Middle Aged Memories
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Wow! I wrote on mine too. Usually the name of the boy I liked that week. haha
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Slow.. HaHa.. when my daughter was about 8 she wrote " I love Trent " on our toilet seat with a permanent marker.. HaHa.. your post about writing the name the boy you liked that week made me remember it .. HaHa.. 20 years later it still makes me laugh to think about it... HaHa.. Her brother and sister have never let her live it down. HaHa.. I'm still laughing 😂
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Lucy - great story. I used to write the names of the boys I "loved" on my pillow - of course under the zip-on protector and the case. That way I was sure my Mother would never see them. Oh sure - LOL. Oh, pre-teen dreams.
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Minus.. HaHa.. I always wrote my name.. with the boy's surname.. practising for when we got married 😂
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We used to call it "the order" such as "What is your order?" We would have a list of boys in order of how much we liked them. I recall I had a top five that would move up or down the list depending on what feelings were fluctuating that week :-).
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Rocky.. HaHa.. I've never heard of "the order " before.. I found it time consuming enough trying to write my one latest love's name every where..Having a top five list would be a full time job keeping it organized and up to date.. HaHaHa 😃
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Lucy, Oh my!! hahahahaha....That's too funny. Did you get mad at the time??? I liked a boy named Trent when I was a young girl too!! Not too common of a name.
Minus, Great story! I never even thought about the pillow. Good thinking!!
Rocky, I love the list. haha
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Slow.. HaHa.. No..didn't get cranky.. I think I realised at the time it was one of those incidences I was going to remember and laugh about for ever 😃Mind you, my daughter, Daisy, still looks cross when I'm telling someone the story 😃
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Native - oh my yes!!! Those were magical when I was young. Eons before the lava lamp.
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I don't remember them
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Mine were early 70's and I think they were considered retro then? much time lost staring at them..
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BookLady - you're right about retro. We had bubble lights in the late 50s. I think Vermont Country store still has them, along with all those other wonderful "old" things.
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Well that explains everything. I wasn't born yet!!
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Interesting - patented in 1944 & supposedly popular through the 70s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubble_light
The lava lamp was invented in 1963.
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I remember some ornaments my mom had when I was a kid. It was a set of 12 in the shiny, metallic Christmas colors, and each one had around cut out on the side (trimmed in glitter) so that you could look into the ornament and see a tiny diorama scene, like a snowman, elves, kids on a sled, Santa, a reindeer, etc. Sadly, one by one the glass "necks" broke off. My favorite was the Santa and I believe he was the last to go. (Sigh...) Could not find any pics of them, but they were fairly popular back then.
We also had another seasonal decoration--and I think this one came straight out of the Harriet Carter catalog! It was magnet figures on a skating rink base, kind of like this...
...but even chintzier looking. I seem to remember there was a slot that you could fit a magnetic wand into and you could make the skaters move around the pond. We only had it for a few years. Did I mention chintzy?
I love the nostalgic memories that everyone writes at holiday time.
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Yes, super-sleuth, Loral! That is a different set than the ones we had but, like I said, they had a certain popularity at the time so probably a few different manufacturers turned them out.
(Are my image hunting skills declining now? What isn't!!!!)
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nah, Elimar, you still got it! Thanks for the memories - I am going to look at my old "treasures" with new eyes when I unpack the tree decorations. Thanks for the lift! ✌️❤️ Linda.
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Google Vintage 50's, although I was born in the 60's I still have some of my mom and dad's old ornaments..
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I always loved our bubble lights. I found out that Dad gave them away when Mom died and he was moving to an apartment. He never was the type to hold onto things, or to think that we might want to! I do have two or three decorations that my parents bought for their first Christmas (1955), but they're in sorry shape. Needless to say, I DO keep certain things!
I also remember a Bing Crosby Chrismas special with David Bowie as a guest star. The only song with a singer from our generation that my parents ever seemed to like was their duet on Little Drummer Boy/Peace on Earth.
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Okay, so here's a kinda sad memory that makes me laugh now... I remember going up the block after Christmas and dragging a neighbor's thrown out tree back to our back yard so that I could decorate it. We were Jewish so there was never going to be a tree in our house, a bush or anything of the like :-(
I make sure to decorate my home now so the kids never feel left out! Just look for the flashing blue and white lights when passing by ;-)
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Does anyone else remember "Sing Along with Mitch Miller"? I know we had the LPs and they came with lyrics sheets. I think there was also a Christmas special on TV.
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Yessss! Remember Sing Along with Mitch Miller as a series, though, not just an Xmas special. It was a favorite of my father's. As I recall, Miller also did not like rock and roll, and passed up contracting Elvis and the Beatles when he was head of talent at one of the big record companies (don't recall which...)
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Ok, I remember I always thought he was creepy looking - 🎅✌️❤️ Linda
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Here's a middle age memory - I remembered his beard was called a Van Dyke beard, and I don't know why I know that. So I confirmed on Wikipedia. Wonder why I can't get anything done..
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Oh! That reminds me of the ad slogan: "Cigars, cigarettes, Tiparillos."
How did my brain get there? Well...
It all started with that Van Dyke beard comment. I was thinking that the name sound Dutch, and then I remembered the "Dutch Masters" cigars and had to check if the guys on the label had the Van Dyke beards (but they didn't although one fashion-forward dude was rockin' the "soul patch!")
Then, I mused that their long hair was reminiscent of the 1970's long-haired boys hair styles. But then the ad slogan, "cigars, cigarettes, tiparillos?" started going thru' my brain and that was not the 70's but the 1960's. So, I had to go and find this:
and now that I have heard the commercial again after 40+ years, I'm sure it will stick with me for the rest of my days; plus when I hear those old slogans and jingles, I want to stop communicating in a modern tongue and ONLY communicate with archaic ad-talk. I get all kinda new, kinda now, in with the in-crowd, and become the kind of kid that eats Armour hot dogs again and would rather fight than switch; but after all these years, it is still not conclusive if a gentleman should offer a lady a Tiparillo?
My how a little beard can set me off.
Speaking of beards, remember that song by Cream, SWLABR? She Was Like A Bearded Rainbow. What the hippy, dippy was that supposed to mean? (My mates gave it a filthy interpretation as usual, hahaha!)
Sorry, I did not mean to stray from the holidays, but these are all the places my brain can go, almost at once. It took about 20 seconds to think all of that, and then 20 minutes to make this post. Brains are so fun.
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And yeah...Mitch Miller was on the creepy side, for sure.
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well, I think we are all very grateful that your brain takes you where it does, Elimar
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I am looking at a Dutch Master cigar box as I type, which prompted me to pull it off the shelf it is on and look it over. Obviously not real old---has a UPC code on it! I've had it for several years; bought it to house scrapbooking paraphanelia but it sits empty on the shelf. Now I will probably donate it somewhere as I doubt it's worth anything. That's where my mind goes when I look at stuff. I mean who bought a box of Wheaties in the 70s thinking it would be worth money someday? So if I buy a jar of Clausen pickles and just keep it in the back of my frig will it someday be valuable??? Will BCO sisters in 2050 post on here about their Middle Aged Memories of our stuff? I could easily become a hoarder!!!!
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Elimar--Your brain is a fascinating place to explore!
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And speaking of pea-sized objects...
what about those Shrinky-Dinks? My neighbor had some and made a little necklace from them. I never had them. Did they get stinky when you baked them in the oven? I think they are still available, so if I ever get grandkids I can find out first hand.
I saw some images for some vintage ones, like He-Man, and Mr. T, and Dukes of Hazzard, but then THIS ONE really caught my eye...
Who wouldn't make a necklace outta THAT?
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