All aboard the time machine

elona

I have been giving this a lot of thought and think I have the perfect solution!

1. Make the time machine a bit like a car so you can pop back and forth whever you like.

2. First you decide what will be valuable nowadays and travel back in time to buy it - return and sell it at vast profit. Get money for period you wish to travel to while looking up what is worth buying at the period you want to go to - etc. etc.

3. If you are ill or need inoculations - medicine etc then you can travel back in time to present day for this.


4. Tell neighbours you have contract job that takes you away for long periods of time to cover absence.


Travel will be self funding and you do not get caught up in disasters etc.


Oh Oh! I would feel so guilty that I could escape and would want to help those left behind - I would probably cause chaos by giving people antibiotics before they were discovered etc!

moggins

Turn of the century Liverpool. I want to see if it was truly as awful as the historical novels I keep reading make it out to be.

And then pre-war Kent, hop picking with the Londoners during the summer.

Potato famine Ireland.

12th Century Wales.

nicki_2

Years back (I know it's probably at least 7 years ago now) there was a programme on TV which I think was called "victorian kitchen" or something. It was based in a manor houses kitchen and it showed you how the cook and her help made foods from scratch including plucking chickens. The thing that sticks out in my mind the most is the cone of sugar that they used to use nibblers to break bits off of and making icecream by hand. I'd love to go back to that time and learn all those skills

MrsMW

I'd like to go back to the 60's and relive my misspent youth................and know what I know now of course. And this time I would marry Cliff. LOL

Austin_Allegro

elona wrote:

I have been giving this a lot of thought and think I have the perfect solution!

1. Make the time machine a bit like a car so you can pop back and forth whever you like.

2. First you decide what will be valuable nowadays and travel back in time to buy it - return and sell it at vast profit. Get money for period you wish to travel to while looking up what is worth buying at the period you want to go to - etc. etc.

3. If you are ill or need inoculations - medicine etc then you can travel back in time to present day for this.


4. Tell neighbours you have contract job that takes you away for long periods of time to cover absence.


Travel will be self funding and you do not get caught up in disasters etc.


Oh Oh! I would feel so guilty that I could escape and would want to help those left behind - I would probably cause chaos by giving people antibiotics before they were discovered etc!

I think you've just written the plot of 'Goodnight Sweetheart' ! :rotfl:

catznine

Post WW2 I think just to see if I really could cope with all that rationing but not have to suffer the air raids and fear etc I really don't know how my Mum and Dad and many others coped! I guess they didn't have much of a choice.

Or anytime before the late 70's as I would love to have been able to stay at home with my children, without all the pressure to go back out to work women have had since the 80's and to have all the support from others doing exactly the same. Staying at home with the children and cooking from scratch etc., is hard work and easier to cope with without all the guilt ladled on to boot! Yes I was a Mum of young children in the have it all 80's

Oh to do it all again but with a bit more confidence that I was doing the right thing!

moggins

I was a new mum during the have it all 80's too I'm so glad I got another shot with my little one 3 years ago and have had the chance to spend this time at home with her.

Trouble is she starts school in September and I don't want to go back to work

r.mac_2

well, I would love to life the high life in teh 20's and thirties with all the glamourous parties and outfits and men.

This wouldn't be very old style though, so I think you would have to transport me back to Enid Blyton's era. I would be part of the Famous Five, drink home made ginerbeer and eat home made cake. I would solve 'mysteries', catch smugglers and be an alround wholesome girl who used the phrases 'Oh, Father, you are such a brick!', and 'wizard'.

Yes, that's where I would go.

catznine

If you could get in a time machine and go back to say the 50's it would probably not be an issue for you Moggins. If only! I spent much of my time in and out of jobs - home was really where I wanted to be and when the kids were ill there was no question of me leaving them.

I finally realised when the children were teenagers that actually I had been more useful and productive at home and my husband agrees (now!) We have 2 happy and well adjusted children and the only regrets I have is the fact that I bowed to pressure and even tried going out to work when they were small. Of course some folks will disagree and this is only my opinion But this site does show how much can be saved with a bit of thought and time. If only it had been around (and home computers of course!:D) 2 decades ago!

Allexie

Ooooh nooooo....I want to go forward...about 50 years will do. Just think of what has been invented in the last 50 years...can't wait to see what the next 50 bring......


*if we're all still here that is:o *