Remember When!!
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Remember these wrap skirts?
I wore mine with my Candies.
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Yes, wrap around skirts were great as were long dresses . as opposed to mini skirts where "I see London, I see France, I see some ones' underpants" , remember that one?
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Dr Scholls wood sandals.
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Loved my earth shoes with negative heels! Do they make anymore?
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Earth Shoes...I almost posted them before.
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I had a whole wardrobe of those wrap skirts. Loved them! Still prefer a skirt or dress in the summer.
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miniskirts, midiskirts, empire waistlines, platform shoes, peasant dresses, paisley
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Sewing my own prom dress! An empire waist, yellowy satin!
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pogo sticks and hula hoop
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magic 8 balls to answer your questions
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Along those same lines for answering questions, how many of you made "cootie catchers"?? Those folded paper thingies we marked with colors, numbers, etc. I forget what words we put in the middle, though. Can anyone remember?
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OH YES. I think sometimes our cootie catchers had numbers & sometimes colors. And someone had to pick. But I don't remember what questions were being answered.
I tried to make one about 15 years ago. Wonder if I still could?
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MinusTwo, I do remember they kept us busy on the playground all through recess in about 3rd grade! I remember squaring off notebook paper and keeping folding triangles! What were those questions!!??
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Wasn't it stuff like who you'd marry, how many kids you'd have, what kind of house you'd live in?
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on another topic, remember full and half slips as a mandatory part of your wardrobe?
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Panty hose, and possibly a girdle under those slips. Seamed nylons. Are my seams straight?
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I was sooooo glad to get rid of full slips & go to half. And yes for the horrible girdle before panty hose. Well as long as we're discussing wardrobes,how about gloves & hats. We dressed up like that to ride on airplanes.
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Mom would make me wear hat and gloves to go downtown for shopping. She did too. Cincinnati.
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I switched to pantyhose early on, but do remember those tabs connecting the nylons to the garter belt digging into the back of my thigh while sitting on a hard chair/bench!! Thanks Ruth for the questions--what you said does bring back memories that those were some of the questions! Maybe even boys names too!!
Since garter belts were brought up, how about those Kotex belts used to hold the pad!! Hated those days when you wore both the garter belt and Kotex belt at the same time!!!
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Remember life before the microwave?
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or paper towels?
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Does anyone still can fruits and veggies? I never learned how but remember my grandmother canning.
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We had a huge garden up north. Mom and I spent the summer canning and freezing stuff. My grandma did too.
When I was about 10, my cousin and I spent a few days with our gma. Just when she was doing green beans. Apparently making her crazy. She told us to go find the horse, get a tail hair off him, put it under a rock in the creek, and it would turn into a snake!!! Gma wouldn’t lie, right? We sat there for hours!!!!!! And the beans got canned
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Several of my friends still do things like peach jam or strawberry preserves. A number of people on the dinner thread still do quite a bit of "canning". I do prepare some small loads of fruits & veggies but I freeze them instead of bottling.
And yes ceanna - about the cootie catchers - who will I marry.
How about home-made Root Beer? Always tasted like yeast to me.
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Yes, canning was the vogue before freezers came along and even long after that. Tomatoes, beans, peas, corn, apples sliced and sauce, berries, peaches, pears, apricots, plums, rhubarb and whatever else aside from root vegetables and squash etc. Oh, the pickles, oh my. Also beef and chicken and the most delicious sausage called Rhinswurst (sp?) which is perhaps a chuck roast shredded or ground and cooked and seasoned with salt and pepper in I broth, stuffed into casings and then canned in a pressure canner. No I don't do that, never did but I helped. Anyone remember the hand turned meat grinders? We ate well and slept well. Fresh food and fresh air..
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I still have a hand turned meat grinder that my Mother used.
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I ran across a meat grinder cleaning out my grandparent's house! I think it sold at auction. Also ran across WWII ration stamps. I think they were for sugar or ? Anyone know?
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Remember Tang? Who didn’t want to be an astronaut?
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Oh, and I just remembered ... Salisbury Steak TV dinners; eaten on a TV tray of course!
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MinusTwo: My Dad made the best homemade rootbeer every summer. It never tasted like yeast though he used yeast to make it. He had his own glass bottles, bottle capper and stoneware vat for mixing it. Made the best rootbeer floats (especially with hand churned, homemade vanilla ice cream). Many years later found a burger place in AZ that made homemade rootbeer and it was comparable.
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