Middle Aged Memories

Anonymous

Eph, YES! I do see that now. And the round ball looks like a planet. Makes perfect sense now.

Rockym

Wow, I just saw that coin purse in the key section of an Ace Hardware yesterday. Had to giggle. Also, I love superelasticbubbleplastic!! Bought it for my kids when they were younger every chance I got :-)

Anonymous

My mom loved hook rugs. I remember doing a few myself.

NativeMainer

I still have a couple my father did!

elimar86861

I never tried to do latch hook, but when younger I got a rug punch kit as a gift. Different than hooking, it used burlap canvas for the backing instead of the plastic mesh stuff. The tool was a big needle punch (you know, just like they used for our biopsies!) I made a sunflower rug that my mom had for many years.

Anonymous

Did you have one of these?

elimar86861

That's a great memory pic! Yes, I had one and mine was like this...

Some of my friends had this kind...

Anonymous

I still have my collection of 45's packed away in a box somewhere.

MinusTwo

I have my 45's also. That includes an Elvis Hound Dog with the flip side Don't Be Cruel in it's original sleeve. Too bad I wrote on the sleeve.

Anonymous

Wow! I wrote on mine too. Usually the name of the boy I liked that week. haha

Lucy55

Slow.. HaHa.. when my daughter was about 8 she wrote " I love Trent " on our toilet seat with a permanent marker.. HaHa.. your post about writing the name the boy you liked that week made me remember it .. HaHa.. 20 years later it still makes me laugh to think about it... HaHa.. Her brother and sister have never let her live it down. HaHa.. I'm still laughing 😂

MinusTwo

Lucy - great story. I used to write the names of the boys I "loved" on my pillow - of course under the zip-on protector and the case. That way I was sure my Mother would never see them. Oh sure - LOL. Oh, pre-teen dreams.

Lucy55

Minus.. HaHa.. I always wrote my name.. with the boy's surname.. practising for when we got married 😂

Rockym

We used to call it "the order" such as "What is your order?" We would have a list of boys in order of how much we liked them. I recall I had a top five that would move up or down the list depending on what feelings were fluctuating that week :-).

Lucy55

Rocky.. HaHa.. I've never heard of "the order " before.. I found it time consuming enough trying to write my one latest love's name every where..Having a top five list would be a full time job keeping it organized and up to date.. HaHaHa 😃

Anonymous

Lucy, Oh my!! hahahahaha....That's too funny. Did you get mad at the time??? I liked a boy named Trent when I was a young girl too!! Not too common of a name.

Minus, Great story! I never even thought about the pillow. Good thinking!!

Rocky, I love the list. haha

Lucy55

Slow.. HaHa.. No..didn't get cranky.. I think I realised at the time it was one of those incidences I was going to remember and laugh about for ever 😃Mind you, my daughter, Daisy, still looks cross when I'm telling someone the story 😃

NativeMainer

Any one remember bubble lights?

MinusTwo

Native - oh my yes!!! Those were magical when I was young. Eons before the lava lamp.

Anonymous

I don't remember them . They look cool though.

BookLady1

Mine were early 70's and I think they were considered retro then? much time lost staring at them..

MinusTwo

BookLady - you're right about retro. We had bubble lights in the late 50s. I think Vermont Country store still has them, along with all those other wonderful "old" things.

Anonymous

Well that explains everything. I wasn't born yet!!

MinusTwo

Interesting - patented in 1944 & supposedly popular through the 70s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubble_light

The lava lamp was invented in 1963.

elimar86861

I remember some ornaments my mom had when I was a kid. It was a set of 12 in the shiny, metallic Christmas colors, and each one had around cut out on the side (trimmed in glitter) so that you could look into the ornament and see a tiny diorama scene, like a snowman, elves, kids on a sled, Santa, a reindeer, etc. Sadly, one by one the glass "necks" broke off. My favorite was the Santa and I believe he was the last to go. (Sigh...) Could not find any pics of them, but they were fairly popular back then.

We also had another seasonal decoration--and I think this one came straight out of the Harriet Carter catalog! It was magnet figures on a skating rink base, kind of like this...

...but even chintzier looking. I seem to remember there was a slot that you could fit a magnetic wand into and you could make the skaters move around the pond. We only had it for a few years. Did I mention chintzy?

I love the nostalgic memories that everyone writes at holiday time.

Loral

Were they like these....

elimar86861

Yes, super-sleuth, Loral! That is a different set than the ones we had but, like I said, they had a certain popularity at the time so probably a few different manufacturers turned them out.

(Are my image hunting skills declining now? What isn't!!!!)

BookLady1

nah, Elimar, you still got it! Thanks for the memories - I am going to look at my old "treasures" with new eyes when I unpack the tree decorations. Thanks for the lift! ✌️❤️ Linda.

Loral

Google Vintage 50's, although I was born in the 60's I still have some of my mom and dad's old ornaments..

Dee2010

I always loved our bubble lights. I found out that Dad gave them away when Mom died and he was moving to an apartment. He never was the type to hold onto things, or to think that we might want to! I do have two or three decorations that my parents bought for their first Christmas (1955), but they're in sorry shape. Needless to say, I DO keep certain things!

I also remember a Bing Crosby Chrismas special with David Bowie as a guest star. The only song with a singer from our generation that my parents ever seemed to like was their duet on Little Drummer Boy/Peace on Earth.