The good old days, I think.

Pappy

Pappy

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Ah yes, surrounded by beautiful woman. 😇 Actually, this was taken in the 70s when we lived in a mobile home park. Our neighbor on the left, and my pretty wife on the right. I do remember the appliances were all pink. 3 bedrooms, 64 feet long, 10 feet wide and three little rug rats too. Take about tiny houses, but we made it work for 7 years.5204D311-4332-46C3-A960-6AE7C7BFEC5D.jpeg
 

Pappy said:
Ah yes, surrounded by beautiful woman. 😇 Actually, this was taken in the 70s when we lived in a mobile home park. Our neighbor on the left, and my pretty wife on the right. I do remember the appliances were all pink. 3 bedrooms, 64 feet long, 10 feet wide and three little rug rats too. Take about tiny houses, but we made it work for 7 years.View attachment 121300
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Sounds a lot like our Narrowboat... 72 feet long 7.6inches wide... :D
 
A lovely snap of history!

That's the difference between your generation and today's younger generation, people today want it all yesterday, whereas yesteryears generation was willing to go without, do without, and make-do with what they had in order to get ahead and live a comfortable lifestyle, and no one I knew (back in day) dug themselves into debt like I see today.

I guess that's why I have always longed to go back in time, because IMO, yesteryears generation were real people, with real morals, real standards, and there was a sense of closeness. There was true meaning behind family and friends. That is what came first, not materialism and greed.

Mind you, I'm biased in my way of thinking, because IMO the 60's and 70's was the best era ever.

Thank you so much for sharing this, Pappy.

P.S. had I been of age, I would have loved to have been sitting at the kitchen table with you.
 

Aunt Marg said:
A lovely snap of history!

That's the difference between your generation and today's younger generation, people today want it all yesterday, whereas yesteryears generation was willing to go without, do without, and make-do with what they had in order to get ahead and live a comfortable lifestyle, and no one I knew (back in day) dug themselves into debt like I see today.

I guess that's why I have always longed to go back in time, because IMO, yesteryears generation were real people, with real morals, real standards, and there was a sense of closeness. There was true meaning behind family and friends. That is what came first, not materialism and greed.

Mind you, I'm biased in my way of thinking, because IMO the 60's and 70's was the best era ever.

Thank you so much for sharing this, Pappy.

P.S. had I been of age, I would have loved to have been sitting at the kitchen table with you.
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It's true. The collective "we" of my generation usually started out in tiny two bedroom, one bath houses because that's all we could afford. It wasn't the end of the world if two (or even three) kids shared a bedroom (heck, there were seven females and one male sharing a single bathroom in the house I grew up in). We lived through it. We paid down the mortgages and then traded up to a three bedroom, two bath. Sometimes, we ended there or moved up to a larger house with a pool when we could afford it.

Most of the kids today wouldn't consider starting out in a "starter house". It has to have the four bedrooms, three baths, three-car garage and the pool right away.
 
My wife had a cousin that lived in a mobile home. When we visited, I was almost claustrophobic. Those things are not made for big people and at 6 ft. 2 ins. it was tight for me to move around in. But, I thought it was pretty cool because your family isn’t spread out all over the house.
 
Aunt Marg said:
A lovely snap of history!

That's the difference between your generation and today's younger generation, people today want it all yesterday, whereas yesteryears generation was willing to go without, do without, and make-do with what they had in order to get ahead and live a comfortable lifestyle, and no one I knew (back in day) dug themselves into debt like I see today.

I guess that's why I have always longed to go back in time, because IMO, yesteryears generation were real people, with real morals, real standards, and there was a sense of closeness. There was true meaning behind family and friends. That is what came first, not materialism and greed.

Mind you, I'm biased in my way of thinking, because IMO the 60's and 70's was the best era ever.

Thank you so much for sharing this, Pappy.

P.S. had I been of age, I would have loved to have been sitting at the kitchen table with you.
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When Visa/Master Card and Discover came out, everyone thought, “Oh, boy, free money.” And, “Now we can have it all.”
 
This is a problem that I have. I live in the ‘good old days’ too much. Up until I graduated high school, my life was what some people would call ‘living the dream.’ Going to school, having a job after school, playing sports, hanging out with friends and mostly doing whatever. I never had a steady girlfriend in high school and when I did date, I dated mostly girls from other schools. Definitely the best days of my life.
 
911 said:
Do you have a picture of this boat? What fits in a boat 7.6 inches wide?
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we have a livingroom /kitchen (Galley).. toilet & shower , & 2 bedrooms... Many hundreds of thousands of people live on their narrowboats permanently, and many are smaller than ours ( ours being the longest)

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hollydolly said:
It's 7feet wide Pinks..that's it's true width, they're not permitted to be any wider than that to be able to sail on our canals..
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They're very attractive. I can imagine being quite comfortable living on one, though it could get cold through the winter.

Don't know if you are aware that you made a typo, quoting inches rather than feet. Most of us figured it out though :)
 
This is the typical look of the interior of a narrowboat... (not ours)...

Everything is behind each other.. this livingroom with the galley kitchen behind,,,

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Then behind that to the right (in ours) is the toilet, and then behind that at the back are the bedrooms... ( everything is in one line)...

Oh they can be very cosy in winter.. using oil radiators or using wood log fires,
 
hollydolly said:
This is the typical look of the interior of a narrowboat... (not ours)...

Everything is behind each other.. this livingroom with the galley kitchen behind,,,

32b162854a91b25be9b6d0d0182157f2.jpg


Then behind that to the right (in ours) is the toilet, and then behind that at the back are the bedrooms... ( everything is in one line)...

Oh they can be very cosy in winter.. using oil radiators or using wood log fires,
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Very light/airy/modern and attractive. Are there a lot of younger couples living in these, or more retired people .. or a mix?
 
hollydolly said:
This is the typical look of the interior of a narrowboat... (not ours)...

Everything is behind each other.. this livingroom with the galley kitchen behind,,,

32b162854a91b25be9b6d0d0182157f2.jpg


Then behind that to the right (in ours) is the toilet, and then behind that at the back are the bedrooms... ( everything is in one line)...

Oh they can be very cosy in winter.. using oil radiators or using wood log fires,
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That’s one cool boat.
 
Pinky said:
Very light/airy/modern and attractive. Are there a lot of younger couples living in these, or more retired people .. or a mix?
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There's quite a mix , Pinks.. today with the young finding it difficult to get on the housing ladder, many more younger couples are choosing to live on them permanently.. whereas before they tended to be middle aged and older.. ( more money)... they're not cheap to buy and the morring charges can be quite steep, but it's still cheaper than a home in the more expensive areas like here in London for example.

Ours was my husbands' home for 10 years before we got married.. he had it built to his own specifications and lived on it with his dog , and the odd girlfriend or 2 ..

ETA..yes we do use the boat...we don't go out on it anywhere nearly as often as we used to, we tend to entertain friends to dinner on it more often than actually go up river on it.. in fact we were just saying today that we need to go down and get it ready for the winter and close it all up, and next spring we'll take it out up river for a week with a view then to selling afterwards..
 


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