I'm so old I've...

[razz]

Got you guys beat!

I remember using a sickle mower, hay loader, dump rake to put loose hay in the barn. Milk was cooled in large cans in the well house, chickens were living above the dairy barn. I wore rubber boots for almost everything. Grain was cut and stacked in stooks of sheaves with the local threshing machine coming to our place in turn to thresh the grain for the grain bin.

My parents gave me a portable typewriter as a graduation present and I used it through university for essays - got quite good at typing.

Shoes, appliances, radios, clothing, etc., lasted forever and could be repaired rather than today's built-in obsolescence and disposal.

I was just saying to DD2 that as a 67 year-old woman, I have had the most wonderful life - had a healthy family life and successful career, lots of travel, diverse adventures, seen how the old life was doable and thoroughly enjoying the new technology as well.

[Mighty Frugal]

I am loving this thread!!
I'm so old I remember pink/blue/green Kleenex and toilet paper! Also the white ones with the pink flowers on it...like, who needs flowers when you wipe? Its not as if they were scented.

I'm so old I had a Walkman with cassettes inside.

I'm so old in grade school we would watch movies on those big projectors. Our teachers would invariably not be able to thread the film through and after a frustrating 15 minutes ALWAYS called the custodian to come in and do it for her! Loved the slap slap sound the film made when the movie was over the the finally bit of film was wrapping around the holder-thingy

[Float On]

I'm so old I remember pink/blue/green Kleenex and toilet paper!

I was just thinking about colored toilet paper the other day!

[Sad Eyed Lady]

I'm so old ..... that I remember all the things you guys are talking about!

[Kathy WI]

I'm so old, I remember wearing "shoe boots" as a kid, the kind of snow boots that go on over your shoes.

I'm so old, all my grandparents were born in the 1800's.

[Alan]

I'm so old ..... that I remember all the things you guys are talking about!

Me too! Including floor mounted dimmer switches in cars, outhouses, collecting water from a pump in the yard, heating with a coal stove, going to a two room country school with two teachers, one for the 1st through 4th grades and another for the 5th through 8th grades, picking cotton by hand and putting it in a 9 ft long cotton sack, Lucy & Desi when they were still married, Jack Benny/Marilyn Monroe/Dwight D. Eisenhower/Twiggy/Tiny Tim, being Mod, Nehru jackets, watching Lee Harvey Oswald as he was shot on live TV, The Twilight Zone, Queen For A Day, Amos & Andy, and hundreds of other things that most people nowdays have never heard of.

[Polliwog]

I'm so old that I remember when McDonald's hamburgers were 15 cents; and I remember the Helms Bakery truck and the K Bus that came around with food and candy, etc.

[iris lily]

I'm so old on these boards that when I saw "Chickadee" post, I thought it was Chick from Canada who is definately not high maintenance and wouldn't wear high fashion. Little does the current Chickadee know that there was a long long long term poster named Chickadee on the old boards.

Well, if I retire from these board nobody better take my moniker! Not even Lily Iris! ha ha

[loosechickens]

ohmigod, Alan......I'd forgotten about Queen for a Day....... when I was a very young houswife, with a tiny black and white TV, I would get all my work done and then sit down to watch Queen for A Day. I would cry at all the terrible things that had happened to those ladies and feel so badly for them, and today, looking back, find it inexplicable that somehow I thought that getting a new washer and dryer would somehow help with their troubles........but I was always SO happy for the one that won and got all those new appliances, etc. What could I have been thinking?

but that was the period when I made Minute Rice, and what my family called "African Chow Mein", for some reason, which was hamburger browned in a skillet with a chopped onion, Minute Rice and a can of Campbell's Cream of Mushroom Soup.....makes me gag to think of that now........

[Mrs-M]

Holy smokes! They just keep coming! Good one after good one! I've said it before and I'll say it again, you guys are the best!!! Have to say I'm even a little jealous over all the good ones you all thought of and I didn't!

I'm so old I remember 8 mm family movies! No sound! Can you imagine a kid of today sitting down and watching those?