THE WAY WE WERE......LOOKING BACK IS FUN

OK I'll bite. Here is me & my brother circa 1954, doing what would now get us expelled: playing cowboys.

I'm the cute one.

Ugh Slow, you're poor shoulder! Those childhood injuries sure messed us up. My knee has never been the same either. 

You guys with your fancy schmancy silver X-mas trees! I honestly thought those were a '70's thing.

Crog, that is waaayy cool. Being on Romper Room must have been a blast!

Ah, the diapers. In the land of Pampers and Luvs, I did it old school. Really old school. Remember boiling them with some lemon juice and hanging them in the sun so they'd be shock white (on advice from my mom). On the plus side, my kids were toilet-trained by a year and a half, without any real work on my part. These days it seems some kids are barely trained by kindergarten. Something about the discomfort of those horrible rubber pants made them want "out" of them asap, I think.

Anybody remember putting a rubber ball in a pantyhose leg and wacking it against the school wall in cadence in between your legs and stuff? Wish I could remember the rhymes and songs that went with that game. These were the balls we used.

This might be strictly a Canadian thing, but it's one of may favourite memories. Jam Can curling. Every winter the neighbour kid's dad made a curling rink on his driveway. For years parents collected their jam cans to fill with cement. Every kid in the neighbourhood showed up, even in 40 below. Cant remember the last time I saw jam sold in cans.

This thread is so enjoyable..........jogging my memory.  It's fun.

Alyson, I meant to ask (forgot), that jumper you posted a pic of......did I understand correctly? You did gym in that thing? How?????

leggo. Canadian here and YES i remeber that ball and the pantyhose thing. I still remember how the paint had pretty much peeled off mine from overuse!

LOVED the  candy necklaces. My fingers were multi -colored 

WOW....you all have been busy today!

Crog, I love that Romper Room picture. I'm so jealous!!

magdalene51, that picture is adorable!!

Now for a really dumb question I'm sure......how did you clean those diapers? I mean, how did you get the messy stuff off of them?

I used disposable with my kids....my daughter trained at 18 months....my son was really difficult. He was three. He used to tell me he liked pooping in his pants because he liked the way it felt!?? What the heck can you say to that???

Leggo, I don't remember the rubber ball pantyhose thing. Was that a Canadian thing?

Ducky & Alyson, I'm confused about the upside down bra thingys?? What were they for? You said something about wearing that with a skirt???

Mema, they are garter belts. Stockings came up to mid-thigh & you hooked the tops of them to the garters to hold them up.

OMG....that is so gross!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Those upside down bras things are garter belts? Ok, I get it now. Did it actually hold up the stockings? It seems that it wouldn't hold it very well.

Oh my. For some reason I can't visualize ducky with a black seam going up her black nylon stockings!! Did you do that ducky?

I'm still trying to get past washing the diapers in the toilet. I'm such a germaphobe I don't think I would have done too well with that.

As a friend of mine used to say, it hurts to be pretty.

I lost mine