Kris148
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Being the cool kid, with one of these .. not an iPhone
Things from your childhood that would baffle young people of today
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terry123
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Sonics still has car hops!
Aunt Bea
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Yup!
We used to stand on the hot air registers to warm up as long as we could before our bare feet started to burn.
terry123
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Playing hop scotch for hours under a huge oak tree with friends. We lived in the country and had good friends down the road. We would play hop scotch and hide and seek while our folks visited on the porch and drank coffee.
hollydolly
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Answering the phone with your home town or area.. eg... Dublin 1212
hollydolly
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Black and white TV...
..and the sheer delight ..when we first got colour.....
..and the sheer delight ..when we first got colour.....
hollydolly
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Is that a key for a clockwork toy, Ken?
hollydolly
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Ah Ha!! i remember those key skates very well.... with the strap at the front and back, and often the strap would come loose and the skate would go under my foot and trip me up...
Lara
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1. S & H Green Stamps
2. Not having to "Press 1 for English"
3. Playing outside and exploring in your yard
4. Having daily chores
5. Owning a Sewing machine and sewing your own clothes
2. Not having to "Press 1 for English"
3. Playing outside and exploring in your yard
4. Having daily chores
5. Owning a Sewing machine and sewing your own clothes
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DaveA
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And every so often someone would start up after the show, forget the speaker, and rip it right off of the post.
hollydolly
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ken with regard the skates... when I was a kid in the 60's we had plastic or leather straps at the front...not clamps...
hollydolly
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In my neighbourhood Lara..we're fortunate that the kids despite having the latest technology, do still play outside , and in the parks..
I'd forgotten about not having to press 1..for English..
I'd forgotten about not having to press 1..for English..
hollydolly
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hollydolly
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Who didn't love putting a coin in the jukebox and hitting replay for your favourite song...?
I totally understand that.
Aunt Bea
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It's comforting to know that some things never change.
jujube
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As a kid, I always slept in long voluminous "Mother Hubbard" flannel nightgowns that my grandmother made for me. In the frosty mornings, I'd get dressed under the nightgown while standing over a hot air register. The gown would billow out into a tent and there was plenty of room to get dressed under there. It was always too cold to do anything upstairs besides burrow under the covers until the furnace had had to chance to warm things up for a couple of hours.
terry123
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Remember those too, Lara. In fact I still have a few books of those green stamps!
Warrigal
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Boiling the copper to wash the clothes and linen, rinsing them in three tubs of clear water, using a mangle to squeeze out the last rinse that was tinted blue using a cake of blue wrapped in a piece of muslin, then dipping certain items in starch water before hanging them on an outside clothesline propped up with wooden poles.
Just attempting to describe this method of doing laundry sounds so improbable I don't think too many young people today would believe it but that is how my mother and aunts did the weekly wash when I was a child. The day after washing day was ironing day.
Just attempting to describe this method of doing laundry sounds so improbable I don't think too many young people today would believe it but that is how my mother and aunts did the weekly wash when I was a child. The day after washing day was ironing day.
applecruncher
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Taking off our shoes and wading in a river or creek
Roasting hot dogs & marshmallows on a stick (tree branch) over a fire.
Sleeping in the back yard in a homemade tent.
Roasting hot dogs & marshmallows on a stick (tree branch) over a fire.
Sleeping in the back yard in a homemade tent.
hollydolly
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The kids still do that here in the local villages...
