We used to have our milk delivered. I loved the clink of the glass bottles. No milk has ever tasted that good. We did have the Fuller Brush man, but no soda man. My aunt and grandmother had a soda man, but I guess our building didn't have one. That soda was the best cream and root beer EVER.

DC, your story about buying stuff on time cracked me up. My aunt and uncle were famous in the family for always being in debt (my grandfather used to say that they never had the 99 cents to make a dollar). When my brother was confirmed, my uncle was his godfather, and he gave him the traditional gift of a watch. When my brother put it on, he wanted to know if the watch had been set, so he asked my uncle if it was on time. My uncle smacked him on the back of the head and said, "Hey, I paid cash for that watch!"