I'm so old I Remember when:

[kikiruru]

With my grandma it was castor oil. It didn't matter what was wrong with you, she was convinced that a good healthy dose of castor oil would cure it.

I remember the bottle said tasteless and odorless &

thinking how could something that was tasteless taste so bad

 

[kikiruru]

I remember when the back two rows on the school bus were the smoking section.

I remember looking through old school yearbooks of relatives and some of the kids are smoking while getting their pictures taken

 

[kikiruru]

My first home computer was an IBM, monitors came with either amber or green text, and it had DUAL FLOPPY DRIVES! Woo-hoo! Silver Reed printer with the roll of paper that had sprockets on both sides to feed it through, then you tore away the strips of little holes from the finished printing. This was, I kid you not, 1984...

I remember the computer where I worked 1988 had the big boxes of paper that you fed through the printer and tore off the sides and had to separate each page and the tapes were almost as big as VHS tapes that you had to back up your computer so that you would not lose all your information you put

if the power flicked you lost everything since the last time you backed it up

 

[EmmaDonovan]

Are home ec classes still taught? In seventh grade everyone had to take a semester of home ec and a semester of shop. We learned cooking, sewing, and woodworking.

The home ec classroom looked a lot like this. One of the first things we learned how to make was chocolate chip cookies. To discourage kids from eating the raw dough, the teacher told us a very nasty story about a spider who laid her eggs in flour. It was so traumatic I don't even remember the rest of the story but it was very effective.

 

[EmmaDonovan]

I remember the computer where I worked 1988 had the big boxes of paper that you fed through the printer and tore off the sides and had to separate each page and the tapes were almost as big as VHS tapes that you had to back up your computer so that you would not lose all your information you put

if the power flicked you lost everything since the last time you backed it up

Oh yes - back in the days when colleges had computer labs with a shared dot matrix printer. Classes at my university were so competitive that when pages started printing, students would run over and cover the printer with their bodies so no one could copy their work. It took a long time to print. I bet some of those people still have back pain!

 

[EmmaDonovan]

 

[AntiqueB]

NYC doesn't have home ec anymore. In fact, lab classes don't even have experiments. They use worksheets.

They closed a lot of vocational schools. Now kids have to pay for school if they want to be a mechanic or electrician.

 

[Ponypoor]

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Yes! Still have and still use!

 

[Evadig]

I remember the bottle said tasteless and odorless &

thinking how could something that was tasteless taste so bad

My mom always buys lemon flavored cod liver oil (it is not so gross, she says) and now I can't eat anything lemon (except lemonade, there's too much sugar) without feeling like I'm taking cod liver oil. I'd almost have preferred the tasteless and odorless.

 

[RoyalChick]

I'm not really sure why I took an alarm clock back in the day. Hotels always have a wake-up service.

I think it was one of those "mom said always take this when traveling" things, like a universal sink plug and travel clothesline, a rain bonnet, and granola bars. I've never been to a country without food but she inevitably tossed a handful of granola bars into my suitcase.

Anyone remember these rain bonnets?

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Or Carnation breakfast bars?

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Are we the same person?
Actually no, never took granola bars and don’t remember that Carnation bar. But traveling clothes line, plastic rain bonnet, universal sink plug, and of course the clock: check. And still have all of them!