What's a vaccuum cleaner? Don't know? That sucks, tee hee.

Mom sewed our clothes even our winter coats and knit our hats, scarves and mittens.

She made all the bedclothes, quilts etc. Washed everything by hand, cooked everything from scratch and even matted the rugs.

Chatty, I got hand me up's...I was smaller than all my youngest siblings.

My Dad was an uneducated highly skilled carpenter...Mom would say "He can put an ass in a cat."

Love made us the richest family in the world.

chick

I didn't own PF fliers, but I remember them. Skate keys, penny candy, newsreels and cartoons before the movies and movies costing a quarter a matinée! Playing hopscotch, kick the can, hide 'n seek and all-ee, all-ee oxen free and all after dark in the neighborhood. Fast food restaurants were few, but what there was served burgers and fries the size we serve the kids today! Sometimes they offered 5 for a buck! Remember when a small drink cost a dime and it was actually a "small" drink? I've been around long enough that I've seen styles come back, maybe with a different name, but they are (were) back, low rider jeans (hip hungers), flared jeans (bell-bottoms), capri pants (peddle pushers) etc. Remember brush rollers? remember wearing those damn things to bed? oh, lord! Oh, remember when thongs were flip-flops and not G-strings? Boy, this is fun, I'm on a roll! We all sat around the table for dinner that Mom made AT 5-6PM? Mom didn't HAVE to work? and most of them didn't. You could buy a new car for $1000 and a new home for $10,000?
We baby boomers did live in the best of times in a lot of ways...not all, but a lot.

I totally agree myownperson59...totally. We played in somebody's yard till dark, then under the street light on the corner until someone's Mother yelled, "time to come in!"

Jacks, hopscotch, jumping rope, softball with pillows from our own beds for bases sometimes....the ice cream man DID come around and you could hear him for miles and miles. I always thought that had to be the best job in the entire world.

Oh boy Dana your post started the wheels turning and I remember when Ed and I bought our first home back in 1959; it was a three bedroom, one bath with a big garage and nice yard. It costs us $12,500. (HONEST TO GOD!!) Now-a-days you couldn't buy the garage for that price.

I am still a mean Jacks player and skip rope like flash. I hate it that I can't hula hoop anymore though.

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I don't remember any of that stuff....

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The first sign of aging

I remember right after getting my driver's license, collecting coins from the friends to fill the tank. We filled up with quarters, dimes and nickels.

The first tv we had in our house was a console. Had a console stereo too. Big pieces of furniture!

Oh, reading about playing outside after dark, jacks, jumpropes, brings back great memories. We used to play ball (all kinds) in the street. If, and when, cars ever drove down the street, they went slowly looking for kids playing.

This does not make me feel old, it makes me feel lucky.

Drexel 5505--what country is that? Ours was GL-5 Blackjack chewing gum? What century was that? I remember candy tabs you had to peel off of the paper. I only bought Good-n-Plenty candy because I loved the little boy "choo choo charlie" was his name I think.


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1955, my parents bought their house near Boston for $16.000. Just yesterday my brother sent me a link. The house I grew up in is now on the market for 1 million dollars! I can't believe it. It's just a plain normal house!?!