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Originally posted by Blackcat31
In my community, other than Wal-Mart and Target, almost all businesses are closed on Sundays.
In my community, other than Wal-Mart and Target, almost all businesses are closed on Sundays.
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Remember when the word *NO* only had two letters???
(as opposed to four, now)
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I have worked very hard to have my kids say YES and when I had my last daycare girl my daughter would only say yeah... Because the dcg only said yeah.
Just a couple weeks ago my daughter started saying YES again after many attempts to get her to again. I love that my kids will know the correct word is YES and not ya or yeah!Comment
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That is something to be proud of, and not "yep" or "yup" either.Originally posted by ABCDaycareMN
I love that my kids will know the correct word is YES and not ya or yeah!Comment
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Remember the old vacuum cleaner styled hair-dryers? The ones with the big plastic balloon bonnet thingies that you had to pull on over your head... with the long hose attached to it?
Remember the noise they made?
Remember how silly the big oversized plastic bonnet looked?Comment
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I admit, I have issues with saying 'Yeah' instead of 'Yes'. For some reason the word 'yes' just sounds really harsh/sharp to my ears (if that makes sense?). I know I need to work on it (I knew that even before this thread), but for some reason it just seems so unnatural and intense sounding even (yeah, I think about things way too much). ETA: Uh-oh, I did it again!
Sometimes I cringe when my mom and I are singing songs in the car and she says the last letter at the end of a word sharply (like the words "Right" or "Night"). My theater voice and dictation teacher said that most people (at least in our region) now have, what he calls, "California Mush-mouth". It means that they don't "Tap the T's", "Pop the P's", or pronounce other consonants sharply enough; Basically he's saying we don't enunciate enough.Comment
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Remember when nothing was wasted in homes? Not food, clothing, material (fabric), nothing. Everyone used, reused, and used again, in order to make things last.
As for things that could be fixed (mechanical equipment/devices), people fixed and repaired them... and fixed and repaired them again and again... no matter how old they were.
Such a stark contrast when compared to consumerism today, where so many things are replaced for new, for no reason, not to mention all the needless purchases people make.Comment
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... every household had a sewing machine to it's credit, and the woman of the house knew how to use it? Unlike today, where tailor shops have become (more or less) the solution.Comment
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I remember! I was in first grade and I walked home every day for lunch with my older sister and a few other kids from the neighborhood. In order to make it home and back in the hour's time, we had to take a short cut which included an underpass tunnel that ran under some train tracks and was pitch black inside even on the sunniest of days. We had to walk down a set of cement stairs and into the tunnel. We were told to keep walking once we were in there and not talk to any of the "hobos" who might be living in there.
Of course, there were always some older kids who liked to scream as loud as they could in there because the acoustics in there were incredible.
Once we got through the tunnel, we walked up stairs to a walkway that paralleled a river that was used basically for waste disposal by the nearby paper factories. Everyday, the dyes from the factories would turn the water a different color - red one day, bright pink or lime green the next day and so on. The smell was so horrible we had to walk holding our noses. At the end of the walkway, we had to make a left turn and walk onto a wooden bridge that went over the river. The planks of the bridge had enough of an opening between each that as you walked across, you could look down into the river. Very scary for a 1st grader! From there we walked up a hill and had to cross a busy main street and then walk several more blocks before we reached home. We made that walk back and fourth four times every day no matter what the weather was. When I think about it now, I cringe - and laugh at the same time. As an adult, I wouldn't even think about taking that walk nevermind let my kids do it!
That's funny! We used to make a similar trek every morning in our Mercury Comet. http://www.americandreamcars.com/196...drsd122204.htm
My parents and 5 of us kids would climb into the car and then pick up my mother's co-worker and several school friends who needed a ride, too. There were the 3 adults and 1 or 2 kids crammed into the front seat and at least 6 or 7 kids in the back. My father would drop my mother and her friend off at the school they worked for. Then he'd drop my sister and her friend off at high school, and the rest of us off at elementary school before he headed off to work. At the beginning of the route, there was a relatively steep hill we had to drive up. Most days, the car would only make it half way. My father would tell us to get out and then drive up to the top of the hill. We'd all have to run up the rest of the hill before piling back into the car so we could all get to where we were going.
It was so embarrassing then but we often laugh about it now.
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I remember having to wear a dress or skirt to church. We were not allowed to wear pants and definitely not jeans or shorts like you sometimes see today. We weren't allowed to enter our church without a hat or a mantilla (lace veil) on our head. If we forgot the hat or mantilla, we had to wear either a handkerchief or Kleenex.:
: I'm cracking up just thinking about it!::
My husband still insists on using his set of ugly bright yellow plates and cups that he got free in the large bags of dog food his parents used to buy. No matter how hard I try, I just can't break them!
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We did! We used them all the time to do school reports.
Yes! I have three younger brothers so I did a lot of dunking! My great aunt used to tell us it would give us "soft, lily-white hands"
TMI warning! Sometimes, my mother would leave the diapers in the toilet to soak a little. I remember way too many times when I noticed them only after I had flushed and then having to play tug-of-war with the toilet to keep the diaper from going down and clogging it. Aaaah, memories!!!::
Looking back, there are a lot of things I did in my youth that I would never do now!
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LOL! That's the best one I've ever heard!!!Originally posted by e.j.
My great aunt used to tell us it would give us "soft, lily-white hands"
One of my aunts used to do that. Reminds me of a rebel babysitter I once hired... a twenty-something college student. Her first stint babysitting for us was an early evening session. I'm gathering diaper rinsing wasn't her forte, because when I arrived home at the end of the night, I was greeted by several bundles of dirty diapers that had been plopped/dumped into the BATHTUB, rubber pants still worn over. I promptly replaced her.Originally posted by e.j.
Sometimes, my mother would leave the diapers in the toilet to soak a little.Comment
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I still have flashbacks to a family (who I still love and keep in touch with!) who's kids used cloth diapers- she used to put the poopy ones in the toilet and leave it to soak and I assume until she could get to it... She babysat me after school and I remember always having to check and see if the toilet was ok to use... Then I babysat her kids- I STILL hate cloth diapers because of it! So gross-Comment
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