Do You Remember This?

[chrlswltrs]

Oddly enough, I had one of these hanging in the kitchen as a child. No.. I'm old but not that old. My father loved antiques and wired one of his purchases into the bell system. You could not make a call on it but you could answer a call.
Our real phone looked very similar to this model and it set on a shelf in the hall. You had to stand there to talk.

I'm not that old either but I remember having a phone like that, you had a cord holding you stationary???

I remember when I used to have 10-15 friends tops and we'd do stuff outside daily...now I have 500 on Facebook and indoors mostly... yep the future sure is friendly. Human interaction > fb anytime. I guess people forgot how to talk to each other.

Do you know 500 people? I have around 50 Facebook friends. If I don't know you in real life, more than a few minute interaction, you don't get added to my friends.

 

[cwhatever]

they have these new now. but i had one when i was younger.
the REEL mower.

 

[TheAtheistReverend]

they have these new now. but i had one when i was younger.
the REEL mower.

Still using one. They cut the grass much nicer Like a scissors instead of a machete. My lawn has become much healthier since using it. :smokingsomb:

 

[cwhatever]

Still using one. They cut the grass much nicer Like a scissors instead of a machete. My lawn has become much healthier since using it. :smokingsomb:

i hear you on that. they just don't cut high grass or weeds that good.

 

[TheAtheistReverend]

i hear you on that. they just don't cut high grass or weeds that good.

I bet this one would!
:adore:

I WANT ONE!!!

 

[cwhatever]

I bet this one would!
:adore:

I WANT ONE!!!

yeh that makes me want one now too!!!!

 

[chrlswltrs]

I actually enjoy using a REEL mower, that is the only way I don't mind mowing. Kind of relaxing

 

[saptech]

they have these new now. but i had one when i was younger.
the REEL mower.

I made plenty of spending money, while growing up using those mowers to cut neighbor's grass.

 

[cwhatever]

You either cut grass or you deliver papers to make money in our days. not even sure nowadays what young people do for money?

 

[MacFett]

not even sure nowadays what young people do for money?

They ask mom or dad for it.

 

[zuben el genub]

We had a powered reel mower years ago. Family said it cut better than a rotary.

Kid got an allowance and was paid extra for doing extra. She was too young for most yardwork, but we did give her an extra penny per weed she pulled. We had an influx of Russian Thistle or Tumbleweed.

 

[cwhatever]

They ask mom or dad for it.

Pretty sad huh! I use to have to work when I was younger for what I wanted. The world might be a better place if Mom and Dad's today would do like we had to do. Kids might respect things more than they do.

 

[MacFett]

Pretty sad huh! I use to have to work when I was younger for what I wanted. The world might be a better place if Mom and Dad's today would do like we had to do. Kids might respect things more than they do.

Sadly my wife and I have fallen a bit into this rut. We both had it hard growing up (some nights a single pack of ramen noodles was dinner for 4 at my house). I didn't get a lot of toys when I was a kid. Sure we had had a day in the end of December and our birthdays, but they were scant. I try not to give in every time they ask for a toy and never when they whine. But I do want them to have it a little better than we did.

We are making a conscious effort to curb this. Now that the youngest two are in school they have been doing a lot more chores (they mow the yard with the aforementioned reel mower) to earn their coins.

 

[cwhatever]

Sadly my wife and I have fallen a bit into this rut. We both had it hard growing up (some nights a single pack of ramen noodles was dinner for 4 at my house). I didn't get a lot of toys when I was a kid. Sure we had had a day in the end of December and our birthdays, but they were scant. I try not to give in every time they ask for a toy and never when they whine. But I do want them to have it a little better than we did.

We are making a conscious effort to curb this. Now that the youngest two are in school they have been doing a lot more chores (they mow the yard with the aforementioned reel mower) to earn their coins.

Sounds good and I understand. We never had kids, and it's a little too late for her to have kids now. Making them do chores and stuff is the best way to go. Hopefully they will appreciate it more. and not take everything for granted like some other people do. The bad thing is it's not the person's fault it's the parents fault that made the person or kids that way

 

[cwhatever]

this type...

or this type
(this is one, that one of my family members still uses up north) the heck with that electricity works fine here.

 

[cwhatever]

the old cox line control planes

 

[cwhatever]

intellevision

nintendo
commodore 64

all these were so popular and who would have thought back then we would have what we have today?

 

[Bob Maxey]

LOL

Hey now . . . no laughing. Morse code and related technologies will save us when radio, cells and the net goes down. Code can cross the seas using very little power. Very effective indeed.

 

[isaemm]

I was just now surprised to find that in spite of being so old…

…that it has a UPC–E barcode on it.

I wasn't aware that those had been around nearly that long.

The first product to have a barcode on it was Wrigley's gum.

 

[danaj]

I remember all of these except the telegraph, but I did know what it was. Growing up my grandpa's house had an out house and a well, but they did have indoor plumbing too. We only used the outhouse and well pump when we were swimming in the pool.

 

[EarlyMon]

http://androidforums.com/lounge/533293-how-many-remember-stuff.html

Tempting to merge...

 

[MacFett]

Except the other thread is pretty much just about one linked article where as this thread is not.

 

[Doit2it]

the old cox line control planes

I always got so dizzy flying mine. I'd end up stumbling and crashing the plane. Yeah, I've never been graceful.

But I loved the smell of the Cox fuel and the sounds. I've gotta go up to my parents and find my old trainer and flip that prop, just to hear that "plfttt" compression sound.

 

[TheAtheistReverend]

Things from the past, and yet they are...

 

[EarlyMon]

I always got so dizzy flying mine. I'd end up stumbling and crashing the plane. Yeah, I've never been graceful.

But I loved the smell of the Cox fuel and the sounds. I've gotta go up to my parents and find my old trainer and flip that prop, just to hear that "plfttt" compression sound.

Two words - glow plug.