Describe your age in words.

Ronni

Ronni

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Nashville TN
I'll start. :)

I'm~~the toilet in the first house I can remember was down the back steps, along the path by the rose bushes and into a tiny brick cube with a cistern that was suspended above the toilet and you had to pull the chain to flush it ~~ old.
 

I'm the coal sliding down the shute into the bin in the basement then waiting to be shoveled into the stove each morning and night, then waiting for the part of me that hasn't burned to be picked out of the ashes in the yard, put in a bucket and brought back in the house to be re burned.
 
I'm~the first TV I ever watched had a tiny black and white screen in an enormous console with doors that shut over the screen~old.
 

treeguy64 said:
I'm~the first TV I ever watched had a tiny black and white screen in an enormous console with doors that shut over the screen~old.
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SO this!!!! We were the first people on our street to have a TV. Neighbors from up and down the road came to knock on the door and ask if they could look at it...not watch a particular show mind you (we only had 2 channels and they were only available a few hours a day lol) just to see what all the fuss was about!!!
 
I'm so old I remember buying my youngest sister an 8 track tape player and some 8 track tapes for her birthday, she was the first on the block to have one.
 
I’m wearing bib overalls, with a Handy Andy hammer holder, just like Grampa
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Earlier branded as ‘Poops with Chikins’
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I'm old enough to remember travelling in trains that had compartments with sliding doors in the corridor...old!!

For some reason I can never see your photos GaryO... so could someone please C&P Gary;s photos into a post for me to see
 
Going to the ‘house’ in the winter, about 30 feet from the house. Pulling down shades and shutting off lights during the war years. Sitting with grandpa listening to Roosevelt giving his war speeches. Sitting on the one big round register to get warm and drying gloves and boots on the wood burning kitchen stove.

Mixing the yellow stuff into the margarine to give it color. Helping with the old wringer washer down cellar. Many, many more memories still in my mind. I am so glad I can remember these things because now I can’t remember what I did yesterday. :sentimental:
 
Standing on a chair fitting a new gas mantle on the gas light for my Gran, then sitting on the floor by the fire toasting bread, while the new gas mantle 'purred' in harmony with Gran's cat.
 
If I weren't anywhere near 70, I'd find it fun, too. I guess that's what I get for getting on to an old people's forum. :)
 

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