I'm so old I remember... (letter, kids, American, family)

[Cunucu Beach]

Originally Posted by sun queen

I remember seeing washboards sold in stores...

You can still buy them from catalogs that cater to the Amish.

I see them rather frequently at auctions.

[ItalianButterfly]

I don't remember much. I practically lived under a rock.

I am still young, but hey why not?

I remember Pokemon being the best thing ever

I remember when Yu-Gi-Oh's rules were simple

I remember getting IMs from random men on AOL when I was way underage

I remember the first Sims game

Most of you have me beat.

[Bluw]

Originally Posted by sun queen

I remember seeing washboards sold in stores...

I remember using them.

[Cunucu Beach]

Originally Posted by Blutime

I remember using them.

My mother didn't have a washing machine for the first 13-14 years she was married and she did a LOT of our laundry on a wash board. I sometimes helped her.....and I was the youngest.

[sun queen]

Originally Posted by Cunucu Beach

You can still buy them from catalogs that cater to the Amish.

I see them rather frequently at auctions.

Ummm I wonder if I could get one of those old electric washers from one of those catalogs. Do u remember those. Washing used to be lots of work and real good exercise. I remember helping my grandma. Thank God for automatic washers and dryers

[brokencrayola]

I'm so old I remember we use to make paper dolls from Sears catalogs.

My mother had a wringer washing machine and two of my siblings broke their arms by putting them too close to the wringer.

Milk was delivered to your front door and had a little cardboard top to hold the milk in. They also had the best chocolate milk I ever had.

They had candy cigarettes and gum cigars.

TV was black and white and the tv's themselves were big and had bulbs inside. At our Thriftymart they had a bulb tester and you could take any bulb you thought was shot and test it. They sold the bulbs as well.

There was no thing as leash laws or dogs needing to be licensed, so dogs ran around everywhere and bred freely. Not good.

I remember Hobo Kelly and Bozo, Howdy Doody, and Captain Kangaroo and Mr. Green Jeans.

Life was simpler then, I kind of miss it...

[Cunucu Beach]

I remember when little girls wore their hair in two braids called "pig tails" and had a ribbon tied around each one.

[Montana Griz]

Originally Posted by Cunucu Beach

I remember when little girls wore their hair in two braids called "pig tails" and had a ribbon tied around each one.

..........and those that were "lucky enough" to sit in front of me........got their "little pig-tails" dunked into the "ink-wells" (upper right hand corner of the desk) that we had to "top-off" every Monday morning ......boy that ruler hurt when you got it across the knuckles .......oh, and as I remember, Sister Mary Joan (5'11" & 186#) used a Riding Crop!!.......that we got across the butt..............Just imagine what a "well-behaved" group of students we'd have in our schools today......if only our "teachers-of-today" could "utilize" some of the "corrective measures" in common usage in the 1930's...............Oh yeah......to keep it on topic, I should add:..."This is what I remember..

[Cunucu Beach]

I remember TVs that didn't have remotes. You had to get up to change the channel.

[rrtechno]

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