterwards, we were also blue on the outside. Don’t see colored cardboard these days.
WestNYC Premium Member over 7 years ago
Cute
Teto85 Premium Member over 7 years ago
And now a days big appliances are delivered with cardboard corner guards and wrapped in plastic sheeting and there is nothing to make a cardboard fort or Wendy House.
mggreen over 7 years ago
We used to scavenge the boxes from Sears and other appliance stores. Back then, if you asked nicely, they would carefully open the boxes to put the appliance on display. They would save them for us kids. The hard part was bringing those big boxes home on your bike! I can still picture the forts, spacecraft, train engines, club houses, etc. I wouldn’t trade ANY of those moments for all the electronic devices kids have now.