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You're Not Old Unless You Can Remember...

katrina

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You're Not Old Unless You Can Remember...
1) Being sent to the drugstore to test vacuum tubes for the TV.

2) When Kool-Aid was the only drink for kids, other than milk and sodas.

3) When there were two types of sneakers for girls and boys (Keds & PF Flyers), and the only time you wore them at school, was for "gym."

4) When it took five minutes for the TV to warm up.

5) When nearly everyone's mom was at home when the kids got there.

6) When nobody owned a purebred dog.

7) When a quarter was a decent allowance, and another quarter a huge bonus.

8) When you'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny.

9)When girls neither dated nor kissed until late high school, if then.

10) When your mom wore nylons that came in two pieces.

11) When all of your male teachers wore neckties and female teachers had their hair done, everyday.

12) When you got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gas pumped, without asking,..... for free, every time and you didn't pay for air. And you got trading stamps to boot!

13) When laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside the box.

14)When any parent could discipline any kid, or feed him, or use him to carry groceries, and nobody, not even the kid, thought a thing of it.

15) When it was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a real restaurant with your parents.

16) When they threatened to keep kids back a grade if they failed...and did!

17) When being sent to the principal's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited a misbehaving student at home.
 

Ranch Mom

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:!: :!: :!: Woohoo, I just found out I really am not old like I feel. :wink:

But I do wish the world was still more like this. :wink:
 

HAY MAKER

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Katrina,its what some of us call "the good ole days",I remember em well,guess IM gettin old,but still put a few of these young bucks in their place on occasion :wink: .................good luck
 

Maple Leaf Angus

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HAY MAKER said:
Katrina,its what some of us call "the good ole days",I remember em well,guess IM gettin old,but still put a few of these young bucks in their place on occasion :wink: .................good luck

Say Hay Maker, you wouldn't happen to be the old guy in "Second Hand Lions", would you? :wink: :) :lol2:


By the way, that's a mighty fine movie, if you haven't seen it yet.
 

Ranchy

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Thanks! I just found out I'm not nearly as old as I thought I was..... :wink:

Will have to have Hubby go through the list, and see how old he is!
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Mike

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katrina said:
Ya well the guy who invented the wheel lived on my block....His kids and I grew up together.....

Yea well, His brother who invented fire lived next door to me. But we didn't have blocks. They were called caves.
 

katrina

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Whoa boy...Put your cowboy boots on cuz it's really getting deep.... I think I'll round up those breast waders!!!! :p :roll: :shock: :D
You gray old fart!!!!!!! How did I do TimH?????? Nanner Nanner Mike!!
 

Cowpuncher

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Remember them all, and

1. Seeing folks come into town with a horse and buggy.

2. Selling eggs and cream to pay for groceries

3. Seeing old folks who never had much trying to get by on $102 month old age pension.

4. Farming with horses.

5. Milking cows by hand morning and night.

6. Eating lambsquarter, cottontails etc because they didn't cost anything

7. Hauling grain to town in a "box wagon" which held about 60 bushels pulled buy a team of horses.

8. Picking corn by hand, shucking it and shelling it in a hand-powered corn sheller.

9. Curing meat in in brine because there was no electricity or refrigeration

10. Going to the movie which was shown only on Saturday night.

11. Picking currants and chokecherries to make jam and jelly.

12. Using molasses on pancakes because of the war time shortage of sugar and syrup.

13. War time rationing of gasoline, meat, sugar, etc along with the 35MPH speed limit.

14. Putting up hay with a horse drawn mower, dump rake and hayrack and stacking loose hay.

15. Only about 2 pickup trucks in town, neither of which could haul much and of course, no four-wheel drive.

16. Spending winter afternoons in front of a wood stove straightening used nails on a wood block. Even the square nails which were still common.

17. Butchering our own hogs, making scrapple, sausage bacon and ham.

18. Making our own sauerkraut in big porcelain crocks.

19 Riding in a car in the winter with no radio or heater.

20. Trying to start old cars when it was -25 degrees.

21. Spreading sand on ice in the creek so the horses could pull the feed wagon across.

22. Putting hot water bottles in the bed in winter because there was no heat when the kitchen stove went out in the night. Also remember the water by our bed freezing during the night.

23. Talking with the Jehovah Witness folks that traversed the rural economy. (That happens still!!)


But what I don't remember is never having enough to eat. We ate good.
 

Red Barn Angus

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AND.....

Shucking corn into the high wheeled box wagon that was pulled by a team of mules - Beck and Grettle. Voice commands would pull the wagon forward and stop it.

Scooping ear corn from the box wagon into a "bin" made from snow fence formed into a circle.

Scooping ear corn into the hammer mill to grind corn chop - made good cattle feed.

Gathering eggs in a tin bucket from the chicken house.

Sitting on the kitchen floor wiping eggs from the buckets with a damp rag before putting them into an egg case. An egg case held 30 dozen eggs.

Going to town on Saturday evening to deliver cream and eggs to the feed store to get money to pay for groceries and school clothes and lunches.

Bringing home a big block of ice or two from the ice house in town to put in our "ice box". Also drawing up the bucket from the well that contained milk and butter to keep it cool.

Going to the outhouse before bed at night in the dark.

We were busy and poor but didn't know any different. Don't ever remember not being well fed and not being happy.
 

the_jersey_lilly_2000

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Aint heard no one talk about lambsquarter in a long long time. My grandma usta have that in one corner of her garden. I've tried for years to find seed and no one down here knows what it is. As grandad would say, "That stuff is larapin as tarapin toenails"
 

cowsense

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Geez..............everybody on here must be older than dirt............. :roll: :


Not me though, I just feel that old! :nod: :nod: :nod: :lol2:
 

Hanta Yo

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YUP! I remember those, I'm old, I admit it... those were the good ole' days, though. Can't ever argue that, although whippersnappers who think they know it all will :roll: :!:
 
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