You know you are "old" when....

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<p>Ahhhhhh… the beauty of the internet.</p>

<p>Just googled Team Flakes and got this info from 2 posts:</p>

<p>“When Nabisco sold its cereal line to Post, Team Flakes was the only cereal in the line that Post discontinued…” “Those were the best flakes on the planet. Corn, Wheat, Rice, and Oats. It was a veritable Chicago Board of Trade of cereals. I truly miss that breakfast delicacy.”</p>

<p>so, now I know… boo hoo… I adored those flakes! They stayed crunchy in milk!!! And tasted awesome and I dont’ think that they had much (if any) sugar added to them.</p>

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<p>*Hair in rollers with a scarf!!! We were even allowed to wear curlers to school *
um no
I do remember when the only time we were allowed to wear pants was only when it snowed and they had to be under dresses .
( this was in grade school)
In 7th & 8th gd, we could wear pants one day a week, but they couldn’t be jeans.
In 9th gd we could wear anything we wanted.</p>

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<p>I was the first girl, 4th grade, in my school to wear pants, well, it was an dark orange leisure suit type of garment, verrrry attractive</p>

<p>It was because it was very cold, and I also was constantly getting scrapes playing on the jungle gym that had these big bolts (not real consious of safety back in the day)</p>

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<p>Emerald…</p>

<p>we weren’t ever allowed to wear pants, no matter how cold it was… One girl tried to wear a pair of pants under her skirt on a cold day and she was made to take the pants off. Those kinds of things would never happen today – parents just wouldn’t sit still for it.</p>

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<p>LOL</p>

<p>Isn’t it amazing what we once thought was “fashionable”!</p>

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<p>Remember when certain female “unmentionables” came with an elastic BELT to hold them up? (Don’t make me explain.)</p>

<p>Or how about wearing gloves and hats to church every Sunday?</p>

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<p>OHIO MARY</p>

<p>YES!!! and sometimes that metal part (the attachment part) would pinch you in the fanny when you sat in your hard desk at school.</p>

<p>Yes!! We always had to wear at least a hat (moms wore the gloves, too) to church. and if we didn’t have a hat, we had to bobby pin a kleenex to our heads!!! Crazy!</p>

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<p>Jlauer, yes, it was sooo cool, it had the fake pockets and everything</p>

<p>When I see flashback shows of men wearing those suits, wow, was I hip…</p>

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<p>I remember we had to wrap our sweaters around the playground bar (I don’t remember what they were called) so that the insides of our knees wouldn’t get “burned” from twirling around the bars on one leg. </p>

<p>(My goodness, there sure wasn’t as many danger/safety concerns back then!)</p>

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<p>I first felt old (in my 30’s) when an intern at my office discussed how they studied the Beatles in music theory. I used to lay awake listening to them on my transitor radio with the single earplug. Later in life felt old when no one around me believed that Mia Farrow was ever married to Frank Sinatra.</p>

<p>Also re cereal, remember when Corn Pops were Sugar Pops (Sugar Pops are tops!) and Frosted Flakes were Sugar Frosted Flakes?</p>

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<p>I remember that before we used to go to a drive-in movie, we used to stop at Sav-on and get the full size candy bars for 3 for a 10 cents!</p>

<p>and I remember penny candy, too (in bins).</p>

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<p>Remember “feathered” bangs?</p>

<p>I remember how much my braces cost: $1200. My daughters’ cost more than 4 times that today.</p>

<p>At my first “real” job, I made $5.10 an hour. Actually, that doesn’t sound so bad now when you consider the minimum wage!</p>

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<p>Sugar pops and Sugar Frosted Flakes!</p>

<p>I guess marketing told them that having “Sugar” in their names was a big “no no” (but it didn’t get them to reduce the actual sugar!)</p>

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<p>Yes, feathered bangs…</p>

<p>do you remember the SHAG haircut? we used to put our hair in a pony right on the top of our heads and then cut the pony across. Then take the rubber band out of the pony and voila… Shag haircut!</p>

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<p>I still have a shag haircut (she said sheepishly)!! It’s awesome!</p>

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<p>I STILL HAVE my Earth shoes; they are in perfect condition (apparently they are indestructible.) I had a shag haircut for a while in high school; and I remember bobbypinning a kleenex to my head for church when we were out of town.</p>

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<p>I still have argyle socks from high school in the huge “sock basket” we never seem to get rid of. I also saved my Catholic school uniform from those days and my daughters think it’s hysterical. The skirt was only allowed to be two finger-widths above the knee.</p>

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<p>Some of the girls rolled their hair on orange juice cans. Sleeping in brush rollers every night was a killer!</p>

<p>A Choo-Choo bag was a hard rectangular bag with a handle on the top that looked like a train case. Anyone remember “train cases?” It’s a hard make-up toiletry bag (you carried on trains - ha).</p>

<p>Anyone remember the hair dryers that came in a box you opened up with a tube that connected to a plastic shower cap?</p>

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<p>Yes, we had such a hair dryer – had a “bonnet” on the end of the hose – lovely! thank goodness for the birth of blow dryers!</p>

<p>Anyone remember when bathrooms had metal “heaters” on the wall. You’d press a button and the coils would get red hot!!! Just a bit dangerous LOL </p>

<p>Can you imagine how many kids got burned from touching/leaning/falling on them???</p>

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<p>Seems like our bathroom heater was ceramic and had a flame. I remember my dad would hang my clothes up nearby to warm them before he would wake me in the morning.</p>