Old Vintage Household Products

[@vickierayhill4637]

When I was a kid in the '70's, our neighbor was an older lady named Mary, with bright red hair and bright flowered mumuus . All the neighborhood kids would rattle on her kitchen screen door and she would pass out those wax paper bags with 3 Chips Ahoy or Oreo cookies to each kid. Good memories. Thanks for showing this.

[@DanniTheMagicJunkDrawer]

Aw she reminds me of Mrs Roper. ❤️

[@lifeonfire2390]

Ok boomer

[@lifeonfire2390]

@Retro parties are useless. I can have fun by listening to Depeche Mode on speakers at home, alone.

[@lifeonfire2390]

@Retro what's your economy?

[@lifeonfire2390]

@Retro baby boomers in my country don't know anything.

[@Kim.webbford]

I officially feel old when things that expired in the early 90s are considered vintage.

[@bdh70]

Me too. If I was to look in my bathroom closet I'll bet I could find a few things like this

[@Kim.webbford]

I was in the military and moved a lot and had a box of beef pasta hamburger helper I bought in 1996. It traveled a lot and was the first thing I put in the kitchens. I think my ex took it a few years ago and ate it. I wanted to see how long it would last.

[@ghost-ez2zn]

I was thinking the same thing. Early 90s ...ancient history LOL

[@jgroovy1973]

I'm a member of generation X. I started feeling old when they started playing Bon Jovi on the classic rock station.

[@daphne4983]

I'm feeling sad and nostalgic rn.

[@petet4887]

I will forever like the smell of Vicks (and mentholatum). It reminds of when I was young and my mom would rub it on me when I had a cold. I still feel that comfort 35 years later when I smell it.

[@javiermori1710]

Same.i think my mom used it for most ailments if i remember correctly.always vicks jar on dresser🙂

[@TrevTv2q3]

I googled "1950s Vicks vaporub" and you are right. It is from the 50s.

[@GabeCoolwater]

Every time you mention a year, I immediately think about where I was at the time and doing what... and then nostalgia hits me hard.

[@jpolar394]

Does anyone remember when the manufacturer used to send you free samples in the mail like Tang, instant coffee, cereal, laundry soap and inside the box was a coupon for the product.

[@anti-ethniccleansing465]

Oh wow, I totally forgot about that!

[@Mustang09Hotty]

Some still will. You just have to email them and ask if their website doesnt say theres free samples on there normally a link maybe on page close to bottom. Also you can email them tell them you dont like their product and they will send you a coupon. I got bread one time looked burnt sent them pictures got coupon for free loaf.

[@depressedplug5694]

I remember when I was a kid i got a copy of Harry Potter in the mail on vhs

[@ingrid_inthesky]

I think the last free thing I got in the mail was some menstrual pads 10 or so years ago.

[@Jennyj05]

I remember the pink water babies sunscreen. My mom used to put that sunscreen on me when we went to the beach/pool in the 90's. Growing up in south florida, i used it pretty often and still remember how good it smelled. Good childhood memories. Thanks for the video!

[@jklax]

16:00 I think you're right about old smoke detectors being really sensitive. They use to drive my mother nuts way back in the day because they would go off right away when she fried anything on the stove.

[@tomlangley6236]

At my age the 90s products don't seem that old to me, In fact I still have products from the late 80s early 90s and up in my cupboards.

[@06BIBOI]

The heart of my childhood was during the early-mid 90's and I literally remember us having more than half of this stuff in the house lol flashbacks !

[@paddyotable]

My dad had a small hardware store back in the 60's....pre price tag days. We priced everything with a Sharpie marker. :)

[@MissMTurner]

I remember those Eveready batteries from when I was a kid in the 80s. I always liked the cat logo.

[@JustinaLynn]

my mom had a plastic bank of the cat in the early 80s with the logo, it had a writing that said "save with the cat" on it. :)

[@renroxhrd]

I think eveready is still around. I saw it in family dollar the other day

[@flash21502]

Eveready makes Energizer.

[@bronzebeautybrown3949]

Good thing that 409 trigger was broken, you were spraying towards yourself lol

[@ricj7517]

I noticed that too Lol

[@chewysoda9115]

universe keeps him safe everytime he does something like this

[@francolombardo4670]

I know right to have been to have any idea how irritating to the eyes and how toxic the Isaac stuff could be

[@christinemahon9894]

I remember Vicks in those cool glass jars as a kid...smelled stronger too. Everything was better in glass haha

[@emmanicole7392]

I’m ready to go back to all glass packaging in stores (not that I remember when things were packaged in glass, I was born in the early 2000s but still)

[@evil1st]

@@emmanicole7392 There are some things our generation lost through the years. There are some medicines and vitamins that were packaged in glass that have since moved to plastic.

[@wykedbunny9792]

Kids today will never know the pain of getting shocked every time the TV screen had to be wiped down. 🥲

[@vickierayhill4637]

My family has a lake cabin that is only usable half the year. You have nearly described and dated everything in the bathroom closet. LOL

[@nickbryant2318]

I like how clean the vapo rub looked. And I’ve never seen afterbite with a clip like that! These older logos have a charm to them

[@brendakrieger7000]

I love nostalgia❤ I'm such a nerd, but I love the smell of original Coppertone. I used to love going to Hill's and Ames with my parents. Also Nichols and Laneco

[@smashleymcbashley6250]

The sunscreen looks like butter now! Woah. Also the vicks container is really neat, im drawn to that one.

[@flamadfuego6935]

I’m having the time of my life up late watching these. I recognize some of the bottles and I was born in 94! I can’t believe how old I feel lol it seems like just yesterday I was 21 and everyone else was old 😅

[@stevenkimsey7039]

Me..1964

[@renroxhrd]

I was a kid in the early-mid 2000s, near the end of the static tube TV days. Kids today will never know the feeling of touching the TV and getting zapped

[@SSN515]

That Vicks is indeed from the 1950's. You would put a dollop of it in a electric "vaporizer" and it would fill the room up with that menthol inhaled fog.

[@jjbrog79]

I have a 21 year old bottle of Aloe Vera stuff. I got it back in 2001 when I got a sun burn. Lasted used was maybe 4 years ago and still seemed good. I don't know how the bloodly hell I still have this. I keep it now just because I've been through so much, moved so damn many times in the last 21 years and some how, I don't know how, this has stayed with me.

[@davidbrown8303]

1950s vicks vaporrub June may have used that on Wally our the Beaver when they had the flu . It's funny on some of the plastic bottles with the metal tops they probably had a over supply when they switched from glass bottles. Thank you for the review of the products.

[@miaow-miaow265]

May I ask where you were able to obtain these products. I'm so curious and mesmerized. Addicted to watching your vids. I'm glad I came across your channel. ☺

[@bobbler2]

This guy could have a lucrative career in voice overs or audiobooks

[@rabrencruz99]

LMAO, my mom was cooking in the kitchen, and as I got to the part where you showing off the smoke alarm, my smoke alarm went off 😂😂😂 perfect timing!

[@elsa7281]

I remember the Vicks Vapo Rub Jar. Mom used to buy it, and of course, following after mom, I bought it too.

[@JudahMartin]

You should see how well the soap bar lathers.

[@Commack08]

The chemistry in the soap changes as it ages and it gets softer, milder, and makes more lather.

[@sheilatorres5312]

I adore your videos and your appreaciation for each item, nice work

[@sabrina.may99]

I love your videos! I was born in 99 and it's really neat to get to see products from before I was born.

[@katiebrooke9040]

My grandma had some of those things In the laundry room when I was little. Reminds me of her house when I was like 4 or 5.

[@robinkeiger2208]

I remember when Vicks had glass jars!! I'm 59.

[@watershed44]

Robin Keiger I believe they were glass all the way through the 1970s as a kid in the late 70s I remember glass jars too.

[@sushicourier]

My mother literally has all those items still in her upstairs bathroom. And her stuff is from the 1970's. 😂😂

[@xtina.campbell1234]

this is so cool, i like looking at vintage products

[@kevseb66]

I remember those wax sandwiches bags. OMGOODNESS!!!! Absorbine Jr. That stuff smell pretty strong but I wouldn't describe the smell like rubbing alcohol. That's a real flash from the past. I always hated the smell of the brown Lysol disinfectant . Super strange & strong. Smelled up the whole house like, "Hey, I just cleaned my bathroom ".

[@painincorporated8913]

I like that Vick’s glass

[@Niko-ss5kd]

grandma's be like:

[@Glamikuns]

Vicks Vaporub doesn’t expire???? Hell yeah everybody, dig up your great grandpa’s jar of vicks and let’s have a party!

[@KraftyScorpio]

ahhhhh memories...the old 9 volt battery tongue test!

[@88Kimberly888]

My dad use to make me n my sister put those on our tongues 😂

[@flamingogh_]

That free sample of detergent is a dollar fifty at Dollar general today.

[@ricj7517]

Love your vintage products videos

[@biffy9536]

Hopefully the Arm & Hammer was the only thing sitting in the fridge for 25 years.

[@AKayfabe]

Biffy Tannen I know right. When my parents passed away in 2000, I had to clean out the home for sale. They had condiments in their fridge that had use by dates like 1980, and 1972 on them still. Right near the fresh stuff they just bought. They also had an older freezer they kept in the basement only for storage and in it I found TV dinners from back when TV dinners were only Swanson brand and still sold in foil trays because no one used a microwave very often yet. Le Menu meals from the 80s, frozen homemade pasta that had to have been years old etc. right with new foods from the store.

[@88Kimberly888]

@@AKayfabe Any chance we could watch you open any of those? Or eat? 😂

[@AKayfabe]

Kim14 berly88 unfortunately not because everything I owned was lost in a fire several years after we sold the house. I wish I still had them! The only thing I have left is an old Avon cologne from the 60s

[@bdh70]

@@AKayfabe Years ago my Great Aunt had a huge freezer she called "The Deep Freeze" that was absolutely crammed full. When she went to a nursing home in the nineties we went through it and determined that about half of what was in there was pre-1975. Just big chunks of freezer-burned unidentifiable meat or whatever. Terrifying.

[@dietersmythe9649]

Eveready “9 Lives” battery, very cool.

[@raisa_cherry35]

The graphic on the sunscreen bottle,i died 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@anti-ethniccleansing465]

You’ve never seen that before? I didn’t even know they stopped using that graphic.

[@MsEvylicious]

Take me back to the good ol 90s😭

[@AKayfabe]

If you happen to ever find any RAID with DDT made prior to when it was banned I am not just interested in it but will buy it from you.

[@nx8481]

I’m just curious, but why? Is it just better or is it some other reason?

[@bronzebeautybrown3949]

I'm back and I'm here for this!

[@mn_twisted4319]

I’m not sure why I’m here, but... I like it

[@biffy9536]

Dude that was up somebody's nose.

[@ovchloe]

wow that disinfectant spray claiming it can kill HIV and herpes 😂😂

[@dreyaelizabeth1961]

I remember a lot of those products growing up. Thanks for this awesome video ☺

[@jons.6216]

I would say the Woolite rug cleaning shampoo would be from the 70s for a couple of reasons! First, the demonstration on the can is the way they sold that stuff!! Spray it downward onto the carpet and spread it with a damp sponge mop! Later when it dries you vacuum it up! Also, just look at those bell bottoms the person in the illustration is wearing! Hahaha!

[@biffy9536]

Smoke Detector: Caution Radioactive NEWM bro: *tap tap tap*

[@ghostlyimageoffear6210]

I had that same smoke detector that I was given in the 80's in the hospital after one of my kids was born. I kept it for years for sentimental reasons.

[@MelissaServicePack7Lucky7]

I remember using Afterbite in the 90's. And I also remember the water babies. I was in 8th grade when that stuff was in stores and I my friend and I used to say "Water babies" in a squeaky voice, and it would piss off my mother, lol. Every time we saw it in the store, we would say the name of it in that squeaky voice, and she'd get so mad! hahaha. I also remember solarcaine. That stuff didn't even work. My mom used to put that crap on my sunburn in the 80's, and it didn't do squat for it. I remember the Ban du soleil commercials from back in the 80's and 90's, they had this really irritating jingle. I also remember using Absorbine jr. on mosquito bites, in the 80's. I also remember getting athletes foot when I was in 7th grade, and my dad put absorbine jr on my feet. It burned and itched sooooo freaking bad!! I think it actually made it worse! I'll never forget it. I don't know how I even picked that nasty stuff up in the first place. I never went anywhere that I would have been exposed to it. I've been terrified of getting it again, ever since that happened, and it's been over 30 years, thank God I never got it again! I love the log on the jergens soap! I'd say the woolite spray is from the 70's cuz of the bell bottom pants on the cartoon lady.

[@watershed44]

@Melissa Service Pack 7 You probably picked it up in the girl's locker room after gym class or even at the local pool, it's pretty common.

[@MelissaServicePack7Lucky7]

@@watershed44 I never used the locker room at school. I was very ugly and I didn't feel comfortable changing my clothes in front of the other girls. So I would always get points deducted from class, as a result of that, lol. And I never swam either. There were no pools near me. I racked my brain trying to figure out where it could have come from. I still can't figure it out o this day, lol. I wasn't in any situations where it could have exposed me to it.

[@watershed44]

@Melissa Service Pack Maybe your Dad had it and just got it walking in the bathroom barefoot. So um you were fat when in grade school?

[@MelissaServicePack7Lucky7]

@@watershed44 No my dad didn't have it either.I wasn't fat, just very ugly and underdeveloped. I was a disgusting ugly freak.

[@axgamingandbeats8975]

i like how he is always so honest in his videos.

[@VictoryRRR]

There's something about 90's stuff that hasn't really changed in style over the years. Like you can really tell something from earlier decades

[@robroy6374]

false

[@billybassman21]

They still sell Absorbine Jr, but it isn't marketed for athletes foot anymore. That Lysol disinfectant is still sold, but you can't find it in most stores. The same with the yellow original sent disinfectant spray, you can find it online, but not in most stores. I have both Lysol products under my sink. My mom still has some of that Vicks rub that looks like that. It's probably from the 80s. Those smoke detectors contain americium 241. Americium is radio active, but contain little beta or gamma rays, but lots of alpha rays which get absorbed by objects. When the smoke disrupts the alpha rays it sets off the detector. They are great for most fires, but are not that good for smoldering fires. Photoelectric ones have their disadvantages too. They sell detectors that have both photoelectric or ionization which are the best.

[@anti-ethniccleansing465]

It was confirmed by a different commenter that looked it up that the Vick’s vapor rub was indeed from the 50s. And as a graphic designer myself who is pretty in tune with commercial art designs and popular color schemes used in diff decades, it’s mint green color simply screams 50s. Interesting info about how the smoke detectors work!

[@netbunnie]

I hope you'll do more microscope stuff! Those are my fave

[@LaurasWorld13]

Yay a vintage products video for my birthday! Lol

[@88Kimberly888]

I've beat so many of those smoke detectors down with a broom handle growing up.

[@silvialatoni2277]

Omg! I remember some of the packages growing up. My mom used to buy that stuff. You just took me waaaaay back Post 10.

[@vintagefirealarmguy5285]

Cool old smoke alarm. You should buy a real vintage fire alarm like what's used in buildings. That would be cool.

[@joeldee9010]

Lol! I had to laugh when you showed the nose spray and said it looked like it had probably been used. All I could think was gross, don’t touch it. Cause you know people don’t wash those things. Kept thinking about it being in someone’s boogery nose 🤣🤣. We used to get the sunburn spray put on us as kids after getting too much sun.

[@davidbrown8303]

I was thinking the same thing it may have had flu germs on it. We may not see him for a while because he will say I caught the flu and don't know where I picked it up. HEHE

[@joeldee9010]

David Brown let’s hope not though 😀

[@Leanne_w]

@@davidbrown8303 he won’t catch the flu from that. The flu virus is only active for around 24hours on a hard service.

[@runpigrun]

I worked for the company that makes biofreeze. What I learned was although it doesn't expire, any medical products must have expiration dates on them. Typically that date would be when the viscosity changes and the product gets a bit thicker.

[@pinkparfait]

PSA here: its VERY unsafe to use expired sunscreen! It can have the opposite effect- causing sunburns and making you more susceptible to sun damage. If there’s no expiry date on the bottle, don’t use it! It’s not worth the risk.

[@anti-ethniccleansing465]

Interesting. I never knew that.

[@paulillingworth1242]

I remember some of the products and we had a smoke alarm like that one in the early 90s

[@BilisNegra]

4:00 Oh my, After Bite, that ridiculous rip-off! Thankfully, it indicates it's sole ingredient is, ehm "ammonium hydroxide". Since I noticed that, many years ago, I realized I could just use regular, dirt cheap ammonia when bitten by a mosquito for, what? Way less than a hundredth the cost?

[@anti-ethniccleansing465]

Where would you get ammonia? Just use windex on your bite? Lol

[@694069406940]

i enjoyed watching cool video 👍🏻😀

[@deniseeicholtz]

Absolute amazing graphics. I miss my childhood

[@AKayfabe]

My parents passed in 2000, and in their home was items they never threw away from 1961 all the way up to 2000. I didn’t realize then these items had value, and most was tossed. I still have a bottle of Completely full Avon cologne from the 60s however

[@anti-ethniccleansing465]

Oh wow. I didn’t know that Avon was around in the 60s! My mom was an Avon lady in the 80s.

[@BethanyB86]

That water babies sunscreen I could smell it still that’s what my parents bought when I was a kid. We had those smoke detectors too. They were super sensitive like you said. Great video again!

[@stiksmommy5079]

I was laughing like crazy when that battery went off camera cause I knew exactly where he was going with that 🤣. I always did the same thing with 9v growing up.

[@anti-ethniccleansing465]

What if the previous owner already did the tongue test on that battery too. Yuck lol.

[@sweetvanilla6374]

Awesome video thanks.

[@akatie888]

I was born in 2004, and I still remember that god damn water babies sunscreen.

[@jamc204]

AfterBite! Wow, we used that when I was a kid. I haven't thought of that in at least 25 years. Thanks for posting.

[@karinwade]

I have the after bite in my med cabinet. You are right it works great! That solarcaine spray was worth it when we had sunburns back in the 80s

[@katbowl9971]

I have that Afterbite stuff too. Works like a charm.

[@Leanne_w]

Me too, I found it in my cupboard when I was having a clear out last week.

[@Commack08]

Expiration dates don't mean as much to me anymore.. Kind of sad how much product is thrown away or wasted.

[@bryanhall2203]

That's quite pricey for generic brand nasal spray. Great Value is $2.00 today let alone 2.99 back in 1994. That's equal to $5.17 for generic. No wonder they went out of business.

[@glimmerrrgirl5288]

My parents have the old 80s smoke detectors and they work amazing still. Steam from the shower coming out into The hall way sets it off.

[@birtneyspearschristmas.sum8825]

in the 90s I grew in the 90s

[@leandracooper1534]

I had both of those sunblocks in my house. Vicks Vapor Rub was made in glass containers fill in the nineties at least in the early 90s. The bug stick pen had that metal clip in the 90s. I remember we used to carry in the woods. My dad used to stick it on his pocket shirt. Sunburn stuff use have for the summer in are camping stuff.

[@RSTLNE.]

That After Bite was the same one I bought in the mid 90's. I still buy one every time I see one. They work better than anything else on mosquito bites. That old stuff used to burn at first, and then the bite went away. The new stuff doesn't burn as much.

[@anti-ethniccleansing465]

The anti-itch creams on the market today are really pretty crap in effectiveness. I wish I was able to try that afterbite stuff!

[@michaelfisher9722]

Reminds me a little of this old drug store downtown that was really only functioning as a lunch counter by the 1990s. They had ancient household and health products on the shelves, nothing you'd ever use, but neat to look at. Also the best burgers ever. They bought fresh hamburger every day, and you'd see the whole process of your meal being made. Miss it!

[@bobbler2]

I used to love putting that 9volt to my tongue

[@t3rum]

The static guard from the 80s had different photos on the front but you didn’t show those up close. It looked like one woman was spraying it into a bag of groceries

[@DJcyberslash]

Never used sunscreen, never burned, I would stay in the sun all day 😎😎😎

[@dan0711123]

I still have a bottle of Brooks drug store rubbing alcohol

[@johanvangelderen289]

The wax bags were eventually replaced by Baggies. Seems around 1970 my estimate. The Vicks looks early 60s or so. I recall the class jars. My mother would rub it on my chest. We also had a vaporizer which had boiling water in it. Toddlers would tug on the cord, which would spill the boiling water or also the vaporizer on top of them. The Lysol was last used in a high altitude region. You must live at low altitude. The air pressure squeezed the bottle. The "little tv" on the Static Guard can is a CRT computer monitor. Probably a black and white one. The gold smoke detectors cried wolf so many times that we would remove the battery to get some peace. The newer type is not as annoying. So is probably more effective in the real world. I was born in the mid 1950s.

[@anti-ethniccleansing465]

Lots of interesting tid bits you wrote. :) A different commentor took the time to look it up, and the Vick’s vapor rub was from the 50s, just fyi.

[@Mustang09Hotty]

Where do you get all these old items?

[@helloits_morgan]

These videos are so interesting to me. Pretty sure my grandma has one of those exact bottles of Water Babies sunscreen sitting around her house too.

[@DanniTheMagicJunkDrawer]

I def love that blue glass vaporub jar

[@anti-ethniccleansing465]

It’s beyond classic looking! Love that mint green. So 50s!

[@DREAMSQU33ZE]

I had that itch eraser in the 90s. Them bugs were always biting my ass up

[@anti-ethniccleansing465]

It looks like it would have worked well. Did it?

[@toryrose7346]

My mom used to use that static guard stuff all the time. I remember it from when I was a little kid!

[@alastarwolfe1338]

Absorbing jr is awesome on bug bites my friend still has some in the glass bottle. I love it 😬 Btw anything you show that expired in the 90s makes me feel old 😅 actually I few years ago I found some stuff in our kitchen that expired in 93 think it was baking stuff

[@rionthemagnificent2971]

Hills'/Aimes for those who were born after they shut down, was basically a department store, similar to Wal-mart but without the food section, though some did did have small diners in them similar to Target's snack bar.

[@Mike1614YT]

you can see prices have come down in the past 25 years

[@stevenwilson5737]

I have the whole of youtube at my fingertips, I’ve decided this is it, I put this on a fall asleep listening to the detail. I’m fairly new to this channel, this is next level though. Amazingly satisfying content.

[@shellyhusch6242]

You videos are very interesting. I bet you do a lot of exploring to find these old things you find.

[@Werewolfmage]

I worked at brooks as a it operator at their cooperate headquarters in Warwick RI until 2007 when they let me go when rite aid took over. Lol! The smoke detector test made mine go off. I was watching it on my TV so it was loud