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

Melissa! I forgot about that one! Classic!

Melissa, you're sister is too cute!! 

They sell them on a site that rhymes with T-say. 

Not sure if it's against the rules to say the site. LOL

I loved those lunch boxes.

My grandmother had that exact sewing machine.  My mother now has it, as my grandmother has long passed away.  I told my mom that it is something I would like to have when the time comes to pass it along again (Hoping that won't be for a while yet!).

My aunt had that Singer machine and my stupid uncle (hated her husband!) sold it after she passed away. It was my grandmother's machine and I would have loved to have it. Someone paid him a lot of money for that thing cause it looked brand new even though my aunt used it quite a bit. Wow, that brought back a flood of memories of my aunt. She died in 1980...

Thanks slow...he was a jerk! They were only married for a short time and he got everything cause she did not have a will. He then warehoused their son (he had Down's syndrome) in a group home in FL (all of his relatives live in CT!!) and moved home to Greece where he was from. My aunt never wanted her son in a facility like that. He was her whole world!

My cousin ended up dying just a couple of years later from congestive heart failure (or a broken heart if you ask me) and so I am kind of bitter about that SOB. My dad tried really hard to get custody of him so we could take him, but my uncle would not come home to sign the paperwork.

Whew! Thanks for letting me vent! Felt knod of good to get that off my chest.

april485 - I'm so sorry.  What a evil thing to do.  But Slow is right.  Karma's a bitch!

ducky - Wax lips!  (And candy cigarettes...)  I loved those things!  

Chairs - tick had them.

Tupperware - tick oh dear still have quite a lot.

And I learnt to sew on a treadle Singer sewing machine which my grandmother had used as a tailoress.

Have been meaning to post this for ages

Not sure who these people are!!!! Gee that was 42 tears ago.

My mom got her Singer featherweight in 1936 when she got married. It was electric, not treadle. She sewed all our clothes, all six of us. Often matching. Matching shirts for brother & dad. I never had a store bought dress until high school. She kept sewing all her life; the last dress she made was my wedding dress (actually for our 10th anniversary renewal of vows, since we were married by a jp) in 1987, from a length of eyelet silk my father brought from China in 1948. She actually made the pattern from pieces of other patterns, and made up what was missing with newspaper. Best seamstress ever.

We were married 1972. A friend still has the pattern which my dress was adapted from.

These were the books I learnt to read.