Bring back the good o' days, Things ..........

[imsayin]

Getting the roof of your mouth cut to shreds by Quisp, King Vitamin or some other cereal that had the guts to admit that sugar was it's primary ingredient

You mean Sugar Pops, Sugar Coated Corn Flakes, Sugar Crisp, and Sugar Smacks? No need to even read the ingredients on those.

 

[KJF]

Boy, am I feeling old right now!!!!

I remember thinking it was "cool" to carry a big comb in your back pocket for your feather-cut hairstyle! (girls)

That was, of course, before you discovered how to use a curling iron!

And back then, we couldn't even make lists like this because there were no computers!

 

[AlexWyattMommy]

I remember when "painter's" pants were cool. You could carry your big handled comb in the side leg pocket. I remember my first pair I bought myself. $14.00 and sky blue.

 

[NeedaVacation03]

I love this post. Thanks to the OP

I remember wearing the Candies style shoes like Olivia Newton-John wore in
Grease.
Going to my grandparents in upstate New York and spending the whole day out with my cousins friends, because my cousin said they were "ok". I was only 10.
Never calling boys on the phone, cuz "good girls" didnt do that.
Sitting on the lawn at the high school during lunch and one of the cool guys" crossed the street and turned on the stereo in his car for us to listen to.
Thinking that Footloose was one of the best movies ever. Gotta love Kevin Bacon
No meant no and your dad wasnt changing his mind no matter what you said.
Filling a jar with lightening bugs and watching them light up the glass.
My mom made most of our clothes and getting store bought ones was a BIG
deal.
My first pair of real sneakers came from Kmart and no one thought anything about it.
We had to actually talk to people face to face, because text messaging wasnt even thought of.

 

[MUFFYCAT]

TV's with only 5 channels and a snowy PBS station.
no air conditioners
Playing Barbies with just the carrying case. No houses, cars, etc.
Buffalo sandals from Thom McCann's
bleached jeans

 

[mommiepoppins]

I read this an hour ago and i have not thinking about it - so here is my reply.
I remember all the things listed, my fondest memory is when i was going into 9th grade, riding my bike across town( 8 miles) to get to the quarry to swim when it opened at 10am, and stay all day everyday of summer, then riding my bike back home do be home in time for dinner. I gasp at that thought now that i am older, & Lazy LOL

but the reason i have thought about this post since i read it an hour ago is WHY is it so hard to let our children do the same things we did?? I am not looking for a debate, but i am unsure i would let my DD who is 15 ride her bike to the quarry? why is it that once we are parents, we are afraid to let our children explore and have a great summer?
I also have an 8 YO that i worry about constantly.......where she is, is she hurt....etc. WHY>?
seems like a double standard and it's driving me nutz......I used to ride my bike all over, all day and really i must admit I had 2 run in's with cars ( no serious injury) but my mom still let me ride my bike around the block. Again i GASP when DD8 ask's to ride around the block ( i see visions of cars in the alley not stopping )

am i an uptight mom? I don't want to be

I here ya! I had a fit when my brother recently dropped my dd 15 and her cousin at 6 flags for the day. . I also would not drop off my 10 year old at the pool for the entire day like my parents did.

 

[Ciciwoowoo]

I grew up in a country setting, and my nearest neighbor was about 1/4 mile away. Still, we would walk down that dark dirt road together at the end of every night to the halfway point, and then we would both run like heck to get home before the ghosts got us!

We used to play hide and seek in the cornfields. So much fun!!!

I could spend days just picking wildflowers from the fields. Laying in the grass and watching clouds.

Riding bikes with the neighbors about 2 miles each way to the local corner store.

Now, I'm afraid when my 10 year old son goes and plays at our neighborhood's playground area. Its near the road and I think of how easy it would be for someone to stop and grab him. Things really do stink now.

 

[MissBubbles]

Remember when
*You didn't have to take out a loan to get something from the Ice Cream Man? I loved Bomb Pops - both the red, white and blue ones as well as the brown (fudge), yellow (banana) and white one (pineapple? coconut? - I don't remember).

* We didn't wear helmets to ride our bike and our playgrounds were on asphalt and every summer, every kid had skinned knees, shins and elbows. I still have a visable scar on my knee from falling off my bike when I was on a gravel path and it's been over 30 years ago.

* No one worried about salmonella or food poisoning. It's a wonder we didn't die because my mom always defrosted meat on the kitchen counter all day/night.

* Playing outside - we hated to come back into the house. And I don't remember having air conditioning either (I was born in 1965).

*Looking forward to the Wizard of Oz, Ten Commandments, Wonderful World of Disney, Friday Fright Night (with our host, Seymour), Saturday morning cartoons and the Saturday morning Sci Fi movie (always some kind of Godzilla type movie).

Memories......may they always be good ones, right?

 

[njcarita]

I remember when "painter's" pants were cool. You could carry your big handled comb in the side leg pocket. I remember my first pair I bought myself. $14.00 and sky blue.

what a memory this dug up!!!!!!!!!

First week I was dating my now husband--
I dragged him to Bloomingdales to go shopping-- couldn't stand his clothes

I still remember the pants I made him buy-- A pair of BLUE painters pants-- went fab with his white capezios

 

[SUZCRUISE]

Rubber "flatsy" dolls
I had only 1 count em 1 Barbie.. and she swam in the sink and didn't have a house.
clogs, Dr Scholls exercise sandles
peasant blouses and tiered skirts... I wanted to be Stevie Nicks.
long straight hair
close & play phonograph
"footsie" - you put around your ankle and it had a string with a plastic bell and you spun it fast and jumped over it.
Jarts
Pez for church
Penny candy... you could get a whole bag for 25 cents!
pixie sticks, pop rocks, Cracker jacks with decent prizes
fizz.. you dropped into water and it flavored it.
Pop came in bottles tasted so good... had to share 1 bottle with 2 brothers and it was considered dessert!
We tied yarn around our wrist then around our middle finger and if a boy broke it he was supposed to kiss ya!
Going outside in the morning and not coming home til dark... in the heat imagine it.
We tied the seat belts in knots so they would buzz and we didn't wear them.
bananna seat bikes and riding others on the handle bars
monkey bars real high ones.
Actually having most pools deep enough to dive with diving boards!
roller skates that we metal with keys to tighten
black and white tv with only 3 or 4 channels(ok don't miss that)
Donny Osmond, David Cassidy, Leif Garret, Shawn Cassidy, Barry Manilow what was I thinking? Tigger beat magazine.
Kissing gloss, we'd put on an inch thick! & Lip smackers..
Roller skating at the rink on Saturday night.

 

[dturner]

"We were born to mothers who smoked and drank
Our cribs were covered in lead-based paint
No childproof lids
No seatbelts in cars
Rode bikes with no helmets
and still here we are
Still here we are

We got daddy's belt when we misbehaved
Had three TV channels you got up to change
No video games and no satellite
All we had were friends and they were outside
Playing outside

School always started the same everyday
the pledge of allegiance, then someone would pray
not every kid made the team when they tried
We got disappointed but that was alright
We turned out alright

No bottled water
We'd drink from a garden hose
And every Sunday,
All the stores were closed.

It was a different life
When we were boys and girls
Not just a different time
It was a different world"



I'm not so sure about some of these- we had an Atari and Activision and we were never hit with a belt, but alot rings true.

That's Bucky Covington's (American Idol) hit single!!

I loved click-clacks - haven't thought about them in a very long time.

We also played on the railroad tracks and in the woods without parents and stayed outside until dark - no one ever worried about us.

Also drank out of the garden hose and dug caves in the 6 feet of snow we would have.

 

[mommiepoppins]

Do you recall the barbie that kissed? You pressed a button on her back

 

[akmom]

The ones we had were slightly smaller than golf-balls I believe.

And how about lawn jarts?????? Definitely a no-go now!!!

My cousins and I played lawn jarts all the time at my grandparents house! LOL

 

[pigletof4]

never heard of lawn jarts--
but I lived in NYC when I was a kid-- we had no grass to play on.

I googled it cause I was curious---
says they were banned for manufacturing and resale in the United States.

How could I have missed playing with them growing up????

We had these as kids and used to throw them straight into the air and into a tree. I'm surprised we're still alive.

 

[trulygoofy]

I just went through a Suds car wash and remembered the robowash where we drove in like at Suds, but it had the big brushes. My kids would really love one of those.
I remember the drive though movie and watching the movie that was playing on the screen behind us and wishing that I could hear that one instead.
We did have monkey bars at school and they were over asphalt. We also had a big tower that we climbed up on...over asphalt of course.
When I was little there were no drive through windows and we had to walk in to get our fast food...even in the rain! I remember when the two windows first went in at fast food places around here. Wow...one to pay and one to get the food.
And then I remember when I started noticing four commercials in a row on TV instead of three. Now I can't remember what I was watching by the time the commercials are over!

 

[akmom]

I read this an hour ago and i have not thinking about it - so here is my reply.
I remember all the things listed, my fondest memory is when i was going into 9th grade, riding my bike across town( 8 miles) to get to the quarry to swim when it opened at 10am, and stay all day everyday of summer, then riding my bike back home do be home in time for dinner. I gasp at that thought now that i am older, & Lazy LOL

but the reason i have thought about this post since i read it an hour ago is WHY is it so hard to let our children do the same things we did?? I am not looking for a debate, but i am unsure i would let my DD who is 15 ride her bike to the quarry? why is it that once we are parents, we are afraid to let our children explore and have a great summer?
I also have an 8 YO that i worry about constantly.......where she is, is she hurt....etc. WHY>?
seems like a double standard and it's driving me nutz......I used to ride my bike all over, all day and really i must admit I had 2 run in's with cars ( no serious injury) but my mom still let me ride my bike around the block. Again i GASP when DD8 ask's to ride around the block ( i see visions of cars in the alley not stopping )

am i an uptight mom? I don't want to be

I'm reading all these posts asking myself the same questions. It makes me so sad that my kids days are not just carefree, ride bikes all day, do as you pleased fun days. There are never kids just out playing in our neighborhood. It's so weird to me to never see kids out! Yet, I'm so protective myself, as I only ever let DS8 ride his bike to the end of the sidewalk and back!

 

[mrsbornkuntry]

I'm reading all these posts asking myself the same questions. It makes me so sad that my kids days are not just carefree, ride bikes all day, do as you pleased fun days. There are never kids just out playing in our neighborhood. It's so weird to me to never see kids out! Yet, I'm so protective myself, as I only ever let DS8 ride his bike to the end of the sidewalk and back!

I agree. We're on an Army post so my neighborhood is a little more relaxed than a civilian one, but still not like when we were young.

I remember delivering cherries, cucumbers, and other food from our garden to various neighbors and waiting while they washed the bowl for me to return to my Mom.

I was allowed one can of pop a week, a reward for helping deliver newspapers with my sister.

Friday night was popcorn night popped in my Mom's air popper with TONS of butter. We at it watching Webster and Miami Vice .

My parents watched the news every night (I avoid it in my house, too much violence and war news for my family).

I left the school every day to walk home for lunch, then went back for recess (until someone tried to talk me into getting into their van, very scary ).

If you misbehaved in school you were sent to the principal's office and everyone left in the class assumed you were getting a spanking so most kids were scared to get sent to the office.

I had those darn rubber snow boots that went on over your shoes, it took me FOREVER to get them on and off by myself.

Boomboxes, making up dances to Madonna's "Material Girl" and Micheal Jackson was popular

 

[marcyinPA]

I agree. We're on an Army post so my neighborhood is a little more relaxed than a civilian one, but still not like when we were young.

I remember delivering cherries, cucumbers, and other food from our garden to various neighbors and waiting while they washed the bowl for me to return to my Mom.

I was allowed one can of pop a week, a reward for helping deliver newspapers with my sister.

Friday night was popcorn night popped in my Mom's air popper with TONS of butter. We at it watching Webster and Miami Vice .

My parents watched the news every night (I avoid it in my house, too much violence and war news for my family).

I left the school every day to walk home for lunch, then went back for recess (until someone tried to talk me into getting into their van, very scary ).

If you misbehaved in school you were sent to the principal's office and everyone left in the class assumed you were getting a spanking so most kids were scared to get sent to the office.

I had those darn rubber snow boots that went on over your shoes, it took me FOREVER to get them on and off by myself.

Boomboxes, making up dances to Madonna's "Material Girl" and Micheal Jackson was popular

I had those kind of snow boots too. They were red. I don't know if it was just the kids in my neighborhood or what (our mom's must have thought it was a good idea ....), but our mom's made us put our feet in plastic bags first, then the boots. I can remember my mom using bread bags when the Wonder Bread was gone (ooooh, she was a recycler back then!). When we got to school, we had to clip the boots together with a clippie clothespin with our name on it.

 

[disnutt]

You mean Sugar Pops, Sugar Coated Corn Flakes, Sugar Crisp, and Sugar Smacks? No need to even read the ingredients on those.

Yeah, those are the ones! Yum!

 

[me again]

I remember sleepovers! Without fear of lawsuits, wrongful charges of sexual misconduct, etc which keep me from allowing sleepovers in my home (I really don't need a lawsuit right now, thank you!)

Playing volleyball in a neighbor's yard, broke my finger, didn't sue the neighbor, just paid our own medical bills, accidents can happen!