Remember when....

[#1]

....your mother put your school clothes on the oven door before you dressed in the morning?

[GielDesigns]

@PillowDetails 

I remember the one about the bust.  I have this picture in my head of pushing your palms together while you chant, lol!

Happy Thanksgiving!

[SwissZahlerArt]

Remember when...

Black Friday did not have the excessive publicity like nowadays?

[psych62]

Was there always a Black Friday?

40 years ago, I don't remember this big hoo-ha about the Friday after Thanksgiving. 

Some Black Friday sales start 6 PM on Thanksgiving Day. Outrageous! 

[psych62]

Do you remember when neighbors used to open up their homes around the Christmas holidays to each other and you could stop by and have some cheese and crackers, eggnog, and some home baked treats? Looking back at this, it almost makes me cry. Safety has become paramount these days and so many people don't even know who their neighbors are. :-(

[PillowDetails]

Depends upon where you live!  We used to call it "Round Robin" - for all I know, if I looked that up on Urban Dictionary, it probably means something really bad, now!  LOL!  I have friends in suburbs, and my daughter lives in a subdivision cul de-sac, and they still have close neighbors that do things together!

[DonnaDesigned]

It wasn’t called Black Friday where I lived in the 60s but lots of people began their Christmas shopping that day.

[SewNSewSister]

@giftAngelique. You have got to stop with the promos. You have your promos now in 2 of the Team threads. 3 promos in 2 days! I have been patient and kind thinking you didn't know any better. But now I must politely tell you, STOP WITH THE PROMOS! Or find another Team that will tolerate them.

[SwissZahlerArt]

Remember when around Christmas...

Christmas trees were always natural, not plastic and their decoration were very simple.

Paper cards were a must.

"Pardon this, pardon that because it is Christmas time."

The fruit cake was always fresh.

Rum in the eggnog for the adults and plain for the children.

Play in the snow on Christmas day.

Real sharing and giving with the poor neighbors.

All of the TV programs or movies were Christmas theme.

You could send Christmas messages on the radio.

Businesses used to close. So, replenish anything necessary on time.

[SewNSewSister]

So true Swiss! Simpler more gentler times. And remember how all the kids were on their best behavior in hopes of pleasing Santa...and yes, we DID believe in him back then!

[SwissZahlerArt]

One of my grand daughters worked at Target. Any day, there was a misbehaved kid in the store. My grand daughter says she told the kid's mother,

"I forgot to tell you, at Target we used this red telephone to report Santa Claus which kids misbehaved and Santa Claus does not bring presents to the kids which misbehave." Holy remedy! The kid stop right away and turned like a statue.

[SwissZahlerArt]

Sorry, previous comment to @SewNSewSister .

[SewNSewSister]

@Former_Member. Holy remedy is right! It worked on that kid. Unfortunately, it probably wouldn't work on them all. Christmas has turned so commercial these days and kids just aren't buying it that Santa is real and bringing all the goodies under the tree. That in itself is so very sad.

[SwissZahlerArt]

Nowadays, Santa comes from Brazil.  No silly me, from Amazon!

[GielDesigns]

@SewNSewSister  @SwissZahlerArt 

Most of why I love Christmas so much comes from the past. My dad always put up the tree and my brother and I would help decorate it, my mom would have Christmas songs playing on the radio while she cooked a huge dinner, and my grandmother would sit and play spirituals on her harmonica by the fireplace.  There was always this very warm, cozy, positive vibe that I still feel this time of year.  I still love the lights, decorations and old Christmas music. It's kind of hard to explain but they take me back about 50 years and make me feel kind of 'cocooned.'

[pigeonplumtree]

@GielDesigns 

I understand that.  When I was as child, Christmas was always spent at grandma and grandpa's and it never quite felt like Christmas until we got there.

They lived a couple of hours away and we would all pile into the car, sandwiched between boxes of presents in the backseat, while listening to Christmas music on the radio.  I cannot tell you how exciting it felt when we would turn the last corner that lead to their house and the warm feeling it gave when we finally stopped the car and got out. I couldn't get the door open fast enough and I would run to the house and there they both were to greet us with hugs and kisses.  There was nothing like it.  The house smelled of food cooking and grandma always had a lunch prepared for us when we arrived.  As soon as I was in, I would always dash to the tree to see what was beneath it and then to the coffee table, where grandma had all of the little goodies laid out.  

Those were some of the best Christmases in my life.  I wish I could relive them.

[GielDesigns]

@pigeonplumtree 

Just reading your story makes me feel the same warmth as my own.  I wish I could relive those days too.  Or, as my mom would've said, I sure wish I could've bottled that.  :-)

[SwissZahlerArt]

There was the word tag in other forum and remember...

tag... when there were no bar codes and the prices were on the products, either way, on stickers or tag prices.

[SwissZahlerArt]

...and my husband just said, "And the prices were cents."

[GielDesigns]

@SwissZahlerArt 

Yeah, no such thing as "scanning" back then.  And your husband is right... seems like a long, cheap-price time ago. :-)

[pigeonplumtree]

Why is it that today, everything seems to annoy me?

Especially all of the cliches and lingo? 

The music annoys me....  some of the hairstyles annoy me.... the thick press on eyebrows annoy me......

Why am I so annoyed????

:)

[GielDesigns]

@pigeonplumtree 

Congratulations! You have reached the next plateau! :-D

I'm already there... having a sandwich and a cup of hot tea...

with NO understanding of what kids do nowadays.

[SwissZahlerArt]

My husband and I were remembering this morning the decades when people worked out of home. 

Prepared the coffee and keep it in a thermo to take it to work.

Home made meal was regularly a sandwich because not all of the jobs have a cafeteria nor a small stove to warm the food.

Fast food restaurants were not so common.

And when we came back home, warm the food on the stove because there was no microwave.

The frozen TV dinners were cook or hit in the gas oven.

[GielDesigns]

@SwissZahlerArt 

Ahhh.... The TV dinners in the aluminum trays, lol!  The fried chicken dinner was my favorite. :-D

[SwissZahlerArt]

@GielDesigns  ...and they used to have a dessert too! Nowadays, only Hungry Man is the only brand I find out with dessert.

[GielDesigns]

@SwissZahlerArt 

I remember...  it was usually the little apple thingy or the chocolate brownie that never cooked up quite right.