But us old farts still have half the shit on the list.
Check it out for a walk through the 60s and 70s.


https://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/how-to-tell-if-youre-old

Quote from: Solar on December 03, 2020, 03:19:40 PM
But us old farts still have half the shit on the list.
Check it out for a walk through the 60s and 70s.


https://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/how-to-tell-if-youre-old

Tell ya what, Solar, we may have not been a smarter country back then, but we certainly were a lot wiser.

Need to go rest for a while, using that washboard gave me a workout. 

Quote from: WMK on February 10, 2021, 12:56:57 PM
Tell ya what, Solar, we may have not been a smarter country back then, but we certainly were a lot wiser.

Need to go rest for a while, using that washboard gave me a workout. 

The chalk holder gave me the longest pause, then I remembered in 2-3rd grade, that's the thing the teacher used to draw the parallel lines on the board for learning cursive exercises, and musical notes.  3 lines for cursive, 5 for music.

Quote from: WMK on February 10, 2021, 12:56:57 PM
Tell ya what, Solar, we may have not been a smarter country back then, but we certainly were a lot wiser.

Need to go rest for a while, using that washboard gave me a workout. 

LOL! Mom used to make me do that on the back porch when I was 4, though, I think it was just to keep me occupied. I had no strength to wash clothes, but I tried.
Then dad came home with a 5th gen hand me down hand wringer washer, got my fingers caught in the roller, that was the last time I was allowed around it. Good times...

Quote from: Hoofer on March 13, 2021, 10:10:02 AM
The chalk holder gave me the longest pause, then I remembered in 2-3rd grade, that's the thing the teacher used to draw the parallel lines on the board for learning cursive exercises, and musical notes.  3 lines for cursive, 5 for music.

I learned early on how not to get picked to write on the chalk board. I'd grab that chalk and S C R E E C H!!!!!
No, Tommy, you hold it like this. OK, Got It! S C R E E C H!!!!! NOOOO, Like This....

OK Teach, I get it now... S C R E E C H!!!!!

Never mind, sit down. Yes, I drove the class nuts.

Quote from: Solar on March 13, 2021, 11:24:17 AM
LOL! Mom used to make me do that on the back porch when I was 4, though, I think it was just to keep me occupied. I had no strength to wash clothes, but I tried.
Then dad came home with a 5th gen hand me down hand wringer washer, got my fingers caught in the roller, that was the last time I was allowed around it. Good times...

I still have my Grandma's kettle that was in the carport. We would build a fire under it out of corncobs to heat up water so she could wash clothes in her wringer washer, at first it was a hand crank, later a electric and later still a modern one that was moved into the house. That old kettle was used for hot water for washing clothes, butchering hogs, and plucking chickens. Mom had a washing machine, but no dryer until I was a teenager.  You're right, I did not realize it at the time, but those were good times.   Sure wish I had the old wringer washer.

Quote from: Possum on March 13, 2021, 02:59:14 PM
I still have my Grandma's kettle that was in the carport. We would build a fire under it out of corncobs to heat up water so she could wash clothes in her wringer washer, at first it was a hand crank, later a electric and later still a modern one that was moved into the house. That old kettle was used for hot water for washing clothes, butchering hogs, and plucking chickens. Mom had a washing machine, but no dryer until I was a teenager.  You're right, I did not realize it at the time, but those were good times.   Sure wish I had the old wringer washer.

I've kept an eye out over the years, they really did do a great job, better than the spin cycle of most washers. I used to put my pants on as soon as mom ran them through the wringer in the summer, kept you cool for awhile.

Quote from: Solar on March 13, 2021, 11:27:53 AM
I learned early on how not to get picked to write on the chalk board. I'd grab that chalk and S C R E E C H!!!!!
No, Tommy, you hold it like this. OK, Got It! S C R E E C H!!!!! NOOOO, Like This....

OK Teach, I get it now... S C R E E C H!!!!!

Never mind, sit down. Yes, I drove the class nuts.

Had been assigned to clean the chalk board, 'cause I was tall.   All that nasty chalk... just sitting in the tray... waiting for me to sprinkle a few drops of water on each one...  Pretty much ended that nonsense.

Quote from: Solar on March 13, 2021, 03:16:15 PM
I've kept an eye out over the years, they really did do a great job, better than the spin cycle of most washers. I used to put my pants on as soon as mom ran them through the wringer in the summer, kept you cool for awhile.

11 of us kids, gave mom plenty of crank power.   And there I was, trying to get the clothes to go in straight, fingers running into those rollers, "MOM!!!  Billy needs something else to do!!!"

Quote from: Hoofer on March 13, 2021, 04:03:25 PM
11 of us kids, gave mom plenty of crank power.   And there I was, trying to get the clothes to go in straight, fingers running into those rollers, "MOM!!!  Billy needs something else to do!!!"

That was me!

Quote from: Hoofer on March 15, 2021, 03:51:16 PM