What has changed in the world since your childhood?

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I looked forward to helping my Mom put the stamps in the booklets. 🙂

She got some nice premiums with those stamps, too. I remember her getting some things for our kitchen with them.

I think that one of the items that she got was a blender.
 
Yes! My mom had her stamp booklet and I remember we kids would stick the stamps onto the pages.I had forgotten all about green stamps
 
I also remember when Monster cereals were on the store shelves all year round and not just trotted out at Halloween (gotta get me some boo berry!)

And when we weren’t deluged in pumpkin spice everything in the fall…
 
I remember shopping, asking for the monster cereals and my mom saying no. Just cornflakes or Cheerios for us!
 
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Leaving our doors unlocked with no fear of a home invasion.
Playing stick ball with a 5 cent pink Spaulding ball & a saw off broom handle.
Playing with a slinky or a Duncan Yo Yo.
Listening to a baseball game on the radio.
Watching Your Show of Shows & Kula, Fran & Ollie.
Helping my Mother do the laundry with a wash board & later with a wringer washer.
Pull chain overhead toilet tanks.
Party lines & rotary phones.

Just to name a few.
 
McDonald’s hamburger, fries, and a coke were 15 cents each. This has changed. A shake was 25 cents, now it’s $3
 
I liked Your Show of Shows; it was a great comedy and variety show. Also Kukla, Fran, and Ollie. Fran was the only human on the show, except for the unseen puppeteer. What I didn’t realize was that the show never had a prepared script.
 
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Your Show of Shows was a great comedy. I can still name them all, Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca, Carl Reiner, Bill Hayes, Judy Johnson & Howie Morris. That was the hay day of comedic writing.
 
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Bread in waxed paper…with a Disney card to be found at the bottom!
 
So much has changed over the years! I guess this morning what comes to mind is people didn’t watch the news all day. When I was a child the news was to watch in the evening for 30 minutes. If more wanted to be learned there was the news paper. Now the news is on all the time! It’s presented as a soap opera or entertainment in many instances. I’ve noticed now that some people tend to over identify with the news, viewing it as a sport almost, wanting their side to win issues in the all day long news debates.

I tend to shy away from watching much TV news. I just spent a month away from home, and were I was at the news was on all day long. It was so dull to me, but to others it would wind them up at times.
 
We got two newspapers every day, the morning paper and the evening paper—same publisher. I read them both. When I think about it, the newspapers had a lot more news that the 24 hour news channels do today, because the news channels just repeat the same stories over and over, and are incapable of giving any news without a video. Then they have talking heads to tell you what you heard.

After television started, John Cameron Swayze had a 15 minute newscast which contained as much news as today’s 30 minute network newscasts.
 
LOL, that’s so true! Keith Morrison (the creeper that tells stories on Dateline) can turn a 10-minute story into a 2-hour special, by saying OH REALLLLLLY? 50 times, and showing the same 10-second film clip a couple dozen times. Usually, before they cut to commercial. :roll_eyes:
 
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When did coupons get big in America?We get them here now a little bit ,but I was amazed at all the shopping coupons in the States when I was there recently.
Also having to shred addresses and names etc,I don’t think that’s much of a problem here yet.
 
Coupons have been around for a really long time, as far as I can remember.

They really seemed to take off in the 1980’s though, when I remember them really showing up as coupon supplements in the Sunday weekend editions of our newspapers.

My family members and I would save our supplements for each other and would swap them out and would and trade other coupons too, to help each other save money. 🙂
 
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Well, having people steal your identity is big.
The rule of thumb is, if your trash is at the curb, it’s fair game to anyone. If it’s still up by your house, no one can take anything.

Coupons are everywhere. Pages and pages of them in the Sunday papers.

I don’t care for coupons. I think grocers should just charge what they need to charge to make a decent living, instead of essentially saying:
“If you bring in this little piece of paper you scrounged for, I’ll consider charging you a good price.”

Seems really shady to me, just my 2 cents.
 
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And giving tips?Has that always been a thing,or did that come in say around the 50’s?
 
I understand how you feel about coupons, Clare.

I don’t bother with them too much anymore, and because I’m using a Chromebook, its software is not compatible with most of those coupon printing programs that are out there, so we are not able to take advantage of printing most of the coupons that are out there, that you can print from home.

We mostly shop at Aldi’s, where it’s mostly private label store brands anyway, and they keep their prices competitive there, so you don’t need coupons to shop there.
 
I dislike coupons and mostly ignore them. They even print out personalized coupons at the checkout, but I ignore those too. And I have never figured out credit cards that promise ‘cash back’ or a percent back. If they want to give me a break, just deduct it from the bill.
 
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