* Buying white milk at school for 4 cents but chocolate milk was a nickle!
* Hopping on the bus to ride downtown & spend the day riding the "moving stairs" up and down O'Neils....the top floors were pretty narrow & shaky. Having lunch at Woolworths and window shopping...

* Making clothes for my troll dolls & Barbies. Using shoeboxes for houses, popscile sticks for furniture.

* Playing outside until dark, 4 square, freeze tag, TV tag (any kind of tag, lol!!)climbing trees, black topped playgrounds, hot metal slides, leaving the doors unlocked at night...

* Standing on a chair to wash dishes...wonder how clean those were!?!

* Riding my bike alone to the library, even though it was MILES away. Filling the basket with as many books as I could carry. Reading, reading,reading!!!!!

We lived in a house under 900 sq ft, 3 kids~ 1 bathroom. I didn't know we were poor, didn't care about what I didn't have. Luckily the TV (all 3 channels) didn't tell me either.

I remember S&H green stamps and the books to put them in.
Saving them in a big coffee can and then sitting at the table licking and pasting them into the books.
Soon as each of us girls ( 2 of us) and mom had all the books we needed for what ever we wanted out of the catalog we went to the redemption store and got it.

I remember drive in movies in the back of dads pick up truck.
Eating fired chicken and stuff back there watching the movie.
Dad would put a mattress back there for us kids to lay on and him and mom sat in lawn chairs.

Watching the Sunday night Disney movie at 6:00 P.M. we got to eat in the living room. That was a big deal for us!
We got to have Pop that night!

oh yeah! S & H green stamps!!!! and getting a glass with a gas fill up or a toaster for opening a new bank account!!!
Falling asleep on Sunday drives with my head in mom's lap & my feet on Dad's lap listening to a ballgame....safe, that! :lol:

Do you remember those straws you could drink your milk with that turned the milk either chocolate or strawberry as you drank? How about those Fizzies, that you dropped in a glass of water that turned the water into a bubbling flavored drink?