I'm so old I Remember when:

[Sally PB]

Knitted mittens on a string for me.

Ah.... the mittens on a string...

 

[Canadian Wind]

I'm so old I remember when we got a new pair of rabbit fur line gloves every winter for school.

I want to make myself some of those.

 

[Hayden Goseek]

 

[RoyalChick]

Ah.... the mittens on a string...

It was such a clever idea. I don’t know why my mother didn’t deploy it for socks and shoes too!

 

[Nomadicus]

I'm so old I remember the Nursery Rhyme about the kittens who lost their mittens.

 

[Canadian Wind]

I'm so old I remember the Nursery Rhyme about the kittens who lost their mittens.

We're three little kittens
Who've lost our mittens
And don't know where to fiiiiiind them!

 

[Hayden Goseek]

Before you pile into the wayback machine remember
that the wages were probably a dollar an hour.

 

[Canadian Wind]

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Before you pile into the wayback machine remember
that the wages were probably a dollar an hour.

They must have lived in a mansion! My parents bought their house for $8000 in 1971.

 

[AntiqueB]

My parents spent $30,000 for a house in the cheapest NYC suburb they could find, in 1971.

My father's salary was maybe $13,000 per year.

 

[Evadig]

I'm so old I remember the Nursery Rhyme about the kittens who lost their mittens.

Me too!
I had a very old book about it. It was one of the first books I could read.