Remember When!!

JACK5IE · April 2020

Remember these wrap skirts?

Vintage Skirts | Authentic Indian Block Print Wrap Skirt | Poshmark

I wore mine with my Candies.

bell bottom jeans | The Undercover Stylist

grammamuses · April 2020

Yes, wrap around skirts were great as were long dresses . as opposed to mini skirts where "I see London, I see France, I see some ones' underpants" , remember that one?

Spookiesmom · April 2020

Dr Scholls wood sandals.

ceanna · April 2020

Loved my earth shoes with negative heels! Do they make anymore?

JACK5IE · April 2020

Earth Shoes...I almost posted them before.

Healthy Walking with Earth Shoes | Earth shoes, 70s shoes, My ...

Yogatyme · April 2020

I had a whole wardrobe of those wrap skirts. Loved them! Still prefer a skirt or dress in the summer.

ruthbru · April 2020

miniskirts, midiskirts, empire waistlines, platform shoes, peasant dresses, paisley

ceanna · April 2020

Sewing my own prom dress! An empire waist, yellowy satin!

Spookiesmom · April 2020

pogo sticks and hula hoop

MinusTwo · April 2020

magic 8 balls to answer your questions

ceanna · April 2020

Along those same lines for answering questions, how many of you made "cootie catchers"?? Those folded paper thingies we marked with colors, numbers, etc. I forget what words we put in the middle, though. Can anyone remember?

MinusTwo · April 2020

OH YES. I think sometimes our cootie catchers had numbers & sometimes colors. And someone had to pick. But I don't remember what questions were being answered.

I tried to make one about 15 years ago. Wonder if I still could?

ceanna · April 2020

MinusTwo, I do remember they kept us busy on the playground all through recess in about 3rd grade! I remember squaring off notebook paper and keeping folding triangles! What were those questions!!??

ruthbru · April 2020

Wasn't it stuff like who you'd marry, how many kids you'd have, what kind of house you'd live in?

Beaverntx · April 2020

on another topic, remember full and half slips as a mandatory part of your wardrobe?

Spookiesmom · April 2020

Panty hose, and possibly a girdle under those slips. Seamed nylons. Are my seams straight?

MinusTwo · April 2020

I was sooooo glad to get rid of full slips & go to half. And yes for the horrible girdle before panty hose. Well as long as we're discussing wardrobes,how about gloves & hats. We dressed up like that to ride on airplanes.

Spookiesmom · April 2020

Mom would make me wear hat and gloves to go downtown for shopping. She did too. Cincinnati.

ceanna · April 2020

I switched to pantyhose early on, but do remember those tabs connecting the nylons to the garter belt digging into the back of my thigh while sitting on a hard chair/bench!! Thanks Ruth for the questions--what you said does bring back memories that those were some of the questions! Maybe even boys names too!!

Since garter belts were brought up, how about those Kotex belts used to hold the pad!! Hated those days when you wore both the garter belt and Kotex belt at the same time!!!

ruthbru · April 2020

Remember life before the microwave?

Spookiesmom · April 2020

or paper towels?

ceanna · April 2020

Does anyone still can fruits and veggies? I never learned how but remember my grandmother canning.

Spookiesmom · April 2020

We had a huge garden up north. Mom and I spent the summer canning and freezing stuff. My grandma did too.

When I was about 10, my cousin and I spent a few days with our gma. Just when she was doing green beans. Apparently making her crazy. She told us to go find the horse, get a tail hair off him, put it under a rock in the creek, and it would turn into a snake!!! Gma wouldn’t lie, right? We sat there for hours!!!!!! And the beans got canned

MinusTwo · April 2020

Several of my friends still do things like peach jam or strawberry preserves. A number of people on the dinner thread still do quite a bit of "canning". I do prepare some small loads of fruits & veggies but I freeze them instead of bottling.

And yes ceanna - about the cootie catchers - who will I marry.

How about home-made Root Beer? Always tasted like yeast to me.

grammamuses · April 2020

Yes, canning was the vogue before freezers came along and even long after that. Tomatoes, beans, peas, corn, apples sliced and sauce, berries, peaches, pears, apricots, plums, rhubarb and whatever else aside from root vegetables and squash etc. Oh, the pickles, oh my. Also beef and chicken and the most delicious sausage called Rhinswurst (sp?) which is perhaps a chuck roast shredded or ground and cooked and seasoned with salt and pepper in I broth, stuffed into casings and then canned in a pressure canner. No I don't do that, never did but I helped. Anyone remember the hand turned meat grinders? We ate well and slept well. Fresh food and fresh air..

MinusTwo · April 2020

I still have a hand turned meat grinder that my Mother used.

ceanna · April 2020

I ran across a meat grinder cleaning out my grandparent's house! I think it sold at auction. Also ran across WWII ration stamps. I think they were for sugar or ? Anyone know?

SarahSmilesatMe · April 2020

Remember Tang? Who didn’t want to be an astronaut?

SarahSmilesatMe · April 2020

Oh, and I just remembered ... Salisbury Steak TV dinners; eaten on a TV tray of course!

Betrayal · April 2020

MinusTwo: My Dad made the best homemade rootbeer every summer. It never tasted like yeast though he used yeast to make it. He had his own glass bottles, bottle capper and stoneware vat for mixing it. Made the best rootbeer floats (especially with hand churned, homemade vanilla ice cream). Many years later found a burger place in AZ that made homemade rootbeer and it was comparable.

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