I'm so old I Remember when:

[MotherofOrpies]

They made us read Ol' Yeller and Where the Red Fern Grows in fourth grade. I was eight years old! That was cruel.

I read them, cos I loved dogs… what an ending I guess they are among the reasons I start reading a book, and then read the end, if the main character are not at the end, I don’t read the (whole) book

 

[MotherofOrpies]

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I‘m beginning to reach that age, when I can’t even support myself when you reach the pension age, what you usually earn gets halved, but the premiums for health insurance are rising, but other costs stay the same, or are also increasing at least I don’t have my 40 and 35 year old kids moving back in with me , like one of my friend has

 

[MotherofOrpies]

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Why is everyone else getting younger, and staring to mumble

 

[R2elk]

Why is everyone else getting younger, and staring to mumble

In one of the sister sites a meme was posted saying that the number of people that are older than you never increases.

 

[jxp]

What do foam "beans" and tinsel Christmas icicle stands have in common?
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They get everywhere and last forever. Found by vacuums years later.

 

[pertnear09]

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Is this the one without baffles? My first wife and I had one and the least little movement would start rolling waves. So, being young, we'd set off a tsunami warning quite regularly.

 

[pertnear09]

I remember this.
My grandmother drank some soda called Fresca. My folks bought RC.
Funny.

There's an old building in town that began in the early 40's as a family owned grocery. It's a Sanford and Son type business today but on the side of the building, high up, you can still see a very faded Royal Crown logo.

 

[MROO]

My little brother did this when he was about 9 yrs old. He climbed up on his upper bunk and came down hard on his bean bag chair. Those tiny pellets went everywhere! Looked like it snowed in his room.
Needless to say Mom was not pleased.

My DB plopped our cat in the middle of my busted beanbag chair. Do you have any idea what a mess a very large cat can make chasing a bazillion little snowballs? Mom wasn't the only unhappy one there. I was weeks getting them cleaned up. We haven't been in that house in decades, and I'll bet the present owners are still finding tiny little Styrofoam beads!

 

[Smoked Brisket]

 

[NanaK]

We haven't been in that house in decades, and I'll bet the present owners are still finding tiny little Styrofoam beads!

When my brother did this I was a teen so I had to help Mom with the vacuuming. It would have been around 1979. We moved a couple years later. I'll bet when the carpet was replaced they found more.

Those beads static stick to your skin. You can't get them off!