Stuff from the past that you miss!

[MNGuy]

Marx Playsets
Jarts
TV Guide Fall Preview
Christmas Wish Book Catalogs
Mom and Dad

 

[Corbie]

Marx Playsets
Jarts
TV Guide Fall Preview
Christmas Wish Book Catalogs
Mom and Dad

The last three on your list--a big me too for them.

 

[RideFl71]

I live 10mins from there...

 

[RideFl71]

 

[Hal9000_]

My biker gang...

OK...about 6 or 7 of us kids on our BMX bikes all summer vacation.

 

[Anisland]

Saturday morning cartoons

 

[Januari]

My biker gang...

OK...about 6 or 7 of us kids on our BMX bikes all summer vacation.

LMAO - that's what I call the group of kids I see in my neighborhood when they are on their bikes. I say, "Oh, the local biker gang is at it again. Out terrorizing the mean streets of suburbia."

I miss summer vacation too. The smell of tanning oil and chlorine and days spent at a pool.

 

[Hal9000_]

LMAO - that's what I call the group of kids I see in my neighborhood when they are on their bikes. I say, "Oh, the local biker gang is at it again. Out terrorizing the mean streets of suburbia."

I miss summer vacation too. The smell of tanning oil and chlorine and days spent at a pool.

And campfire smoke smell for days.

 

[Januari]

And campfire smoke smell for days.

Damn it! Adulting sucks. I am done doing it. I'm pulling a San Junipero and living in the 80s forever.

 

[Hal9000_]

Damn it! Adulting sucks. I am done doing it. I'm pulling a San Junipero and living in the 80s forever.

Oh, I don't know. As least as adults we have more than allowance money. Well, a little but after bills are paid.

 

[Jada59]

The anticipatory thrill of the sound of a dial-up modem.

Hehehe. I remember that. Some guy once sent me a program to silence it so my then husband couldn't hear me go online. I didn't care if he heard me!

 

[Jada59]

Marx Playsets
Jarts
TV Guide Fall Preview
Christmas Wish Book Catalogs
Mom and Dad

Jarts were sooo much fun!

 

[Misshotndeep]

The rush of puppy love. No drama just overwhelming happiness in their presence.

 

[Jada59]

TV dinners that were in an aluminum tray. So not healthy but better than the microwave "tastes like cardboard" stuff.

Milk in glass bottles.

We had those TV dinners most every Friday.

 

[Jada59]

1/3 pint milk at school with cardboard tops that you pushed a straw through. The cardboard tops, once washed, were used to do French knitting or to make pompoms for bobble hats (Or tea cosies).

What I don't miss - school meals with rationing made with loads of stodge; tapioca; rolypoly puddings with jam substitute.

I do miss - bread with dripping and sugar; Radio Malt and NHS orange juice.

One year our school had an excess of stewed prunes. Nobody wanted them but they were still foisted off onto us every day. I had a teacher yell at me for throwing mine out. She told me there were children starving in China. I told her to get me an envelope and I would mail them the prunes.

She called my mom to report me. My mom thought my response was funny!

 

[Jada59]

Changing the needle on my wind-up gramophone after every two sides.

Actually, I don't miss that. I still do it with new needles from a shop in The Netherlands. It amuses the grandchildren that music can be produced without electricity and that I vary the volume either by using a different needle or by putting a pair of rolled-up socks in the horn.

I never had a gramophone. My grandma did though. I did have a record player and remember having to change the needle on that!

 

[Jada59]

Home delivery by the milk man.

We have that here. I had it for a while. Might get it again. Milkman was super cute and sweet. Got him to change a light bulb for me.

 

[Jada59]

Yessssssssss! I used to get a tomato stuffed with tuna or cottage cheese. Yum!

 

[KarenB59]

Spending the week at my grandmothers farm with my cousin's. Playing in the creek. Climbing and sliding down hills. Exploring. Picking blackberries.

 

[Jada59]

Spending the week at my grandmothers farm with my cousin's. Playing in the creek. Climbing and sliding down hills. Exploring. Picking blackberries.

I did all of that too!

 

[schism666]

my mind

 

[Mello_SixtyNine]

 

[sharingfantasies]

We have that here. I had it for a while. Might get it again. Milkman was super cute and sweet. Got him to change a light bulb for me.

My sister is near Boston and has a milk man also. We just got grocery delivery here, so that is almost like having a milk man, but the dairy products don't taste as good.

 

[oggbashan]

Raw egg as an addition to a malted milk shake.

Starting a car with a starting handle.

Starting a motorcycle with a kick start, manual advance/retard and a half-compression lever.

 

[Super-Surprise]