Remember When!!

In the age before seat belts, I remember playing 'astronaut' in the car. I'd lie on the floor in the passenger's side with my feet on the front seat, and would pretend I was blasting off into space as my dad drove down the bumpy, unpaved country roads. (I can't remember if my mom knew about this.....probably not!)

sitting on the tailgate, which was down (my brother got a concussion when he fell off the back end, I remember my mom making him stay awake all night, and the he missed a whole summer of baseball because of it. He was so mad!)

Funny - I never gave up real butter for a 'spread', but I do re-use cottage cheese & sour cream containers regularly.

Remember these fun ways to pass the time?

Ruth, I remember Pick-Up Sticks and Old Maid. Thanks for the reminder.

Yep! Still have the ones I did as a kid!

Real hankies? No, but I have about 10 from 60 years ago and I am going to make masks from those. Yes, one of them has tatted edges . Don't ask me why I saved them, I have no idea.

Gramma, I know why I have saved the fancy hankies I have--my grandmother created the fancy edging and they are associated with good memories. Also, they were my backup plan when the facial tissue shortage occurred. I was able to get some tissues just in time before we had to resort to the hankies!

Here are some more ways we entertained ourselves.

Ah geeze, I’m sorry. Just occurred to me what I was referring to with 2 needles is hair pin lace, not tatting. Still another dieing art.

My grandma had those ring pulls. I think they were crocheted. I had one that I pretended was a life preserver for my Ginny doll.