I kept the diapers in the box. So did my daughter with my grand.
I may be the odd one here, but where we lived we never had a party line. Or maybe it was possible to pay to have a private line and we did that. But my grandma didn't have a party line either, at least not by the time I was old enough to talk to her, maybe at four. In fact the only party line I ever saw was on Andy Griffith and shows that we're filmed in supposed rural areas. We were all near Chicago. Maybe the city didn't have party lines. They we're not apart of my life or memory.
I think the area we lived in was more upgraded, possibly because of a larger population, possibly because it was a wealthy area.
My memories do not include much of what was talked about here and, Pink, I am ten years older than you. People around me all owned their own homes and most had modern conveniences, whatever that meant in the day.