I'm so old I've...

[Mrs-M]

Gardenarian. Yes, the sound and the look, Re: rotary phones! Just love the retro look.

Herbgeek. Me too! Sometimes it seems like longer, other times no so much.

Pony mom. You made me smile with this, "video really DID kill the radio star"! Yes, I remember when strangers would strike up conversation, old shampoo commercials and pantyhose commercials, and when everyone dressed fashionably and neatly.

Thinkgreen. LMAO! You got me TG! I can't say I remember shampoo in glass bottles, but I remember when disposable diapers came in boxes, and the old foot-pedal operated diaper pails!

I'm so old I remember Archie Bunker's Place and clunky old 8 track cassettes! Talk about revealing my age! Does anyone remember this commercial jingle?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7We7hLFuDQ

[Mrs-M]

I'm so old I remember using (and sharpening) wooden pencils. Does anyone even use wooden pencils anymore?

I know wooden pencils aren't that old of an idea that will throw anyone here, but just the same, I don't see anyone using them anymore.

[herbgeek]

I remember that commercial Mrs. M! Did not know that was "Sue Ellen Ewing" though.

[Greg44]

I'm so old I remember using (and sharpening) wooden pencils. Does anyone even use wooden pencils anymore?

I know wooden pencils aren't that old of an idea that will throw anyone here, but just the same, I don't see anyone using them anymore.

I love using pencils..though the must be "Ticonderoga" brand -- they simply write better! We stock up during back to school season. Out of 20 or so employees, I think I am the only one who uses pencils!

[ctg492]

Raising my hand here, Yellow Number 2 (I like them) and I have a pencil sharpener on the wall in the basement. Funny, every home we have bought has had a pencil sharpener in the basement and this home is only 20 years old.

[ctg492]

My dad has the rotary Black phone on the wall, only one he will use. The line I will remember forever is "Don't stretch the CORD!" Yes we were allowed 2ft tops from the kitchen wall to carry on our personal conversations! The other thing about phones I remember and still in my folks home is the 4 prong plug for the phones. Mom has to use an adaptor for her newer phones to plug into the old 1935 outlet.

[Tradd]

Raising my hand here, Yellow Number 2 (I like them) and I have a pencil sharpener on the wall in the basement. Funny, every home we have bought has had a pencil sharpener in the basement and this home is only 20 years old.

We had a good all metal (except for maybe a bit of plastic on the handle) pencil sharpener on the wall in the basement when I was growing up. I buy mechanical pencils now (the cheapo papermate ones) because I don't like the way either the hand-held plastic little sharpeners or the electric ones sharpenen the #2 pencils.

[goldensmom]

We use pencils a lot. We have an electric pencil sharpener and a crank pencil sharpener, crank sharpens best. We use pencils in the wood shop and to mark music. It is a mortal sin to mark music with a pen.

[Mrs-M]

Whoops-a-daisy, looks like I fluffed on the wooden pencil thing. OK, wooden pencils are still alive and well. Good to know actually, because in my own silly way I still see wooden pencils as being old-fashioned, and everything old-fashioned is all good with me!

Hmmm....... thinking what else...

[ctg492]

Crank car windows///do they still make those? My last one was in my Yugo