I'm so old I Remember when:

[Folly's place]

Cars: the last rental I had to drive, the emergency brake was a button, right where any passenger could bump it. And how is an electronic gadget supposed to work in a real emergency?!?
Disposable diapers, they were awful in the early 70's, and we were under serious water rationing at the time on Okinawa, so no way to wash cloth diapers. Modern disposables are fine, and even better, I'm not involved.
Mary

 

[Ponypoor]

I went to bed early but the neighborhood idiots started setting off their fireworks at 2330, thus driving the dogs crazy trying to scratch their way through my door. Which meant I was up with a bed full of 4 Great Pyrenees all trying to cuddle closer in my lap for protection when the city set off the big boomers at midnight.

Our power went out at 10pm auto accident apparently, the breakers going off woke me, then my generator kicked in and didn’t shut down till after midnight. I didn’t even hear it go off I was for once sleeping.

We have a fireworks ban - they are only allowed on Canada Day and our Victoria Day. Which is fine by me and the horses and chooks!

 

[Sally PB]

Did stores used to be closed on New Year’s or is that just my imagination?

When I first worked at the mall, it was closed 4 days in the year: Christmas Day, New Years Day, Thanksgiving, and Easter. Then they decided to be open on New Years.

 

[5Australorpasaures]

I am having to rent cars to go to work because my two 20 year old cars gave up the ghost in the same week.
When I got the first one, I sat there for several minutes trying to find the key and where to put it.

Today's owner manuals are like opening up War and Peace. Some easy beach reading for the week vacation.

 

[Coffetym]

When these started percolating it made the kitchen smell so good!
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I was actually thinking this morning about posting this same thing as a memory because I made a pot of coffee in mine today. It’s a regular thing during cold weather for it to be used. I had actually purchased this for power outages during hurricane season but it’s used more frequently & some of my family’s favorite coffee. I bought mine through Home Depot & love it.

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[Coffetym]

Nothing I say in the following is meant to be hurtful or mean but it’s just things that I have noticed in my few years of life.
I can remember when most families would eat together, at the same table! When children were taught manners, to be obedient & respectful of their elders! When it was unusual to hear of divorces & normal to know marriages of 30-40 yrs.
I remember when kids were sent outdoors to play & encouraged to have an imagination. When kids were taught to read & expand their knowledge & vocabulary at the same time. When kids weren’t raised by the sewage spewed from Hollywood. When crime was unheard of in rural America, we slept at night with our windows open. Our neighbors were our friends & we knew them on a first name basis. When most everyone had respect for a Sunday & the few people who worked only did so in an emergency.

Sorry for the rant, but I was raised rather old fashioned & the state of society is disgusting from the perspective of how I was brought up!

 

[troyer]

Nothing I say in the following is meant to be hurtful or mean but it’s just things that I have noticed in my few years of life.
I can remember when most families would eat together, at the same table! When children were taught manners, to be obedient & respectful of their elders! When it was unusual to hear of divorces & normal to know marriages of 30-40 yrs.
I remember when kids were sent outdoors to play & encouraged to have an imagination. When kids were taught to read & expand their knowledge & vocabulary at the same time. When kids weren’t raised by the sewage spewed from Hollywood. When crime was unheard of in rural America, we slept at night with our windows open. Our neighbors were our friends & we knew them on a first name basis. When most everyone had respect for a Sunday & the few people who worked only did so in an emergency.

Sorry for the rant, but I was raised rather old fashioned & the state of society is disgusting from the perspective of how I was brought up!

I was raised without television and really appreciate it now. We don't have a tv in the house now either.

 

[Evadig]

I was raised without television and really appreciate it now. We don't have a tv in the house now either.

Me too…I always thought I was the odd one out cause even though I was never interested in watching things, everyone else I knew had a TV.

 

[R2elk]

I was raised without television and really appreciate it now. We don't have a tv in the house now either.

I greatly prefer the TV over people.

 

[chrissynemetz]

I greatly prefer the TV over people.

At least you can turn the TV off when it gets annoying.