I'm a 30-something, and havent experienced much more than the general membership here, I'm sure, but I get the most amazing "stop and think about this for a second...." moments when I consider how much our world has changed over the lives of us all.
For me - I've lived without a cell phone. I was in high school when people who had pagers were considered to be drug dealers. I grew up with Oregon Trail in my teens. Most people didn't have computers at home. The mountain I lived on didn't have cable TV, so we had only 3 channels. Our roads weren't paved, and Saturday afternoons were spent jumping into the river swinging off vines. Call waiting and caller ID were a really big deal, but we didn't get them because they cost more money.
My grandma tells me they didn't have wheelchairs. She was a nurse in her white cap and skirt and tights. She had an alcoholic, abusive husband at a time when that was shameful to even mention. My grandpa tells me no one on his street had a TV. It was a really big deal when someone got one, and everyone whispered about it.
My 90-something patient told me about how so much of healthcare took place at home because you really, really had to be messed up for mom to go get the horses and carriage ready to go to the doctor. She got in big trouble once when she broke her arm falling from a tree.
What have you lived through? What pieces of history stay with you?
I just thought of another one, Teddy Ruxpin (sp?), creepy little teddy bear that told you stories. My teen beat posters were of JTT from Home Improvement lol. I was a senior in high school, sitting in first aid class when 9/11 happened and I remember not initially realizing the seriousness of it until a lot of my friends were freaking out thinking they'd reinstate the draft.
I SO wanted a Teddy Ruxbin...he was creepy when I think about it now...
What was that thing where they had basically a basket ball with a circular disc you put your feet on, and you used your feet to hold the ball, and you could bounce on it? I want one now. I bet you could tone your legs up nicely with that.
Remember table board games? We used to have Monopoly marathons; there was the Game of Life, Operation, Clue, Battleship, and a gazillion more, like that boyfriend-Barbie game.
I remember when Twister was THE 'tween game for young teeny kids.
What was that thing where they had basically a basket ball with a circular disc you put your feet on, and you used your feet to hold the ball, and you could bounce on it? I want one now. I bet you could tone your legs up nicely with that.
Pogo ball?
Was always scared I was going to bust my face open...so I would only watch.
Teddy Ruxpin...I put my Bon Jovi , Slippery When Wet cassette in my brother's bear and broke it. My mom made me buy him a new one with my birthday money.
Teddy Ruxpin...I put my Bon Jovi , Slippery When Wet cassette in my brother's bear and broke it. My mom made me buy him a new one with my birthday money.
My husband always wanted to get one and put a Metallica tape in it. Can you imagine "One" coming out of that bear? Or "So What"?
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Stupid fads...remember pet rocks? I can't believe somebody got rich from deciding to paint a face on a little rock.
Lmao that reminds me of the time I decided to have a roadside rock sale stand! Lol, I basically dug up a bunch of rocks, used my mom's cookware as wash basins and cleaned them, then set up a stand and tried to sell them haha... needless to say I'm no closer to retirement!
I was talking about this thread at work and we all started reminiscing, and came up with skip-it, tamagachi, and Bop-It. My sister left her tamagachi with my mom when she went to camp and came home to a dead tamagachi pet surrounded with virtual poo piles, my sister was so upset lol.
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I SO wanted a Teddy Ruxbin...he was creepy when I think about it now...