The Spoiled Under-30 Crowd

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mvf said:
RUSH: my fav.

Remember:

Prizes in Cereal boxes,
Metal Lunchboxes
45's (I always lost the plastic adapter)
Battling tops
Funny Face drinks
Staying up late to watch a "music Video" on The Midnight special.
AYDS - The appetite suppressant candy ??? haaaaaa
cracker jacks with actual prizes inside.
Crereals like: Quisp and Sugar SMacks


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they still have prizes in cereal boxes sometimes.

Do you know why they quit making metal lunch boxes???
Because kids where beating the hell out of each other with them so a lot of schools banned them. BTW, I had a kick ass "Charlies angels" metal lunch box... I also had one of those soft luch boxes.. It had Donny and Marie on it!

Of all the 45's I don't have anymore, the one I wish I still had was Madonna's "true Blue" Only reason, the record was actually blue.

My favorite all time prize in cracker jacks...Tatoos.. I was this little girl with tatoos all over my arms and face...

AYDS.... that company went away in a hurry! I do remember them though... like little candies or something

And they still make sugar smacks... now they just call them honey smacks.
frosted flakes used to be sugar frosted flakes.

Pretty much anything with 'sugar' in the title got change or omitted.


My best friend in High school was the first person I knew to have call waiting. That was cool, and she was the first to have caller ID.

Does anyone remember how big their first cell phone was? I still have mine. It's bigger then one of my house phones and I got it back in 1996... That's really not that long ago!

Oh and how cool was it to upgrade from cassetts to CD's??
Or from the VCR to dvd...
And I don't think I can EVER go back to watching tv with out a DVR.
I LOVE my DVR's..

And remember how big Big screen Tv's were?? Not just the screen but the back of the TV. They are as wide as a sofa!! My brother and sister still have those. I thought they were so fancy with those big giant TV's!!
They were so cool!

My favorite cartoon of all times Tom and Jerry.
They used to have cartoons after school too.. And remember the "After School Special" I would have rather watched cartoons though.
Todays cartoons are stupid.. I liked chilly willy, droopy, bugs bunny, road runner, all that stuff...
 
mvf said:
We would sit for hours looking at the album cover Artwork and read every word written on the albums: lyrics, liner notes, etc...
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We did the same, I remember looking at "Kiss Alive II" from front to back while listening to it over and over again. It was the closest thing to a music video back then.
 
vghstaffer said:
Remember when your mom kicked you outside and said " GO FIND SOMETHING TO DO OR I WILL FIND SOMETHING FOR YOU DO TO, AND YOU WON'T LIKE IT!"
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I grew up in a country side. My job as a kid after school was to mix hay with cow's crap, to make a lot of... how do you say.... sh*tballs. You dry these balls under the sun and then use as fertilizer. I didn't like this job, though.

I think kids these days are spoiled, no doubt about it. That's why I don't really trust anyone who doesn't remember moon landing. :)
 
vghstaffer said:
Remember when your mom kicked you outside and said " GO FIND SOMETHING TO DO OR I WILL FIND SOMETHING FOR YOU DO TO, AND YOU WON'T LIKE IT!"
I was around when the exciting video game " PONG' came out and we were never allowed to just sit around on a weekend and do nothing. We HAD to go outside, it was a rule.
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Me too, on all of it! My mom was like "get out" and we weren't allowed to come back till dinner time. We'd roam the neighborhood. I grew up in the late 70's, early 80's. Times change fast. In the late 90's when my stepson was a kid we wouldn't dream of sending him out the door to roam the world. He played in the park right behind our house and that was about as far as he went.
 
My three year old daughter just texted me that her I Pod broke because her 4 year old boy friend threw it because he got too impatient to wait for something to download on youtube. Then they ran out of mountain dew and the pizza guy would not deliver only mountain dew. She is now crying cause her boyfriend left her for the neighbor who has DSL and a Nintendo Wii. I officially do not exist to my 3 year old.
 
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Remember begging for a pair of Nikes? or that pair of Jordache jeans? And then the acid washed jeans you had to lay down on the bed to zip up, with the ankles so tight you took them off inside out if you were in a hurry? and the Bonne Bell lip gloss to go with?
 
You know reading all these things and remembering them all too well I wouldn't change it for the world....that was to me growing up and being a kid...it took FOREVER to be 13 and even more so waiting on Xmas to come around...I think the kids today have got it tough....they don't know what its like to be a kid.
 
Massive games of Hide & seek, Kick the Can, or Capture the Flag
with all of the kids in the neighborhood.

Or a game of Freeze Tag, Smear The Queer, (what a horrible name! ) or Spud.
 
What about pitch and toss, did any of you play that where you throw a coin against a wall and who ever got it nearest wins. Loved it.

Flame i am always making my kids play out on the street so that they have the same memories as me. I complete get what you are saying!
 
...being older than dirt, I wasn't going to post in this thread.
After spending the day with Renee (mcf) and Casey (carp) talking about old times, I had second thoughts...

So remember when..
The Fuller Bush man came to your house...
Our milkman brought milk in glass bottles with cream on top (we made our own butter)
metal ice cube trays...
wringer washing machines and hanging clothes on the line outside to dry...
poodle skirt, saddle shoes and using bobby pins in our hair...(later, we had buckles on the back of the saddle oxfords...you left it buckled if you were seeing someone and unbuckled if you were available)
Our nylons that came in two pieces
On Sundays...white gloves and little hats.
Guys really wore white sport coats with a flower...

Wax candy (wax lips and mustaches) and Candy cigarettes...
Marbles, jacks, cork pop guns and hula loops...

Saturday movies had door prizes...

We went to the drive-in movies...
Going downtown was an all day trip...
Sittin' on the curb watching the boys play...
Laying in the grass at nite staring at clouds looking for shapes...
Early TV...Howdy Doody, Fury, Rin Tin Tin, Hopalong Cassidy, Ozzie & Harriett, Laurel & Hardy... oh and loved Gunsmoke and Amos & Andy

Polio shots were given at school...

We had what we thought was the death of music... (Feb 3, 1959)
Bomb shelters
In junior high...when girls would pack a shoe box with a great lunch, decorate the box and then auction it off? (then you got to eat with the guy)

My first McDonalds hamburger cost 15 cents...(the same cost for a gal of gas and you got green trading stamps)

My favorite...putting angel hair on the Christmas tree.


PS -who remembers the smell of paste in school?

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Oh, my goodness! I had forgotten many of those things. Being older than dirt just gives a longer list of some great memories. Thanks Mary Lou!
 
I'm not quite as old as dirt but I am old enough to remember the milk man, and wax candy, and the fuller brush man, and remember when Avon ladies came to the door??
Remember the little tiny sample tubes of lipstick Avon used to give? I really loved those. And kirby vaccuum guy too! And the guys that used to come door to door selling all sorts of stuff, candy, magazines, blah blah blah...
It's totally different now.
 
We used to love making huge rubber cement balls and chucking them at each other. Pulling our pens apart and blowing spit wads through them.
Some kids in my elementary class were in the control group that tested fluoride.
Remember the "sex talk" you got in Jr. High which consisted of a booklet about your period and they gave you free deodorant and sanitary napkins. Unfortunately they waited until 8th grade to do that (a bit late for some).
I loved "Big Valley" with Barbara Stanwick (sp?) did anybody else watch that one?
And all those Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland (Andy Hardy movies).
 
mlou said:
...being older than dirt, I wasn't going to post in this thread.

PS -who remembers the smell of paste in school?

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Forget the paste... Remember the smell of Mimeograph sheets? The ones with the purple ink?? ahhhhhhhh I think we used to get high on that stuff.... The smell of Design Master Glitter spray always brings back the memory :):)
 
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