OMG They Found the Cure for Stupid

duckyb1

Veggy....love it, and the kids today think they have it tough....they have no idea,,,,,,,I had a wringer washer, big cloth diapers, 1bathroom for 8 people 6 of them "little crumb grabbers" in a 3 bedroom house with 2 sets of bunk beds in 1 room, and in another room 1 more set. Many of my neighbors with 2 kids used that room as a closet...lol.....when you opened the dresser drawer you had to sit on the bottom bunk, or you could not get in the drawer......lol........my kitchen was so small and narrow I was shocked that my kids were not born with flat heads from my belly being squished between the kid running behind me and the table, and the sink I was in front of...



Today the baby has its own finished bedroom, complete with a monitoring system that you can see from anywhere within 100 mile...lol......my kids 1st year was spent in a bassinet, then a crib, at the foot of my bed, where I could hear every sound they made......and if I did not hear anything for a minute or two, I was out of that bed in a flash......



They were the good old days......is it possible we were being "toughened up" for what we are facing today.........oh we'll my trip down memory lane has ended.....back to the real world.....hugs

Anonymous

My mother had the wringer washer when I was a baby up till I was 13. We didn't have a tub either. we took a bath in a galvanized tub just like my grandparents.   I forgot what year my father finally hooked up the tub.

My granparents had 8 kids in a two bedroom house. How they got together is still a mystery to me. There was a kitchen and a livingroom. Granpa was a coal miner. They didn't have money. They raised their own chickens and geese. What a way of life.

We complain if we don't have out own bedroom or a second bathroom. My grandma lived into her 90's. She was strong woman. I miss her.

GmaFoley

Anyone every get their hair stuck in the wringer when helping grandma with her wash?? After that, my mom put a bowl over my head and cut off all my hair around the outside of the bowl. my Grandma had a clawfoot tub and an ice box to put cold thing in. They would put the ice in from the outside, when they delivered and then Gma would put her stuff in from a door in the kitchen. My bedroom was in the washroom - everyone came in to do their laundry - That sucked when I was a teen and wanted privacy.

Anonymous

My uncle would't go to the barber to get his hair cut. So my grandmother put a bowl on his head and cut around it. He went. Lesson learned.

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FireKracker

OMG.are we goin down memory lane? Yeah I had a dipper pail in the bathroom...and hm 4 kids had bunk beds...and my X bought me a scrub board when the wringer washer drop dead.i remember scrubbing towels on that stupid thing.

Today these kids have no clue.my mom said that to me cause she used to boil my brother and my dippers. And lets not forget makin formula...an polishing the kids shoes.everynite the lineup of shoes on the window sil.

My GD asked me what's shoe polish? Ha

duckyb1

They have no idea........each night after dinner in the warm weather my kids would all be washed from that day's "play dirt", have all clean clothes put on which for girls were very full cotton dresses, starched and ironed, and their freshly polished shoes which since they were little were white........



Anytime you went on vacation (Jersey Shore).......it was the same.....all new clothes, and you literally emptied your cabinets, and linen closet cause "God forbid you would use someone else's stuff....lol



Fun was Red Rover, Kitty in the Corner, jumping rope, Freeze Tag, and riding your bike (usually a 2nd hand one), unless your parents were rich enough to buy you a new one.....



Everyone was home for dinner, and you ate what was served.......too bad if you didn't like it.....that was dinner......and you never moved from the table without first asking to be excused.



On a trip if you were lucky enough to have a car, you crammed all the kids, and yourself in it, and no one had a seatbelt to put on, cause they didn't exist......you rode windows open, and a nice hairdo was out of the question because the wind coming in all the open windows turned your fancy "do" into a wind blown mess....



So let all the the "entitled generation" of today, bellyache because their "cell call won't go thru", or they don't have the latest I phone 5 , or their computer is running slow, or they have to cook a real meal a couple nights a week..........while we did 7 out of 7 and never bitched.........fast food was out because we could not afford it......that was a once in a couple months treat, and no one got more then a cheeseburger and a small soda........and knew better then to ask for fries......lol



It wasn't always easy, but we did what we had to do.....Amen

marywh

I remember wrapping my veggies up in paper napkins and throwing them behind the old steam radiators in the farmhouse I grew up in, and refusing to go down in the basement because it had dirt floors and looked sooo haunted.

Wren44

My great grandmother lived in town and had a basement with cement (I think), but it looked equally haunted and dangerous. The real danger was probably the stairs.

Anonymous

My grandmothers basement was all dirt. It was dark and damp. I haven't thought about that in a long time.

chabba

On the farm we had what we called a cellar or sometimes root cellar, just a big dirt hole under the house.  If it was cement it was a storm celler and if it had a cement floor it was a basement.

marywh

Part of this basement was dirt and part had a cement floor and it was huge! and so scary, even my mom hated going down there.History of the house had it that part of the basement was used for the underground railroad. It was such a cool house to grow up in.

camillegal

OMG Memory lane-It's fun to travel sometimes-in my mind alot cuz it was fun to me. I know we lived in Chicago but close to Downtown cuz we'd walk downtown to Marshall Fields and walk around--well I was in a buggy (remember those)til I was 5 hahhaha--I remember the wringer washer that I was not allowed near it--I remember curtains being washed all the time stretched out on some kind of contraption that was put in the dining room when needed. We lived on the 2nd floor so it was called a flat??? and downstairs someone in the family was always living their. We were 4 kids in a 3 bedroom flat, the bedroom were the size of closets tho--we were considered well off those day cuz my parents owned the bldg and the bldg in back that ??? lived in--they rented that out. And the whole family (everyone) lived within a 2 block radius. My dad had a job as an electrician at Hotpoint--so those day he was a professional. But we moved t the suburs (wow) so far away from Chgo--25 miles so everyone had to move within a 3 block radius and it was so different--u could play outside without getting dirty in 5 minutes and we had grass and loads of trees, fruit trees--Whe we lived in Chgo no one spoke english only Italian, now no one spoke Italian and everyone spoke english--It was a culture shock hahaha--we could cuz my Dad wouldn't allow us to speak Italian in the house cuz we were living in America so u spoke english--so there was no language problem. People just lived differently--no more wringer washer , but still no dryer, a brand new real refridgerator-- no icea boxa--and a new style stove with 2 ovens--wow---well my dad would get great deals, somthing scratched or dented somewhere. And he stayed at Hotpoint for over 45 yrs cuz the company treated their employess well with good benefits and didn't fire u easily as long as u did u'r work the right way. So they always felt balanced and I think that's why our childhood was so happy and fun. My grandma got so mad at my mom (my dad's mom) cuz when I started full time school my mom (and her sister) got part time jobs which most women didn't do those days and they worked for 30 yrs. My 2 brothers were the first in our family to actually go to college and on after college so that was rare for our family those days. My parents just believed they'd have a better life than working with their hands he would say like he had to and everyone listened to their parents then. I admit I had it easy actually--OMG I got carried away like I do--Sorry--but it was so fun

marywh

I remember Marshall Fields at Christmas time. My dad would take us downtown on the train,we would go to his office where I would pretend I was his secretary and then he would take us to see the christmas tree. He always wore a suit, overcoat and hat to work. He would have been 90 this month. I sure do miss him.

Qbertanne

I think my all time favorite "stupid" person comment while going thru treatment.   Was "Oh my you have lost a lot of weight.  You look good"   I just smiled and walked away.  Then my chemo brain finally kicked in and said now wait a minute,  Is she blind, I have no hair, no eyebrows, no eyelashes and my color on a good day is between green and grey, is the woman blind?  I am now 7 years post treatment and I still some days think "what was she thinking".    

camillegal

Qbertane--hahahaha well sometimes people think that's the nicest thing u can say when u see a woman and u automatically go in shock. hahaha

Marywh---we did the same thing and then have lunch there and I remember thinking all these people because of Christmas--maybe that's when I started loving Christmas.

duckyb1

Ober.....there just is no cure for stupid.....what an ass.....right now you 7 years past your treatment, and hopefully have hair, eyebrows, eyelashes, and your color radient, but the good part.......7 YEARS LATER SHE IS PROBABLY STILL STUPID..........now doesn't that make you feel warm and fuzzy all over.....lol

marywh

Had somebody tell me how good I looked yesterday...much better than the last time they saw me, Dear God, I really must have looked like chit!!!! After 5 years of chemo, no hair, 30 pounds heavier, and you tell me I look better? Puleeeze....

Anonymous

Why are we so hard on ourselves? I am the same way. How can I look good bald?????

FireKracker

Got a short spiky haircut....my beautiful curls went south...after all my crap my hair went into shock...straight hair now...oh well next comes the purple streak.

veggy I'm planning on comin sometime in July...you should have hair and I will have teeth.time to celebrate....big time..

Anonymous

Right now I have white fuzz on my head.

duckyb1

Veggy......you probably look adorable with white fuzz.........hugs

marywh

I wish I had any color fuzz on my head!

camillegal

Mary u will and like me u'l find things u don't like about it. We are all so strange.

marywh

When I picked up gs at daycare the other day, I had a little boy tell me I couldnt be a grammy, I had to be a paw-paw cause I didnt have any hair...Made me laugh, what do you say to a 2 year old?

duckyb1

How bout..."come over here so I can slap you"..lol.......kidding really......hysterical......"out of the mouths of babes"

Anonymous

I was bald for eight months. It feels good to feel the fuzz.

marywh

I was really thinking of telling him well, nobody likes you, anyway.na-na-na-na-na

duckyb1

Mary......LMAO......