New Game!! When I Was Little We Didn't Have....
Lounge By cookingfor5 Updated 7 Aug 2008 , 7:54am by veejaytx
Cable T.V. We started out with 3 channels and it was exciting when we went to 4, but you couldn't always get the 4th to come in. And, your T.V. had an antenna that you used, along with the antenna on the outside of your house.
Mini Vans! If you had a van, it was huge.
Also, no thongs. Well, we had thongs, they are now known as flip flops. Only I still call them thongs, and mortify my kids.
Teehee.
The other day my oldest DD who is almost 9 asked me when I was a little girl did I watch spongebob? 
I had to laugh! I hate spongebob with a passion for one, and 2 when I was a kid there were good cartoons. Not these horrible pointless cartoons they have out now. Ok end of rant.
Now for those who live on your cell phones, remember the very first ones? The bag that had this monster sized battery in it with the phone on top and you carried it on your shoulder? Then went on to car phones. I can't believe insurance companies actually gave discounts for those. Then went to those cordless looking cell phones. It's amazing how technology has come along.
Now for those who live on your cell phones, remember the very first ones? The bag that had this monster sized battery in it with the phone on top and you carried it on your shoulder? Then went on to car phones. I can't believe insurance companies actually gave discounts for those. Then went to those cordless looking cell phones. It's amazing how technology has come along.
Remember when everything on star trek seemed so futuristic? And now we're living it? I always thought the doors that opened when the star trek folks walked up to them was so cool! Now I'm ticked when I have to open the store door manually!
How about the "Blue Law" The only store open on Sunday was the grocery store and the aisles were roped off that had stuff you COULDN'T buy on Sunday.
In our town only one drugstore was allowed to be open for medicines and prescriptions and the paper would publish which store it was going to be!!
And no 24/7 stores! When I was a kid there was ONE grocery store in the entire county that was open all night long and when they first opened, everyone was like "Oh wow! All night long?????" 
When I was little, there were no fast food restaurants! Oops, I'm about to let you all know how old I am! 
Also, we played outside all day and weren't allowed inside unless it was an emergency. Anybody else make mud pies?! Those were the days! We also put playing cards on the spokes of our bicycles with a clothespin to make noise. How about REAL tree forts that WE made out of old pieces of wood that our dads had.
Remember those alarm clocks with the numbers printed on plastic sheets that were attached to a roll-a-deck? Every minute the number would change and there was a clicking noise as the roll-a-deck moved and a new number was flipped into view.
I havenât seen one of those clocks in years.
Remember those alarm clocks with the numbers printed on plastic sheets that were attached to a roll-a-deck? Every minute the number would change and there was a clicking noise as the roll-a-deck moved and a new number was flipped into view.
I havenât seen one of those clocks in years.
My dad had one of those up until maybe 3 or 4 years ago. It lasted that long. Tells you how well things were made back then. Stuff now is so disposable that it only works for 2 or 3 years and then you have to get a new one. My parents microwave that they got back in 68 still works to this day better than mine does.
Remember those alarm clocks with the numbers printed on plastic sheets that were attached to a roll-a-deck? Every minute the number would change and there was a clicking noise as the roll-a-deck moved and a new number was flipped into view.
I havenât seen one of those clocks in years.
My dad had one of those up until maybe 3 or 4 years ago. It lasted that long. Tells you how well things were made back then. Stuff now is so disposable that it only works for 2 or 3 years and then you have to get a new one. My parents microwave that they got back in 68 still works to this day better than mine does.
Tell me about it! My grandparents have a coffeepot (a Bunn) that is older than me! And it has ALWAYS worked better than anything you can buy now. I think they make things disposable so you'll have to buy a new one and spend more money.
When I was little, you couldn't buy slice and bake cookies or those brownies that are already in a pan and you just throw them in the oven. You bought the mix (or heaven forbid, made them from scratch!) and mixed it up yourself.
The GOOD cartoons...Bugs Bunny, Tom & Jerry, Road Runner, Foghorn Leghorn, Elmer Fudd, Daffy Duck, Mighty Mouse...now those were cartoons! 
. Didn't they call them Looney Tunes?!
My dad had one of those up until maybe 3 or 4 years ago. It lasted that long. Tells you how well things were made back then. Stuff now is so disposable that it only works for 2 or 3 years and then you have to get a new one. My parents microwave that they got back in 68 still works to this day better than mine does.
Tell me about it! My grandparents have a coffeepot (a Bunn) that is older than me! And it has ALWAYS worked better than anything you can buy now. I think they make things disposable so you'll have to buy a new one and spend more money.
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its called planned obsolescence. its a true industry term. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence
I've thought of a few more things... its harder because I'm only 22
we didnt have a fear of GERMS - dirt, bugs, whatever thats how you build an immune system - not by disinfecting everything!
and we didnt have disposable EVERYTHING! I walked through the cleaning aisle yesterday, I just wanted a good mop not a swifter wet mop with the disinfecting spray and throwaway cleaning pad. I walked away empty handed. Disposable toilet cleaners, disposable dusting clothes.
what a resource consuming society we are - I'll stick to the 'classics' - rags and my toilet brush (and the occasional paper towel to clean the toilet)
Also, we played outside all day and weren't allowed inside unless it was an emergency.
Yep! If we had to pee, that's what the outhouse was for! If we got thirsty, there was a water trough/faucet at the barn. Hungry? Lots of apple trees, pear trees and grape vines!
Indydebi...you are right! I grew up on a farm and if you got hungry you went out into the field and got something to eat, wiped the dirt off of it and ate it. If you got thirsty, you drank from the hose and if you got hot you jumped in the irrigation ditch to cool off!
When I was little, we didn't have TIMEOUT!! If you were bad you got your butt busted, if you back-talked you got slapped in the mouth and if we tore something up of Daddy's, we got the "switch" where you had to go cut your own switch to get beat with and if you came back with a little one...LOOK OUT! Oh yeah, my mom was a ninja with the flyswatter on my legs!
My grandmother always had a flyswatter within reach. Even when she was outside. We have never owned one, but one time I needed one and he brought it home from his moms and brought it back the next day. Flyswatters were actually a fun thing to buy.
How about Interstates?? We had them, but necessarily near you. Now, they are within 30 minutes of most towns. I still remember the 15 years it took to build the one here. How about rest areas??? We actually use to stop and eat lunch there. How about paved roads? In rural areas those were few and far between.
How about the "Blue Law" The only store open on Sunday was the grocery store and the aisles were roped off that had stuff you COULDN'T buy on Sunday.
If you think they're completely gone you need to come visit me in North Dakota. We spent Saturday night in Fargo and couldn't head home until after noon because we needed to pick up a few things. Grocery stores (super walmart doesn't count), gas stations and food service are really the only places allowed to open before noon.
Also, no thongs. Well, we had thongs, they are now known as flip flops. Only I still call them thongs, and mortify my kids.
Teehee.
. . . I was with my son and a girlfriend of mine (my son's age) eating at an outdoor restaurant . . . the wasps were particularly aggressive so I threatened to take off my thong and swat them if they didn't "buzz off" . . . 
you should have seen the look on their faces . . . of course I was referring to the flip flop type 
. . .
. . . oh . . . and we didn't have pantyhose . . . (yeah, I'm that old) . . . . 
Nope, no pantyhose, and no thong underwear...if we had those I think they were referred to as "wedgies"!
When I was really little, we actually had an "ice box" to keep our food cold, ice was delivered in a truck. The milkman came every few days to deliver milk too!
. . . wedgies . . .
. . . yup, milkman (my dad was a milkman) . . . and breadman too!!
How about carbon copy machines? Remember the smell of a freshly inked carbon copy? And the purplish-blue color of the ink?
Ahhhh! I used to love that smell! I wonder if that's why I work in a print shop now! How about reel-to-reel tape recorders. And remember being in school watching the reel-to-reel movie projector? Oh, here's another one...drive in movies! How many of you guys sneaked people in? I did! Ok...just one more. Grocery stores that delivered!
Oh, here's another one...drive in movies!
I worked in one when I was 14. My mom managed the concession stand of the local R and X rated drive in and I worked there every weekend. When they ran an X movie, she traded me with an 18 year old from the drive in down the road (which was the drive in that showed mostly disney movies!)
No wonder I'm warped!!! 
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