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?
Watching "Roots" on TV & having to discuss it at school
Laser disc players
"Plop plop fizz fizz oh what a relief it is"
Filmstrips (boop)
Cathy Rigby, Cheryl Tiegs, Bo Derek
"I hanker for a hunka cheese"
Merlin, Simon, & Speak & Spell
Noxema, Love's Baby Soft, Sea Breeze, coconut scented Coppertone, Gee Your Hair Smells Terrific shampoo, fruity lip balm in the little tins with the lid that slid back, Dippity Do hair gel, Salon Selectives mousse, Rave & Aqua Net hairspray (yes I was a hair goddess in the 80s)
"New" Coke
Fashion Plates
Garanimals
Underoos
I thought Trixie Belden kicked Nancy Drew's butt!
Beverly Cleary and Judy Blume books
Reebok high tops
Taping El DeBarge's "To The Beat of the Rhythm of the Night" off the radio onto a Maxell 90 minute cassette
Guess, Girbaud, Esprit, Generra, Benetton, Swatch
"Dallas" & "Falcon Crest" on Friday nights. Then staying up late to watch "Friday Night Videos" and falling asleep to the old Johnny Carson
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Not shilling for the company, but you can still get "Gee, Your Hair Smells Terrific" shampoo through The Vermont Country Store; they also have some products from 'the past' that you thought were no longer available.
Specializes in Med nurse in med-surg., float, HH, and PDN.
Yeah, like that Midnight In Paris cologne I used to be able to buy at Woolworth's Five and Dime Store for something like 25 cents when I was 11 years old. I think that's a riot!
I buy my gold-tipped tweezers through them, the best tweezers in the world and I've never used anything but, for over 30 years.
And since every store in the mall only sells terry cloth or FLEECE bathrobes, which I HATE, when VCS has self-belted chenille robes in their catalog, I'll buy one.
Prices have naturally gone up over the years, but there are a few products for which I will 'accept no substitutes', so I am glad there is a place where I can still get them
OK, I said I wasn't shilling for them, and really, I'm not. I'm just an enthusiast. Like you couldn't tell, huh?
Returning this thread to the original title:
I remember when my sister and aunt got caught smoking behind the garden shed. My grandmother swabbed their tongues with a bar of Fels Naptha soap. I didn't suffer the same, because though I held a cigarette I did not light it or try to smoke( she smelled my breath to make sure I was telling the truth) ; therefore, I just got a stern lecture.
Yeah, like that Midnight In Paris cologne I used to be able to buy at Woolworth's Five and Dime Store for something like 25 cents when I was 11 years old. I think that's a riot!
I buy my gold-tipped tweezers through them, the best tweezers in the world and I've never used anything but, for over 30 years.
And since every store in the mall only sells terry cloth or FLEECE bathrobes, which I HATE, when VCS has self-belted chenille robes in their catalog, I'll buy one.
Prices have naturally gone up over the years, but there are a few products for which I will 'accept no substitutes', so I am glad there is a place where I can still get them
OK, I said I wasn't shilling for them, and really, I'm not. I'm just an enthusiast. Like you couldn't tell, huh?
Returning this thread to the original title:
I remember when my sister and aunt got caught smoking behind the garden shed. My grandmother swabbed their tongues with a bar of Fels Naptha soap. I didn't suffer the same, because though I held a cigarette I did not light it or try to smoke( she smelled my breath to make sure I was telling the truth) ; therefore, I just got a stern lecture.
Ha ha! You got off better than my sister.....she got caught smoking by our mom and was forced to sit and smoke 4 or 5 Pall Mall straights in a row until she puked and cried. She hasn't touched cigarettes since!!! Nowadays you could NEVER do that to a kid!
And I loved getting chosen to flip the film strip in class (boop!)
Did anyone ever read " Are You There God, it's Me Margaret"? I read it several times. I'm tempted to back and read it just to see if it really as bad as I think it must have been (even though I loved it at the time!)
No. I had pink Styrofoam "rollers" that wouldn't hurt me when I slept.
I had those too. Spent countless hours sleeping on them, excitedly anticipating the next morning's curls! (My hair is stick straight, so getting a days of curls was always a treat!)
Specializes in Med nurse in med-surg., float, HH, and PDN.
It never mattered to my hair if I slept all night in ANY size rollers and used every product that promised to keep the curls, because within an hour of removing the curlers my hair straightened itself out completely. I don't know why I ever bothered! When I tried to get my hair to imitate Farrah's hair, it just laughed at me and went back to just hanging down. I eventually quit arguing with my hair, because it never did anything fashionable that I wanted it to do.
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Like you couldn't tell, huh?
Red Kryptonite
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Lots of people still do, or else that whole section of the freezer case would be empty.....