Middle Aged Memories
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Oh yes and didn't my Mother yell about that!!!
Another old memory that's still available this season - candy corn!!!
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sunshine99—That was definitely my preferred way to blast those caps off, and with skilled technique you could slide a rock along a whole short strip…pop, pop, pop, rapid fire! Loved the smell of caps…just like catnip for a child.
Looking back at my childhood, it was full of danger and ingenuity. If you ever want to make a homemade smoke bomb from bottle caps, duct tape, and kitchen matches, just let me know. (Can't get those good bottlecaps too easily anymore tho'.)
Wink! 😉
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@elimar thanks for the morning memory. A good start to my day. I've been watching Bob Newhart on Amazon Prime. Blast from the past…
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Getting my school supplies from a five and dime store. Covering school books in brown paper bags
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Good one Mommy. I remember making the brown paper bag book covers.
I remember the first time my Mother let me ride my bike "to town" with a girl friend. We went to Woolworths. We had a rootbeer float at the lunch counter & I bought my Mother some nail polish for Christmas. And looked longingly at new 'outfits' for my Ginny doll.
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Minus,
the Woolworth’s where I lived had creaky floors.0 -
My favorite mixing bowl and hand chopper came from Woolworth's. I used them both today to make orange cranberry bread.
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Something else just popped into my head…probably a long ago Christmas gift.
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Oh, and here's a stocking stuffer from long ago. Got any Mid-Age Christmas memories? Post 'em!
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Playing Yahtzee
Giving our parents a hard time about going to bed early on Christmas Eve
trying to sneak a peek at our Christmas presents
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Anybody remember Dippity-Do? I did not set my long hair with frozen orange juice cans. But I did have huge brush rollers that I slept in several nights a week. I can't even imagine how I did that.
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I used that sticky, icky green gel with orange juice cans. I then graduated to putting up the ironing board and using an iron for clothing on my hair. Why did it take so long for them to invent ceramic flat irons?
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I remember the big brush rollers, the cans, and the Dippity-Do! Nice to remember, thanks!
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I visited a friend this week in California. She's 98 years young. She still puts rollers in her hair every night. Said she's been doing it since she was a kid and didn't know how she'd sleep w/o them!
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Zogo - WOW… I too have an elderly friend - 87. She has given up sleeping with brush curlers, but sets her hair with them after she washes several times a week. Lot of hours that she doesn't want to see anyone or answer the door while her hair is drying. Not to mention - wet hair just makes me colder now.
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I remember all that hair straightening. I was more often the ironer than the ironee, since my BFs had beautiful wavy, curly hair when the lank, straight hairdo was the pinnacle of style. What are best friends for, right?
Who else had one of those hair dryers that was round like a hatbox, but it had a hose and plastic cap to put on your head? What a fright.
If you remember that appliance, what about the thing that looked a little like a blender, but it was a steamer for your face, to open and unclog your teen pores? I would give a million dollars for my teen pores at this point.
Hot rollers were pioneered in our youth. Who else got burned on that appliance?
Moving into the kitchen, the Salton Yogurt Maker. Why was mine always runny? Saw a lot of those in garage sales a few years later.
Best for last, the Hoover Constellation vacuum. Not a lot of suction but so fun to pull this space age floater around the house. It had a little bit of that R2D2 thing going on. I can almost hear young George Lucas saying, "I'll vacuum for you, Mom."
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I had to get an oversized bonnet for the hairdryer to fit my large rollers. The hot rollers weren’t large enough to straighten my hair. I was jealous of my sister’s stick straight hair when we were teenagers. Now she is jealous of my waves.
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Watching Green Acres & Petticoat Junction.
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I had the precursor to the round hatbox hair dryer with the hose & cap. I actually still have the base with the hose & use it to defrost the freezer in my garage.
Feeling Old?
The Beatles split up 50 years ago. The movie, ‘The Wizard of Oz,’ is 85 years old. Elvis died 47 years ago. He’d be 89 today. Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” video is 42 years old. Mickey Mantle retired 55 years ago. The movie, “Saturday Night Fever” is 47 years old. “The Ed Sullivan Show” ended 53 years ago. The Corvette turns 71 this year.
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Oh, my! What fun memories. I remember all of those. Do you remember the TV commercial (or was it a radio ad?) with the jingle, "Curlers in your hair? Shame on you!" I think it must have been an ad for hot rollers.
I always had straight hair, too. I paid for a perm while my sister paid to have her curls straightened. Those were the days…
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My mother had a hair dryer with the bonnet, but I never liked it, because I wanted straight hair and the dryer didn't do a good job. ( My hair is naturally wavy and just didn't cut it in the stick straight days.) At some point I discovered that if I took the bonnet off and just bent over the straight shaft of air that normally fed into the bonnet, I could get my hair straight. Later, I used to kid/ kick myself for not trying to patent that idea, because later they came out with blow dryers that did the very thing I wanted. I was just a young teenager at the time. I still can't get used to my naturally wavy air and am always inclined to make it straight.
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Remember the teased bangs and big hair of the 80s & 90s? I cringe when I think of all the hair spray that was used. My hair never held any style.
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Oh yes mOmmy. I had recently moved to Texas, and that hair was twice as big as other states.
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I don't know if this is a "middle-aged memory" or not, but I was just reminded of the Thomas Guide we used to keep in our vehicles. We'd hit Costco every January to get the latest version.
I'm going to a new (for me) clinic location this AM for an MRI. Will use my phone, thankfully, to navigate.
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I think Rand McNally bought Thomas and still prints just a US road atlas but with no city maps. I still order one every year (no longer in Walmart) for use when out of range of cell and GPS service. I guess we should be able to get phone directions in town.
I don't miss the AAA tripticks but I do miss their guidebooks. They included all kinds of small museums that I would never have been aware of otherwise.
I hope you made it to your MRI appointment and get a good result.
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I too REALLY miss the AAA guidebooks, but I also miss the maps. I don't have a smart phone and I still depend on paper maps. If I'm not familiar with a destination, I go on line & print a map before I leave.
In Houston we had a company that printed an extremely detailed book of maps for the entire city - Key Maps. They're still in business but the latest book is $55.00. WOW. I saved my old one since downtown & major routes rarely change.
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We have nav aids built in to our car. We never get lost!
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Well, my car is older than dirt too. A 2003 Toyota Camry just now rolling 100K. So no nav aids there - and only a REAL key. My car shop said I could sell it at a profit any time. Apparently it's so reliable that parents look to buy them to send their kids to college.
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I drive a 2002 Subaru with close to 200,000 miles on it and love my real key. The old cars with fewer electronics are easier to repair. It won’t last forever, though. I wish they made new old style cars.
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I remember Thomas Brothers and the Rand McNally road maps. My last road map was from around 2007, I think. I still much prefer a map for navigating. GPS sends people ways that I would never want to go, due to weird traffic patterns, having to make left turns from two-way turn lanes, etc. I like to go my own way, and then just refer to a map if necessary. I think my old car beats the others re age. It's a 2002 Ford Escort. I got it in 2004 and it's been fine. Gets me where I need to go, not a lot of cost. I'm wary of getting a new car because they have so many features I don't want. I like my key and my am/fm radio. I still play Christmas tapes in the car too; that I keep in the glove box. Don't want to get near a touch screen!
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