Tiny glass bottles everywhere!

I remember those days well! I still have a stash of the 15 cent bottles that I use for detail work. What I did over time was to check the bottles. If it had separated, I mixed it up real good with my little electric mixer and added a few drops of odorless terpentine. Only had a few that hardened up like a rock and couldn't be saved. Haven't had to look for any in years so really sorry to hear that they're up to $2.69 a bottle. That's not with the 40% discount, is it?????????? Wow, that would be something else. I have been using Vallejo acryllics for quite a while and they are getting ready to top the $4.00 mark. 

Just goes to show you, when I started driving in 1958, gas was 32 cents a gallon and cigarettes were 32 cents a pack. Oh wow, I'm old.

Stay safe.

Jim 

Jim, I can remember seeing gas @ 26.9 cents a gallon.

By the way, good oldies music on tune/in at 99.9

I've cleaned out and saved those wonderful little square bottles for years!

I mix my own colors on a regular basis -- goes with the territory, using Tamiya acrylics pretty much exclusively -- and the square bottles are the perfect size for the little bit of 'leftover' you never expect to use...but always end up needing for a touch-up or repair, before a project is finished! 

I listen to it when I'm up at the bench. It is gooooooooooood music!

Stay safe.

Jim 

Hi Jimbot 58;

          You just took me on a journey. As I go through my "Little Square Bottles" The old ones. I realise how much the price has gone up and how many brands have come and gone since I bought my first for .09 cents a bottle with model, only at K-Mart! I had my Expedition with Pactra! Loved that paint! Oh? remember when it was Testors "PLA" and you could also get it in the eight basic colors for .90 cents plus tax which made it an even dollar?

          The story has a twist for me. I was In Catholic School at the time. Everyone(The Adults) said we got a better education there. Sister Aurelia(200 hundred Pounds of very serious NUN)Was our art teacher. She was having us develop a "Color Wheel" so we would know not only the basic colors, but what colors could be mixed to make others. That sure had me experimenting at home. Got in trouble more than once pouring out drops of paint( Wasting it) my Granma used to say.

           Learned a lot about colors I did. Got a degree from an Art School(A Child's Degree) I was only 14.  In color Blending and Creation. That actually, after almost twenty five years got me a job at a Plastics Company as a technicion in their color development department after I corrected a two ton batch of color for Cox industries. Gee, from Mill Room to Lab in one day and a jump from $5.50 dollars an hour to $9.00 bucks an hour. That was a lot of pay back then. And all because I loved mixing paint to see what kind of color I could get next. Yep, Love those little Square bottles!

I remember cringing when the oil embargo of '73 - '74 hit and watching the price of gas double as I waited for the day I could finally get my drivers license! A 1969 VW bug  was given to me by my Gram before she passed waited for me!

I have become my parents when I bring up prices from "back then". "Bread was only five cents aloaf when I was a kid!" they would say! Now this generation will be telling their kids how bread was only five dollars a loaf when they were kids!