Middle Aged Memories
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Just came across this and what a fun place! Haven't had time to look through it, but has Mrs. Beasley been mentioned yet? I love love loved her, and wanted to be Buffy from Family Affair! Lol. My mom used to dress me in those super short waistless dresses and tights that looked like sweater material. Thanks for the memories guys! 😀
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I loved my Mrs. Beasley doll! I also had a Buffy doll with the ringlet pony tails. And I got married to my first husband in a Gunne Sax dress. I remember getting a pogo stick for a birthday once.0
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NativeMainer:
I used to drink that tea. I had to switch to a different brand because it started giving me a headache forcsome reason but it was good stuff.
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Thanks for the pics, Native Mainer! I seem to remember the Mrs. Beasley doll talking. Is my memory correct? Also, I lived in Maine for five years and graduated from University of Maine, Orono. Beautiful state!0
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She did talk! No wonder she was so loved. She sounds like your grandmother talking to you
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Thanks NM... just made my day to see her and Buffy together! I still have my doll. Her glasses are missing, the voice box is broken and one of her legs is nearly amputated. I nearly loved her to death, I guess!
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You are all welcome!
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Had a Brain MRI on Monday and with all the odd tapping and banging noises, I imagined these little peg people working a construction site with hammers and pick axes (strange considering they have no arms, lol).
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Oh I remember those. Weren't they maybe Fischer Price or Playskool?
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Illi--sounds like a good way to deal with the noises! But funny that they have no arms.
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yes, minus, Fisher price. Also, good brain mri, nothing new and only one tiny remnant from the previous gamma radiation in April.
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Oops - I just asked the MRI results question on the dinner thread. Great to hear good news.
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I still have this stuff.........0 -
If I do it is in my shed with the brios. No grandchildren yet.
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They weren't Little People, and they were nowhere near sounding like an MRI, but after reading the posts, my mind went to these...
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Funny, I don't remember them..and I hate MRI's
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These candles in The 70's. Had a very pretty one that it took me about 10 years to finally put a match to it.
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A friend of my mom had one of those. Looked like ribbon candy to me, and I sooo wanted to take a bite!
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I remember those candles! I had one that I never lit, but it eventually melted, I forget exactly how it happened. I wished I'd burned it instead.
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I doubt any of us had the real thing at home, but did your parents call your refrigerator "the icebox" because they had an actual icebox when growing up? (Antique iceboxes fetch a pretty penny these days.)
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My parents always referred to the fridge as the ice box, and I remember my grandmother who still had a real ice box when I was a kid.
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Elimar--my paternal grandmother always called the fridge the icebox. My Dad did, too, sometimes. He grew up with one.
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My uncle owned a greenhouse business, and I remember going to the ice factory with him to pick up huge blocks of ice for his cooler. He switched to a walk in cooler with a compressor sometime in the mid sixties, but I can still see those big blocks.
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It's that time o' year again...
I don't know about you, but we were not posh enough to have a real fireplace in my childhood home. Oh, my! What to do? How could Santa get in? Where would the stockings hang? Mom knew what to do...get a cardboard fireplace! Yep, we had one, and let me tell you it was not even fancy enough to have a cardboard chimney attached but I did not concern myself with those kind of details as a child! I also was not bothered when I discovered it was held together by those prongy paper fasteners. What I did like about it was that the fake flames had some cellophane on them so that they could glow when a light bulb was positioned behind them. In my childish imagination, I would warm my hands by those flames. Ah, the memories. So, here's pic of the one that looked like mine (and no, I am not the girl pictured.)
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Great memory. I had forgotten all about those cardboard fireplaces. My parents actually did have a fireplace that they burned to help heat the house. I remember huge lumps of coal that lasted all day then Mom banked the fire at night
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Here's one more for the holidays. My mom was not that crafty, but years ago making a "gum drop tree" was a thing. I've seen modern ones that are washable, hygenic, molded plastic, but back in the day you would just find some likely twig from outdoors and jam some gum drops on the branches and, like the pic I found, simulate some snow around the base with a few cotton balls from the medicine cabinet. Good times.
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Anybody else have Swedish Angel Chimes growing up? (hmmm, the picture will not go through)
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Minus Two--is this what you are thinking of?
I remember these, but I never knew they had a particular name!
Elimar--amazing the things we used to do and still survived! Love the gum drop tree, so pretty.
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Yup - thanks NM.
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