Pluggers by Rick McKee for April 02, 2024

When I came to buy something that was wrapped with the newspaper’s comics, I would first read them before throwing the paper in the trash.

Funny money is still funny money, no matter how the government tries to cover it up.

That’s lowkey going to be a cultural loss in a few years. Bubble wrap and packing peanuts don’t carry that historical perspective.

Our first house had old newspapers attached to the outside walls in the closet for insulation. There were some nice ads : bread-5 cents a loaf, women’s worsted suits —$5.95 and eggs-5 cents a dozen all with a date in the corner of 1910.

My folks saved whole newspapers printed during important past historic events. Advertisements years, especially for clothing, didn’t much use printed photos with actual models. It was a lot of drawn line art. The major catalogs, although they contained many low-res photos, had much thicker pages than those did later on.

One of the many uses of old Newspaper … Don’t throw them away use them again ;-)

The ability to read old newspapers page by page is why I have a subscription to the newspapers dot com site. And the cost to subscribe is less than what my local newspaper currently charges for its product, which is a shadow of what it used to be.

Isn’t that the Holy Grail that Indy lost at the end of The Last Crusade?

While helping my dad go through grandma’s things. I came across an item wrapped in newspaper. Stopped and read the article on when John Dillinger robbed the local bank and shot up the front of the building. Went down to the bank sometime later and saw several of the bullet chipped stone marks.

As grandfather’s barn was being renovated, we found old newspapers used as insulation. It was fun looking at all the old ads and comics from the early 1900’s!

Especially the COMICS.

Thats how I know what year I packed stuff away.

Found something in storage recently wrapped in a newspaper from 1984.

Since newspapers are largely disappearing here in the States, I wonder if true fish & chips will follow.

When we were renovating our house when I was a child, we found that the second floor aka attic was insulated with newspapers. Lots of fun reading them.

I’ve always loved doing that, ever since I was a very young future Plugger!

I think most folk like doing that.. plugger or otherwise.

There are inflation calculators, you put in a dollar value from a certain year, and it tells you the value today. For the most part, food has not kept up with inflation, as much as people like to complain about it.

From today’s Comics Curmudgeon:

Oh my gosh, this plugger seems to have discovered the Holy Grail! I’m sure that newspaper includes information that will transform our knowledge of history and religious studies; commodities prices are probably among the less splashy bits of data it contains, but they’re still important for helping us understand the time period.

watching old movies for gasoline prices is also “fun”

Plugger questions reality, did Dewey defeat Truman?

Funny… he’s holding a cup that would probably bring in millions at auction, and what’s he impressed with?…the price of eggs! Lol!!

Save the comics for me!