pilgrimgal said:Dear friend. Thank you for telling me about this thread and welcome back. Happy Easter too.
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Hi, good to see you. And welcome to Golden Eagles.
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Hi, good to see you. And welcome to Golden Eagles.
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Larry_Fout said:Welcome Back Birdfriend...
Thanks. It is good to be home. But it is raining right now and snowed this morning.
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McWilliams said:
Just a reminder to all...this thread is for posting memories and chit chat about that, and we don't want to get too far off topic with the rhymes and jokes.
You can always start another thread for those. 
birdfriend...thread starter.
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Jeremiah 29:11 It's good!
Do you remember the first time you baby sat? I do. I took care of four children and got paid 50 cents an hour.
And one summer I got a $1.00 an hour for taking care of one little boy. I thought I was really in the money.
I wonder how much baby sitter's get paid now.
And one summer I got a $1.00 an hour for taking care of one little boy. I thought I was really in the money.
I wonder how much baby sitter's get paid now.
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pilgrimgal said:Do you remember the first time you baby sat? I do. I took care of four children and got paid 50 cents an hour.
And one summer I got a $1.00 an hour for taking care of one little boy. I thought I was really in the money.
I wonder how much baby sitter's get paid now.
My first baby sitting job I got only .25 cents an hour, but as close as I can remember that was in 1950. It seems like my daughter paid a sitter around $3.00 a couple years ago,but not sure how much sitters get now by the hour.
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We used to sit around at night when it was very dark outside and try it scare one another. I won't tell any of the stories but one was concerning a thing known as the boogie man (I don't think he was a jazz artist) but I'm pretty sure he was big, furry and made from chocolate 
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Oh wow Larry, that really triggered a long suppressed memory!!
Very long ago when we went in the summer to visit my grandparents in Dallas we would sit around at night outside telling scary stories. My older brother could really tell a spiel and scare me out of my wits! I remember one that all of us have heard for years I'm sure that goes: 'Hes on the first step, hes on the second step, hes in the hallway' and on and on slowly building a crescendo to my fragile nervous system until he would scream, 'Hes gotcha' and lunge toward me! All the neighborhood kids would scream only to repeat the same ole story with the same 'startling' finale!! So hilarious to think of now! The lightning bugs would be flittering as it got dark and it was truly something out of a horror movie for me!! Poor little kiddo!! LOL
Very long ago when we went in the summer to visit my grandparents in Dallas we would sit around at night outside telling scary stories. My older brother could really tell a spiel and scare me out of my wits! I remember one that all of us have heard for years I'm sure that goes: 'Hes on the first step, hes on the second step, hes in the hallway' and on and on slowly building a crescendo to my fragile nervous system until he would scream, 'Hes gotcha' and lunge toward me! All the neighborhood kids would scream only to repeat the same ole story with the same 'startling' finale!! So hilarious to think of now! The lightning bugs would be flittering as it got dark and it was truly something out of a horror movie for me!! Poor little kiddo!! LOL
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Hackett said:
Hi Hackett...Oh, yes, thanks for sharing this wonderful memory. When I was a kid growing up in the mid-west we used to collect them putting them in jars. They gave off glow like a weak flashlight. Then we moved West where there were none. And everafter when referred to people out there called them fireflies.
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leytonstones said:OK, do you remember when your pocket money was 5 shillings a week?
I don't know how dollars compare to shillings...but when I was in High School...if I had $2.00 I was rich.
I don't ever remember having my own money to spend before High School.
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Mom paid me $l.25 a week to vaccum and do some of the housework. I don't know how much that is in shillings???
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Grass cutting, hedge trimming and general yard work were my duties. I'm not sure of the wage. Also had a little bicycle shop where I repaired some of the neighborhood kid's bikes. I think a schilling is 1 1/2 to 5 cents depending on the time frame?
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five shillings would have been about a dollar then, so there were about $4 to £1.
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I loved the Perry Mason T.V. series. Before that I used to read the Perry Mason case mystery books by Eryle Stanley Gardner. Night before last there was an old Perry Mason show on the Hallmark channel. This one was in color and one of the two hour specials Raymond Burr made a few years before his death. And, of course, Della Street, was at his side. Help me out here...the actress who played Dellla..was Barbara (can't remember the last name.) ??? Thanks!
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