I'm so old I remember... (difference, Hawaii, shopping, Texas)

[RDSLOTS]

Oh, yeah! I know what you are talking about. I'd have the kids in class make them with study questions. They thought it was just too cool.

You need to start with a square sheet of paper, and it can be most any size, but we generally used a sheet of notebook paper, and folded it diagonally to make the square. Fold, and tear off the excess.

Then fold the square in half. Fold that in half, so you end up with a piece of paper, one square, about 2" x 2". Unfold it, and use the fold marks as a guide to fold the sides in, again on a diagonal. You'll end up with a square and four flaps.

Fold the whole thing in half, with the flaps inside. Push the outside(s) together to create places for your fingers.


Hmmm. . . this is getting complicated. Look for a book called Making Cooties -- or try googling it. They have been called 'cooties' which I found strange, because . . .

I remember when "cooties" were something you got from being around boys. You had to give, and get, cootie shots to be safe.

[rrtechno]

I remember when school bus drivers were allowed to let kids off anyplace the kids requested, without a note. We used to get off about a mile from home and walk when the weather was nice. That is because the bus turned before it got to our house and it was nearly an hour before our house came up on the route. I guess they could do that because they really knew all the kids on the bus, and their parents, and their aunts and uncles, etc. ...but I guess that is a different thread about small towns.

[AksarbeN]

I’m so old that I remember when TP was invented which allowed people to finally order things from the Sears catalog all year. Before then you had to be careful what pages you used ~ always wanted to keep the toy pages available in the catalog for as long as possible.

[RDSLOTS]

Good one, AksarbeN.

I actually remember having to walk back to the outhouse at someone's house. It gave me the willies, sitting there.

For the life of me, I cannot remember the circumstances -- whose house, why they still had an outhouse, etc., but I sure recall all of the other details like the smoothness of the boards beneath me, being afraid I would fall in, checking out the seat next to mine, (a double potty, no less), the grass growing up around the base of the structure, the dirt rubbed smooth on the floor of the thing, it being dark even during the day, and being scared half-to-death and being in there, all alone, my child-self.

Odd thing is, I don't remember it smelling bad?

[Steve Bagu]

Good old OUTHOUSE. As a child remember using the facility on a COLD WINTER NIGHT with the SNOW FLURRIES outside and the COLD wind blowing on my rear. OH GOSH, such nice MEMORIES. Stefhen

[findinghope]

Originally Posted by RDSLOTS

Oh, yeah! I know what you are talking about. I'd have the kids in class make them with study questions. They thought it was just too cool.

You need to start with a square sheet of paper, and it can be most any size, but we generally used a sheet of notebook paper, and folded it diagonally to make the square. Fold, and tear off the excess.

Then fold the square in half. Fold that in half, so you end up with a piece of paper, one square, about 2" x 2". Unfold it, and use the fold marks as a guide to fold the sides in, again on a diagonal. You'll end up with a square and four flaps.

Fold the whole thing in half, with the flaps inside. Push the outside(s) together to create places for your fingers.




Hmmm. . . this is getting complicated. Look for a book called Making Cooties -- or try googling it. They have been called 'cooties' which I found strange, because . . .

I remember when "cooties" were something you got from being around boys. You had to give, and get, cootie shots to be safe.

actually my post had a link with pic and told how to make it--

[RDSLOTS]

Majorly oops, findinghope.

My post is for the not-so-visual learners, then. And to think I spent all that time, thinking, typing, thinking some more, having to visualize those folds, re-think the directions I was giving, typing some more. . . well, you get the picture.

Man, I could'a should'a would'a been on that never-ending thread instead.

[delusianne]

Im so old I remember when this thread was brand-new.

[quiet walker]

I remember when you got a toy made in Germany that it was really something special. Perhaps they still are...

[quiet walker]

Skee-Ball at boardwalk arcades with my Dad. He was very good! Games were a dime during the 50's.

On that same boardwalk (Ocean City NJ) there were "salt water taffy" stores where you could see it being made on amazing machines. Fancy brass fixtures and marble table tops. Huge rolls of striped confection that were reduced through the machines into the small, identically colored pieces that went through another machine that wrapped them in their paper wrappers. These stores also sold the most wonderful fudge in many flavors. You could see fudge being made in huge pans as well. These stores also sold hot caramel corn and "kettle" corn. Mmmmm..... I can smell it now

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