What do you miss from your past? (cost, the best, to buy)

[RAINBOWWAVES]

Born 1947. I miss the respect ppl had for one another. When you could depend on neighbors. The beautiful way girls and ladies dressed. The great music... The absence of gangsta rap.

[Racelady88]

I miss the freedom and total lack of responsibility that came with being a child.

I miss drugstore lunch counters, Good Humor Whammy Sticks, real popcorn with real melted butter & salt, full service gas stations, men wearing real hats, and Casey Casem on the radio.

Thanks for the trip down memory lane (which is getting longer every day!).

[theqbaby]

Originally Posted by Evey

I miss the freedom and total lack of responsibility that came with being a child.

I miss the lack of responsibility also. The beach everyday from sun up to sun down. The lack of wondering how this or that will get done. Carefree life. Lack of bills and all the things that being "grown up" brings. Mom cooking dinner everynight, doing laundry..... Oh the list goes on..........

[heathersmom]

(What I miss that I did that I wish my kids could do...)Being able to run all over our town until dark and never have my parents worry where I was. Sitting outside on the porch with neighbors til Mom called you in and knowing all the teachers and the teachers knowing our families...

[Racelady88]

You know what else I miss?

People who knew your name when you came in, like doctors and postal clerks.

Independant businesses i.e. the local hardware store (I just LOATHE Home Depot).

Cruisin' on Saturday night.

I am sure I will be back with more.....

[pixieshmoo]

I must agree with Heathersmom...I grew up in the 80's. I miss the simple fact that we were innocent. We didn't know what war meant, we didn't know the definition of terrorism or that terrorists even existed. Our form of terrorism was a bully in school. The only drills we'd practice at school were fire drills, not bomb or war drills. We were too young to debate the presidential election, or even care, it was just cool that the one we grew up with used to be an actor. We weren't afraid of being outside alone because some sicko would steal you. Everyone in your neighborhood looked out for each other, they didn't turn their backs or put their blinders on. Everybody seemed to like the same kind of music, watch all the same shows, there weren't too many stereotypes as a kid. We only had Atari and Collecovision...that was it. Anything else you did, you had to make up your own games (we actually used our own brains and imaginations for this)...manhunt, freeze tag, red rover, red light green light, etc. We used to make believe we were the people from movies & tv shows, Grease, Star Wars, Starsky & Hutch, Dukes of Hazzard, Goonies, Stand By Me and we'd re-enact the movie/show with maybe our own twist on the end. All the girls wanted to be the Go-Go's, Cyndi Lauper or Madonna, boys wanted to be Luke Skywalker, Darth Vader, cops, robbers, or some famous wrestler. We crawled through neighbors yards and tried to see where we'd end up (down the block LOL). We caught lightning bugs (aka = fireflies). As long as someone's older sister or brother were outside, it didn't matter if we were running up and down the block in the summer. We made our decisions by using the eeny-meeny-miney-mo method or flipping a coin...that was that. Your friends parents could discipline you or lecture you without your own parents going into some rage about it. Your mom opened the door and either yelled your name for dinner or whistled...which made everyone come running because you didn't know who's mom was whistling. If you fell down, you "walked it off" not filed a lawsuit. We had pajama parties, roller skating parties and mcdonald's parties, not manicure, pedicure and hairspray parties at the salon. Boys beat up girls when they liked them, girls made fun of boys when they liked them...holding hands was dating and kissing was GROSS!!!! When your friends heard you were grounded, they all but sent sympathy cards...punishment was serious, not just having your tv shut off so that you could still play your gameboy or psp or nintendo ds, talk on the phone and get your nails done while hanging out with your 10 - not one but 10 - best friends. We rode bikes and did "wheelies", we had stupid metal rollerskates that your sneakers fit into. Girls and boys all looked alike with those horrible mullets and we all wore our socks straight up to our knees (with red stripes going around them). Fast food was a treat if you were good, not a way of life, your parents never owned a car that came out of that same decade, and they owned it until the doors fell off and the engine died, no trade-ins...
I could go on but I've said too much already. Point being, we were pure, innocent, fun loving, carefree children...I tell my children all the time, I wish they could experience even half of the wonderful childhood I had. Our goal is to provide as much of that as possible for them, whenever and however we can...That is what I miss.

Ps. one more thing, if you talked back you got a "beating"...end of story.

[RAINBOWWAVES]

What great responses! now this is fun and stimulating. I miss collecting soda bottles to bring back to get some pocket change to get candy.

[RAINBOWWAVES]

Comments made in the year 1955:







"I'll tell you one thing, if things keep going the way they are, it's going to be impossible to buy a week's groceries for $20."



"Have you seen the new cars coming out next year? It won't be long before $2000 will only buy a used one."



"If cigarettes keep going up in price, I'm going to quit. A quarter a pack is ridiculous."



"Did you hear the post office is thinking about charging a dime just to mail a letter?"



"If they raise the minimum wage to $1, nobody will be able to hire outside help at the store."



"When I first started driving, who would have thought gas would someday cost 29 cents a gallon. Guess we'd be better off leaving the car in the garage."




"Kids today are impossible. Those duck tail hair cuts make it impossible to stay groomed. Next thing you know, boys will be wearing their hair as long as the girls."



"I'm afraid to send my kids to the movies any more. Ever since they let Clark Gable get by with saying '****' in 'Gone With The Wind,' it seems every new movie has either "hell" or "****" in it.



"I read the other day where some scientist thinks it's possible to put a man on the moon by the end of the century They even have some fellows they call astronauts preparing for it down in Texas."



"Did you see where some baseball player just signed a contract for $75,000 a year just to play ball? It wouldn't surprise me if someday they'll be making more than the president."




"I never thought I'd see the day all our kitchen appliances would be electric. They are even making electric typewriters now."



"It's too bad things are so tough nowadays. I see where a few married women are having to work to make ends meet."



"It won't be long before young couples are going to have to hire someone to watch their kids so they can both work."



"Marriage doesn't mean a thing any more; those Hollywood stars seem to be getting divorced at the drop of a hat."






"I'm just afraid the Volkswagen car is going to open the door to a whole lot of foreign business."



"Thank goodness I won't live to see the day when the Government takes half our income in taxes. I sometimes wonder if we are electing the best people to congress."



"The drive-in restaurant is convenient in nice weather, but I seriously doubt they will ever catch on."



"There is no sense going to Lincoln or Omaha anymore for a weekend. It costs nearly $15 a night to stay in a hotel."



"No one can afford to be sick any more; $35 a day in the hospital is too rich for my blood."



"If they think I'll pay 50 cents for a hair cut, forget it."

[mystree]

lol brings back memories,I can remember playing charlies angels ,wonder woman and being the bionic woman,jumping off the front porch making bionic sounds before I hit the ground....too funny. Also playing hop scotch and double dutch and doing cart wheels until my wrist were sore. Yep those were the days...sigh

[Mike from back east]

Originally Posted by Evey

You know what else I miss? ....independent businesses i.e. the local hardware store (I just LOATHE Home Depot)

Amen and ditto to that. I could've kicked a clerk in Home Depot a couple of years back, in Fairfax, VA. I went in for a simple part for kitchen plumbing. The idiot in the plumbing department took one look at the old piece I brought in as a sample and he says, so help me, he said: "you gotta go to a hardware store for that." Well DUHHHH I just shook my head and left. I wish I had said....."You big-box morons drove all the independent mom & pop hardware stores out of business. Now you tell me to go to a hardware store??!! There aren't any left!!!"

I drove over to Lowe's and found the part. Lowe's had it THREE different ways! Lesson learned. Now I own stock in Lowe's.

s/Mike