I'm so old I've...

[Mrs-M]

CathyA. Yes, I totally remember construction paper Christmas Tree decorations!

[Mrs-M]

HappyHiker. Love it! So many I remember, and let us not forget, Captain & Tennille!

[CathyA]

Muskrat Susie, Muskrat Sam, do the jitter bug now in Muskrat land.......

[BayouGirl]

We cleaned out Grams pantry and found these tasty items for decades ago. Classic flavors like seasoned tomato jello, celery jello and mixed veggie jello. A blast from the past that needs to stay there.

[Float On]

Oh my BayouGirl, did those even have expire by dates on them???

[Gregg]

That is extremely cool BayouGirl! I don't remember any of those at all and my Mom made LOTS of stuff with Jell-O when we were kids. Any idea at all when those were made? Was she in LA, too? Maybe they were just sold regionally?

ETA: I had to look it up. According to Wikipedia those flavors were from the 1950's. It doesn't say when they were discontinued, but I sure don't remember them in the later 60's.

[catherine]

I'm so old I remember being entranced with Slinkies...and double-dutch jump rope and hop-scotch and scooters that you propelled with your foot and balloon tired bikes with one speed and coaster brakes. So old that I remember being sent to the drugstore to buy cigs for my mother and they cost $.25. And stopping at the gas station with my father and gas was $.18/gal., and the attendant put it in for you and washed the windows and offered to check the oil.

So old, I remember the first TV dinners--and they were a treat. Drank Ovaltine and ate Cracker Jacks and Turkish Taffy and all sorts of sugar-laden treats like soda pop in a rainbow of colors--and my Dad yelling at me for all my cavities.

And clothes? Remember those starched crinolines we wore--sometimes three at once to make our skirts stick out--and how scratchy they were on our bare legs? Polishing our saddle shoes and white sneakers with liquid whitener? Circle pins? Teasing our hair and using gallons of hairspray to keep it bouffant. Sleeping with toilet papers rolls with our hair wrapped around them to straighten it a la Joni Mitchell and Cher. Even ironing our hair to get it straight...and sometimes burning it accidentally.

I could write pages about torturing our feet in pointy toe stilettos (and have the bunions to remember) but will stop now.

What fun!

I definitely lived in your world, HappyHiker! Except I used a Cambell Soup can to anchor my hair wrap. I had REALLY thick, somewhat wavy hair, and I HATED it! I really wanted that Jane Asher/Patti Boyd/Cynthia Lennon look--anything to look like a Beatle girlfriend/wife. Now, I'm really glad I have hair to spare!!

[Mrs-M]

Neat-O, BayouGirl!!! A "blast from the past" it sure is. The way you have them set up looks just like the way they used to set up the boxes in the old commercials.

[Mrs-M]

Tether ball.

Fixing cassette tapes using a pencil inserted through one of the wheels to tighten the tape.

Yellow/white gingham snap-on rubber pants (babysitting).

[SteveinMN]

We cleaned out Grams pantry and found these tasty items for decades ago.

I'm late to this thread, I know...

Back when my ex-wife and I used to visit her mother half a country away, one of our tasks would be to clean out the pantry and kitchen area. Ma never cared about cooking or much about eating (never a problem I've ever had). We used to joke that we pulled stuff out of her pantry that needed carbon dating.

What really scared me was the stuff we pulled out of her sink that needed carbon dating.

Obligatory "I'm so old": manual chokes in cars