What makes you feel old?

sophiesmum_2

You know all these things to try and get things started and Kaitlin will probably take great delight in waiting until you are really knackered and settled for a good sleep in bed ...then decide it is time to make an appearance:rolleyes: :rolleyes:

Try not to dwell on it - she will come when she is ready:D , and the rest of us DFW's will just have to wait.

sophiesmum

Hello

The age of my Mum. She's just retired. Wait, if Mum has retired, how old does that make me?

HOW OLD???? :eek:

heather38

learning to use a computor at school on a bbc master that used big square discs with a hole in the middle.
really really wanting to be that girl in the A-HA video!!
remembering when houses didn't have central heating or double glazing and having to get dressed in front of the fire.
marathon bars and opal fruits.
shell suits(black and red!)/ra-ra skirts(pink with black spots!)
when you could get 10 sweets for 10p - do they still have 1p chews?
going to cry now-i feel old!!

oh and a girl i work with has never even heard of 'the holy grail' never mind seen it 'we are the knights who say nee'!!!

Toto

When I find myself telling my kids how we only had 2/12 hours of kids TV a day on 3 channels. In my lifetime I have seen invented, video players, moblie phones, actually cordless phones, home computers, video games, CDs and DVDs. I remember when milk came in bottles and cheese came in greaseproof paper and brown paper bags. Supermarkets hardly existed, all the shopping was done at the local butchers, greengrocers and markets.

When I was a kid we had no central heating, I remember ice on the inside of the windows, thick plastic sheeting which went up in October to act as double glazing. Bathtimes in december yikes... We had a twin tub washing machine which marched accross the kitchen when the spin bit was on and a mangle (great for putting snails in when mum had her back turned).

My favourite toy was my space hopper and later my collection of smurfs. I also remember the pop man coming round on a friday night, we also used to walk to the pub on fridays and sit outside with a bottle of coke and a bag of crisps while the parents went in for a few beers.

No one on my street had a car, I remember when a neighbours son came round and parked one outside, I thought he must be a pop star or something to have all that money.

When I look back and think how much simpler life was in the olden days when I was a child (the 1970s!)

Toto

heather38 wrote:

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when you could get 10 sweets for 10p - do they still have 1p chews?
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In my day I could get 40 sweets for 10p, 2 blackjacks or fruit salads for a half penny.

sophiesmum_2

Toto wrote:

We had a twin tub washing machine which marched accross the kitchen when the spin bit was on and a mangle (great for putting snails in when mum had her back turned).



No one on my street had a car, I remember when a neighbours son came round and parked one outside, I thought he must be a pop star or something to have all that money.

When I look back and think how much simpler life was in the olden days when I was a child (the 1970s!)

we had a twin tub , you could smell the washing all over the house on washing day, and if the outlet pipe ever came away from the sink everywhere was soaked:D

I lived in a cul de sac of 9 houses, as a child there were 3 cars in the street, now there are 17:eek:. We had a ford avenger and then an austin princess and thought it was fab as we got them both new:eek: and the avenger had an 8 track stereo in it.
sophiesmum
another child of the 60/70's

Foxy106

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According to statistics and research if we were born before the 70s we are very lucky to be alive............
1. Our baby cots were covered with brightly coloured lead-based paint which was promptly chewed and licked.

2. We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, or latches on doors or cabinets and it was fine to play with pans.

3. When we rode our bikes, we wore no helmets, just flip-flops and fluorescent 'spokey dokey's' on our wheels.

4. As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or airbags riding in the passenger seat was a treat.

5. We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle and it tasted the same.

6. We ate chips, bread and butter pudding and drank fizzy juice with sugar in it, but we were never overweight because we were always outside playing.

7. We shared one drink with four friends, from one bottle or can and no-one actually died from this.

8. We would spend hours building go-carts out of scraps and then went top speed down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes.

9. After running into stinging nettles a few times, we learned to solve the problem.

10. We would leave home in the morning and could play all day, as long as we were back before it got dark. No one was able to reach us and no one minded.

11. We did not have Play stations or X-Boxes, no video games at all.

12. We did not have 99 channels on TV, no videotape movies, no surround sound, no mobile phones, no personal computers, no DVDs, no Internet chat rooms. We had friends - we went outside and found them.

13. We played elastics and rounders, and sometimes that ball really hurt!

14. We fell out of trees, got cut and broke bones but there were no law suits.

15. We had full on fist fights but no prosecution followed from other parents.

16. We played chap-the-door-run-away and were actually afraid of the owners catching us.

17. We walked to friends' homes.

18. We also, believe it or not, WALKED to school; we didn't rely on mummy or daddy to drive us to school, which was just round the corner.

19. We made up games with sticks and tennis balls.

20. We rode bikes in packs of 7 and wore our coats by only the hood.

21. The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke a law was unheard of...They actually sided with the law.

This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers and problem solvers and inventors, ever. The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas. We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned how to deal with it all.

And you're one of them. Congratulations!

Pass this on to others who have had the luck to grow as real kids before lawyers and government regulated our lives, for our own good.

For those of you who aren't old enough I thought you'd like to read about us.

This, my friends, is surprisingly frightening......and it might put a smile on your face:

The majority of students in universities today were born in 1986........They are called youth.

They have never heard of we are the World, We are the children, and the Uptown Girl they know is by Westlife not Billy Joel. They have never heard of Rick Astley, Bananarama, Nena Cherry or Belinda Carlisle.

For them, there has always been only one Germany and one Vietnam.

AIDS has existed since they were born.

CD's have existed since they were born.

Michael Jackson has always been white.

To them John Travolta has always been round in shape and they can't imagine how this fat guy could be a god of dance.

They believe that Charlie's Angels and Mission Impossible are films

they’ll never have pretended to be the A Team, Red Hand Gang or the Famous Five.

They'll never have applied to be on Jim'll Fix it or Why Don't You.

They can't believe a black and white television ever existed. And they will never understand how we could leave the house without a mobile phone.

Now let's check if you're getting old

1. You understand what was written above and you smile.

2. You need to sleep more, usually until the afternoon, after a night out.

3. Your friends are getting married/already married.

4. You are always surprised to see small children playing comfortably with computers.

5. When you see teenagers with mobile phones, you shake your head.

6. You remember watching Dirty Den in EastEnders the first time around.

7. You meet your friends from time to time, talking about the good old days, repeating again all the funny things you have experienced together.

Yes, you're getting old .....................

Oh they were the days!

Imelda

When I see all of my school friends with their children, I shake my head and think "what a waste of their youth", we're all coming up 27 this year! I still feel too young for marriage and children though.....

hypno06

Re Foxy's thread above.

How true was all of that!!!!!

I was born in 1970 so that all applies to me.

The other thing I remember from way back when is the witches hat in the park and REALLY tall slides!

Oh yes, those were the days :cool:

GreyPilgrim

mummytummy wrote:

Wait til you spot your first grey pubic hair:eek:

I've been keeping an eye out for it for months. So far none spotted.