I Remember...

[jacks]

I remember when I thought someone who was 30, was old!

 

[RoBo1988]

I remember when there were only 2 flavors of Doritos - Taco, and the "new" Nacho Cheese flavor. When my kids were small (80's) Cool Ranch was new.

 

[mourningdove~]

I remember when everything was ironed ... including the bed sheets!

 

[RoBo1988]

Thought this might make for a fun thread. Post things you remember from way back when.

I remember the time before microwave ovens. When we got pizza, the cardboard box had re-heating instructions, and it took 20 to 30 minutes to re-heat a couple of leftover slices. Now it takes 30 seconds.

I remember when soda cans were opened by pulling off these:

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People would litter and throw them on the ground, and it would hurt if you were walking around barefoot in the summer and stepped on one.

The pop top was developed by a tool and die maker, close to my hometown; Dayton Ohio. Story was, he was at a picnic, and didn't have a can opener for his beer. Necessity, the mother of invention.

 

[Chesterton]

I remember when there were only 2 flavors of Doritos - Taco, and the "new" Nacho Cheese flavor. When my kids were small (80's) Cool Ranch was new.

I remember the first time I ever heard of something having ranch flavor, I wondered "what does a ranch taste like"?

 

[RoBo1988]

I remember the first time I ever heard of something having ranch flavor, I wondered "what does a ranch taste like"?

I think the Hidden Valley people started the whole "ranch" flavor business.

 

[joymercy]

I remember Adorn Hairspray and going to the grocery store for it so that mom could make her beehive!

 

[mourningdove~]

I remember when kitchen tables looked like this:

 

[Chesterton]

I remember when kitchen tables looked like this:

I still have a very similar kitchen table. A little bigger, but the same pink-ish color. There's a tablecloth on top to hide it. It still functions fine as a table, so I've not found any reason to replace it.

 

[mourningdove~]

I still have a very similar kitchen table. A little bigger, but the same pink-ish color. There's a tablecloth on top to hide it. It still functions fine as a table, so I've not found any reason to replace it.

Cool!

 

[mourningdove~]

I remember making pot holders.

 

[Rescued One]

LOL! I definitely remember those. They sold them forever.

 

[mourningdove~]

I remember these snow socks.
We wore them inside our boots (over our socks) to keep our feet dry!

 

[Rescued One]

I didn't have any snow boots. Every other year we lived in Florida, and my siblings and I never played in the snow. But in the seventies someone gave me a rug crocheted of bread wrappers!

 

[mourningdove~]

But in the seventies someone gave me a rug crocheted of bread wrappers!

Wow! Very creative!

 

[mourningdove~]

I remember taking one of my younger sisters to have breakfast with the 'Easter Bunny', but fortunately he looked nothing like this bunny!

 

[mourningdove~]

I remember these floor tiles so well ... seemed to be everywhere!

 

[Chesterton]

I remember these floor tiles so well ... seemed to be everywhere!

I remember we had the avocado colored refrigerator, and a matching oven.

 

[mourningdove~]

I remember we had the avocado colored refrigerator, and a matching oven.

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We did, too!
We didn't intentionally buy them, but 'inherited' them with the house that we bought.

So I wonder where all those avocado colored appliances ended up ... there were so many of them!!
And I wonder if 'avocado' will ever return again, as trends do tend to do?
Well, I know this much ... I'm not planning their return to my house!

 

[bniffty24]

I remember when everything was ironed ... including the bed sheets!

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We asked our mother why she ironed underpants and socks because nobody will ever see them , and her answer was well what if you get run over by a bus , still trying to figure that one out .....