What item did you use as a kid, but today's kid would go what is that? (games, son)

[crazyworld]

MM we had the same only seafoam green they looked so pretty when we squaredanced. Why we had to do that is beyond me.

[cougfan]

A TV where you changed the channel by turning the knob

Electric Football game

A lot of records/8-tracks

Collecting S&H Green Stamps when grocery shopping w/ my Mom (and sticking them in the books!)

On a bit of a different vein - not riding in a child safety seat or using a selt beat!

[ElizaTeal]

The little round disk you placed inside 45rpm records. I've seen them made as gold jewelry pendants.

[Mightyqueen801]

A hair dryer that was not a blow dryer, the kind with the big plastic bubble hat.

Those red rubber boots that went over your shoes and fastened with a loop thingey.

A milkbox.

[Mightyqueen801]

Originally Posted by maciesmom

OMG - a forgot about gym uniforms! Ew! Ours was a white one piece with elastic waist and snaps up the front. It was horrible...

Ours was kelly green. I was really tall and the gymsuit was always too short in the body, so it cut into my crotch and I had to sort of hunch my back inside of it to try to make my torso shorter so it wouldn't hurt. No wonder I hated gym.

[highway29south]

TV antennas. I remember wrapping aluminum foil around the ends for better reception on our four t.v. stations!

Encyclopedias (or even going to the library for research)

[lisdol]

This one goes hand-in-hand with the typewriter: White-out and carbon paper.

[NoExcuses]

My mother would say an ironing board because my daughter saw her ironing once and asked what she was doing (Honestly, I have an iron, just not an ironing board.).

I would say a brain. Kids now days are told what to do, how to feel, what to say, everything is told to kids. They no longer need to think for themselves. If they give a wrong answer, they are promptly told the expected answer. They are hovered over and directed so that none of them have to give a thought, simply do what they are told.

[lisdol]

Originally Posted by highway29south

TV antennas. I remember wrapping aluminum foil around the ends for better reception on our four t.v. stations!

Encyclopedias (or even going to the library for research)

LOl I was going to mention wrapping tinfoil around the antennas too!

[sandycat]

great thread! You all took mine: record player (although my nephew got one for Christmas so he can play all our old classic rock LPs), 8 track/cassette, getting off your bum to change the channel, rotary phone with a phone cord, roller rinks, sitting in the back of a station wagon (there was enough room for a bunch of us), atari... ahhh the good old days.