{"id":89,"date":"2014-08-22T20:31:58","date_gmt":"2014-08-22T20:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/loosestringsfromthepast.com\/?p=89"},"modified":"2015-04-10T17:57:52","modified_gmt":"2015-04-10T22:57:52","slug":"pennies-bought-watch-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/loosestringsfromthepast.com\/?p=89","title":{"rendered":"PENNIES BOUGHT A WATCH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/loosestringsfromthepast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/bulovawatch.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-117\" src=\"https:\/\/loosestringsfromthepast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/bulovawatch.jpg\" alt=\"bulovawatch\" width=\"160\" height=\"120\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many milk customers paid for their milk daily or weekly by leaving coins inside the empty bottles they were returning.\u00a0 The coins were rolled in a special paper provided by the bank.\u00a0 Rolling the coins became another of my jobs.\u00a0 For my work in the milk house, I received all of the pennies. There were 50 pennies in a roll.<\/p>\n<p>Most of my money went toward the purchase of Series E. U.S. Savings Bonds. \u00a0 These\u00a0 bonds cost $18.75.\u00a0 They matured after ten years and paid $25.00.\u00a0 Children could buy savings stamps at school for a dime each.\u00a0 The stamps were placed in a \u201cstamp book\u201d until there was enough to buy a bond.<\/p>\n<p>I wanted a wrist watch and asked to buy one with some of my money.\u00a0 Dad was agreeable, but Mother felt it should not be permitted with a war going on.\u00a0 Dad persuaded her that I had earned the money \u201cfair and square.\u201d\u00a0 We shopped carefully at a jewelry stored owned by a milk customer.\u00a0 A special day came when I proudly walked out of Edwards Jewelry Store in Breckenridge the proud owner of an 18 jewel Bulova watch.\u00a0 I wore it daily until I was in college.\u00a0 It was taken to the jewelry store periodically to be cleaned and the band was replaced several times.<\/p>\n<p>I do not remember the price of the watch or the price of milk at that time.\u00a0 My best guess for the price of milk is approximately 16 cents a quart.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Seven year old great- granddaughter, Madi Giffin, is wearing it in the picture.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many milk customers paid for their milk daily or weekly by leaving coins inside the empty bottles they were returning.&nbsp; The coins were rolled in a special paper provided by the bank.&nbsp; Rolling the coins became another of my jobs.&nbsp; For my work in the milk house, I received all of the pennies. 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