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I'll be Mother!
The D.O.T. did a blitz campaign from 1960 to at least '65. I remember hearing it on the radio occasionally till the early '70s. I remember the television ad showing people buckling their seatbelts with stupid grins on their faces. Like it was such tremendous fun. Dumb ad or no, it worked. Sort of. People became more consious of the belts now required for their cars. My parent's '56 Chevy had them. It was an option that cost my father an additional fifteen or twenty dollars. And he had to fight to get them to properly install them. The dealer thought they were a waste of time.
'ol Bess doesn't have belts. This surprises me. She's the first Studebaker I've ever seen without seatbelts. She'll have them by next week. I won't drive a car without them.
That is a VERY good rule of thumb to have.
Robin would always chuckle and roll her eyes when I would say this. But it worked! My children all use their seat belts. It's saved the lives of at least two of them. My youngest daughter had a rollover on the freeway. She wasn't even scratched. I don't know the details of my eldest son's accident. But he says that without the seatbelt he would have been seriously hurt.
Still, I like Twinnings as well as Biglow's and sometimes a brand called Stash. Variety is the spice, or in this case tea, of life! 
