🤔 1923-1973 Do You Remember...

[Anonymous]

👍Tell us about YOUR "good old days"......

BORN: Age 50 - 1973, Age 60 - 1963, Age 70 - 1953, Age 80 - 1943, Age 90 - 1933, Age 100 - 1923.

[DaveMcK]

[StaceyC771068]

I own three sets of jacks and challenge my "little" sister when we meet at my mother's house.  Pity: my nieces and nephews never could get the hang of it.

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[MsStretch]

I had the deluxe model that came with a backlight.

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[MsStretch]

My ironing skills sucked with or without this.

[LisaS961881]

…..sitting here sipping my morning coffee and I saw this post and smiled.

    I dislike ironing!  It is my least favorite chore and I lose patience with it very quickly.  Any chore - scrubbing the shower door water spots off with vinegar/baking soda, shoveling snow, cleaning the dryer vent - all pale in comparison with ironing!  Good thing I’m not an Edwardian Lady’s maid! 😊

   Everyone reading this - have a great day and only do the chores that you feel like doing! 😇

    ~ Lisa 🌈☀️🌺⛱️🏔️

[DaveMcK]

[StaceyC771068]

We had a flour sifter at my mother's house, but now I use a long handled sifter/strainer that has multiple uses. 

[MsStretch]

Does anyone sift flour anymore?  Is it necessary?  (Me -- not a baker.)

[LisaS961881]

  I am not a baker either.  I only periodically bake, which means my flour often sits for over a month.  While I have a sifter, I don’t use it anymore.  I cheat and use a whisk! 😊

  So far - no lumps - no disasters.

   ~ Lisa 🧁☀️

[papawofboo]

My wife use to when making gravy for company. Ours is way back on a shelf somewhere in the kitchen, I thinik.

[DaveMcK]

[papawofboo]

It used to be so important, now most likely you will never see another one. Gone down the same road as the Marlboro Man.

[DaveMcK]

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[OlderWiser7s]

Phones 

• Party lines: If you heard the neighbor, you were supposed to hang up and wait
• The sound of the rotary dial
• I learned to 'dial' a number just using the hook

TV from the 60s and 70s

• Arguing over who was to walk to the TV to change the channel, volume, or antenna
• Disney at 7:30pm Sunday nights
• This cartoon on Saturday mornings: 
• Davey and Goliath Cartoon

[papawofboo]

I never liked that cartoon.

Be honest, did you hang up? Me? not always😂

It wasn't the trip to the tv, it was the "While your up" that was the problem.

That rotor dial was so much better than waiting on "Number Please."

[LisaS961881]

  The Wonderful World of Disney - with those fireworks and Tinker Bell!  What a treat! 

   ~ Lisa 🏔️💥🌺

[DaveMcK]

[LisaS961881]

My first Mr. Potato Head had plastic body parts/accessories that you used on a real potato that was provided by Mom.  We also used apples and pears.

Then a new Mr. Potato Head came out with a plastic “potato” body provided with the accessories.  I remember that I liked using the real potato better because my imagination wasn’t curtailed by the pre-ordained placement of slots/holes on the plastic potato! 😇

~ Lisa 🏠

[DaveMcK]

[StaceyC771068]

Our grandfather terrified us with that thing every Thanksgiving!  He couldn't wait to plug it in and start cutting.  I mean, carving.

[papawofboo]

These things have stood the test of time. My wife gave me one for a b/day present a few years ago. Didn't have the design on it though. I paid big dollars for a set of real good knives, and she bought this. Never have or will ever like these things, just don't tell her.  

[LisaS961881]

   Yup! 😀 This was a kitchen staple -  along with avocado-colored appliances, Tupperware, a Fondue pot, and an under-the-counter bottle opener!

[papawofboo]

Speaking of bottle openers, did you all have a church key?