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Ducky...Hi. Back in the "olden days" when our family with my grandparents, we used to iron the sheets, hankies and my grandfather's boxer shorts. We used to think it was so much fun, until we grew up. Do you remember the washing machines...had two rollers that you would slide the clothes through? I thought that was fun. Boy was I weird. Rowenta irons are the best. Makes the job easier.
Thanks for the memories...
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Shorfi.....remember it all.....actually owned one of those washers...........it was my very first one....my MIL bought an automatic washer, and she gave that to me when I was first married........no dryer, hung the clothes out on the line....had my first baby in 1957, wringer washer, and the big Birdseye cloth diapers....then had to drag them all in and fold them........then the clothes would get sprinklied with the bottle of water with the little stopper on the top, and you rolled them and let them sit, then ironed them, and starch did not come out of a spray can .......you made your own with luke warm water and starch powder, then dipped the collars and cuffs in the starchy water............OMG.......and I did all that with 3 kids.....2, 1, and newborn.......I must have been nuts..........
When I hear the girls today, and see what they do, I think.....you have no clue what "real housekeeping is..............you have no clue what real work is.........we did not go out to work because we had "NO" conveniences.".........and no help............95% of the men back then thought there only job was to go to work..........................back then no "take out"........you cooked every damn thing you put on the table..............that i why back then we had no cellulite because we ate only good food.....made by our own hands.........
Our kids go only what we could afford........and they knew "no, meant "no............and we didn't care "who had it".........if we couldn't pay for it, no one got it.......but when you did, you were appreciative, and grateful for each thing no matter how big or small.
Soda was a treat, not an everyday drink.....and what was cooked was dinner....if it did not suit your taste.....well.......eat what ever is there that you like, and maybe tomorrow night's dinner will please you..............and dessert was a treat, not something you got because you ate your dinner........causse if you didn't there was no dessert for you............
And guess what.....I had 6 kids, and today they are all great parent's and all very successful.........I always laugh today and say............when I was young enough to have it, enjhoy it, look good in it.....I couldn't afford it.................today at 80 I can have anything I want, but neither want it......or "look good in it".....no longer 99lbs........LOL............
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Hi all, well my back was feeling way good this morning, hit the gym and sure hope I did not over do it but it was like I was back to normal! Not gonna push it too much so sitting on the sofa with the lovely heating pad. Did enough at the gym that a nap may be in order!
So fun hearing the stories about washing and ironing. Me I stopped buying clothes that require ironing. You are right, Rowenta's are great irons, got one for my sewing projects.
Shorfi, interesting that the Laser Spine folks have not called you back, I had one that sent me an e mail asking me to fax my MRIs to them. Creeps me out to fax something like that and sides I do not have a fax hooked up. So I never followed up with them, I was looking for a second opinion and since my current stuff is working, not looking for the opinion any more
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Ducky...such fond memories. I am 61 years old. Do you remember the washboard? I do, and I use to help my grandmother and thought it was so much fun. When my parents adopted my baby sister I remember my mom using cloth diapers. She also had a service that would pick up the diapers and bring fresh ones.
My dad worked and my mom was a stay at home wife until my baby sister was adopted. She decided to go back to school and taught elementary math and reading. My mother was a woman ahead of her time back in those days. My dad did all the ironing for the family on the weekends and my mother created the beautiful home for us. For some reason we never had chores to do, she did it all. We were only required to make up our beds the moment we got out of them and to make sure the walls had no handprints on them. Dad also did a lot of the cooking when he would come home from work and we would sit down as a family and ate what was in front of us. My mom also was very weight conscious, and we had snacks, but no junk food. Funny thing is...my sisters, my brother as well as myself didn't get fat until we all left the house to get married. Oh boy...my mom would be mortified if she saw my fat butt today...lol. We never had take-out either. in fact I never heard of it. We always traveled as a family on trips, except for when my parents would go on their cruises. I guess I got that bug.....because I love cruising on the big ships.
Ducky, hoping no one thinks I am crazy bringing all this stuff up....but I enjoyed going down the memory lane with you. Thanks!!!!
Proud...I did send two copies of my MRI and still have not heard a thing. That speaks volumes to me, and I am no longer interested in them. So glad you are getting good results from the treatments.
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Shorfi not sure why but I am not comfortable with sending my med reports by fax. I just had a phone call from the place I am doing my therapy, they were just checking to see how I felt. I told them I did gym time this morning and she said if you hurt, do not wait but call to come in. Think I am going to stick with them as long as can. Sure hope you fine a solution
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Shorfi........these ladies love trips down memory lane..........I am the oldest on the thread, so many of you are the ages of some of my children.......my oldes is 58 and my youngest is 46.................so I could be anyone's Mother on here..............LOL
Actually Slow has made me her adopted Mother...............LOL........0 -
Ducky....haha...am I too old to be your adopted daughter too
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My oldest is also 58.... and our youngest is 551/2.... But still my "little girls".... I LOVED those days ! Using a wringer-washer, in that tiny little garage/house....! Washing clothes in the hall-way, with a big tub on wheels for the rinse water.... and those diaper pails! Yes, Curity cloth diapers also.... Got to use my first "disposable" diaper when flying with my 8 month old to San Francisco....I felt so PRIVILEGED using a throw-away diaper!
And then when we got our first washer, I plugged it into the floor socket, and got thrown across the kitchen into the refrigerator! Must have gotten water down it!
Remember the ice-boxes? Ducky, that means YOU.... No-one else is old enough to even know what we are talking about.... And the ice-man? And our PHONES? I loved those days.... nothing wrong with them..... And we LIVED on "Noodle-burgers"..... Ha!
And we put the wet clothes in this, and went outdoors to hang them on the clotheslines!
Our Ice Boxes!
And our TV, when we finally GOT one.... My Brother and I used to walk down to the corner at night, and lay on the grass, and watch a TV that the store kept on just for us..... inside..... Our phones, and we all had Party-Lines.... meaning our neighbors were on the same line.....
Yes, my Grandma used a washboard.... And her iron was MADE of iron, and you put it on the coal-stove to heat it up, then iron with THAT !! The coal-man would deliver our coal, and shovel it down a chute into the coal-bin in our cellar
I think that's why we older gals appreciate our lives so much.... we remember what it was like to have "nothing" except each other... and when we got something, we held onto it forEVER! Now they call us hoarders....
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Chevy, great pics, I know a family member has one of those old oak ice boxes and has refinished it, it looks great.
OK, so I have been having a minor but annoying plumbing issue, one of my toilets keeps doing what my brother used to call Phantom flush, I know it is supposed to be so simple an idiot could fix the inside guys of a toilet but unfortunately that is not me~~So trying Angies List for a plumber to fix it up. Cross fingers that all works out as they are coming first thing in the AM!
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Chevyboy...do you remember before color TVs, that a colored piece of plastic was put over the tv set and we saw television in "color"...lol. I remember the days when we would get coal and would put it in our basement...well back in those days it was called a "cellar". It was not finished at all. Just a great big dark and dank looking room. As kids we had to "bank the fire" and I thought this was fun too. I loved doing it.
When we struck it "rich", we each had our own personal tvs in our bedrooms and no longer had to watch what mom and dad watched. My dad used to loveeeeeeeeeee SeaHunt and Combat, and my sweet mother was in love with Perry Mason. I remember the party lines on the phones too. It was fun listening to other folks conversations.
When my sister was adopted I was 12 years old. My mom used the diaper service and when we would go out, she had the disposable diapers. Ah...the good old days.
Proud...I am so sorry I sent my reports to them. I should had known better, but I was feeling particularly desperate that day. Lesson learned.
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shorfi, well as long as your info did not include a ss number it should not be a problem. When I was researching docs and stuff, I was amazed by how many openly stated on their web sites that they did not take medicare. I do know that a pal of mine from gym is having back surgery this week or had it last week, not sure but remember that she wanted to use docs from Columbia Pres as she felt they were the best. She is a retired nurse and had injured herself initially lifting a patient. She also has had 4 surgerys so not sure if her theory is good. Hope you find someone good and all turns out well
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No it did not contain my ss number.
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Yes! Wasn't it called Isinglass? This was just when plastic was invented...right? No, wait.... 1907 was when it was invented.... That was even before Ducky's time....
And that piece was like red, yellow and blue? With the Rabbit-ears! We got our first TV about 1950.... I remember listening to the radio while eating "supper".... the Red Skelton show...(Clem Kadiddlehopper)..... . and Innersanctom.... The Shadow...! 0 -
Chevy..........I remember it all.....I was quite little when we had the ice box, and the guy would come with a block of ice and put it in there................how about the bread man, or the milk man........you would hear them outside when the milk bottles clinked together in their wire basket......and in the winter the top would pop off (was cardboard), and the cream would com to the top and pop the lid...................how about the guy from the water company and the electric having to come in the house to read your meters, and all the fun outside games we played........Kitty in the corner, Freeze Tag, Red Rover, Jumping rope, Double Dutch, Buck, Buck...........and the outside lights on the street was a real flame run by gas that came from below the ground................
Who remembers skates with a key and you had a special pair of old shoes that you had to wear to use them cause they would rip the soul off your shoe over time, and you would catch hell if you had on a good pair of shoes...............aluminum xmas trees with the colored light that shone on it and spun around changing colors....LOL....should I go on....0 -
Were we neighbors? Ha! Yes.... Kick the Can.... And Oh! Spin the bottle with all the neighborhood boys? I remember the milk-man, and the frozen bottles... because they brought it like at 4 a/m! And Mom poured the cream off the top for their coffee, so we had skim milk....
We loved to play JACKS! And one of my Daughters was the State Champ! And our neighbor was the Marbles Champ!
And then we grew up... and we would wait for that one guy to "call".... wait for hours.... Then we had that first kiss.... and we immediately fell in love, and the next day he called to tell my Brother he went back to his "girl-friend".... that no-good - two-timing pig-head! He contacted me on FB and asked if I remembered "close your eyes and count to 10"...... Do you KNOW my heart skipped a couple beats, because hell YEAH I remembered....! Then I remembered it was HE, that scally-wag that dumped ME! And I was all of 15...... Everything happens for a reason.... Think how different, if our lives had changed courses.......
How funny to remember this stuff....
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Okay, my total rant for the day, seriously steamed. Guess a new article came out about bacon and red meat causing cancer, declared by the World Health Organization? Haven't we beat the blame game horse to death? Or is the media still playing the blame game? Oh you're fat and got breast cancer - your fault. Omg, you ate bacon and got breast cancer - your fault. Omg, you drank water contaminated by some corporation and got breast cancer - your fault. Fill in the blank with some activity you did and then got breast cancer - your fault.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/201...
What a bunch of crap that report is. I'm waiting for people who have eaten vegetarian to chime in here soon. We get more nitrates/nitrites in natural and fermented food than by eating bacon.
So how many here don't eat meat and got breast cancer? Could they do some real research already? I guess since they included the word "CAN" in the title, that makes it good research?
I'm headed off for a bacon sandwich myself. I'll put some avocado on there so I feel better about it.
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T- I'm so glad I'm not the only one. I went off- seriously ranted on FB a couple of hours ago.
And the smugness of the people who feel they are safe. Of course I don't wish anyone ill. But they once and for all should do a study of people who ate bacon or had sugar or wine vs those who didn't. It's one in eight. It's fucking random. It's environmental. What-EVER.
In the wee dark hours I sometimes get those self-blaming thoughts. I chase them away. They come back. I logically, intellectually, know it's not my fault. In my heart, news like this makes certain I'll never leave Crazytown.
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Hated meat..........hated cooking bacon............could not afford steak............so WTF was the reason I got BC..............such bullshit
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Oh man!! Does that mean I have to stop using my bacon flavored toothpaste? So disappointing. Just wait Italy, in a few years a new study will come out saying they were wrong. Same thing with eggs causing high cholesterol. That's done the loop about four times now....good for you...bad for you. Know what I say??? Yep...you guessed it. WHATEVER!!
Ducky and Chevy, Loved logging on and reading about all the old things. Reminded me of my mom talking about all that stuff. I'm 52, so I don't remember most of it, but I DO remember black and white TV's. I haven't heard about Clem Kadiddlehopper in such a long time!! Oh WAIT!! I also played spin the bottle!! Guess I'm not that young. haha
I have much to catch up on. Too tired tonight....just got back from my Rheumatologist. She thinks I may have Sjjogren's disease. I will go back tomorrow for blood work. So maybe it isn't lymphedema. So since chemo, I've picked up two diseases - Fibromyalgia and possibility this other thing - all on top of my RA. Sounds like one big crap sandwich to me. Can I say crap? Is that allowed?? CRAP, CRAP, CRAP. Ok.....I'm done whining. Another.....WHATEVER!!
PASS THE BACON, please.
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Mmmmm, Italychick, bacon and avocado - two great tastes that taste great together!
It's just not that easy. I'm sure eating healthy is a good thing, especially for certain types of cancer, but it's no guarantee. I never ate much meat, especially red meat. It just wasn't in my budget. My sister eats even healthier than I do, and we still both got breast cancer. I think in our case genetics has way more to do with it.
Now that I have an estrogen positive tumor, it makes sense to watch the soy and stay at a low weight. But I think I would have gotten cancer anyway, it was just in the genetic cards. You can tell by the family pattern.
Proudtospin, I swear toilets are the most Rube-Goldberg-esque device still in current use. You'd think we'd have figured out a better way to flush by now. Is Phantom Flush the same problem my sister calls Flushguard, where you go to flush, but the toilet never gets up enough momentum to hold the flapper open and just stops without flushing? Glad to hear your back is feeling pretty good.
Chevy, I've never seen a picture of an actual icebox before. What is a Noodle-burger?
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Ok, all six lymph nodes came back clean of cancer. Doing a happy dance with relief. Thanks everyone for holding my hand through the winding streets of Crazytown.
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Woot, eggroll! Good news!
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Hooray, eggroll!!! Happy for you!
Italy, rant away. I've been shaking my head all day at that one and especially at the comparison to cigarettes. Huh?
Beppy, so sorry. Ugh. Bacon coming your way.
Chevy, my father never, in his whole life, used the word refrigerator. It was always ice box. He would have been 90 this year.
Saw the radiation oncologist today. And so we're off on the next adventure!
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Awesome news Eggroll!! Thanks for letting us know. Doing the happy dance for you!!
Thanks Rain. Did you get a start date for your rads?
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Not yet. CT scan and staging to be done, so it could be a couple of weeks.
Irish-American MO, Italian BS, Korean-American RO: I have quite the international team of physicians....
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hahaha Rain. That sounds like my children. Half German, 1/4 Italian, 1/4 Korean.
MinusTwo, Thanks again for directing me to the lymphedema thread. I put it in my favorites. If it turns out I don't have Sjjogren's, that will be my next step.
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I m here, lurking
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Blondie! YaY!!! You made it!!
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Sweet new Eggroll!!!
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