Things From Before

Pink Biz said:
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Boy, seeing that diaper pin sure brings back memories for me!

I remember candy cigarettes, and how if you blew lightly out of them, a puff of fine confectioners sugar would rise from the end of the cigarette! To me that was way more enjoyable than eating the candy cigarette itself! LOL!

I remember my mom would give us her empty cigarette packages to put our candy cigarette in, to make it even more real!

Gosh, the memories I have...
 

hollydolly said:
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Not exactly as my mom used with me and my baby siblings, but close.

I remember taking my baby siblings out in the carriage on walks to the park and around the neighbourhood, and when I started babysitting for neighbours, big, bulky, oversized baby carriages (very similar to these) were the norm.

The one my mom had, had a stainless wire rack under the carriage, and that's where the diaper bag always went.
 
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Sassycakes said:
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Just like the one my mom used with us!

No telling how many little bums the one we had seen, but all I know is, the one my mom had was handed-down to her, and when mom finished training us, she handed it down to a neighbour, and who knows how many more times that old wooden baby potty was handed-down after!

Used a wooden baby potty just like it for my kids, too!
 
hollydolly said:
We definitely never had ''nappy'' delivery... how on earth did that work? :LOL:
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ROFLMAO! We never did either, Holly, but I remember the white diaper service truck like yesterday!

It used drive past and through our neighbourhood all the time, picking up all the used (dirty) diapers from the homes that had the service, and in turn, a fresh supply of diapers would be left behind.

In our house it was good old-fashioned home-laundered! Washing machine washed and clothesline dried! Did the same with my kids.
 
Aunt Marg said:
ROFLMAO! We never did either, Holly, but I remember the white diaper service truck like yesterday!

It used drive past and through our neighbourhood all the time, picking up all the used (dirty) diapers from the homes that had the service, and in turn, a fresh supply of diapers would be left behind.

In our house it was good old-fashioned home-laundered! Washing machine washed and clothesline dried! Did the same with my kids.
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I bet those folks were the rich ones.. :ROFLMAO: imagine having the luxury of someone else washing the nappies...
 
Sparky said:
I loved my Plasticine days... :D

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Oh my word... I can still smell the smell now!

We had a fun sort of mechanical machine where we could put some plasticine into an opening at the top, and depending on what attachment you had fixed to the press, out came shoestrings, or little flowers, or whatever! Hours upon hours of fun, and all at the kitchen table!
 
hollydolly said:
I bet those folks were the rich ones.. :ROFLMAO: imagine having the luxury of someone else washing the nappies...
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I agree, and no, I can't imagine, though there were times I would have loved to have such diaper service!

All in all, I actually didn't mind the diaper years, minus the poopy ones, but seeing the line with all those freshly laundered and snow-white diapers hanging up drying, nothing served as more of a reminder as to real motherhood! :)
 
I feel guilty not replying to every single posted picture, just so many to respond to, but what fun seeing so many of these again, and all in one place!

Kudos to all here for taking the time to make this one of the most enjoyable and memorable threads ever!
 
Sassycakes said:
I always loved old phones. When I was a teenager a boy I knew came over my house one day to show me a phone his grandmother had years before. When He saw how excited I was he gave it to me and I still have it.
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Had an aunt that had one, and I remember upon using it for the first time how confused and flustered I got, I was talking into the ear-piece and trying to listen into the piece where my ear should have been! The laughs that ensued!
 
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