What has changed in the world since your childhood?

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Me three! I got stung by a bee that way. šŸ

I also discovered a millipede under a rock holding the barn door open (we used it as a garage) and mama told me to go out and open the doors for daddy, he would be home soon. I ran into the house screaming Mama Mama! There a SNAKE on our land!!! (the backyard was ā€œlandā€ to me at 4 yrs old)

Mama went outside with a baseball bat I had won in a drug store raffle.
She was mad it turned out to be just a bug, and daddy was laughing because he wondered what the heck was she gonna do with a bat to combat a snake! (you should pardon the pun) šŸ
 
One more thing, when I was a kid, if my jeans got ripped, my mom would sew them up or iron on a patch. Now, I see jeans for sale in the mall already ripped and torn with big holes!
 
Yes, youā€™re right about thatā€¦

I remember when iron-on patches were the big deal.

My maternal Gramma bought them for my sister and I so that she would have them ready for us. She kept them in her sewing box.

I remember her patching my jeans for me, especially at the knees. šŸ™‚
 
Ridiculous isnā€™t it.? Those ripped jeans are pricey too! On that vein,not only did my Mom put patches on my brotherā€™s jeans,we darned the holes in our socks,took our shoes to the shoe repair shop,to re sole or new heels.
Walked to school in the morning,came home for lunch,walked back to school and then home again.We kids did this without our mothers ā€™ in attendance!
Same with trick or treating .
wearing boots that fit over our shoes,woolen leggings to keep our legs warm.Horrible mittens that werenā€™t waterproof!
We only got toys at Christmas.A birthday cake and a card on BDays,no gifts.
 
Important events like Christmas and Easter and birthdays celebrated with roast chicken which was rare as its expensive. Roast hoggart was usually the order of the day (Sundays.).

Now chicken is common place and roast lamb is rarely on the menu as it is so expensive.
Chicken has no taste any more.

Threepenny coins (silver) in the Xmas pudding! Try that now with 10c coins and youā€™ll get poisoned!
And two thrupennies would get you a two scoop icecream. 20c today just a lick!
 
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I used to enjoy using the card catalog at the library. (And the library was QUIET. Nobody spoke except in a low voice.

And speaking of catalogs, part of my summer entertainment was browsing through the BIG Sears catalog, and the Montgomery Wards catalog, which came in the mail.

Then there were the Christmas catalogs to browse during Christmas shopping season.
 
Yes!Same here.We kids were always so excited for the Sears Christmas Catalog Countless hours were spent dreaming of the possibilities!.
 
We never got the Spiegel catalog, but I remember the announcer always mentioned it at the end of one of the TV game shows back in the day.

My mom never drove a car (due to dizzy spells), so she took me everywhere on the bus before I started school. Taking the bus to a nearby Sears store was a big deal. Now, we have double-length buses with an accordion-looking joint in the middle so they can make tighter turns.
 
That reminds me of a trip to the beach when my then 6 year old sister and her friend came running all excited that they spotted a lobster. It turned out to be a crab that was maybe 2 inches long. šŸ˜³
 
I couldnā€™t wait to get the Sears Wish Book for Christmas! My mom, my sister and I would cuddle up on the couch and go through it!
 
One time my cousin thought he was oh so fashionable with his ripped jeans. He visited our aunt, who was in her sixties. She was scandalized he had ripped jeans on, and offered to mend them. She was even more scandalized when he told her it was the style!
 
Same with Joeā€™s mom in Ireland, She said "oh, your poor cousins have torn jeans! Poor boys! šŸ˜„
 
Very very cute. I remember I love Lucy when Lucy and Ethel needed to go somewhere by subway, and Ethel needed to change out of her jeans because they were too casual.
 
Life is Nothing like it was when I was a child in the early 50ā€™s , bedtime was when the sun went down,
Only electronic entertainment was an old radio ,
Everyone was very nicely dressed for church, there no no such thing as casual clothes , it was either work clothes or good clothes
And Donā€™t you dare make a single sound during mass or your dad took you outside and give you something to make a noise about,lol
 
Yes, and so are the old rotary dial phones, too.

Those old phones were really sturdy, too!

I liked the way some of the old touch-tone phones would light up with their key pads. I think that I could see the key pad better on the those older phones. šŸ˜Š
 
When I was out with my friends, we used to pick up ringing payphones.ā˜ŗļø there was also the slang expression," Drop a dime" which Iā€™m sure many know means tell someone something. I said that once to my older kids and they had no idea what that expression meant, šŸ˜œ
 
I bought a rotary dial phone at a yard sale for three bucks. It still works.
 
Collecting S&H Green Stamps
and all the really neat stuff you could get with them
 
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