<p>You remember how cool the effects were on Dark Shadows</p>
<p>You remember when it really was nickle candy</p>
<p>And you have seen some fashions come back TWICE!!!</p>
<p>For moms:</p>
<p>… you remember girls wearing acrylic platform shoes with water inside them and real goldfish swimming around on American Bandstand </p>
<p>… you’re at the mall and even the old guys look at your daughter, not you</p>
<p>… You ever wore legwarmers or had a big-hair perm, and ever used one of those butt-shaking contraptions at the workout center</p>
<p>… you remember “earth shoes” with the low heels</p>
<p>EARTH SHoes!!! I tried describing them to my Daughters, and all i got was EWWWWWWW</p>
<p>You remember the “Summer of Love” and the overdose deaths of Janis Joplin and Van Morrison.</p>
<p>Nickel candy? Pfft. I remember PENNY candy! I must be ancient. ;)</p>
<p>You remember having to get up and change the channel, all five of them</p>
<p>You used a typewriter - and found erasable paper the coolest thing!</p>
<p>I have to laugh when I read posts about having microwaves in your dorm room. Back in the dark ages, the closest thing to an appliance that we were allowed to have in the dorm room were those little gizmos that had a plug on one end and a metal coil on the other that you put inside a cup of water so you could heat it up for tea or soup. Or am I so old that I’m the only one who remembers those things?</p>
<p>You know you’re old when you remember men’s hair being long and men’s shorts being short.</p>
<p>You know you’re old when a musician you adore brings their child to tour your school. EDIT: and none of the tour guides recognize him. Or get excited to give the tour when they are clued in.</p>
<p>The kid went to Stanford. :(</p>
<p>You know when you are old when it was SHOES that were called thongs</p>
<p>You know you are old when you remember using slide rules.</p>
<p>You know you are old when you remember your principal coming into the classroom and telling you that President Kennedy had been shot.</p>
<p>That was a sad day.</p>
<p>On a lighter note…</p>
<p>You know that you are old when the kids that you used to BABYSIT BECOME GRANDPARENTS!!! </p>
<p>I’ve had that happen twice already </p>
<p>(and I’m not a grandma yet, myself!)</p>
<p>ctygrlsmom, I had to laugh about getting up to change the channel. My parents used to joke that that’s why they had kids–to change the channel for them. I also remember that we had a manual volume control with the letters V O L U M E spelled out. When my parents wanted the tv turned up or down, they would say to turn it up a letter. To this day we will all sometimes say to turn it up/down a letter.</p>
<p>* we were allowed to have in the dorm room were those little gizmos that had a plug on one end and a metal coil on the other that you put inside a cup of water so you could heat it up for tea or soup. *</p>
<p>actually my daughter had one of those freshman year, because microwave ( along with other things) weren’t allowed in the dorm room</p>
<p>You know you’re old when you remember wearing your hair in brush rollers with a scarf over it to the shopping mall!</p>
<p>Anyone remember “Choo-Choo bags?”</p>
<p>Tookie!!! Hair in rollers with a scarf!!! We were even allowed to wear curlers to school if we had an event that night (dance, cheer a football game, etc.) I don’t think a girl today would even consider doing this!</p>
<p>It was actually a “status symbol” because it meant you had a social life.</p>
<p>Choo choo bags??? No, what were they???</p>
<p>Anyone remember the cereal, “Team Flakes” ??? </p>
<p>I loved them but don’t remember which major cereal company made them or why they were discontinued.</p>
<p>Alongfortheride: That was Jim Morrison, not Van Morrison. Van just released a new album (Pay the Devil). </p>
<p>Opps, Why do I know this? Busted…</p>
<p>All my childhood photos are in black and white. My parents were too poor to buy Kodachrome (due apologies to Paul Simon).</p>