🤔 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.

[SereneSeagull]

Have fun.  I assume with the holiday tunes and bopping around the kitchen!

[LisaS961881]

    You got it!  And remembering how I once stood on a chair and “helped” my Mom make cookies with this. 🤶

[LisaS961881]

[SereneSeagull]

The classics!  I’ve got that whole set still, too!

 For a while many years ago I started a cookie cutter collection during the hey-day of EBay.  I collect cookbooks as well. Sold too.  I have bags and bags of cookie cutters.  They also doubled as Play Dough cutters as well, so they were well used in this house!.  I still have them.  My favorite is a very large one of Snoopy on his doghouse!

[LisaS961881]

     I collect vintage cookie cutters too and pretty much anything old that belongs in the kitchen - including mid-century “hostess” aprons.

     I have a Snoopy cookie cutter too - he is snoozing atop his doghouse with one floppy ear hanging down - it’s a red plastic one. 🤶

[SereneSeagull]

Yep that’s the one I have.  Red plastic with Snoopy’s ear flopped down on the doghouse.  Might be worth something, I don’t know, but that one spoke to me!

ooh, adding that hostess aprons sounds like a fun thing to collect and use.  They were quite popular and stylish.  Very cool thing to collect

[LisaS961881]

[Vexed]

 Yep, me too. And if I keep shrinking any more, I will have to start using a chair to stand on again. 😊

[SereneSeagull]

That reminds me… the chair, and needing a boost up, that is.  I was in the grocery store the other day.  Why is it that the shelves are so freakin high with glass bottles on it no less?  Here I am stepping on the bottom shelf trying to reach and climb up just to get a breakable bottle.  

[SereneSeagull]

Laughing at this, cuz I still do it!  🤣

[LisaS961881]

    Does anyone else remember being taught how to put snow tires on?  And then taking them off four months later? (And fighting with those lugs?)  

And snow chains! ❄️

[LeeS4949]

 Looks like the old days around here.. 

[LisaS961881]

[LeeS4949]

 I cant remember the grocery clerks bringing the bags out.. Must have fallen by the wayside like the guy who pumped our gas..

[LisaS961881]

   ….in New Jersey we are not allowed to pump our own gas - I kid you not!   We are the only state that still has this law.  But then again, it’s Jersey, so fuhgeddaboudit! 

[GailL1]

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@LeeS4949 wrote:

 I cant remember the grocery clerks bringing the bags out.. Must have fallen by the wayside like the guy who pumped our gas..

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In my area, Publix employees still do this if requested although Publix ask people not to tip them - but who cares, especially if they are doing me a big service.

Now if they could just come home with me and take them out of the car and put them away.  Guess we will have to wait for Russia to perfect their “robot” for that to happen - might be in for a long wait.  

FROM NBC News - Russia's first AI humanoid robot falls on stage

Are you ready for your Neo Beta?  Rather pricey.

[papawofboo]

After graduating went to work full time at a PW. Worked 60 hour a week for $60, thought I was rich. Spent 60 years in retail, most of it in grocery chains. If you want to work and have the holidays runed then do as I did. 

[GailL1]

@papawofboo 

I think may of us cut our working teeth at grocery stores - me and my late both did - funny thing, he was a whistler so if he was whistling a fast tune, he worked fast but if it was a more melancholy turn, the bagging sent along at a much slower pace.   🤓

But get that job now cause it will probably only last a few more years before humanoid robots begin to do this job as well as many others - are your worried?  I am - 

[LisaS961881]

[MsStretch]

This reminds me of the NJ Turnpike.  When we were kids, we would beg Dad to let us throw the coin in the basket, but I think he finally called a halt to that because of having to get out of the car so many times to pick up the missed throws. 😄

[SereneSeagull]

Yeah, I used to love throwing coins into the baskets at tolls!  I’m sure there was a lot of change on the road at the end of the day!

[LeeS4949]

 Only 10 cents!!!!!! A deal no matter where the guy is going..

[DaveMcK]

[SereneSeagull]

Hand crank drill I think.  Bits go in, held in place by tightening the head on right that has metal grips inside to hold the bits.  Then the crank is turned, moving the head with bit. Producing hole. (I think, since I used to play with one as a kid)

[DaveMcK]

[papawofboo]

Not a clue.................

[LisaS961881]

[papawofboo]

Back in the day you could get your paper in the morning or afternoon. Don't know if an evening paper still exists. The morning paper and the big (no longer) Sunday have struck something awful. It has been years since I bought a paper. What about you??

[SereneSeagull]

When they used to deliver and collect at the door.

[LeeS4949]

 another wonderful trip back to the good old days..... Thank you as always  😀