You are officially old if.....

None of those are old to me.

Old is if you were given cod liver oil every day, as there were no kid's vitamins then. Old is if you grew up playing on a sidewalk with chalk, a rubber shoe heel and drew a diagram then called it hop scotch. Old was jumping rope single or double Dutch for hours on end.

Old is drinking Bosco, eating a soft boiled egg, and a bowl of corn flakes for breakfast. Old is having the ice man lug a 50 lb ice chunk up the steps and chopping it to fit in the ice box. Old is watching the coal man unload a ton of coal down a chute into your basement.

I could go on and on, but of course, most of you on here are baby boomers and have an entirely different perspective as to what old really is. Enjoy your respective age now, as it doesn't get easier with time.
 
Lewkat said:
None of those are old to me.

Old is if you were given cod liver oil every day, as there were no kid's vitamins then. Old is if you grew up playing on a sidewalk with chalk, a rubber shoe heel and drew a diagram then called it hop scotch. Old was jumping rope single or double Dutch for hours on end.

Old is drinking Bosco, eating a soft boiled egg, and a bowl of corn flakes for breakfast. Old is having the ice man lug a 50 lb ice chunk up the steps and chopping it to fit in the ice box. Old is watching the coal man unload a ton of coal down a chute into your basement.

I could go on and on, but of course, most of you on here are baby boomers and have an entirely different perspective as to what old really is. Enjoy your respective age now, as it doesn't get easier with time.
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Old is if you were given cod liver oil every day,...in winter we got that and a spoonful of malt ( ugh)... as we were going out of the door to school

yes we played hopscotch, and drew the ''beds'' with chalk or the edge of a piece of sandstone on the road or pavement and used a stone or an old flat round shoe polish time as the Peever..

My father was a Coal man when I was tiny... he was black as the coal he carried on his back.. when he came home at night..

Old is remembering the rag and bone man who used to come round on his horse and cart shouting loudly'' Any old rags''.. and we kids would hope mother had something we could take to him to get a free Balloon.. and if we had a lot we'd get a goldfish in a bag..
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Old is remembering when the Knife grinder used to come round door-to-door , and sharpen knives and scissors,

Old is having to wear a Liberty Bodice in winter... old is having to have wintergreen rubbed into your chilblains as a child, because we went to school in snow and rain with the soles hanging off our shoes..and lined with a part of a cornflake packet

..all this I remember very well.. and More, and I'm a Baby Boomer :D
 

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HoneyNut said:
What is it that we expect to actually find in a film canister? I use an old one for quarters for the hotel laundry machines, but not sure what that site expected was normally in them?
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Hotels have laundry machines? I'm still using this one.
 

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hollydolly said:
Old is if you were given cod liver oil every day,...in winter we got that and a spoonful of malt ( ugh)... as we were going out of the door to school

yes we played hopscotch, and drew the ''beds'' with chalk or the edge of a piece of sandstone on the road or pavement and used a stone or an old flat round shoe polish time as the Peever..

My father was a Coal man when I was tiny... he was black as the coal he carried on his back.. when he came home at night..

Old is remembering the rag and bone man who used to come round on his horse and cart shouting loudly'' Any old rags''.. and we kids would hope mother had something we could take to him to get a free Balloon.. and if we had a lot we'd get a goldfish in a bag..
47be13e1f42a5ff8e6bdebed3fb50068--ivy-rose-rag-and-bone.jpg


Old is remembering when the Knife grinder used to come round door-to-door , and sharpen knives and scissors,

Old is having to wear a Liberty Bodice in winter... old is having to have wintergreen rubbed into your chilblains as a child, because we went to school in snow and rain with the soles hanging off our shoes..and lined with a part of a cornflake packet

..all this I remember very well.. and More, and I'm a Baby Boomer :D
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Going to school on the bus, then an inspector gets on to check your ticket.
 
My Godson texted me a link to The Daily Mail, one of our national newspapers. The article was about: Betraying your age by the use of emojis. Firstly I must admit I didn't know they were emojis, I have always called them icons and secondly, I have never used them. Not out of snobbery or anything like that, but I wouldn't criticise their use either.

Thinking about it, there was one of those icons that made a very good statement, I just didn't have the reason to use it. Shame really.
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Old is if you were given cod liver oil every day
Oh yikes, I do remember a spoonful a day, it was so nasty. For every one I took, my father took two. When grandpa and grandma (and I) moved from the apt to the new property, the cod liver oil stopped.
 
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