Can we tell your age by what your childhood bedroom looked like?

fuzzybuddy

fuzzybuddy

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Most of the questions I would have answered with "none of the above." I think this quiz is geared to people younger than I am.

My sister and I shared a room most of our growing up years (50s and very early 60s). Bed, dresser, night tables, small desk, chair; hardwood floors. No posters allowed on the walls -- I don't think I even thought of posters. We had a couple of pictures, I think, but don't recall what, exactly -- but stuff like a landscape; no kid stuff. Our room didn't look much different than our parents' room. I think the walls were off white, or a VERY pale pastel.

My friends' rooms were much the same.
 

Was only able to respond to about 4 of the questions.

I shared a room with my sister. Slept on an old pull out couch. There was linoleum on the floor .. dressers, small bookcase, desk & chair. Off-white walls, no posters or hangings of any kind. Just the bare necessities.
 
Most of my answers would have been "none of the above" if that was available.

Room was purple and gold fleur de lis on a cream background wallpaper, ceiling was gold stripes like a tent. (OK, I was either ahead of the times or weird...…)
No posters on the walls.
Bedspread was purple chenille (remember taking a nap on top of your bedspread and waking up with "chenille face"?)
No pets in the bedroom; my mother would have had a heart attack.
 
Ladybj said:
NO, NO NO NO...again NO...:ROFLMAO: I shared a bedroom with 4 siblings and (3) of them has passed away. The quizzes and studies they come up with...SHM. I may come up with a study of people who come up with all these studies..:unsure:
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Pretty much the same. One older brother two younger that are in the ground. 2 bedroom apt. we 4 slept in bunk beds zero frills like pictures or lots of clothes & closets. More like on drawer each in a dresser & shoes under our beds. I didn't know we were poor, we had a roof over our heads and ate. OK so meals were planned so that we knew which day of the week it was because of what was for dinner. Talk about budgeting that had to be budgeting at it's best.
 
None of the above.

My two younger brothers shared a bedroom that was created from a back porch closed in with plastic sheeting.

I shared a bedroom with my baby sister, and the idea there was that I would be the one to get up in the middle of the night and change her diaper. I was 13 years when that started.

Since my parents often went to bed drunk, this was a good deal for my sister. Fortunately, she generally slept through the night.

But I was not a happy camper with this arrangement, and I joined the Navy as soon as I graduated from High School at the age of 17.
 
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Knight said:
Pretty much the same. One older brother two younger that are in the ground. 2 bedroom apt. we 4 slept in bunk beds zero frills like pictures or lots of clothes & closets. More like on drawer each in a dresser & shoes under our beds. I didn't know we were poor, we had a roof over our heads and ate. OK so meals were planned so that we knew which day of the week it was because of what was for dinner. Talk about budgeting that had to be budgeting at it's best.
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Sounds like my upbringing. My older sister and I were talking on the phone last night of how we grew up. I told her I did not realize we were poor because I had a roof over my head and food to eat. My mom made sure we had plenty to eat. I wish I had her budgeting skills :ROFLMAO: I am trying to do better with my food budget.. but I like to eat healthy/organic as much as possible. However, when I look back and total my grocery bill for the previous month... I cringe a little. I will try to do better.:unsure:
 
I usually don't do those quizzes. This is similar to my room except I had a regular bed, not a daybed with trundle. My headboard was very similar to this one.
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The bedroom quiz added years to my age, too, and I didn't find the questions all that great or indicative of the time periods. I had an upstairs bedroom with a drum set, a psychedelic poster, and a day-glow mobile made of "peace"signs. The notion of having my own phone line was unthinkable, but in my late teens I did have a small-screen black and white TV set...
 
My memory doesn't go back to my childhood
bedrooms, I remember some, but not how they
looked, only the layout of the furniture.

So I couldn't honestly answer any questions.

Mike.
 
So many of the answers were void of things that applied to me and my bedroom, so wasn't able to complete the quiz, however...

I enjoyed a bedroom all to myself until baby siblings started coming, and then for years and years I shared my bedroom with baby siblings.

Walls were painted a pale yellow, with nursery/child wallpaper. I slept in a single bunk bed... baby siblings in a full-sized white crib. There was one large white dresser that housed my things as well as baby siblings things, with just enough room on top for my radio/cassette player, because daily baby necessities graced the top. Closet held my clothes and baby siblings clothes, along with boxes and bins of toys.

Under my bed was more boxes of toys and things, because storage was next to non-existent in our tiny little home.

Like, Pecos, I, too, would get up in the middle of the night to tend to a crying sibling to change their diapers, prepare a fresh bottle for them, pick them up and rub and pat their backs to settle them down and soothe them back to sleep, before tucking them back into their crib.
 
Aunt Marg said:
So many of the answers were void of things that applied to me and my bedroom, so wasn't able to complete the quiz, however...


Like, Pecos, I, too, would get up in the middle of the night to tend to a crying sibling to change their diapers, prepare a fresh bottle for them, pick them up and rub and pat their backs to settle them down and soothe them back to sleep, before tucking them back into their crib.
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I knew there was a reason why I identified with you, and this shared experience is probably it.
 
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