i bought some vintage early 90s molicares a few years ago from a seller on ebay who lived nearby. the plus in collecting in them in person was that i could pick the best as stuff like dispies don't fair well in our weather. still, they pong a bit when straight out of the pack and have to be aired for a couple of days before use (on a radiator works). the seller had two different types (the familiar blue and a white-with-blue-pinstripes), but both are equally awful for absorbancy :smile1:
back in the 90s, i used to trawl the charity shops as some would often get donations from the makers and, if you got the right dope, you could dupe them into selling a couple of packs.
sometime before i got into doing that, one of the greengrocers in the village shut down and his former shop spent a short while as a 'liquidated stock' shop. this one time, they had in a basket outside, containing several packs of Mollies (small), advertising them as 'bedwetting nappies' and they really quite cheap (much cheaper than you'd get elsewhere, but you couldn't get them anywhere, anyway). i snapped-up what was in the basket at the asking price and took them home (i was working around my dad's daytime sleep, as he worked nights); they had loads more, but i was on a tight budget. having secreted them away and feeling good and still adrenalized, i thought about the rest and of how this was a one-time gig. i went back down to the shop, waited to see the gaffer and then negotiated the price down with him for the rest of his stock. being bulky items, he wanted rid off them a.s.a.p.
i ended up skint, but with a bedroom stocked to the roof. i got them sometime in the Spring, wore them nearly all the time, everywhere, and it was around Fall that i was starting to get some more room in my bedroom so that i didn't bother wearing one to the cinema, with friends. naturally, i nearly wet myself whilst watching the film (caught it just in time; only a few drops came out :biggrin
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