Middle Aged Memories
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Actually, yes, you can still go to a tupperware party if you look hard enough!
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Can you really? What a hoot!
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Eeek, now I need to come clean and let you ladies know I WAS a Tupperware dealer! I put on the parties and still have such a stash of Tupperware and the little gifts we gave out!
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mastercylandar but i cant remember his sidekick
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I am a Felix The Cat fan. I can't remember MC's sidekick either. I remember VaVoom though.
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Meecie, I loved going to tupperware parties and using it. I still have a few old items from the 70s and 80s!
I loved Felix the cat and Jonny Quest was one of my favorites too.
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Didn't anyone ever question why Hodji wasn't with his mom & dad?
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Tupperware parties still happen here. I love the stuff - use lots of it everyday.
Felix the cat I remember.
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Anyone remember the old "Queen For A Day" television show?
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How did you ever remember Hodji's name? Wow! I'm impressed. I remember that show but not all that well.
I do also remember seeing Queen for a Day but may have been reruns.
Wish they would rerun a lot of the old shows. I'd love for my kids to see a lot of them.
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Still have my tupperware mat, not sure the real name, that I use for rolling dough....its from the late 70's or early 80's
Also watched Johnny Quest...and I think I wondered the same thing
we still have some of the world books from our enclyclopedia set from the 1966!!!
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I remember game shows like, To Tell the Truth, What's my Line, and Password.
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My Son and I were just talking about Johnny Quest and Hodji. That's the only reason I could pull out that name so quickly.
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Tupperware party in 70s /80s I am surpised .. as it is quite new in India. I never joined in a party but I bought few items from one of my colleque who is in the tupperware business. I am using it for microwave cooking as well as for storing food items.
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queen for a day! yes i remember that. probably bad parenting but my father arranged with me that i could stay home from school if i cleaned the house. lotsa daytime tv for me!
was thinking about my babysitting career. i was FOURTEEN yrs old i wouldnt trust my cats to a 14yr old i earned .35hr but if i stayed past midnite, it .50 hr. also those high rates for new years eve!
~~nancy-carol
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phew--I remember New Year's Eve babysitting, a financial bonaza! I babysat regularly for a family that was in a higher social circle that mine (belonged to the country club, had much money, traveled a lot) who would host a New Year's Eve party at their home. I would babysit their 3 children, plus the children of all their friends, the kids and I helped serve hor d'ouerves for a while, after all the kids went to sleep I cleaned up the kitchen, then made breakfast for the kids when they got up in the am and stayed until some of the adults got up. I usually made $100, sometimes more. Very big money for that time.
Meece--I often wondered about Hodji, too. I caught a modern version of Johnny Quest, whats-his-name on the left now has an adopted daughter to make the cartoon politically correct. Not at all what I remember the show to be.
Things are a bit icy here this morning, looks a bit like "THE Ice Strom of '98"
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Babysitting. I broke into it when I was about 11. My first jobs were to take the neighbor girls to the movies and my pay was to get into the movie. Then I started helping in our church nursery. By twelve I was babysitting regularly during the daytime on weekends, at 13 I was a full time babysitter. I usually made $1/hr unless a couple of families booked me together. I loved those nights. At the heyday of my career I had over a hundred children on my list. I stopped sitting when I had my first at 21.
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Then there were babysitting classes given in the schools-it was called Safe Sitters:
"Course Content - The curriculum is presented in modules which may be combined and taught as one of two course options:
* Safe Sitter® Basic is a 6 ½-hour essential curriculum designed for busy schedules. It includes Babysitting as a Business, Success on the Job, Child Care Essentials, Safety for the Sitter, Injury Management, Preventing Problem Behavior, Care of Choking Infant, and Care of Choking Child. It introduces Preventing Injuries and Behavior Management.
* Safe Sitter® is a 12 ½-hour expanded curriculum designed for comprehensive coverage. It includes all topics covered in Safe Sitter® Basic plus Infant and Child CPR, Toddler/Preschool Guest, more in-class practice time and expanded information on Preventing Injuries and Behavior Management. "I was too old to get a Safe Babysitter Certificate! Not fair!
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I was a nerdy, responsible teen. I had one family trust me with their baby, who had cystic fibrosis, for full days in the summer. I was responsible to give him his meds at the right times, and the right dosage. Another woman left her two week old baby with me, even thought she had never met me, but knew of my rep as a diligent sitter from friends and family.
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beginning to feel like i was a chump! i think all the parents in the neighborsood got together at one big meeting one day and decided that we were to make no money> yeah thats it---teach us work ethics!
~ ~ nancy-carol
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phew--when we were children that could very well have happened!
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My babysitting money provided me with almost all of my school clothes from 7th grade on. I even bought my wedding dress with babysitting money.
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Meece--were you a child bride?????
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19
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Yup, that's a child bride alright!
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If only I had waited. Maybe I would have seen the real guy! But then again, I would not have my three boys. The first one came 2 1/2 years into our marriage and that's about when the exes real self started showing.
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Yes, 0.50/hour.....There were 2 families that I sat for, that would pay me 0.75/hour to watch their 4 kids...each had 2 kids...we lived in townhouses and I would go between the 2 townhouses...they were next door to each other....boy did I think I was paid well...I remember one summer day sitting for I don't know how many hours and I made I think $8 and couldn't believe how much money I earned!!! I moved when I was 14, so customers were as bountiful, but in junior high, I was busy babysitting all the time....
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The ones that paid better knew I would put them at the top of my list.
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On my 10th birthday my Dad brought me to the bank to open up a "passbook" savings account for the money I had collected from babysitting (watching 2 neighborhood boys inside/outside while their Mom took care of the house or went to the grocery for an hour). I also used my money for my wedding (I was 25). I was so proud of that passbook, I loved to ride my bike to the bank to add more money and get my account book stamped.
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I did the same thing. My savings bank was call Great Western Savings. I'll bet as I go through the boxes in the garage I would find the original passbook.
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