<p>poetsheart- I had one of those transister radios too! I used to make chains out of pop can tops and hang them in the doorway,while listening to Casey Kasem’s Top 40 on my cool blue radio.</p>
<p>how about garter belts?
I remember wearing both fishnet stockings and thicker socks that way- ugh
my favorite radio was a panasonic round transistor radio.
( ebay describes it as * mod and groovy*- I don’t remember using either of those words except for * ironically* )
do they still print TigerBeat magazine?</p>
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<p>Who could forget madras and weejuns?</p>
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<p>Tookie, OMG,</p>
<p>We centainly had them them in our house. They came in the box of Duz laundry detergent.</p>
<p>How many of us probably had service for 8 from having enough of those glasses?</p>
<p>What about sending a dime to get those little “starting womanhood” booklets on the side of the kimberly clark boxes of feminine products and the blue lines on them :rolleyes:</p>
<p>S&H green stamps.</p>
<p>Plaid stamps</p>
<p>Kenner close and play record players</p>
<p>making long strands of chains from chewing gum wrappers</p>
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<p>…and Villager dresses!</p>
<p>and chemin de fir pants (sp?)</p>
<p>and Hang Ten shirts (I’d borrow my brothers) with Levi cords</p>
<p>A brand of grape jelly used to put their jelly in juice glasses so you’d have the juice glass when the jelly was gone.</p>
<p>You know that you’re old if you went to a Catholic school and your teachers were nuns who wore the full habit, had the big swinging rosary, and would ONLY address you by your full baptismal name - no nicknames allowed. and you had a “beanie” to wear on your head.</p>
<p>You feel REALLY old when you receive BOTH 10 college brochures for your kid AND a couple of pieces of direct mail from places like the AARP, Zsa Zsa Gabor’s wig company, and retirement villas in Florida every day.</p>
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<p>You know you are old if you remember when jeans were dungarees and your parent’s did not allow you to wear them “out” because they were “work clothes” for around the house.</p>
<p>I would bet white carpenter pants will come back, or I hope so, they were cool…</p>
<p>desert boots</p>
<p>HIDING bra straps</p>
<p>those pants that ended at the knee, like golf pants (not caprsis tho) worn with boots or arglye knee highs</p>
<p>winged hair ala farrah</p>
<p>onxy jewelry</p>
<p>mood rings</p>
<p>everclear</p>
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Still done in my hometown, back in NJ. 
Haha! I needed weejuns for a costume and no department stores carry them anymore. I had to find a Bass outlet to get them!</p>
<p>They’re still sooo comfy!
What were they for? We collected them in an old Godiva box and never did anything with them!</p>
<p>Who still has an indie hardware store? I remember riding my bike downtown to ours with a note from my mom pinned to my clothes. The little man there would collect everything on her list, charge it to our “account” and send me home with her things.</p>
<p>Ha!
Some of the hardware stores around here I think still have inventory from when I was 5.
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<p>LOLOLOLOL!</p>
<p>Your doctor or dentist is younger (much) than you are. </p>
<p>Laying around in the “way back” of the station wagon, driving all the way across country, reading Richie Rich comic books with my sister.</p>
<p>Walking home alone from school in kindergarten!</p>
<p>On the clothes thing…Dr. Sholls, for sure. And how about cutting off your Levis, slitting the legs and sewing in all kinds of funky fabric for a SKIRT? I had a few of those.</p>
<p>Oh, and some Hukapoo. And lots of peasant blouses. And Fair Isle sweaters. And round pins with your initials, both one in script and in block print.</p>
<p>Covering your old couch in college with an Indian print bedspread!</p>
<p>And using an old trunk as a coffee table…</p>
<p>OMGosh, there are so many!</p>
<p>Wool pants for playing outside in the winter
Pegged jeans
Nehru jackets
Brown shoes to school - never mind sneakers -because black was “too grown up”
The flip sides of your 45’s
Glass slides
Sunday drives
Spy TV shows (Get Smart, I Spy, Man from UNCLE) </p>
<p>Moms yelling for you and your friends to come in for dinner at 6:00.</p>
<p>…and Spy vs. Spy (Mad Magazine)</p>
<p>Some of this is repetative but here goes. You know you are old when you remember:</p>
<p>Quisp & Quake cereal
Earth Shoes
Dial Phones w/ party lines
(area codes that meant something!)
Local dialing that contains 2 letters, like ANdrew8-8000 for 268-8000
Disco Music
Earth Shoes
Hippies . . .
Radios and TVs with tubes instead of transistors
VHF Broadcast TV . . . before UHF expanded our options
no VCRs or timeshifting of any kind
Winding watches instead of batteries
Wooden golf clubs and tennis raquets</p>
<p>remember those small thin plastic records that were sold in machines?
I think they were played on 33rpm and were like singles only they were smaller.</p>
<p>And using an old trunk as a coffee table… welcome to my living room ;)</p>
<p>those tennis raquets with the small faces…</p>
<p>playgrounds on cements</p>
<p>dangerous swings</p>