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Offline Prairie Dawn

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Re: Remember When
« Reply #195 on: August 02, 2013, 10:55:26 PM »
Quote from: ponytail on August 02, 2013, 11:12:52 AM
Sprinkling clothes--My Mom would gather them off the clothesline, sprinkle them with water (she had a big sprinkler head she attached to a coke bottle) roll them into balls, and put them into a clothes basket for ironing. I spent many an hour at the ironing board when I was little. Now I might iron something a couple of times a year!

YES! My mom still irons her sheets...and they smell soooooo good!
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Re: Remember When
« Reply #196 on: August 12, 2013, 10:38:42 AM »
no seatbelts! we never wore them when we were kids.
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Re: Remember When
« Reply #197 on: August 12, 2013, 12:17:21 PM »
How about the Corvair?--trunk in the front.  Never owned one but I rode in one on occasion.
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Re: Remember When
« Reply #198 on: August 12, 2013, 04:28:55 PM »
Remember when public restrooms had a roll of cloth you had to pull out to dry your hands?   Now it is either paper towels and air dryers which I am sure are much more sanitary that the cloth. 
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Re: Remember When
« Reply #199 on: August 12, 2013, 10:44:52 PM »
Quote from: Snowbird on August 12, 2013, 04:28:55 PM
Remember when public restrooms had a roll of cloth you had to pull out to dry your hands?   Now it is either paper towels and air dryers which I am sure are much more sanitary that the cloth.

Oh my gosh! I remember those rolls of cloth.  Kind of gross now that I think about it!   :smiley_confused1:
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Re: Remember When
« Reply #200 on: August 13, 2013, 10:53:01 AM »
Remember when you took a large, brown paper bag and cut it apart to make book covers for your school books?
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Re: Remember When
« Reply #201 on: August 13, 2013, 06:37:54 PM »
Quote from: ponytail on August 13, 2013, 10:53:01 AM
Remember when you took a large, brown paper bag and cut it apart to make book covers for your school books?
Yes, I do...and mine had to be "perfect" !!
Also, remember at the end of the school year, sandpapering the sides of the pages of your text books, so they were looking clean and white for the next person to use the book?
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Re: Remember When
« Reply #202 on: August 13, 2013, 06:46:12 PM »
Quote from: ponytail on August 12, 2013, 10:38:42 AM
no seatbelts! we never wore them when we were kids.
Seatbelts!!!  No one had heard of them.
I have to laugh and wonder how in the world we or our own children survived!
When I brought my children home from the hospital, I had them in my arms.
Now, babies and small children have to have special seats, which many times are installed by police officers who know how to do it properly.
And, different sizes for different kids.. so a lot of young folks need vans.
My husband "drove" the car with the kids in his lap!!!
We'd take a ride, I'd hold the baby.
We  have gone the right direction here though... what we did was really dangerous!!
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Re: Remember When
« Reply #203 on: August 13, 2013, 09:32:23 PM »
Quote from: ponytail on August 13, 2013, 10:53:01 AM
Remember when you took a large, brown paper bag and cut it apart to make book covers for your school books?

Yes! I loved to doodle all over my book covers!
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Re: Remember When
« Reply #204 on: August 13, 2013, 10:16:46 PM »
Quote from: Prairie Dawn on August 13, 2013, 09:32:23 PM
Quote from: ponytail on August 13, 2013, 10:53:01 AM
Remember when you took a large, brown paper bag and cut it apart to make book covers for your school books?

Yes! I loved to doodle all over my book covers!
We weren' t allowed to doodle...covers had to stay clean. :smiley_confused1:
I went to a very strict school !
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Re: Remember When
« Reply #205 on: August 13, 2013, 10:50:17 PM »
Sheesh bacali, I'll say you did! (strict school)  No doodling? Sandpapering the edges of your books? Holy moly, never heard of that one.



Remember going shopping downtown? When there were no malls? So much fun, tagging along with your Mom.
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Re: Remember When
« Reply #206 on: August 13, 2013, 11:13:28 PM »
Quote from: Prairie Dawn on August 02, 2013, 10:55:26 PM
Quote from: ponytail on August 02, 2013, 11:12:52 AM
Sprinkling clothes--My Mom would gather them off the clothesline, sprinkle them with water (she had a big sprinkler head she attached to a coke bottle) roll them into balls, and put them into a clothes basket for ironing. I spent many an hour at the ironing board when I was little. Now I might iron something a couple of times a year!

YES! My mom still irons her sheets...and they smell soooooo good!


Ugh! I'm always ironing. My really expensive Maytag washer just wrinkles the beejeebers out of everything. I can't wait until it breaks.
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Re: Remember When
« Reply #207 on: August 14, 2013, 02:33:01 PM »
Hey cak, good to see you!

Remember when you sat down at the table for noon dinner on  Sunday? My Mom would put something in before church, and when we got home the house would smell so good. We would always set the table with the good dishes and silverware for her, and everything was served in nice bowls and platters. That's where we learned our manners!
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Re: Remember When
« Reply #208 on: August 23, 2013, 08:49:15 AM »
Remember when we hated Sept , 'cause we'd have to go back to school ?
Now, I'm looking forward to it... so this hot weather changes.
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Re: Remember When
« Reply #209 on: August 23, 2013, 09:44:35 AM »
Shoot, the kids here started August 12! My grandkids have already been back to school for 2 weeks.

Do any of you remember walking to school? I did almost every day, and it was at least a mile.
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