My humble childhood
09-07-2011, 04:15 PM
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Originally Posted by Ramona Byrd
Originally Posted by calla
I walked to school, and ate what was in my brown paper bag from home..........calla
But I was higher class..I carried a metal lunch bucket that lard had come in, ate home made ham covered with mustard in a biscuit sandwich and drank room temp butter milk in a pint jar.
But I got to eat in the eating room of the school cafe, it had huge posters all over the walls with a big ear on one saying "Even the Walls have Ears" and "Jack Sprat could eat no fat and his wife could eat no Lean" which showed that married couple, a skinny man and a fat woman.
Another one told us to buy WAR BONDS and I think every week I took in a dime for a stamp for a savings book.
09-07-2011, 04:18 PM
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Originally Posted by Chele
Another one I've been preaching to my kids...college with a typewriter, your imagination and white-out. No Google or internet.
09-07-2011, 05:20 PM
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swimming in the pond running barefoot all summer riding bikes without a helmet and taking long walkes all over the country side with only a freindly dog for protection. no cell phones or nintendo only got tv when i was in high school. (and im probly alot younger than you think)wish my kids could grow up like this. maybe when we move out off town.
09-07-2011, 05:32 PM
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Standing at the edge of the country road looking up to the neighbors house, hoping to go and play ball in the yard or race our bikes or crawl through tunnels in the hay mow......and when my sis fell and hit her head, our kind neighbor lady working together with my mom and nobody upset. Live was simple and more gentle.
09-07-2011, 06:22 PM
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Seatbelts weren't even thought of yet. We would hop in a wagon going down hill without any gear. I hung diapers on the line before school. In the winter I had to stack them like cordwood, careful not to break them to bring them in to thaw so I could fold them after school. I babysat my 5 younger siblings at age 10 and could handle any emergency as well as my mom. Mama taught me to drive at 12. We even cut up whole chickens ourselves which I could do at 12 years old.
09-07-2011, 07:27 PM
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Originally Posted by Chele
My childhood may have been more illicit...dad poured old motor oil and gasoline into the ground and my mom probably smoked while breastfeeding me. We're getting smarter, society. High five that! Don't turn my family in, they're model citizens now! ;)
09-07-2011, 07:35 PM
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Originally Posted by Chele
Another one I've been preaching to my kids...college with a typewriter, your imagination and white-out. No Google or internet.
I'd go back in a minute.
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09-08-2011, 05:24 AM
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Originally Posted by erstan947
Believe it or not I walked to school up hill BOTH ways:)
I lived at the top of the hill and school was at the top of the next hill.
I lived at the top of the hill and school was at the top of the next hill.
So it is true , you can walk up hill to school both ways but was is in 5 feet of snow?
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