When I was a kid

[mommiepoppins]

( fill in the blank)
Girl Scouts really wore uniforms to a meeting
smoking was allowed in the mall
Bo and Luke Duke were Awesome

 

[The Mayor]

It cost 50 cents to go to the movies and that was either a double feature or a movie and short subjects...

A bottle of tonic was 10 cents...

holy crap am I old

 

[LindsayDunn228]

People used to spank their kids. Imagine that.

 

[PrincessKitty1]

...virtually all bottles were made of glass (including shampoo & conditioner, resulting in numerous episodes of breakage in the bathtub!).

...my parents could send my sister and I to the store on our bikes (ages about 6 and 7) with a note so we could buy them a pack of cigarettes.

...during the summer, kids roamed the neighborhood and played together until dark without adult supervision.

...candy bars cost a nickel.

 

[beagle744]

We only had 4 television stations
The Brady Bunch and the Partridge Family were "Must see TV"

 

[Stitch Inside]

People used to spank their kids. Imagine that.

Unfortunately, I don't have to imagine that.

 

[LindsayDunn228]

Unfortunately, I don't have to imagine that.

I was being facetious. I am pro-spanking and I think disciplining kids has become a joke.

 

[reeeoga]

Evil Kenevile
Smokey and the Bandit.

I could wear a "Coors" t-shirt to school on Picture day and nobody said anythin gabout it.

 

[mommiepoppins]

when I was a kid.. Madonna was the material girl
Phil Donahue was on tv
freeky freezes gloves were in style
John Cougar was John Cougar Melencamp

 

[ChrizJen]

-It was "normal" to let your kids stand up in the front seat of the car!!
(I actually can remember my older brother doing that in my grandpa's car a few times!)


-Our mom used to send us to the corner store with a wagon load of glass Pepsi empties to exchange for HUGE bags of penny candy!

 

[disneysnowflake]

I could walk a mile on deserted railroad tracks to get to the store. I'd walk alone. I wasn't scared. My parents didn't mind because I wasn't walking near the busy road. No one bothered me.

The cereal companies didn't think anything wrong by having Super Sugar Smacks, Sugar Corn Pops, Sugar Frosted Flakes, etc. on the packaging.

Cartoons were only on for a few hours on Saturday morning.

You could be paddled in school unless your parent sent in a note.

We used to chase after the mosquito spray truck and breathe in the fumes.

We'd ride in the back of the station wagon on vacation. Sometimes we'd ride in the back of my uncle's pick up truck.

 

[barkley]

cartoons were only on right after school on one channel for a couple of hours-and then on saturday mornings on the 'big 3 networks'.

most of the kids at school walked home for lunch with mom (do schools even allow kids to do this anymore?) cuz hot lunch at school was 20 cents-and that was a 'crazy waste of money'.

k-12 (public school not private) girls were not permitted to wear pants or shorts-so we wore those itchy 'tights' so we could play on the monkey bars(they changed the rule when i was in around 3rd grade).

if you had an actual lunch box you did'nt replace it till it rusted out at the bottem (and how many thermoses did we go through cuz they had glass liners that shattered when you dropped them? ).

'neighborhood watch' meant you better behave cuz all the neighborhood moms were on the watch for all the kids and if you did anything wrong your mom would know before you got home

recycling meant snagging the big metal coffee cans mom tossed out to make 'stilts' out of. a 'new bike/big wheel...' meant the recipient was a new owner of it-not that it was nesc. new item (and more often than not the previous owners were older sibs ).

 

[barkley]

-It was "normal" to let your kids stand up in the front seat of the car!!
(I actually can remember my older brother doing that in my grandpa's car a few times!)

thats because the best seatbelts were 'mom's arms'-my mom still throws her arm in front of whomever she is sitting next to in a car every time it comes to a stop

 

[luvwinnie]

I wanted to be Laura Ingalls (funny thing is people have said I resemble Melissa Gilbert)

We played touch football in THE STREET

Couldn't wait for Happy Days to come on

My purple Gloria Vanderbilt jeans were COOL

 

[Mkaz]

We drank from a garden hose.

We played lawn darts. Now there's a fun game!

We played hide and go seek outside; even after dark.

We were gone for hours at a time and nobody came looking for us.

We had to get up to change the channel on the tv.

The slide at the playground was metal. Remember sliding down it on a hot summer day and the only thing you had on was your bathing suit?

Everybody wanted an ATARI 2600 for Christmas.

 

[MaryAnnDVC]

I love these! Memories...

Girl Scout cookies cost 40 cents a box.

Girl Scout dues were 10 cents.

We got sunburns and didn't worry about them.

We'd ride in the back of the station wagon with our feet sticking out the window.

 

[lecach]

We never paid for water

No one wore a helmet to ride a bike

We didn't know anything about name brand clothing, we just wore what we liked

No one had a computer in their home, or a VCR, or had ever heard of a DVD

 

[JBIRD]

French fries at McDonalds were 15 cents......

 

[Becky2005]

Leftovers were kept warm in the oven on a plate wrapped in aluminum foil. There was no such thing as a microwave!!

TV dinners came in foil packages (but we didn't really have those very often!)

There was channels 2, 5, 7, 9 & 11 plus if you were lucky you got the "U" channel which was 32 & 44 around here. To get the U you placed the DIAL at U through the little window & a 2nd dial for the 32 or 44.

Oh, hide & seek after dark was "flashlight tag"

OOOHhhh...I just thought of another one -- Rotary phone! We had a rotary phone that was on the wall in the kitchen that you rented from the phone company.

I know there are tons others but the TV with dials & no microwave are the big ones DH & I talk about all the time.

 

[luvwinnie]

We loved Jiffy Pop!!