the good Old Days ( age yourself)

what do you remember being different when you were young?


I remember no remote for the tv OMG and it was black and white we had to get up and walk all the way across the room to change the channel

I remember my mom saying she would never have a microwave that was for lazy people


so  share  how technology. etc...has changed since the good old days

[jollyman069]

I remember we could leave our doors unlocked, and not worry about it

Me and my brothers could play outside and not worry about some pervert taking one of us

Getting 3 channels on the TV...that was on a good night....lol

Ane we respected are parents and elders

[dominosarah]

I remember the milkman delivering milk to the house in glass bottles with the tin foil on the top.......my mom left a sign in the window stating how many bottles she wanted and he came in the house and put them in the refrig.  Same with the dry cleaners.....

Having only 2 channels on the black and white tv and if it was stormy nothing came in!!

We had to find our own entertainment as kids.......no electronics!!

Banana bike with a front basket!!

Wearing shorts under our dresses or skirts!!!!!!!!

[Cherie762]

sarah I remember the milkman too lol

brian true that about respecting elders

I remember getting a crack on the gluteous maximus for being bad in school hard w a paddle!

[tbabi20]

I can't say I grew up in the old days but I know theirs things we'll never get to experience ever again.

Like I remember:
.....when Saturday morning cartoons were the shyt!! TRANSFORMERS & X-MEN
..... (my parents could more understand this) when you could ride for almost two weeks on ten dollars of gas
......when kids actually played OUTSIDE
......when being a virgin was praised and not ridiculed
......when women's jeans covered their bum
......hotcombs: the sound/pain of sizzling grease sliding down your ear knowing you better not move
....Feeling connected to the Spice Girls!! :D ahahaha
....big brown cable box that sat on top of the TV you had to get up and push the buttons on
.....blowing in my Nintendo cartridges to get them to work
...when i was too scared to watch nightmare on elmstreet and candyman
....I carried all my music around on tapes and CDs
....Having to turn off everything in the house when a thunderstorm rolled through
....Floppy Disks
....not knowing who was calling until you answered the phone
....jelly shoes
… printer paper had thick blue and white strips and holes on the side
....penny candies
....when VHS tapes when they got tangled in the player
...good music: rakim, slick rick, run dmc lol wow...

Most of these are actually technology. I'm sure theirs a ton more but whatever... this is what i've come up with  :D

[TrudieC]

Going to the library for all your research for school.

Riding your bike or walking to school - now most kids take a bus or get driven by parents.

Being free to explore the world with no concerns for 'the bad guys'

Taking the bus for a quarter.

Watching old movies on Sunday morning - Shirley Temple, Ma Kettle, Three Stooges, etc.  After dinner on Sunday's it was Guy Lombardo, Hee Haw, Laugh In and Carol Burnett.

The family getting all dressed up to go to the first McDonald's in town - they didn't know what fast food was!

Spending an hour to make my hair look like Farrah Fawcett's, only to have it melt shortly thereafter.

Typing (on a typewriter) financial statements, tax returns and letters in my first job out of high school.  Carbon paper and white out!

[teko]

Cloth diapers and plastic pants. No pampers! My kids were all potty trained by the ripe old age of 2. I have a daughter with a 4 year old in diapers! NO WAY!

Black and white television, no remote

Kids played outside back then! Got the neighbors together and everyone played baseball in the empty lot on the corner.

You respected your parents or didnt live to tell about it! Now its free expression is healthy.

Someone that had sex before marriage was a ho

Telephones were hooked into the wall and only had one bell! Or ring to it.

Cars were built for safety and you never heard of seat belts? Or helmets for bicycles!

Wow! I wonder how we survived?

Oh and my favorite! Wringer washers!

[peggy64]

I remember families leaving out on Sunday morning going to church. Now most stay home.

I remember 8 track tapes.

we went barefoot in the summer.

We ate what was served to us, and did not fuss because it was not what we wanted to have.

clothes hung out to dry.

going to grandparents house Sunday afternoons.

families getting together more than at Christmas.

meals were eaten at the table, instead of in front of the TV

blessing said before meals.

Lay-a-way for school clothes and Christmas time

[heatherlynn22]

nobody had computers....yet (lol now we have 2 working on #3)
only 1 tv in the house (we have 3, my mom has 5)
vhs tapes
walkmans
nintendo (not nintendo64, wii, or anything just plain old nintendo)
playing outside
sunday dinner at grandmas house
being able to play outside and not have to worry about kids being kidnapped or drive by shootings
gas was $1.00
everyone looked out for everyone else
we didn't have to lock our doors

[dominosarah]

remember running the diaper pins thru your hair to make them easier to get thru the double diaper at night and stabbing your brains??!!!

[teko]

Oh Yeah! And I remember having a bucket of dreft or bleach water to keep em in!  My fingers were forever sore too! lol   Oh my we sure are telling our age!

[peggy64]

I remember gas being 64cents a gallon,

[jollyman069]

I remember our groceys being delivered, mom would call in our order once a week.

watching the Beatles on Ed Sullivan show

Lyndon Johnson he would seek another term in office

the assinations of Rev.King, and Sen Kenneday

watching them bring our hero's home from Vietnam who were killed, every evenin on the news

[crabby70]

I remember running up the street to the Butcher Store....getting candy fish that were like 2 cents and they werent in bags...

[peggy64]

I remember the book mobile coming around.

I remember penny candy, now it is 10 pennies.

[gokuangel]

I'm right there with Tbabi..! Those are the things i remember! And yes cartoons were the sh$t then!! Now you can't find Sh$it on TV LOL!! I loved TV from the 90's and i so miss it i have a hard time finding something i like nowdays!!
We did used to have to entertain ourselves by going outside to play! we did get a nintendo later and i remember playing it on so much but i remember MANY summer days outside running around trying to find something fun to do!!
Oh yes i remember Sundays dinners too lol every1 said already what i remember! We would go to church every sunday come home change and have roast and potatoes! when i call my mom now and its sunday im like darn missing out LOL!!
I remember when i was 8 and first moved to NM we didnt even have a house phone we used to pile in the car and drive to find a pay phone to use!!
and growing up in NM was fun cus it snows there and that meant schools out we lived on a hill of course every1 does all the  kids would grab their sleds to run outside and fly down the hill!! I was always so excited to get out there! Always wanted a new snow suit and a sled LOL!!

[MrS_L0PeZ]

I remember going to the movie theateres and it costed $1.50

-Beepers
-Around Holidays (X-Mas, Halloween, Thanksgiving) there were so much good movies on tv to watch
-Big old Computers with floppy disk
-For school reports and essays we had to go to the library & read books to do research - now theres internet
-Big mobile phones
-Law-a-way for Christmas & School
-Always eating home cooked meals & only going out to restaurants only on "speacial occasions"
-Penny Loafers shoes
-Couldn't take a bath when its a thunderstorm out
-Listening to music on a boom box or record player

[April2]

I didn't even learn on a computer till I went to Business school and I used a big 'ol Apple computer with no mouse. But I thought it was great! I also took a typing class there on electronic typewriters. Do they even do that anymore?!

I remember playing outside more than being inside. We'd ride our bikes all over the neighborhood, get ice cream from the ice cream truck and play hide and seek in the dark till our moms would call us in.

I remember getting our first video game system, an Atari. Remember the little blips that were the paddles and balls in the tennis game? We thought it was great!

I remember when tv still showed fairly innocent movies and shows were people were dressed nice (yes, covered!) and there was an actual story line. Remember Murder she wrote? I still like that show! And all the Hallmark movies!

And yes, the 80's DID have the best music! Although I like the 60's and 70's too. :)

[TrudieC]

I remember when we got our first microwave and we were scared of it!  We hung out our clothes on the line.  We had one phone in the house and a party line where we continually got interrupted.  If you didn't have any plans on a Saturday night as a teenager you stayed home and watched Love Boat and Fantasy Island.  We went to discos for a night out.  Our jeans were so tight we couldn't do them up or bend over.  Polyester was so un-cool.  We got perms.  We rubbed on baby oil before laying out in the sun.  We didn't use seat belts in the car - 6 kids in and rolling over each other.  No one knew the meaning of the word privacy.  You shared the bathroom, the bedroom, everything.  

[April2]

Oh my gosh, Trudie! I loved Love Boat and Fantasy Island!

I also got perms, lol. That and the flipped back, feathered hair! :)

[Jade59]

My Nana would heat up the curling iron on the stove!  My hair was very fine and straight as a small child so it took many trips to the stove to keep that curling iron hot.

Like someone above said, I remember the milk with the foil top being delivered.  We also had our bread delivered by the Helms Man.

We walked to school AND back, and rode our bikes everywhere.  

One phone in the kitchen...no privacy.  One black and white tv.  I remember my dad watching the Vietnam War on the news.  

Riding in the back of our chevy truck to the beach.  Just right up there on the wheel wells.  Can you imagine????

Hip huggers and platform shoes.  My highschool boyfriend wore heals higher than mine to our prom LOL!!

[gokuangel]

WOW! There are so many memories here reading all yalls stuff!!
Hey I used to get perms too LOL! Gosh I just hated the smell of that stinky stuff in it!!
I so remember Walk-mans i thought i was so cool when i got my first one LOL!!

Trudie-I remember the party line actually when i was very small like 5 at grandmas house there was one you could pick up the phone and sometimes there'd be some1 else on it and you couldnt use it!!

Any1 remember the funky jeans we had in the 90's? gosh cant believe i used to wear pants tight around my ankles!! I cant stand it now its flare bottoms or i cut the suckers LOL!! Or our huge sneakers we used to wear LOL!! I remember getting my first pair of LA Gears! Boy i thought i was hot stuff they were so cool then!!
i did hate the fashion of the 90's or maybe i was just too tomboy i dont remember there being cool clothes bk then! Now im all into wanting to dress nice look good clothes that fit so many cute things i see now days!

[Jade59]

Chemin de fer jeans.  Oh those were sooo cool!

When I was in grade school, girls were Not allowed to wear pants.  

Didn't learn to type until the 10th grade.  Learned "short hand" too.  

[TrudieC]

I took shorthand in high school too and was terrified when I actually had to use it in a job as it had been a couple of years.  Too much stress!

[Jade59]

Trudie - I never had to actually use shorthand at a job thank god lol, but did use it for my own benefit when taking notes from my boss in the late 80's.  I still remembered a little of it then, but today, all I remember is the symbol for the word "with."  

Did you love the timing tests?  How stressful was that!?

[dominosarah]

Oh i forgot about shorthand!!

My mother gave me the home perms....Toni i think it was!!!

Putting lemon juice in our hair to lighten it.......

Watching Ed Sullivan and Red Skelton on Sunday nights......

Gee your hair smells terrific shampoo and Jovan Musk oil.........

[Jade59]

Don't forget the hair lightener "Sun In"

[jollyman069]

leaisure suits....lol

farnkie avalon and annette funicello..beach movies

charlie brown christmas

john wayne movies where the best

[heatherlynn22]

oh i remember the penny candy!!! the little mom and pop store by my dads had a whole rack of penny candies! he'd give us each a dollar every saturday and we'd run down (yup back when a 6 and 8 year old could go down the street without fear) to the store and the old guy would hand us each a brown paper bag and we'd fill it up. that was our candy supply for the week. lol.

restaurants were only special occasions. graduations (from kindergarten, 5th, 8th and high school), birthdays and the sort except for lunch after church on sundays. then we'd go to ponderosa with the rest of congregation have lunch, head to grandmas and cook and bake (not the 20 minutes meals i'm talking full on homemade 3+ hour meals!!!) while all us kiddos changed into our jeans/shorts and t shirts/sweaters to go play outside until we were called in for supper.

having a neighborhood game of tag, hide n seek going on ALL night. (well ok until 9 pm)

the blizzard of '92. my brother, mother and i made the BIGGEST snow fort!!!!

having afternoon tea every saturday with my granny. (she was a very very english woman. lol)

[dominosarah]

How about the 5 and Dimes store or Ben Franklin's to some.  They didnt have racks they were all wooden type bins......

Our clothes were sewn either by our moms or grandmas.  Sometimes we got matching dresses!!!

Sharing bath water with my brother.......GROSS!!!

[allaboutmary]

I remember hitchhiking to work.  Sometimes there were so many people hitchhiking you would have to wait in line. Can't even imagine doing something like that now.

[gokuangel]

You know I was talking to my DH about this subject and he made a good point! There is really is NOT that many commercials on TV now days for toys! Any1 else noticed? I remember there used to be TONS!! You couldnt wait for the new commercial you always wanted to see what was coming out!! I even remember my grandma had a sears catalog all the time i would browse through the toy pages probably like 100 of them just staring and staring for hours on end!!

[ChitChatNine]

I remember a designer pair of jeans cost $25-$30 ... not the 100's they are today .. then again, did I mention they never really fit me back then (or now) LOL!

C~

[Mage1970]

How about 20pound mobile phones with shoulder straps, BETA vcrs , being envious of the first kid to get a BMX , hitch hiking everywhere . People say that kids today have it so easy the reality is they've lost a hell of a lot of freedom

[Cherie762]

how about never wearing white socks cause they were not cool
Levis w the orange tag cause they were cool
and who  remembers the print on tee shirt stores all rock icons of corse

and way before that in elementary school my mom made me wear snow pants in the winter ohhh I hated that.

teachers snapping you knuckles w a ruler

everyon ust played outside all the times I learned to rollerskate w no helmet no knee pads no elbow pads and I got the scars on my knees to prove it LOL

[Jade59]

No toy commercials because the "toys" for kids today are all electronics?? :)

[ParamedFlorena]

Mmm, the way to talk has changed here at least. I remember it was a general rule about answering polite, listen instead of talk too much and you said Mr. Holt instead of "the old man". It's ethics and it's polite to address people the correct way but these days you talk like you send a text-message!

[April2]

That's a pet peeve of mine too. It seems that teenagers can't spell, speak or write properly anymore. They may think it makes them look cool but it makes them look ignorant.
And does it bother anyone else to have kids call you by your first name? I haven't said anything to my friends but I have a couple of friends who didn't really ask me, they just told their kids to call me April, I guess, instead of Mrs. so and so. It just feels weird to have a 10 year old, or even a 16 year old for that matter, call me by my first name! I guess I'm getting old!

[gokuangel]

I know huh? remember how we were always dying to get outside to do something! I used to go climb trees looking for a secret place! Even found me a pre built tree house once LOL!!
Oh i was so thinking you know what i remember the Skip-It toy any1 remember that? I bet Heather does LOL! I wanted that toy thing so bad and my mom wouldnt get it cus it cost 10$ too much according to her! So i was stuck with the alternate trend doing it with my dollar hoola hoop!! HAHA!!

[deebelle3]

not locking the door at nite

staying out and playing without fear

climbing the neighbors trees

penny candy

"I remember Mama" and "Ozzie and Harriet"  and all those other beloved shows

[deebelle3]

oh, and staying up till midnite and the tv playing the star spangled banner and then going off the air!!

[sunshine1976]

I remember...........
Barefoot summers with no sunscreen.
Going to my Granny's for Saturday lunch with the WHOLE family.
I remember naps on the back porch while Grandad listened to the Doger's game on the AM Radio.
I remember when the front yard felt as big as a forest.
I remember when you knew your neighbors and their parents and their kids and maybe a second cousin too.
I remember how good a PB&J tasted after a day of swimming at the plunge.
I remember pay phones.
I remember home hair cuts.
I remember home made clothes.
I remember home grown food.
I remember home canned pickles.
I remember how good the rain smelled when it actually hit dirt instead of concrete.

[peggy64]

I remember when people had manners and used courtesy to others. I really miss that. Now a days, you rarely hear thank you, please, can I help you with that?

[caregiver222]

I remember...

Riding Peter Witt trolley cars and PCC's, watching the last  wagon with a four-horse team hauling freight off the docks, firing a real steam engine. Shooting a.22 in the well-equipped basement range of my high school, and leaving the rifle with ammunition in the back of the classroom during history class. Qualifying with the Springfield.

[iam1butterfly]

paying $0.68 for a gallon of gas in 1974... for under $5 bucks, I could fill the tank of my
''72 VW Super Beetle.... and I thought, at the time, that the gas prices were a rip off!

[guessagain]

Full service gas stations, I worked at one. All gas was leaded, only regular or premium starting at 36.8 cents a gallon, and gas prices went up and down by 1 or 2 tenths of a cent. Customers got all their windows cleaned, tires, oil, and all other fluids checked, then the attendant would scurry away to the building and return with change or a credit card receipt to sign. Customers didn't even get out of the car.

Cigarette machines and the minors that would wait for the opportune moment to use it for 50 cents.

Pop came out the machine in a 10 oz. glass bottle.

Those stupid drink machines that would drop a paper cup and fill with your selection, providing you got the cup straightened out in time.

Every home equipped with a number of designs of bottle and can openers because pull tabs didn't exist yet.    

[dominosarah]

Did any of your mothers rake their shag carpet?  My mother would rake every Saturday and then we werent allowed to walk on it.....

[Lonelymom]

I remember having to be home before the street light came on.
I remember playing football in the street with a neighborhood full of kids and their parents.Playing baseball in an empty lot with everyone.
I remember being outside from the time I woke up until the street light came on.
I remember playing cops and robbers and sticks were our guns and we held on to the robbers hands.
I also remember Atari and when nintendo came out my mom saying how expensive it was and a waste of money.
I remember the old lady across the street would watch us thru her window and if we acted up she would call our mother's and we would get spanked for it.
I remember having to repesect every adult in our neighborhood and at any time we could get our butts whooped by one if we did something wrong.


Now I can say my children still call adults Mrs. or Mr. and they always have to respond with yes maam or yes sir when spoken to. I am raising my kids with respect!!!

[Lonelymom]

Oh and I also remember going barefoot all summer long. My feet would be solid black at night!

I also remember me and my friends taking baths together when they spent the night. That was in elementary though.

I remember being allowed to go to K-mart down the street from where I lived and spending my allowance on a barbie and it only cost a $1.00. Or going to the convenience store and buying one cent candy. Or the tootisie roll pop suckers with the star on the wrapper meant you got a free sucker.

[Jade59]

I remember Don Kirshner's Rock Concert in the early 70's and being able to stay up til midnight occasionally to watch it.  My most vivid memory is the Stones playing "Angie."

I also loved American Bandstand...

[Myown]

I remember when I was a kid going to the store and buying penny candy. The store owner would have to stand there and pick out 50 cents worth of candy for each of us. Looking back, he had must of had a halo around his head to stand there and wait for us to make up our mind, 2 of this and 3 of that etc..

I also remember those straws with pure sugar in them - lick -o-maid and we would pour that sugar in our mouth. Not exactly healthy eating, but our mothers let us have it cause I guess they didn't think eating all that sugar was all that bad as we now know.

[HelpinUtah]

I remember playing outside all day long and getting completely dirty and loving it!  I remember climbing trees, making mudpies for my brother to eat!  Oh, and I also remember that I never wore shoes - loved being barefoot!  We had no computers or electronics to play with and it was SO MUCH FUN!!!  LOL!!!  

I remember driving in a car without a seatbelt - they didn't exist.

I remember spending the summers at the local pool.  

I remember my father taking me to the bar with him and I would sit at the bar and all the guys in there would give me soda and candy and I was spoiled rotten.  :)

I remember my first take of Kindergarden.  Loved it!

I remember watching the Brady Bunch on television and Gilligan's Island.

I remember believing in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy.  I sometimes wish I still believed!  It was magical!

I remember if I ever spoke back to an adult I would have had my rump spanked!  

So many things to remember - good things!!!!

[margypops]

Going to as many American Movies as my parents would allow me to, screaming blue murder if they wouldnt let me, thought I was a movie star tried to dress like Monroe and adored Clark Gable, he seemed very old , but so handsome with that adorable moustache, I was truly star struck, Hollywood was all I ever thought about I never realised I would end up working there one day..

[gokuangel]

Man can't believe this post is still going so many good memories here!!
I remember singing the Achy Breaky Heart Song LOL now it sounds dorky
I remember when cell phone and even cordless didnt exists
I remember when no1 had PC in their home they were just in schools and boy i couldnt wait for pc day i wanted to color that butterfly so bad LOL!
When I was very small like 6 I would ride my bike all over my tiny town of maybe 900 people!!
I remember no digital cameras you had to wait to get that film developed!
i remember my best times at church youth group field trips lock in etc.. now days kids dont really do that stuff!!
Eating out was special then! i remember being so happy when school field trips came cus i knew my granny was gonna be all that yummy expensive food i couldnt have everyday!!
I just remember anything lil thing i got to do was special even getting to go the pool for the day! My grandma was strict with me!

[Dazon50]

I remember I Spy and The man from U.N.C.L.E. and the Wild Wild West....Lost in Space...the Monkees---Here we come.........!!!!!

Pedal pushers & going to the recreation department after school was out and swimming!  No microwave ovens, no computers, cell phones...t.v. dinners were the rage.  The Brady Bunch was cool....groovy.......what's happening, man!

Bell bottom pants and adding strips to the bottom to make them longer & cool.  The DQ was a special trip.  There wasn't a McDonalds to run to in the small town I lived in.  I enjoyed the fair & "stinker days".

Later> Outer limits, Night Gallery, Acre Creature Feature.....popcorn/snacks staying up late at night!!!!  The good ole days!  We could leave our doors unlocked and go out & play without all the perverts in full force.  Trick or Treat was at night and I loved kicking the leaves up and hearing the "crackling"...jumping in piles!!!

Jumping off the roof in the winter into 6 feet or more of snow!!!!!!!  Snow days....ahhhhhhh!    I back in the good ole days...Those were the days, my friend, we thought they'd never end....we'd sing and dance.........

:-()
D.

[Jade59]

♫...walkin' down the street ♫   I LOVED the Monkees!!!!!   They were "Far Out" :)

[Cherie762]

now that its fall, I remember the apple orchards, wed go every year buy a few dozen greasy deep fried dounuts, hey cholestrol didnt exist then my mom fried eggs in bacon grease.

so back to the orchard climbing trees, picking apples always sneaking one to eat before we payed and my mom yelling at us every time!

[Dazon50]

I remember sneaking into someone's apple tree with some friends, happily tossing down some apples, and the lady came out of the house.  I scrambled down really quick out of the tree & fled.  The apples were green and I ended up with an upset tummy later!!!!

Life seemed simpler with fireworks & 4th of July meaning more with the ooh's & aaah's.  Barbeques were fun with steak/potatoes & sour cream, corn on the cob with butter/salt.  

There were beer & cigarette commercials: Hamms Beer & Virginia slims/Marlboro
The jingles we learned...Oscar Myer Weiners that we want to be.  This was before Charlies Angels and Farah F. (may she R.I.P.).

:-)

[margypops]

My sister had an American Boyfriend he was based in the USAF base near us, she brought him home and he gave me wriggleys chewing gum by the boxful..the Dad got Whisky and Mom got perfume, oof no wonder I loved Yanks ...LOl... now I am one .....

[mami1323]

I'm sure most of what I am about to put has been said, too many to go through.  I remember before beepers existed when you would have to stay home all day just so you wouldn't miss a call.  No answering machines so if you missed a call, you missed it.  I also remember no remote control but I also remember there only being 13 channels and the programs ended at midnight.  Now you can be an insomniac because there is always something on tv.  I remember having to use a typewriter to type a paper and if you messed up, you either had to use that eraser that didn't work or you had to start over.  If you went back to type over the word it would be uneven...lol.  When you had to research for a paper, you had to go to the library because there was no internet.  I remember Atari and playing pitfall, pacman and commando.  All you had was the one joystick with the orange button.  I remember the only way to keep in touch with your friends when you were away was by writing and mailing letters.  There was no email.  It would take weeks for you to get a dang letter and you were so excited to receive one.  I remember when the most popular hairstyle was a perm...yuck.  I'm sure there are so much more can't remember right now.

[sunshine1976]

I remember that I should have had a building permit for how high my bangs were hair sprayed up. LOL It was like a giant cornflake on top of my head. Aahhh..... Aquanet.

[mami1323]

I think that was the goal, to get it as high as possible...lol.

[margypops]

Mini skirts , ...smokin a ladies cigar...skirts pencil tight with splits in the sides.,pancake make up by max Factor .....

[guessagain]

When the phone rang, it WAS somebody you wanted to talk to.
The intercom was limited only by the volume of your voice.
For those with brothers or sisters, the only phone was firmly anchored to the wall and had only a four foot cord for the handset. It was located in the busiest part of the house and if the opposite sex called, everybody knew it. Like the Cleaver house gone wrong.
People still had cars without turn signals and had to stick their arm out the window.

[sunshine1976]

Gym shorts that were so short they would not be allowed in school now!!!

[Jade59]

I remember when music didn't have any cuss words in it...

[stubby226]

Thanks for all the memories.  I remember when a $1.00 of hamburger would feed a family of six
I remember when there were party lines on the phone no privacy ar all.
A loaf of bread was 25 cents.
going to church was the accepted thing for sundays
rock candy not only looked like rocks it was rock hard
neighbors not only knew each other they played and socialized together
gardening and gatherig fruit was an expected activity then we all got to help with the canning and jelly making.
when the car would not start a simple push to start on compression, or shaking battery cables was usually all that was required to get it started.  Now you are lucky if you can find the battery.
putting initials on tree trunks instead of putting nails in them to protect them
Animals were loved rather then sent to shelters or abused.

Reflecting on what was and what isn't has been really fun.