Yes, I remember the ol' typewriter, still have one here to type stuff in for tax forms.. I so hate it.. correction tape is shot,, and guess what can't find a replacement anywhere,,why... NOONE USES THEM ANYMORE.

You mean Jim and Tammy Faye Baker.. that scammed all those people,for their glass cathedral, or whatever it was called, hope you didn't give em too big a donation the day you visited...:rolleyes:

I was born in early 70's and remember playing hide and seek, catch the ball, softball, volleyball and all kinds of outdoors games.
I was like wowwww!!when I saw an atari for the first time in the early 80's. The VCR's with the wired remoto control and with betta format was the latest in our neighborhood. Internet, Ipod,DVD,cell phones, so many things didn't exist back then. YT is not that old either.

Born in '52 not to many modern conveniences. Had a milk man. no showers, just tubs, Rag man came down the alley with a Horse and wagon. hand ringer washer. no car seats or seat belts. party lines (my best friend and I had fun with that as kids!!

Yes, Jim and Tammy Baker....it was a children's show...pre-scam ya outta millions days so their dog could have an air conditioned house. :rolleyes:

And NO SELT BELTS....I so remember standing UP in the back seat of the car...making faces at the people in the cars behind you. :dribble: :bleh:

CD's - DVD's - MP3 Players - Plasma TV's - Internet - SUV's and the list goes on.

Oh, I remember the old typewriters!! My hands were very small back in high school and my fingers would get so sore hitting between the keys. We also had a few electric typewriters but only a few people got to use them.

Did anyone have any Suzy Homemaker toys? I had a little stove. I had to beg and beg for one. It was another thing that my Mom said wouldn't work. I had a cousin and she had the stove, sink, and another thing, maybe a dishwasher. Oh, and I had a Suzy Homemaker mixer!

Did anyone ever try to see what your gifts were under the tree? I used to try to see through the paper to figure out what was inside!! I had figured out that I had a Suzy Homemaker over by doing that!!!

I loved Clackers and I think that the other thing was called a Wheel-O. We also had Super Balls and would go out in the middle of the street and slam them down on the pavement as hard as we could to see how high they would go. Thank goodness we never broke anything!!!

I had a record player and loved to listen to records of the Jackson 5, the Osmonds, B.J. Thomas, and so many others!!!

And on May Day we would make little baskets with paper cups and pipe cleaners for handles. We would fill the "baskets" with popcorn and candy and put a little spirea that was blooming on the top. Then we would set a basket in front of the neighbor's door, knock on the door, then run and hide.

I'm still having trouble staying on topic. Ok, let's see.....I guess that I meant to say that we didn't have electric typewriters when I was born.....or, ummmm,.......electric toys.......or.......a......8-track players. cd players, or cassette players.

Oh! Oh! Oh!! I just thought of something.....a dishwasher!! My Mom would say that she had one.....Me!!! After every meal the dishes had to be washed, dried, and put away. There was no dish drainer and no waiting until later like I do now!!

This is fun. Maybe I'll think of some more later!!!

Must've been too old to be Suzy homemaker. ;) BUT I opened and re-wrapped with the original paper mind you....every gift that was under the tree with my name.

One time me and a friend rushed through that dish washing....rushed a little too quickly...come breakfast...we were washing the same dishes AGAIN. :rolleyes:

I did have a metal kitchenset though....a sink, fridge, and stove...it was avacodo green. And I bet that sucker sells for big bucks on eBay now. ;)

Before walkmans and ipods...you had transistor radios w/ one ear phone.

Oh oh...did you have one of the round smiley transistor radio that you hung around your neck?? Still have that too!! Mine was yellow!

Yep...I unwrapped and rewrapped every present under the tree for me and I taught my best friend how to do it also! My parents never knew until I told them after I was married...my boys try it and I know before they are even finished!

Did your Mom notice? or were you a good enough wrapper that you got away with it? So..... what happened?

I copied this from another thread that I had posted on:

A fun memory that I have is also at Christmas time. My brother was about 6 or 7. My mom and I had run to the store for a short time and had left my brother at home. He wanted another GI Joe for Christmas and there was a package under the tree that he just knew was a GI Joe. He had taken the GI Joe that he had and had measured it against the box to see if a GI Joe would fit in the box. (It was a GI Joe.) Well, our house had a hallway that went from the front room into the back room. It ran through the center of the house and our Christmas tree was in the back room against the wall, but was at the end of the hallway. When we got back from the store Mom went to put some presents under the tree and noticed that the GI Joe package had been opened and "someone" had tried to re-wrap the box. Well, my brother said that he and our dashund had been running down the hallway and the dog had "run into the present", unwrapping it in the process. However, my brother assured my mom that he'd tried to wrap it back the best he could. I still remember him telling Mom the story. It was so funny!!!

Never had to use the dog did it excuse. :D I was way good....years of experience....when my mother finally caught on...she started using curling ribbon and tied knots in it....it is impossible to unknot curly ribbon...trust me, I tried. Even opened the first gift hubby, then BF, gave me. He was foolish enough to place it under our tree. ;)

No smiley radio....basic black rectangule. Smiley faces came out too late....by then I had a reel to reel tape deck. :rolleyes: Just realized I have owned ONE of every audio device....radio, record player, reel to reel, 8 track, cassette, CD's.....:rolleyes:

Not every one...in my first car, a '71 VW beetle, there was some kind of funky tape player that you could not buy tapes for...had a friend that happened to have 2 tapes, by someone I had never heard of before, and we would play them. I can not remember the name of the tape player, it was almost like a teeny tiny 8 track tape player the way the tapes looked and the way that you put them in!

My mom told me about party lines...haven't heard about those in a while.

I was born in '75 so there weren't any of the current conveniences--cell phones, internet, microwaves, DVDs, CDs, etc., I think audio cassette tapes came out in the early '80s so they might have been before my time. MTV came out in '82, wasn't it (back in the day when there were music videos on MTV)????

Speaking of Avocado green :D :D :D All of our appliances were Avocado green and all my mom's friends were jealous of her new "matching appliances". We also had ORANGE shag carpeting and on Saturdays I had to vacuum it and then rake it with a regular yard rake LOL!!! If company came over we raked it to all stand up and not see footprints...that sounds so goofy now!!

The Chrissy Doll had long red hair...you pushed a button and her ponytail would extend out until her hair was down to her knees. Then she had a dial on her back to wind it back up short. Remember the Mrs. Beasley Doll? From that show Family Affair?? Also, the game Red Rover?? And did anyone play "thumbs up, seven up" in school?

But, back on topic.. cars did not have remote devices to open them, heck they didn't have electric windows or doors....you were rolling those suckers up and down :p No car alarms, but people weren't stealing cars left and right either. No car seats or seat belts required, you could ride in the back window behind the rear seats...don't even think cars have that space in them anymore. No digital alarm clocks or anykind of clock was digital..you had to know how to tell time. No velcro sneakers, you had to learn to tie your shoes. No pullups for potty training...you either were or you weren't. The coke cans had the ring you pulled off and people would throw them on the ground,...you had to look where you stepped if you were bare-footed. This is fun!!!!!!!!:rolleyes:

I'm old, or older. Born in 1958. I remember sleeping with just sheets and a open window. If we were lucky we had the fan that night! Kids and even adults could never survive anymore like that!! Funny kinda sounds like the story "when I was a kid I walked throught the snow for 2 miles and with bare feet to get to school!" LOL:D

Yorkie talk :D :D :D

We were the first in our "neighborhood" to get an indoor bath room.
we had a wood burning cook stove,
coal/wood heating stove in the living room,
5 of us shared a bed room (baby slep in mom & dads room),
made our own butter (taking turns shaking the jar),
crank ice cream maker(winter time we made snow icecream)
no running water(took that straight out of the ground),
wringer washer (sat on the porch),
bath once a week with rain water collected in barrels in the wash tub that we also used for rinsing clothes and food canning.
grew a garden for just about everything.
had one cow(for milk), 2 work horses(used for plow)a couple of cats and one coon dog.
we didn't have kindergarden, my first grade was in a one room school house. second grade we started going to the city school.(the old school house closed.)
we did have a phone tho... 3 party line.
I remember dad bringing home our first tv. b&w.
all my dresses was made from feed sacks.(as well as the curtains, table cloths, dish towels,etc.)(and was made on a tredle(sp) machine).
if you watch the coal miners daughter, the way she was brought up was identical to the way we lived.

Now after reading all of this, I want you all to remember that it is not because I am old....it is because of the area we lived in was stuck where they had to pipe in the sunshine. My mother and father was old fashioned and we didn't have the modern conveniences even if they did exist. My guish, my first trip to a dairy queen, I dressed up thinking we were going to a beauty pageant.

I HATE avocado green!!!! When I was first married we lived in a trailer house and EVERYTHING was avocado green!! The carpet, the walls, the sinks, the toilet, the bathtub, the stove, the linoleum, ......Everyone knows that you don't get me anything that is green!!!

I also had a "carpet rake" for my shag carpet. It sounds kinda' dumb now, but we used it so the carpeting wouldn't get matted down.

Oh!!! I remember Mrs. Beasley and Buffy and Jody!!!! My neighbor got one and I was sooo jealous. Come to think of it.....my neighbors always got everything that I wanted. :mad: They got Chatty Cathys too!! :mad: :mad: I keep hoping that maybe I'll come across one at a garage sale or something! Then I could put her in the basement with all of the other stuff I don't know what to do with!!!!! LOL!!

Well, if you REALLY want a "chatty cathy"....check this out...but hurry :D
http://cgi.ebay.com/1960-Chatty-Cath...QQcmdZViewItem

ummm........hmm.....DVD players I think? and I'm pretty sure Ipods weren't around yet. ('93, btw :D )

Thanks, but I was too late!!! I've thought about getting one on e-bay, but I'm not sure what I'd do with her once I got her. Maybe when my girls move out and I fix up a guest room I'll put one in there. I got a while before that happens.

I was born in 1956 and boy let me tell you growing up like yourself there were many sleepless nights. We had a fan in the room and it was blowing hot air. Man how did we survive...lol like you mention kids and adults couldnt survive anymore. I do to remember walking to school in deep snow but I had boots. No one had anything back then but we were happy...

Gina

This just reminded me of sleeping with hard curlers in my hair that had like bristles sticking out of it! Yeow! Did that ever hurt! And my mom had a hair dryers that was hooked up to a canister and you had to wear like a bag on your head.

And what about those stupid roller skates with metal wheels that you strapped on to your shoes? They kept on falling off and making you fall. The metal wheels made the most horrible sound and look out if you hit a pebble!

I remember when we got our first cassette player/recorder. It was a black box that had push down buttons. I remember mom made us talk to grandma by recording us and mailing it to grandma instead of writing letters. That would be the 70's version of voice mail!

I was born in 1973. Some of the things I remember from the 70s...gas was like 70 something cents a gallon. We had an 8 track player in mom's Ford Pinto. Our couch was the ugliest thing I can remember...really small checkered pattern.

Holly Hobby was big and everyone carried a tin lunch box to school...mine was Holly Hobby.

During the summer, we'd get up, eat cereal and then ride our bikes until the sun came down. We didn't have to worry about crazies out there (too much).

The lady across the street became my adopted grandma (she never had kids of her own).

Anyway, I remember being 5 years old and riding my bike to the gas station at the end of the street to buy a 5 cent pack of gum.

We had a color t.v. and my parents had that thing till I was almost finished with elementary school. You had to get up to change the channel and the knobs were round dials that you had to turn.

We could walk to the park and spend hours there and never worried about some pervert watching us. We walked to school and back home.

Mom didn't have rollers so for my long hair, she would roll my hair around a tube sock and I'd sleep in them. Hurt like the dickens but oh, the curls I'd have the next morning.

Wow...this whole thread brings back memories!:)

Wow this is a great thread and brings me to memory lane.

Tv shows when I was little. Romper Room, Captain Kangaroo, Electric Company, ZOOM.

You gals haven't mention this and I hate to be the one to mention it. But remember the dreaded Kotex belts!! No stick tab on the pads!! Shoot tampons weren't even around I don't think! Ugh!

Remember the ugly gym uniforms we had to wear!!

No digital watches!

People pierced their ears themselves with icecubes!

I used to have a Chrissy Doll too. Loved her!!

Blah~ha~ha! I never used the belt but I practiced with my mom's! The boxes the pads came in were HUGE! Like bigger than the larges cereal box you can find today! Mom used the purple box with a white rose on it! Oh~my~gosh~! This didn't EVEN cross my mind!

Do any of you remember the dog/cat food called Puss-N-Boots? It was made for both dogs & cats!

We also didn't have dryer sheets or liquid laundry detergent.
Tupperwear was like a luxury item and how my mom would get mad if dad used it in the garage or lost a lid!

And plastic dishes! They sold sets of plastic dishes with matching bowls & coffee cups. It had like daisys or autumn leaves on them. It left knife marks and you could never get the stains out.

that is right about the tupperware. I can just remember tupperware and avon. Now there is Party lite, Pampered Chef, Premier Jewelry, etc.

I remember all the houses had 1 car garages, because families only had 1 car because mom's didn't work.

How many of you had one of those clocks that look like a sun? Some of you may know what I mean.

Lawn mowers weren't motorized when I was born. No edgers except scissors.

Also my first 2 years of elementary school, girls could not wear pants!
We also could go home for lunch if you lived close enough.

Oh those were the days!

You sound just like a friend of mine...his neighbor's name was Jay Thomas and he lived with his grandparents. Ned told me Jay Thomas owned every Tonka toy ever made....Ned wished he were Jay Thomas. So now Ned hunts down Tonka toys at flea markets, yard sales, and eBay. Says whenever he finds a new treasure....he thinks to himself...Take that, Jay Thomas. :D

I remember the "sanitary" belts.. by my time, they had invented panties with little hooks in them...I swear the best day of my life was NOT having to use pads, just tampons. Of course, when you are beginning to learn to use tampons...you'd use 32 of the box of 40 getting one in properly. And that page with instructions and pictures...didn't help you one bit. :rolleyes:

sorry , i gotta laugh.... that was the last thing i thought i would see listed here ( sanitary belts).. haha i guess i had forgotten about those. :sidesplt:

Wow! This was really fun reading all your posts! Brought back a lot of memories (both good and bad)!:D

Can anyone come up with more?