The Wonder Years

In picking today's Tupper-Tuesday, Nora was stricken.

How many salt and pepper shakers should she have in a household of two (plus Asta but that doesn't count because Asta is on a low sodium diet).

A quick inventory noted six sets. Only two of which are in regular use.

Wasteful?

The Australian Conservation Foundation undoubtedly would say yes.

But in this particular case Nora must disagree, these sculptoral pieces of plastic dating from the late 1960s and early 1970s are more than a paean to domestic industrial design - it's a harkening back to a childhood when milk was delivered in glass bottles, TV was in black and white and for a child of the mid-1970s all was right with the world.

What price can be put on that?

The answer is none.

Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose. ~From the television show The Wonder Years

So leave Nora alone with her surfeit of condiment dispensers, their utility is second to memories of barbecues, picnics and family dinners.

Below: Memories, of the way we were - (1977 Australian OTC TVC)