Remember when....

[#1]

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

[collecteddust]

What did we do before St. Google and spell check??  :)))

[SwissZahlerArt]

Dictionary.

[SwissZahlerArt]

...when the minimum wage was $3.00 the hour.  And there were benefits.

[SwissZahlerArt]

...when teenagers were reliable workers. They quit only to study in an out of state college or join any military branch.

[psych62]

I think the turnover rate for jobs is high overall these days, and not just for teenagers. With inflation rising, so does dissatisfaction with minimum wage jobs. $15.00 doesn't go far, especially in California. I just read that CA has the second highest cost of living rate, second only to Hawaii. 

[psych62]

Remember how far the dollar went, years ago? When I was a teen, I could go to the movies for 5 dollars. Now it's more than tripled. 

[SwissZahlerArt]

Ouch.  My husband told me his mom gave him fifty cents to go to the movies. Five cents had to be for the ten percent for the church, and he could pay the movie theater ticket, pop corn and a bottle of soda pop with forty-five cents...

[psych62]

When I was in high school, I could get a Baskin Robbins shake for under a dollar. Now it's around 5 bucks.

[Lionfishvintage]

I'm so old that when i was a teen, gas was only 25 cents a gallon!

[collecteddust]

Okay Lion.@LionfishVintage. I think I have you beat

when I learned to drive ( and that was stick shift drive only), I think gas was about 12 cents a gallon… this was late 1950s.

those were the days!

[SwissZahlerArt]

...you open your Etsy store? What did we plan, think and do back that time?

[psych62]

Etsy used to be such a cool site...........*sigh*

[SwissZahlerArt]

the chat rooms in AOL was the social media

[psych62]

What ever happened to MySpace?

[SwissZahlerArt]

...McDonald's had the Hawaiian hamburger? It was just a slice of pineapple, no meat. And a new cliché began, "Where is the meat?"

[Lionfishvintage]

They joined with FB and now it's called My Face .... ha ha ha ha ha

[SwissZahlerArt]

I am reading the paper newspaper.  Remember when... The Godfather was in the movies?

The movies just turn fifty.  Ouch, I feel so young.

[psych62]

You were reading a paper newspaper? That's rare these days.

[SwissZahlerArt]

At the job, the teenagers say I am Amish because I do not have a mobile telephone, use a paper map, write notes on paper pads, read paper newspapers, still use a paper dictionary and pay with paper money aka cash.

[Lionfishvintage]

@SwissZahlerArt well i must be Amish too! 

It's getting harder and harder to pay with a check these days.

And on Nextdoor, when I sell something , I ask for cash only and it's a big hassle for people to get cash. They all want to pay with Venmo.

[GielDesigns]

@Lionfishvintage  @SwissZahlerArt 

Count me in with the Amish too. The way money is passed around with all these cash app services makes me nervous. No thanks.

[SwissZahlerArt]

@GielDesigns @Lionfishvintage  One of my daughters is very concerned about the virus and other micro organism, harm for humans, moving around, passed by money. One of my sons says the plastic cards transmit the bacteria, microbes and viruses too.

[Lionfishvintage]

 @SwissZahlerArt  According to this article from  lendedu . com:

On Average, What’s the Dirtiest Cash, Cards, or Coins?
After testing the front and back of 41 different debit and credit

cards, 27 different bills, and 12 different coins, and calculating the average germ scores for

each payment based on the results, debit and credit cards turned out to be the dirtiest payment method.

[psych62]

I use my debit card (and occasionally my credit card) to buy items. If I had cash in my wallet, I would spend it!

[SwissZahlerArt]

@Lionfishvintage   emoji screaming