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Two years ago, I was on eastern Long Island to pick up something I bought. I stopped at a small strip mall to pick up a bottle of water for the ride home & noticed a REXALL drug store that going out of business. The hand written sign in the window said "Everything Must Go." There were lots of partly empty shelves. I wasn't looking for shampoo..........there....on a shelf, a bit dusty.....I saw the box. It was a HYD-A-Way folding syringe. I'd seen pictures of these, but here it was, new in the box. I peeked inside to make sure it was all there & it was. I took a deep breath & walked to the counter where a pleasant, older lady greeted me. The box had no price on it. She looked at it and commented "we used to sell a lot of these." How about $5 plus tax? I said fine & she rung it up & I paid her & left. I should have asked her if they had any more older bags, but I was a bit embarrassed. Thank goodness, I was the only customer in the store.

The included pamphlet said it held 2 Qt, 10 Oz.....not bad for something that could easily fit in the palm of your hand. In reality, if you fill it to the tippy top, it holds 3 qts. I've taken many pleasant enemas with that classic, 1950's bag.

Anyone else ever find any vintage enema equipment in an older drug store?

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Vapor

That Australian

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@Miss_Sarah what a find that was. . . a motherload indeedy !!

Post #9 (n/a) saw that very episode 😁

Sparks

In the early 80’s, I happened into a Rexall drug store and found a box of Nozzles …black, various sizes and shapes, about a dozen of them. I could hardly believe they were being sold this way. Wish I had had the nerve to purchase them. I left the store with a huge hard on!

Repetitious Old Bastard

Wish I had had the nerve to purchase them.

Wow - a lost opportunity! Should have purchased the box of them; after all, they are selling them to be bought. Easy for me to say sitting here, ha!

Sean

Yes, several times. If I have time to spare drug store, but not the modern chain ones, ones are always worth a look, especially the high or low shelves where slow selling items might be.

Over the years I've found and bought Rexall Petal fountain syringe, a Davol Bon Ton Higgenson, a couple of Shy douches, and a Faultless Spectra bulb douche, and a nice stainless bedpan... and those are just the ones I can remember off hand.

As to having the guts to buy stuff like this. just think of it this way: None of the items are illicit else the store would not sell them. There was a demand else they would not have been made or sold. To the clerk, it's just another sale. To the store owner, any money is better than the nothing they'd get by trashing the item. So go for it!

Repetitious Old Bastard

Over the years I've found and bought Rexall Petal fountain syringe, a Davol Bon Ton Higgenson, a couple of Shy douches, and a Faultless Spectra bulb douche,….

Oh, brings back memory of those halcyon days… we need a time machine…

chamed

I did pick up a white Jones irrigator at a “family” drug store a few years ago.

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Not a bag, as at the time they were lesser known & used here, but an irrigator. One was a translucent poly plastic apparatus in its original carton & the other was a white 2qt porcelain enamelware unit which I purchased.

Subsequently it was to receive plenty of use . . As did I 😜

ddell2

Ebay, Etsy and such sites are good sources for vintage enema/douche devices. I have bid successfully for a couple of Venus bag (Same as the previous mentioned HYD - A - Way folding syringe only made of plastic with a cameo of Venus on the cover.), which are mounted in two bathrooms, but I have never used them. I have read where you can occasionally find a vintage enema/douche devise at estate sales; however, I go to estate sales and have never seen anything enema/douche wise. I have seen bidets for sale.

Repetitious Old Bastard

@ddell2 I have read where you can occasionally find a vintage enema/douche devise at estate sales; however, I go to estate sales and have never seen anything enema/douche wise.

Sad but true. On the other hand, estate sales proved great (at least a couple of decades ago) to finding lots of vintage girdles in near new condition being sold in via thrift shops that were nearby to senior/adult living communities.