All Topics → Forum: "Middle Age" 40-60(ish) Years with Breast Cancer → Topic: Middle Aged Memories
Posted on: Nov 9, 2009 06:18 PM
NativeMainer wrote:
Let's see, so far we've reminisced about dittos, drive in theaters, lick-a-stick candy, five-and-dime stores, Donny Osmond, Dark Shadows, what have I missed?
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Oct 2, 2011 12:12 PM elimar wrote:
I got the Toni home perm at least once. It wasn't foam, it was the two liquids you mixed together and once combined could blind you for life (or at least thru' the boy-watching teenage years) if it trickled into your eyes.
Oct 4, 2011 08:17 AM Meece wrote:
It could be worse. They could still be using electricty to perm hair.
Oct 4, 2011 08:18 AM Meece wrote:
Oct 5, 2011 10:11 AM NativeMainer wrote:
Oct 5, 2011 10:23 AM elimar wrote:
I remember that ad. I think the bottom twin has the Toni. Her bangs look more poodle-y to me?
Oct 5, 2011 10:43 AM, edited Oct 5, 2011 10:45 AM by Marybe
Hello all you Middleagers, I am feeling younger than springtime thanks to my R&R in MO so thought I would check in with the younger crowd. Maybe this is due to my bald spots filling in with black hair....my friend said maybe I am going to be like Benjamin Button...yeh, right. I got a perm twice in my life.....once when I was in about the 6th grade and again when I wanted to fit in with the style at the time and had just chopped off my long tresses.....both were pretty bad results. Ah, what price we pay for beauty. I had trolls and gave them names.....Benji, Chole, Pansy and Oppie....I even knit little sweaters for them. (Now why can I remember things like that and do so poorly on Trivial Pursuit? You whupped our asses on that one, Elimar.) We found one of them up in the attic at my dad's a few years ago and the dog promptly chewed all the hair off of it and ripped out the eyes which ruined any chance of selling it on Ebay for me.
Have a good day everyone. I am going to try to come up with a good mystery pic to post one of these weeks. Marybe
Ooops, wrong thread.....the mystery pic is on Middle aged women with BC. My chemo brain acting up again!
Oct 11, 2011 07:34 PM elimar wrote:
Marybe, it must be my Middle-Aged memory of all these many, many things and more that gives me my Trivial Pursuit edge.
Oct 12, 2011 08:27 AM Meece wrote:
Did I miss a game of Trivial Pursuit?
Oct 12, 2011 09:36 AM elimar wrote:
Meece, I had the opportunity to meet some of the ladies a few weeks ago (part of the ChrissyB journey,) so we did have an actual game one night. So, with my extensive trivial knowledge (and getting lucky on a super easy sports question) I managed to claim victory. Marybe wants a rematch, and I want some more salt water taffy (that we were eating that night) so one of these days....I'll have to beat her again. Aha-ha-ha!
Oct 13, 2011 08:49 AM Meece wrote:
Ah, I thought it might have been a virtual game.
Oct 13, 2011 09:10 AM dragonfly55 wrote:
Just joining in: favourite memories. Include: first garter belt wItH nylon stockings and mini skirt and gogo boots for Christmas; Mickey Mouse Club with Mouseketteers including Annette Funicello; Moondoggy; My Three Sons, Leave it to Beaver, Razzle Dazzle, Friendly Giant; black light, foot prints on the ceIling, lava lamps, cushions on the floor, beaded curtains...
Oct 13, 2011 10:13 AM elimar wrote:
Were those footprints fuzzy?
Forgot to say, my dog chewed off my troll's hair too. Pretty turquoise hair. On Easter. That reminds me. I had a plush dog with the same kind of combable hair as a trioll with an A.M. radio inside! I still have it. It still works. Good to listen to for tornado coverage, plus hug for security. Haha!
Friendly Giant? Loved that show. I always "sat" in his rocking chair, "for those who like to rodk."
Oct 13, 2011 01:48 PM NativeMainer wrote:
Oct 17, 2011 12:48 PM elimar wrote:
Remember how our mom's 60's hair-dos required lots of rain protection? Mine always had one of those attractive (a-hem!) accordion-folded rain bonnets in her purse. She gave me one in it's own little pouch (see below) which I doubt I even wore once. I think the hippies at Woodstock liberated all future hair from ever having to wear one again. The times, they were a-changin'.
Oct 18, 2011 08:48 AM Meece wrote:
I loved taking my mom's "scarf" and snapping it back into a flat strip!
Oct 18, 2011 08:50 AM Meece wrote:
My mom and grandmother also carried folding pill cups in their purses.
My grandmother had so much in her purse. Sha also carried these scissors:
Oct 18, 2011 08:58 AM Meece wrote:
Did we ever discuss "Soaky bottles"?
My grandmother kept the empty bottles at her house and we used to play with them there. Here are pics of a few I recall more clearly:
Oct 18, 2011 09:08 AM Stanzie wrote:
What were the Soakies used for? I don't remember those at all but I do very much remember the rain hats that folded! Also the clear plastic rain boots that fit over your shoes for rain or snow. I still have a pair but don't think I'll be trying them out any time soon, but you never know!
Oct 18, 2011 01:36 PM Paula66 wrote:
Eli I have my Aunties rain bonner that has a holder that looks just like that. It goes everywhere with me. I dont wear it I just carry it as a reminder of her.
Oct 19, 2011 09:08 AM Meece wrote:
Soakies were bottles from bubble bath.
Oct 19, 2011 10:19 AM, edited Oct 19, 2011 10:19 AM by elimar
I kind of remember the Snow White one and the Bullmoose one. I had an Elmo one for my kids once. My childhood bubble baths were with Tide. Seriously. It was powdered soap, not detergent. I think my mom caved in to my pleas for Mr. Bubble once or twice. I love the old commercial for that. Check it out:
"Madame, How do you do?" Ha-ha-ha! Still funny.
Oct 19, 2011 11:33 AM PlantLover wrote:
I just found this thread. I turned 50 in September so I'm loving this trip down memory lane!
I haven't read all the pages so I hope you don't mind if I jump in.
Wow - I remember those rain bonnets. My dad was a salesman, cars & insurance, and seems I remember some of his companies used these with their names on the cases as advertising. I always thought they were cool in the case but hideous on your head! LOL!
Does anyone remember fuzzy wuzzy soap.
I bet whatever was in that soap that made it grow hair really wasn't good for you. It sure was fun to run in the bathroom in the morning to see how much "hair" my animal had grown over night. The toy surprise inside was alway pretty lame.
Oct 19, 2011 02:53 PM dutchgirl6 wrote:
I had a fuzzy wuzzy soap, it was in the shape of a bear. I was beginning to think that I imagined the whole thing, because nobody I have asked about it remembers. PlantLover, thanks for the validation, lol. I don't recall a toy surprise inside though
.Oct 19, 2011 03:02 PM NativeMainer wrote:
I had the FuzzyWuzzy Bear, too! Don't remember what the prize was, must have been pretty unmemorable.
Oct 19, 2011 03:08 PM dutchgirl6 wrote:
If you wear one of those rain caps, does that mean you have bread head?
Oct 20, 2011 07:55 AM PlantLover wrote:
Dutch - glad I could help and "bread head" LOL!
Native - thanks for a pic of how "beautiful" the piece of plastic looked on - yes, just as stylish as I remembered. ;-)
Oct 20, 2011 08:13 AM Meece wrote:
As a kid, i rememebr my grandmother carrying more than one, just in case we girls needed one. So humiliating to have to humor grandma.
Oct 20, 2011 10:42 AM NativeMainer wrote:
I hated them as a kid, now I wish I could find a couple, one for the car and one for the purse. Just in case!
Oct 20, 2011 11:50 AM Stanzie wrote:
They might have been embarrassing back then but now seeing the pictures brings back such warm sweet memories of my lovely Mom, Thanks NM as always! Check vermont country store catalogue they always have the old stuff!
Oct 20, 2011 02:04 PM NativeMainer wrote:
Ah, yes, Vermont Country Store, I had fogotten about them. 'bout time to be getting another catelog from them!