Damaged Goods
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Five cents a day. Of course, parents also covered the Saturday matinee and a new baseball glove when the old one was falling apart.
But for that daily nickel I would choose five hard pretzels or a pack of five baseball (or football) cards with bubble gum. I often craved a sour pickled onion that was the size of a tennis ball but they were six cents. So the trick was to forgo the pretzels or cards for a day and save the nickel and thus have enough for five days of onions.
But for that daily nickel I would choose five hard pretzels or a pack of five baseball (or football) cards with bubble gum. I often craved a sour pickled onion that was the size of a tennis ball but they were six cents. So the trick was to forgo the pretzels or cards for a day and save the nickel and thus have enough for five days of onions.