Middle Aged Memories

Yes - rain barrel is what my grandma sang to me.

I could not think of the name of this one, but it finally came to me. We did the 2-person hand clapping to it a lot.

The Clapping Song

(I changed the video...worse audio, but it shows the hand moves. We did the Shirley Ellis moves, not the go-go ones.)

Doin' that crazy hand jive!

I think snow tires are still used regularly in the Rocky Mountains and the Sierra Nevadas. Looks like the DOT in Colorado calls them "winter tires". I know there are passes that are closed each year unless you have chains. Boy were those a nightmare. I also agree that 90% of my adult neighbors in Houston wouldn't have a clue what we're talking about, let alone the kids.

My parents didn't believe that "girls" should have a car, so I didn't get my first 'car' until after I was married. I drove one of their cars when I was home and I walked or rode the bus in college. My DH had a VW bug when we married. We moved across country from San Francisco to Albuquerque right after the wedding with everything we owned packed inside. After a year of 'carpooling' with each other, I got my own. It was a red truck that did not have a driver's side window. The space was covered with plastic. Also it didn't come with a key so I had to hot wire it to start every time. I only drove it to & from work so the price was right - $50.00.

Are only three people reading this thread now? Has everyone else lost their memories? Come on, people...

Here's one I have...back in the 70's for about a year or two, snuff was fashionable. If you blinked, you might have missed this fad, but it lasted long enough for me to have purchases strawberry scented snuff. Oh, it was still nasty brown powder, but obviously had some chemical on it to give it the strawberry scent. (Amazingly, I never got nose cancer!) Anyway, I remember having a little round tin of it with a hippie looking label (could not find an image) but there was even some jewelry to fashionably hold your snuff. Does this cloisonne necklace look familiar?

Also, there were some attractive carved repro Chinese snuff bottles being sold at the time, and I had one similar to this...

I think these remained popular into the next decade but the contents changed a little.

This is the only snuff I remember. Heck, I'm happy I can remember anything from the 70s ;-)

We have mentioned fragrances a few times already but I'm thinking of them again...

I rarely wear scents or colognes anymore (and when others wear it, it is absolutely choking 99% or the time) but back in my neo-hippie days, I loved to get those scented body oils, those ad-campaign scents of the day, or whatever cool compact caught my eye. Here's one I used to keep in my high school purse, so easy to apply after swim class.

I had the green collection. Who doesn't want to smell like clover? I had a different collection of flower scents too, one of which was honeysuckle. I still like those smells to this day...just not ON me. I wonder if I can get one of these on Ebay? (Just checked and, yes, they have a few on there...$50 and up!)

MinusTwo, I actually did buy some cologne once or twice that was supposed to be reproduced from the original formula. These scents, even tho' I had not smelled them for 20+ years were just WRONG. I do not think it is my nose or my memory that has changed (scent memory is very deep rooted,) I think it is the formula that has changed over the years, unfortunately.

I don't know if anyone had a mom or grandmother who liked to do "liquid embroidery." It sounds weird, but it was just decorating linens with fabric paint that came out in a fine line. My grandmother did some pillowcases and table runners and I think they came out very delicate, homey, and nice. The result looked something like this.

Elimar - sorry to hear about the scent change. I agree about the smell memory. I have read elsewhere that packaging that looks exactly the same, might now be made 'overseas' and won't be the same formula. I thought Vermont Country Store would do better. Thanks for the review.

That is just a Google image. My grandma did some flowers on a baby pillowcase for me. That was long before the baby pillows were a SIDS factor. Guess I survived both breast cancer AND sleeping on a baby pillow!

So, I had a doctor's appt. today. You know how they knock before they come in? Well, I always like to respond to that in what I think to be my high-pitched spinster voice, and call out "Whooo iiiiis it" as if I didn't already know. That response is HABIT now but, today, at the last second, I changed that up and called out "Enter...and sign in, please." Remember that phrase? It was from an old t.v. show called What's My Line?