🤔 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.

[LisaS961881]

[Vexed]

 I loved those lights. Would watch the bubbles like a fireplace (which we didn't have).

[LisaS961881]

     They were mesmerizing….

   However, I also remember that, when one burnt out, they all did, and my poor Dad was always in charge of finding the errant light and replacing it.

[LisaS961881]

[RebeccaC471653]

1. I used my moms set before she got a squeeze handle one. I also bought a set at an antique place

[SereneSeagull]

Hi, Rebecca, was the one you got at an antique place for using or collection piece?  It’s fun finding these classic kitchen gadgets.

[LeeS4949]

 Another wonderful trip back in time thanks to you.. 😁

[SereneSeagull]

That’s an old one for sure!

   I  have two mid 1970/80-ish ones someone still had, in good condition, that I got on EBay many years ago, still in the boxes.  Just used it the other day,actually.  So much fun to use them!

[LisaS961881]

     I’ll be using mine next week - making Christmas wreaths with green icing for the Holly and tiny bits of peppermint canes for the Holly berries!  👩‍🍳 

[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.

[LisaS961881]

   I just saw this due to my notifications being a tad wonky lately and it me laugh!  Yup - seems like we have a long wait for this and the robot to being your trash cans to and from the curb! 😇

[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]