I did stop using peddle pushers for capri pants and thongs for flip flops so you can teach some old dogs new tricks!
My Grandmother is 89 and uses some strange sayings
My hair is must
It is very close out
she also calls Kmart - Kmarts & Walmalt - Walmarts
I see a whole lot of shape-wear but no old-fashioned slips. I must not be looking in the right place. I didn't think anyone wore them anymore.
Hassock - a free standing foot stool/rest - hubby calls these this - I had NEVER heard them called that before!
Sideboard
My grandmother had a breezeway and my other grandmother had the same but called it a mudroom.
I just had to recently explain what I meant when I said we used to "listen to 45's" to a friends 10 year old daughter. Boy that made me feel old.
I reckon so.
gonna mosey along now. (too many clint eastwood movies this weekend)
downtown
neat
gee willikers
holy cow <----
dont be a nilly
thats bad man
I bought a 1/2 slip just this summer at JC Penney! They had lots of them (full, 1/2 in different lenghts) in white, black, beige...so they are still out there. Although my DD still thinks they are old fashioned!
I may be making a Coke verus Pepsi argument, but Sasparilla is actually a different drink that Root Beer. Root Beer is flavored with with Sassafras too, Sasparilla is not.
I never hear anyone call a couch a davenport anymore, do you?
And what about luncheon, instead of just plain lunch?
What other words are old-fashioned sounding that you just don't hear much anymore, or at all?
I know this word is still used, but it feels and sounds very old fashion to me when I hear it - Folks. I imagine a man from the 1950's with a pipe in his hand and a tan sweater saying that word, lol.
We use it still very often.foyer, we pronounced it four-yer
It was what my parents called the inside hall of their apartment. I’ve never heard anyone else use that word.