Middle Aged Memories
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My car seat was a plastic and steel framed chair that hung over the front seat. The seat belt was thin plastic. So much for safety! My mom also had a car bed for my older siblings. Some how we all survived without seat belts, helmets, knee pads and our parents smoking in the car.
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I find it sad now that these young mothers can place their baby in a moulded seat, carrry the seat to the car, snap the seat into the car seat, go to her destination, grab the plastic seat out of the car snap it into a set of wheels and stroll away. what happened to body contact, cuddling, and holding? maybe babies should have a handle installed at birth for their parents convnience.
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No kidding! I use to wear my kids in a front or back pack or a sling. I would cook and vacuum with someone on my hip. Rarely do you see babies being held and they're usually in some type of seat or swing. It's really sad because all people need physical contact.
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They have found that in orphanages overseas, that babies tend to have attachment disorders because they do not get held for the sake of being held.
We were in the church nursery Sunday and I had three of my little ones who rotated turns on my lap, one on each knee at most times. I get as much out of that as they do. Amazing how sitting in the floor with them close and a hand around them or one right up next to me can keep them calm. They love the touch.
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I remember my mother talking about learning how to do everything with one hand when children are little. One hand and arm was always holding/carrying/corralling a baby or toddler. I can remember my aunts always had one of their childrend, usually the youngest on one hip. I wonder if you might have a point, Meece.
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When I helped out at my grand-daughters preschool, we were sitting in a circle on the floor. Several little ones managed to wiggle their way to sit right next to me. I always held my kids and I could see these kids wanted to crawl in my lap. Maybe I have that new grandma smell!
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Okay, here could be my link to BC. I tended to carry my babies and do my housework at the same time. Thus, I also nursed more on my left breast because I am right handed. I would much rather have the baby in my arms than to plop a bottle in his mouth. My bc was on the left, the more used breast! My boys seem to be pretty well adjusted.
I only got a carry seat with DS#3 because he was ill, and I had to keep him in an upright position.
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smithlme, ha-ha-ha "new grandma smell."0
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When people ask what the percentages are for getting cancer I tell them 50/50. Either you will get it or you won't. Those percentages don't mean very much to me at this point!
My favorite T-shirt...."I walked in The Komen 3-Day and I STILL got cancer!" Some people have no sense of humor!
Remember the last day of school and the whole unplanned summer lay before you?
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Tiddly Winks, Jingle Jump and the magic man where you pulled grey stuff up from the bottom of the board with a magnetic wand and gave him hair and facial hair. How about razzles gum and big buddy gum and pixie stix. The cool toys you got in cerial boxes and cracker jacks. You could get a set of glasses or a place setting of dishes for filling up with gas at the gas station. And they looked under your hood and washed windows. The photo booth, 4 pictures for a .25. Getting your feet measured when you went to the shoe store. Its so nice to go back.
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how about garter belts and nylon stockings. Artic Circle where you had them make cherry coke before there was cherry coke, chocolate dipped ice cream cones with nuts. Ratted hair.
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Is Big Buddy gum the one that was a rope about a foot and a half long?
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Saving Bazooka Joe comics to redeem and send in for special toys.
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Nevermind. The one that I was thinking of (that one cool teacher allowed us to keep in the pencil space of our desks) was called Bubs Daddy.
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Milk delivered to our door - we had a metal container outside of the door and the milk man would deliver fresh milk in glass bottles and eggs a couple of times a week. It was really good milk!
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A brand new Vega $3,333.00 and a car bed for the daughter - 1975 bliss.
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I remember the car adds for $4999.00 for a brand new car, and that sounded so expensive!
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I'm having a middle-aged memory about my first "Mr. Potato Head." It was a REAL potato! The toy first came out with only plastic parts and you had to use your own real potatoes, the plastic potato came out a little later. (I made Mr. Apple Head and Mr. Banana Head on occasion.)0
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I had a plastic mrs. Carrot and a cucumber I think....
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Sure enough, I found a picture!
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The eyelashes were felt with hole for the eyes to poke through. Wow I didn't remember how hokey they looked. I saw an image for your potato head parts that you put on real vegies, too!
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I recently found a nostalia candy shop and picked up a few treats for my daughter. I've been surprising her by giving one or two things a week and she's having a lot of fun trying "old people" candy. I picked up the following:
- BB Bat suckers
- Candy Buttons (dots on white paper strip)
- Razzles
- Gold Rush gum
- Thrills gum (taste like soap)
- Wax moulded soda cans with liquid inside
It brought back so many memories of going to the store on Saturday night's in the late '60s/early '70s with my 25 cents of allowance and buying all sorts of candy!
Sherri
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I saw Toy Story 3 on Friday and Mr and Mrs Potato Head are still funny! My kids use to use the parts and make veggie heads all the time.
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We got our allowance on Saturday mornings. Then a 7 block walk to "The Quick Shop" to pick out our penny candy.
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We had "Bruce's Variety" by our house and it had a large penny candy selection. Candy bars were a nickle so a quarter would get a lot of goodies. We also brought back glass bottles...2 cents for the small ones and 3 cents for the large ones.
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Did you ever go on pop-bottle drives as fundraisers? Then when we were finished we'd take a pick-up truck full of bottles to the store for redemption.
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The Boy Scouts use to do those. We'd search for bottles for candy money!
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Our store was Buds Variety. We used to ride our bikes down to Buds to turn in our pop bottles and buy candy. We'd put all the bottles in the little baskets on our bikes that went over the front handles. Sometimes we stop to hunt for snakes at the Dairy Queen woods on the way home. Lots of fun!
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OK...this is only my memory but....I spent a couple of days at my parents' this week. We sat and talked about the old neighbors and some of the things we remembered about them. We use to have neighborhood bar-b-q's and everybody would come. Christmas Eve get-togethers and school functions where all the parents went. My parents live in the same house I grew up in. There are so many memories in that house and neighborhood. My dad is 84 and my mom is 78...
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My next door neighbor, when growing up, had pink flamingos in her yard. even then the neighborhood thought they were too much.
I remember neghborhood games of:
Freeze tag
Hide and Seek
Red Light, Green Light
Mother May I?
Tag football
Roller skating when skates had metal wheels, so did the skate boards
Drawing a hopscotch on the sidewalk with a "chalk rock" and having the best "marker" which was usually a chain bracelet, it skidded just enough.
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