psiluvu
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Post by psiluvu on Aug 26, 2014 19:59:07 GMT
As a child of the 70's and a mom of today this made me laugh
Then and now
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Post by anonrefugee on Aug 26, 2014 20:04:48 GMT
Spot on, thanks!
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Post by smkerry on Aug 26, 2014 20:06:58 GMT
Oh my gosh, l was reading this during lunch and had to stop because l was laughing so hard! That was great!
So much of it made me laugh, but the bologna sandwich was timely. My teenage daughter asked me the other day how people eat bologna! Me: "That was an every day sandwich, wrapped up in wax paper."
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Post by Deleted on Aug 26, 2014 20:13:33 GMT
This is awesome! TFS
Ann
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Post by Goldynn on Aug 26, 2014 20:25:12 GMT
Thanks for the laugh!
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Post by Laura in OK on Aug 26, 2014 20:35:10 GMT
So funny, but sadly so very true!
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Post by *christine* on Aug 26, 2014 20:36:47 GMT
omg I totally lost it at the baggies with the twisty ties!! I remember my mom had a stash of those things in the silverware drawer (next to her FULL ashtray!!! In the silverware drawer!!!  ) |
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Post by birukitty on Aug 26, 2014 20:37:28 GMT
That was hilarious!
Debbie in MD.
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Post by MommyofTriplets on Aug 26, 2014 20:48:25 GMT
Too funny!
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Post by MDscrapaholic on Aug 26, 2014 20:57:04 GMT
Hilarious! But true!
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Post by whipea on Aug 26, 2014 21:14:51 GMT
That was so entertaining. I was a kid of the sixties, still works. Funny thing my father always made me home made healthy lunches for school. I hated them, didn't have white bread until I was an adult.
Now I bring bologna, low sodium deli of course on potato bread almost every day for lunch. Will occasionally throw in a Twinky if I have them.
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Post by sbartist on Aug 26, 2014 22:03:17 GMT
TFS, that was funny.
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Post by Minnesota*Mom on Aug 26, 2014 22:18:25 GMT
Ha ha! Fun to read.  |
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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on Aug 26, 2014 22:54:08 GMT
I can't stop laughing!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 26, 2014 23:00:20 GMT
$43 was my dad's salary for the week
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Post by epeanymous on Aug 26, 2014 23:09:54 GMT
Ha ha, pretty accurate. It is why I always laugh about how "these kids today" are raised on convenience foods because their parents "don't know how to cook," because I was a 70s kid, and my stay-at-home mother's only high school activity was Future Homemakers of America (in the 1950s), and that woman never met a processed food she didn't like. I didn't know what non-canned, non-frozen cooked vegetables were until high school, and I can't even think about how much mystery lunchmeat or how many Hostess cupcakes I consumed  . My mother considered herself healthy for giving me 7-up rather than Coke. |
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Post by hennybutton on Aug 26, 2014 23:16:50 GMT
Ha ha, pretty accurate. It is why I always laugh about how "these kids today" are raised on convenience foods because their parents "don't know how to cook," because I was a 70s kid, and my stay-at-home mother's only high school activity was Future Homemakers of America (in the 1950s), and that woman never met a processed food she didn't like. I didn't know what non-canned, non-frozen cooked vegetables were until high school, and I can't even think about how much mystery lunchmeat or how many Hostess cupcakes I consumed . My mother considered herself healthy for giving me 7-up rather than Coke. Don't forget the Wonder Bread. And, we could buy our milk at school--white or chocolate. |
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eastcoastpea
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Post by eastcoastpea on Aug 26, 2014 23:17:29 GMT
Ah, the good old days.
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Post by ntsf on Aug 27, 2014 0:22:43 GMT
my mom made all the bread and other baked products in our home...everything was made at home due to food allergies. we all ate so healthy!! I never ate sandwiches...came home for lunch in elementary school..and ate cheese and apple in other years...
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Post by myboysnme on Aug 27, 2014 1:29:05 GMT
I graduated high school in 1975, so the 70's part is amazingly accurate, including Drug Fair which could be open on Sunday because it sold necessities. The make up counter and a couple other areas had the lights off because purchases were not allowed. I especially relate to walking half a mile to the bus stop!
I cannot relate at all to anything current. My boys are grown and I had never dealt with that stuff.
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Post by salem on Aug 27, 2014 1:56:58 GMT
The Sears part made me laugh. We had 4 kids in the family and I distinctly remember my Mom taking out the Sears catalog and ordering a bunch of stuff for all of us. It took weeks to get there, no Amazon Prime  and the styles would've made the Brady Bunch proud. Striped pants and shirts, just horrible. I can't help but be horrified when looking back at school pictures. She also did the bologna and cheese thing. Except, I really like it, but with mayo. She refused to put mayo on sandwiches because those lovely metal lunchboxes just got warmer and warmer as the day went on. She did give us tuna once in awhile. I don't quite get the reasoning that tuna was an OK choice, but not mayo with B&C on that super soft Wonder Bread. Whatever. It didn't kill us so that's one for Mom. |
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Post by bc2ca on Aug 27, 2014 2:02:30 GMT
Too funny Sadly, I never had a lunch box because we walked home for lunch and brown bagged it the few times a year we had to stay at school. I don't think I've had a bologna sadwich since the 70s. |
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Post by scrapqueen01 on Aug 27, 2014 2:12:21 GMT
I remember my mother insisted that our sandwich had to have mayo on it. Her reasoning was that the sandwich was "too dry". I never liked mayo. I didn't care that my sandwich was dry. I still don't like mayo.
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Post by tiffanytwisted on Aug 27, 2014 2:31:22 GMT
omg I totally lost it at the baggies with the twisty ties!! I remember my mom had a stash of those things in the silverware drawer (next to her FULL ashtray!!! In the silverware drawer!!! ) Me too! I mean about the twisty ties in the silverware drawer. No ashtray in there. Those (full of Winston butts) were all over the rest of the house. And I echo the sentiment "ahh, the good old days". This was fun - thanx for posting! |
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Post by jenjie on Aug 27, 2014 14:47:03 GMT
Yessss! Although my mom would bake bread. She couldn't cut straight if her life depended on it, so picture two slices of bread, each in a wobbly wedge shape, together too big to put into my mouth. And the thin end was so thin the jelly seeped through. I dreamed of wonder bread.
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Post by lbp on Aug 27, 2014 17:09:52 GMT
Peanut butter sandwiches or cheese with mayo were the only kinds of sandwiches I would eat. We would always have a salty snack like chips or Fritos, or Cheetos, and a sweet, Chips Ahoy cookies, those little round butter cookies that you stuck your finger through and nibbled around the edge before you actually ate them or Moon Pies. Sometimes we would have carrot and celery sticks, they usually came back home. If we were really lucky we would get pudding in those little, metal containers with the pop tab that would always cut your fingers when you pulled if off. Guess what was always in my thermos? COKE!
A composition book for each subject, a pack of pens and a pack of pencils. We were given 1 of each to start school with. When we needed more, we asked Mom. Don't forget to take your Frito Bandito, (who is politically incorrect now) eraser with you.
Book bags? Didn't nobody have time for book bags! We just piled them up in our arms and carried them.
After school, race home from the bus stop so that you got a good position in front of the T.V. so you could watch Dark Shadows!
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Post by k8smom on Aug 27, 2014 18:41:07 GMT
Love this! So true!
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Post by rumplesnat on Aug 27, 2014 20:05:01 GMT
The twist tie part was epic.
I still remember the day my mom got the brilliant idea that if she froze my Hi-C lunch box it would keep my food cold until lunch. Reality was it may my sandwich (bologna and Miracle Whip on white bread) very soggy and the juice box was barely thawed, so I only got about 2 good sips.
She also bought deli turkey in bulk and froze it to make it last longer. That made the white bread delightfully soggy as it thawed as well. Barf!!!
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Post by Montannie on Aug 27, 2014 20:26:37 GMT
OMG. I so remember those bologna sandwiches, which I ate every day of 7th grade in 1970, except for Fridays, which were either tuna, cheese, or peanut butter with strawberry jam.
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Post by anxiousmom on Aug 27, 2014 20:37:07 GMT
That was so entertaining. I was a kid of the sixties, still works. Funny thing my father always made me home made healthy lunches for school. I hated them, didn't have white bread until I was an adult. Now I bring bologna, low sodium deli of course on potato bread almost every day for lunch. Will occasionally throw in a Twinky if I have them. OMG, I had that mom too. She was the crunchy granola mom and I was always so jealous of the white bread and twinkies. I had such joys like brown bread the consistancy of cardboard, homemade peanut butter and carrot sticks. MY thermos contained milk, not kool aid. I wanted kool aid so much that I would have sold my soul. And you know that no one would ever trade with me. I know y'all will point, laugh and judge-but I will not eat whole wheat bread unless my life depends on it. And home made peanut butter isn't happening. I happily buy my children potato chips. And I call my mom once a month or so and tell her my children's poor eating habits are her fault.  |
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. My mother considered herself healthy for giving me 7-up rather than Coke.
and the styles would've made the Brady Bunch proud. Striped pants and shirts, just horrible. I can't help but be horrified when looking back at school pictures. 
