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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 14405" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>OMG, I remember ALL of this! Does that make me old"? Fran, when I was a kid NOBODY had two bathrooms in their house! You no more would have had two bathrooms than you would have had two kitchens now some people even have that!! And we didnt have a shower either, for a long, long time. We had a bathtub with a hose sprayer thingie for washing your hair. My dad finally hooked a shower up in our (unheated) basement, where the floor drain was, right next to my mothers wringer washer! Remember those?</p><p></p><p>And I dont EVER remember my parents going out together, just the two of them! Never, not even one time! They just didnt do that. It wouldnt have even occurred to them, and even if it did, my dad was too cheap. Entertainment was going to my grandparents house and chasing our cousins around. There was no such thing as fast food and all of us going out to a restaurant wouldnt even be thought of! Or a movie either! We ate in restaurants on a few very rare trips with my grandparents wed get a hamburger, fries and a Coke, and theyd bring you the Coke in the small bottles with a glass of ice! And a straw! Remember that? We thought we were living like rich folks! At home, we never had soft drinks in the fridge once in a great while, theyd buy one big bottle and wed split it! And orange juice? What was that???</p><p></p><p>We very rarely even left our own neighborhood! We walked to school, and several relatives were within walking distance. It was a big deal to get on a city bus and go downtown to go shopping. This was usually a once-a-year thing, at Christmas, to see the decorations and gawk at the stuff in the store windows, just like Ralphie in A Christmas Story!</p><p></p><p>The girls had to wear dresses to school and we changed when we got home from school. You had school clothes and play clothes. And believe this or not, I never owned more than TWO pairs of shoes at one time in my life until I had a job and bought them myself! We had school shoes and Sunday shoes. And if your shoes got holes in the soles before you outgrew them, you took them to a shoe repair shop and had new soles or heels put on them, and wore them some more! And while they were being fixed, you wore your old ones that were too tight. We never had more than one coat at a time either. You wore them till they were too small, then passed them down to younger relatives.</p><p></p><p>And believe it or not, it NEVER would have occurred to us to ask our parents for money... not that it would have done us any good anyway! We got a miniscule allowance I got something like 35 cents a week, which didnt go very far, even back in the 50s! If we wanted candy or an ice cream bar, we bought it out of that. When the allowance was gone, it was just tough noogies until the next week! Dont even bother asking! I remember making those silly little potholders with the stretchy loops and going around the neighborhood selling them for a quarter to the neighbors (back when kids could still do things like that without being attacked or kidnapped!) And when school closed because of snow, my brother and I would be the first kids in the neighborhood out hitting up the neighbors to shovel their sidewalks for a quarter! </p><p></p><p>How times have changed!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 14405, member: 1883"] OMG, I remember ALL of this! Does that make me old"? Fran, when I was a kid NOBODY had two bathrooms in their house! You no more would have had two bathrooms than you would have had two kitchens now some people even have that!! And we didnt have a shower either, for a long, long time. We had a bathtub with a hose sprayer thingie for washing your hair. My dad finally hooked a shower up in our (unheated) basement, where the floor drain was, right next to my mothers wringer washer! Remember those? And I dont EVER remember my parents going out together, just the two of them! Never, not even one time! They just didnt do that. It wouldnt have even occurred to them, and even if it did, my dad was too cheap. Entertainment was going to my grandparents house and chasing our cousins around. There was no such thing as fast food and all of us going out to a restaurant wouldnt even be thought of! Or a movie either! We ate in restaurants on a few very rare trips with my grandparents wed get a hamburger, fries and a Coke, and theyd bring you the Coke in the small bottles with a glass of ice! And a straw! Remember that? We thought we were living like rich folks! At home, we never had soft drinks in the fridge once in a great while, theyd buy one big bottle and wed split it! And orange juice? What was that??? We very rarely even left our own neighborhood! We walked to school, and several relatives were within walking distance. It was a big deal to get on a city bus and go downtown to go shopping. This was usually a once-a-year thing, at Christmas, to see the decorations and gawk at the stuff in the store windows, just like Ralphie in A Christmas Story! The girls had to wear dresses to school and we changed when we got home from school. You had school clothes and play clothes. And believe this or not, I never owned more than TWO pairs of shoes at one time in my life until I had a job and bought them myself! We had school shoes and Sunday shoes. And if your shoes got holes in the soles before you outgrew them, you took them to a shoe repair shop and had new soles or heels put on them, and wore them some more! And while they were being fixed, you wore your old ones that were too tight. We never had more than one coat at a time either. You wore them till they were too small, then passed them down to younger relatives. And believe it or not, it NEVER would have occurred to us to ask our parents for money... not that it would have done us any good anyway! We got a miniscule allowance I got something like 35 cents a week, which didnt go very far, even back in the 50s! If we wanted candy or an ice cream bar, we bought it out of that. When the allowance was gone, it was just tough noogies until the next week! Dont even bother asking! I remember making those silly little potholders with the stretchy loops and going around the neighborhood selling them for a quarter to the neighbors (back when kids could still do things like that without being attacked or kidnapped!) And when school closed because of snow, my brother and I would be the first kids in the neighborhood out hitting up the neighbors to shovel their sidewalks for a quarter! How times have changed! [/QUOTE]
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