I'm so old I Remember when:

[tripletfeb]

Breakfast Club. The books are not like the movie....AT ALL.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Not me. I stayed away from that and the crowd that was into it.
I watched my brother throw away so much of his time and money chasing his fix.
Seemed once you started it never ended. Of course I experimented a couple times in high school. I didn't care for it and didn't fall for the peer pressure or teachers saying it was good for ya.
I remember once when I was with my brother going somewhere cool and we stopped and got gas. I lost track of him and waited and waited. Finally he showed up and was acting shifty as he got in the car and tried to shove something behind the seat without me seeing.
Ya books. SMDH, we're in a hurry and he's off scoring a couple paperbacks from a dark corner in a gas station. I didn't even know that was a thing.
I knew right then how low someone would go to feed that addiction and knew I was never gonna be like that.

Yeah, I was (ahem, AM) a real addict. Mom signed us up for Reader's Digest Condensed Books just to feed my addiction. Hello, my name is Blue and I am a biblioholic....

 

[pertnear09]

Yeah, I was (ahem, AM) a real addict. Mom signed us up for Reader's Digest Condensed Books just to feed my addiction. Hello, my name is Blue and I am a biblioholic....

I've got some of those from the 50's

 

[The Moonshiner]

Yeah, I was (ahem, AM) a real addict. Mom signed us up for Reader's Digest Condensed Books just to feed my addiction. Hello, my name is Blue and I am a biblioholic....

I remember getting a set of encyclopedias one volume at a time. Believe they were from the grocery store with green stamps. Anyways ya my brother would get a bit excited everytime we got a new one.
He was quite the embarrassment.

 

[Ponypoor]

My (dramatic) best friend picked out a very distinctive dark purple for her living room walls. My elder daughter quite accurately christened it, "Gothic Barney". (My friend was delighted and still calls her wall color by that name.)

Both daughters were big Barney fans as kidlets. We were glad when they graduated to "Spice Girls"...no more Barney songs invading our heads.

I had a foal here named Bonny but my little niece could only call her Barney, so that was the name stuck with her haha! So instead of Bonny Bell, it was Barney Bell

That horse would likely be long passed away now, she would be at least 30 where does the time go….

 

[Ponypoor]

My last set of truck tires I got for right at 1200.00 total with going local to get mounted. Buying the tires local would have been around 1800.00 total

I am so dreading having to get my trucks tires, I get aggressive tread mud/snow ones, needed for the logging and ice roads I travel for working. Don’t even want to know what they cost now

 

[jxp]

The Real McCoys

Ma and Pa Kettle were before my time when they first aired but I enjoyed them on reruns on the Saturday afternoon movie time on TV.

 

[jxp]

I remember getting a set of encyclopedias one volume at a time. Believe they were from the grocery store with green stamps. Anyways ya my brother would get a bit excited everytime we got a new one.
He was quite the embarrassment.

World Book Encyclopedia, we got them one volume at a time but I believe it was through a door -to-door salesman. Then, each year we also were sent a yearbook.
I was bored with school and wanted to quit. My dad said I could if I read all of these books as well as the Time Life series and he got to quiz me. Yeah - I stayed in school.

 

[jxp]

I remember getting a set of encyclopedias one volume at a time. Believe they were from the grocery store with green stamps. Anyways ya my brother would get a bit excited everytime we got a new one.
He was quite the embarrassment.

What'd your brother end up doing with his life?

 

[chrissynemetz]

A sure sign that Christmas was near.