The Old Folks Home

[Cynthia12]

I never wore saddle shoes and didn't like the look. In high school they were part of the outfit girls wore if they were members of the Senior girls council. I also think the brownie and girl scout troops wore them. But, then again my memories are leaking like a sieve.

hmm, I was a girl scout.

 

[chickadoodles]

Love this! I'm older than dirt, because I remember every single thing! I can add..out house. Yep. My grandmother did not have an indoor bathroom. So, anyone here that knows what a Pe,.can is..raise your hand.

1. Candy cigarettes
6. TV test patterns
9. 45 records
11. metal ice trays- grandmothers
15. wash tub wringers- my mother had one

We spent a summer on a lake in Minnesota that did not have a bathroom or indoor pluming and had an out house.

 

[ozexpat]

1. Candy cigarettes
6. TV test patterns
9. 45 records
11. metal ice trays- grandmothers
15. wash tub wringers- my mother had one

We spent a summer on a lake in Minnesota that did not have a bathroom or indoor pluming and had an out house.

we had a "24door sedan" pick up out house cans every monday in Sydney when I was young - 60s

 

[ozexpat]

my poor old mum had 5 kids and a copper boiler


The wringer washer was a godsend

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Love this! I'm older than dirt, because I remember every single thing! I can add..out house. Yep. My grandmother did not have an indoor bathroom. So, anyone here that knows what a Pe,.can is..raise your hand.

We called them bed pans. They were porcelain. My grandparent's fishing lodge had some nice little cabins but lo, no bathrooms. That's rough in the middle of winter.

Actually, the old farm just a mile up the road from me (in the middle of the burbs) was bypassed when sewers went in and only had an outhouse till 1977 when my mom died and my dad moved back home with his brother.
Again, that's rough in winter.

Even as an adult my dad would have nightmares about something that happened to him frequently when he was a kid. The neighbors bull would get out and trap him in that outhouse.

I grew up in Australia

Our country first got TV in 1956 - to broadcast the Melbourne Olympics

I was born in 1962

The TV did not go color until 1974.

We moved to the bush in 1976 and left behind 4 TV stations and wall phones.

Our Phone number was 8N. A long-short ring with 4 others on our line.

We got TV in 1980 with 2 channels, and a private line in 1984.

In the Philippines we use Singer treadly sewing machines and even have a back up charcoal iron. The spinkle bottle is replaced by a hand sprayer but even our electric iron is a dry iron - better control apparently.

In many ways, I get to live in your yesteryears lol

Nice phone #. I like it.

I liked living out in the boonies in Mexico and Costa Rica. It was an epiphany to realize how many conveniences we can live quite nicely without.
I had a couple changes of clothes, a camera and a tool pouch. I realized after a while that I didn't miss all that crap that filled my house, cellar, workshop and carriage house. It made me wonder why I bought it all.

Of course if it was as cold as it is here now, I'd need more clothes. I'm all layered up with a jacket on at my computer. I have a remote thermo/hygrometer in the warmest chicken coop. It's 3 below out side right now and 5 above in the coop. The worst part is, it's 82% humidity, but at least there's no wind.

Downtown St. Louis right now is 2 degrees above the all time record for this date set in 1985. That was 3 below, which is my current temp. Some of the other burbs are down to -9.
ETA

It was so cold.
How cold was it?
Cable, phone and internet went out for about an hour and a half this morning.

 

[kingfrodo]

I'll be 37 in a couple of months but I was raised by my grandparents b/c my mother was a drug addict and up and left one day when we were young. Story for another day.

Living in Rural NC on a hog farm I remember the bathroom was a late addition onto the back porch. In the winter when it froze we had to use a bucket.

we didn't have locks,
the only heat was one wood stove.
the boards in the floor were far enough apart that Grandma swept the dirt through the cracks.
in the summer we didn't have shoes except for church shoes. Each fall we'd get a new pair for school.
we had a phone but you picked it up and ask the operator to dial who ever you wanted to call.

Even living that poor, living with my grandparents was some of my absolute best memories!

 

[ozexpat]

For those of you who come over in 2015, I can promise you:

AC and hot water
A washing machine to wash clothes and probably even iron them
Satellite TV if you remind me to buy a prepaid card
Intermittent dial up speed internet via cellphone

we are getting pretty fancy these days

 

[chickadoodles]

my poor old mum had 5 kids and a copper boiler


The wringer washer was a godsend

There were 5 kids and 2 adults in our house and my parents both worked so my older sister had to do laundry every day in the ringer washer in our garage and hang the clothes and iron them! Thank God by the time I was old enough for the ironing chore we got wash and wear clothes! lol

we had a "24door sedan" pick up out house cans every monday in Sydney when I was young - 60s

I think we were on that lake in the late 60's. lol

 

[IAFarmGirl]

Lovely sign-- espeically the yolk yellow!! Cheery.

I read yesterday a place in the mid west where corn is $5-6 for 50 pounds-- here 50 pounds id about $14. Trains are not getting thru with the artic cold . . . . Wish I could charge $6 for my eggs. . . .

We are enjoying eggs and ham for breakfast . . . . spiral ham was on discount!!

Yes Arielle. Corn here where I live in Southern Iowa can be purchased for $5.68 in 50 pound bags. That is cracked corn and non-GMO.

 

[IAFarmGirl]

I currently do Medicare billing for Long Term Care. (been doing it for over 15 years) and if the doctor accepts Medicare the secondary is automatically crossed over. Only pay what the Medicare EOB says you have to pay. no more! If you do that is illegal and it's called balance billing. You could also file the secondary yourself and get reimbursed if the doctor wont take it.

Drumstick Diva,

I currently do Medicare billing for a Critical Access Hospital. I agree with kingfrodo. Call your secondary and ask them what you need to send to them to get reimbursed for your services. It is much better to do what little work you have to do for that than to pay it out of pocket. There should be a number on the back of your card for the secondary that you can call for help. Good luck!!