Material Things of Which the Younger Generation Has No Idea

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Oh yeah. Nothing like sitting down on that on a hot sunny day while wearing shorts. Yowza!

Side Note: While they don't deliver perishables, Walmart delivers staples like canned goods, cereals, crackers, and household products. I love them for that! Hopefully they do that in your area.

So does Amazon.com.

LOL I remember getting yelled at, cuz I HOLLERED, when I sat down on them!

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I don't think they make "Count Chocula" cereal, anymore. I used to eat that as a kid, and LOVED that I had chocolate milk, afterward.

I do remember the milkman delivering to the milkbox. I'm so glad you started this thread!

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Somebody I knew still had a U.S. flag with only 38 stars. My "aunt" (friend of the family) always flew a flag, on Flag Day, that only had 48 stars----she said "nobody'd know". She told me that her grandmother could remember the headline that Lincoln had been shot----I thought that was wild; I wish I could have known her.

My husband and I were watching 1970s through 1980s the NEW Price is Right last night on YouTube and remembering all the awesome products we no longer have. There was a killer kitchen appliance that was a dishwasher on the bottom, a range in the middle, and an oven on top where a microwave would be today. There were these bunk beds that were red and blue pods, like barrels. My husband said it was from the Sears catalog and he had coveted them for years.

Bob Barker was also such a jerk. He talked to all the black people like they were mentally deficient, which made them so nervous they'd mess up a lot, and he talked to the women like they were dishwashing and sandwich making machines. But what was endearing was that no one expected to win anything, all the contestants were humble, and they were good losers. Completely different attitudes today.

I wonder what happened to the people who won Free Gas for Life on Let's Make a Deal. Of course back then gas cost like 25-30 cents a gallon.

Yep...I remember when gas was about 30 cents a gallon.

I used to have milk delivered in bottles, too. Then they stopped delivering the milk--my brother turned the milk crate into a storage bin for his comic books.

There was this company called Hammer which delivered sodas that way, too.

My mom always told us about these commercials from when she was a kid and would sing the songs.

Haha, not only do I remember it, I actually still use it.

We still sing the buckle up for safety song in our household.

We were watching a Remember the 80s thing on TV the other day and it was omitting things. Like remember the New Coke/Coke Classic farce? When Coke Classic came back it tasted wrong because it had corn syrup in it instead of sugar, which was too expensive to make at that time. No one was fooled. Coke Classic was better than New Coke, but it wasn't the original. They were talking about the whole New Coke thing on this History channel show but didn't once mention the corn syrup. This wasn't that long ago! You can't fool people into believing it didn't happen!

Televisions made of fake wood.

Televisions that were made to look like a piece of furniture.

Telephones with cords that actually went into wall, instead of being connected to a jack.

Floppy disks.

Schools having chalkboards. Nowadays they tend to have whiteboards instead.

Phone booths.

Payphones.

Movie rental stores.

Arcades and arcade games. Only arcade games I see nowadays are those games where you can win a prize.

Record players and records.

VCRs and VHS tapes.

Cassette tapes and cassette players.

Car radios that can only play the radio and cassette tapes.

Cell phones that can only be used for phone calls.

Restaurants where when you come in they ask "smoking or nonsmoking?" and they take you to whichever section that you chose.

Machines that you put money in that accept pennies.

Dirt driveways and dirt roads.

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A wood stove, and a cord of cedar out back that's waiting to be split.
Cows waiting to be milked.
Chickens and hogs you need to slaughter yourself.
Hunting for frogs at the creek so Mother can fry them for supper.
Going to church and singing music that has multiple verses and actual sermon material in it, instead of a bunch of choruses; there was no screen and projector, just hymnals.
Waking up to the sound of a couple of roosters, and if you don't have one your neighbor probably does so you wake up anyways.
Grandfather telling stories while he plays his harmonica.

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My first car had only a radio - and it only had an AM tuner.