'Remember when' or 'these kids today' nostalgia thread for old fogies like me

[Alaskan]

I had to use a paper bag for my lunch.... I got to use the same one, and had to take good care of it so that it would last as long as possible.

 

[The Moonshiner]

I had to use a paper bag for my lunch.... I got to use the same one, and had to take good care of it so that it would last as long as possible.

Now that's hardcore.
I remember as a kid I had a grandma that always did and made us wash the aluminum foil when she baked something. She could make a piece of foil last till the shine was wore off.

 

[Alaskan]

we did too.... and reused plastic sandwich bags for forever... like zip lock bags but thinner, and no zip lock.

Mom didn't even wash them unless they "needed" it.

I still remember the disappointment when my sandwich gad cookie crumbs... yeah... I got cookies.

 

[The Moonshiner]

Jeez I do the sandwich bags myself. We just got past that need a snack with me everywhere I go stage with my youngest.
I do get the fancy glad ziplocks. I don't wash them but will turn them inside out for a good shaking. Usually they get thrown away when they get holes.
I thought everyone did that. Those things are too expensive to use just once.
Now don't I feel like the pot calling the kettle black

 

[Alaskan]

it is good to be frugal!

 

[N F C]

My lunch box was red plaid. Loved that thing! Unfortunately, we lived close enough to school, I had to usually walk home for lunch. It was a real treat to get to take my lunch box lunch and eat with the other kids in the gymnasium.

 

[Alaskan]

There was I think half a school year when my mom drove to school and served me lunch in the car...

I kept getting beat up at lunch..

 

[N F C]

There was I think half a school year when my mom drove to school and served me lunch in the car...

I kept getting beat up at lunch..

Yikes, how embarrassing! What did you do to deserve such a punishment?

 

[CapricornFarm]

I remember when milk at school was 2 cents and lunch was 25 cents.

 

[User395221]

Oh, I remember. We used to reuse the plastic bags the (white, sliced) bread came in to put your sandwich in.
I'd still reuse those ziplock bags. They aren't single-use. It'd be terribly wasteful to use one only once. (I don't use any of those bags anyway, I'd just stick the sandwich in a reusable container).

I used to love Mondays because I could buy lunch from the tuck shop. I can't remember what happened yesterday, or in a movie I've just finished watching, but I can remember exactly what everything cost and what you could buy for your money when I was in primary school. I remember when the bus fare went up from 3 cents to 5 cents and everybody shaking their heads as to how expensive everything was getting.
I just looked up how far it was from my school to the bus stop and it's about a mile. Do you think that would be considered "too far" to make a kid of between 7 and 12 walk every day these days? Rural kids would definitely walk, but city kids today? I suspect they'd want a shuttle to pick them up at the door, but maybe I'm wrong about that.