Guess what Happened at the Mennonite Store // What I bought!

My husband and I are MICHIGAN sugarbeet farmers. The Pioneer Sugar is the end product. The company is grower owned. You are supporting hard working farmers along with the Mennonite family. Thank you so much. Our family farm has been around since 1851 and we are lucky enough to have our son willing to continue into the 6th generation of a family legacy.

Learning that people are going into that store because of you, is a real warm fuzzy! Especially when it helps that family so much.

I absolutely loved everything you bought at the antique store. I’m 69 years old and my mother used to tell me I should have been born 100 years earlier 🤣. She never understood my love of “old” stuff.

My hubby and I are both retired and we think you and Mr. Brown hung the moon! Thank you both for blessing our lives.

When I was little (75 years ago) families would have their babies first pair of shoes 'preserved' in bronze. They were a very shiny gold color and heavy and used on a desk to hold things. Not sure what your pair were treated with but they are cute! Today, we don't save a long time to buy shoes and just throw or recycle them. We live in the disposable age. I saved my kids baby booties and use them to decorate for Christmas on a little tree, or banner. I know a lady that saved her son' wooden trains, trucks, stuffed teddy bears, and finally made a wonderful Christmas wreath to put them onto. It was the 'star attraction' .

After watching this video, my husband and I went to our closest Mennonite bulk store. I picked up the hickory smoked salt for $2.16 for a little over 1/2 lb. I saw a 50 lb. bag of white sugar for $55.95. Now sure how that compares to what you bought. I grew up in a family owned grocery store. My parents opened it in 1948 and my mother closed it in 1979 when she retired. All 5 kids worked bagging potatoes, putting bulk eggs in cartons, weighing dried beans and slicing meat. We sold flour in the pretty cloth sacks and I remember my Mom taking women into the basement to pick out the one they wanted. At Christmas time, we stayed after closing sacking up candy such as ribbon candy, peanut brittle, coconut mounds and hard mix. So many great memories! On a funny note: we had a little old lady who always wanted a dime's worth of salt pork and a nickels worth of pinto beans. And sometimes 1 roll of toilet paper. Love your channel!

Thank you Miss Lori for helping out the store by mentioning them. Mom and Pops need all the help they can get.

I am in PA and the county I live in has multiple Mennonite grocery stores. The packaging of their bulk goods is identical to what you bought. Seeing it makes me think it's time for a shopping trip.

Miss Lori, I have had chronic stomach acid problems for many decades. When I took my Daddy bach to see all his childhood places before he passed, we stopped in Lancaster, PA. It was July 4th weekend and I had a horrible infection on shin that swelled my whole foot and smelled awful. No medical was opened. An Amish man took me home to see his wife as I was in bad shape. She put a bread poultice on this wound, giving me instructions on how to care for it. As we chatted about home remedies and forgotten wisdom, I asked her what she did for chronic dyspepsia. She told me that a piece of sugared ginger settled most problems and could be repeated as needed. Long story, but I use that as needed with great results.

My grandmother born in 1895 had those very heavy blue bowls. She used them for mixing, harvesting and washing clothes (by hand of course),and she also used them as a dishpan to wash her dishes. I believe she bathed her babies in them as well. (she had 13).I have the matching tea cup to your little plate with the peaches on it. My mother collected teacups and matching saucers. I love your flee market finds Miss Lori. God bless!

Growing up with very little money, shopping was always a special event. My sisters & I loved to show each other the things we bought. I still enjoy seeing & hearing about what other people find interesting to buy. I always learn something useful.

The story about the Mennonite Store really blessed me. That's the nature of God's good people & the connection is undeniable. Blessings to you all.

Ms. Lori you are a good advertising lady. You made his day and "ching, ching" went his cash register! 😁

I love your sense of nostalgia for the old things. I like those types of purchases because I think of all the hands that have been on that piece before me and all the good energy that surrounds it from the past.

I love every single thing about your videos! I learn so much from you! Thank you for all your knowledge and inspiration! From a country girl in Eastern Tennessee!

Such nice prices, nothing wrong with a little treat for those grandbabies 😉

Love your enthusiasm for old things. I totally feel the same way. Love buying something vintage and imagining how at one time someone working with it years ago.

There's always loose leftover sugar in the candied ginger bag; I save it in a separate sugar bowl, with a few small pieces of ginger, to use in my tea.

Miss Lori thank you for all of your videos. You make this old man's days bright. God bless you and Mister Brown.

I loved your finds on your trip to the Mononite store and yard the sale! I used to do all of that, but now I'm disabled and pretty much a shut-in, so I live vicariously through you lovely people that go and enjoy pickin' through treasures! It tickles me immensely! ⭐ Thank-you for sharing, Miss Lori! 🌷⚘⚘🌷⚘🌷⚘