If You Could Chose One from
 

Hi All! I was thinking how easy things of yesterday used to be, less complicating, somehow missing the less modern things of then.
If you could chose just one thing, ok maybe two...what would it be?? I'll start by saying, I really would love to have and actually use a nice old wringer washer!
I didn't mind the extra work, clothes were cleaner, less water waist and nothing beat clean sheets and towels hanging on the line!! :-D

An automobile (non-computerized) that could be fixed at home by my brothers!

even though is computer is great, i long for the day when folks actually communicated in person or written paper letters :)

smaller roads you could actually walk across. These blvds, and roads that are 5 lanes wide and more make it impossible to walk to the market, even if it is across the street.

I can see the gas station from my driveway, but walking there... I just can't really do it. They turned our 2 lane road into one that is 7 lanes wide. Crossing it, just isn't something I want to do on foot!

I just really miss being able to walk to places. (safely)

Edited TV commercials, no profanity, violence, nudity especially before 9pm.

I used to have a wringer washing machine when my kids were small. My mother in law at the time gave it to me. We had it out in the yard and used the garden hose to fill it up with water and when I needed hot water, we would boil a big huge pot of water a couple of times and fill it up. My daughters used to love to wring the clothes out with the wringer part.

So I would love to not have electricity, no tv, no electronics that way families can once again communicate with each other the way that it was meant to be face to face.

I would like prices to go back to what they were in the 50's!!

Gas stations that had people to fill your tank, wash your windows, check your oil and tires and smile and say thank you for YOUR service when they were done.

Diannia

A real person on the other line rather than a recording

:thumbup: I think of this often!

DITTO!!!!!

I HATE :evil: the automated phone systems.

everything made in america!

Ditto and Amen to this post!

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YESSSSSS - FOR SURE :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:

before 9 after 9, really doesn't matter. Im tired of seeing condom commercials. So much so I don't even watch TV anymore.

I agree-before 9 after 9, adults could clean up their acts as well. I hate the commercials where kids are sarcastic and mock their fathers(or each other, siblings, friends).

personal gratification on a CBS show @ 9:00pm TOO FAR!

I miss feeling the world was safe enough for the kids to play in the front yard or around the neighborhood without me having to have them in my sights all the time... I remember walking blocks to main street to buy a candy or go to the movie when I would visit grandparents on the mainland. My older two are grown now and I'm sure I'll be even more paranoid when grandkids come along... When I was a kid in Hawaii in the '60s, we didn't even lock our door. Maybe we were kidding ourselves back then, but it felt safer to me.

How can I just pick ONE? Hmmm...I want the innocense of the old days back. That should about cover it.

I second this!! :thumbup: :thumbup:

Kinda funny, my mom used the wringer washer and the baby's diapers would always wrap, she'd get so mad, she'd say"" well your suppose to catch them, didn't matter I was only about 6 at the time. In 1983 I lived in WI for a year and my sister lives there, she was using the wringer washer still.
There is so much I'd love no phone, more interacting with other people. I still hang my wash on the line and crazy as it may be I love my sheets most outside in the winter time, oh the smell!!!!!

Pre- 9/11 and it never happens

Amen to this.

Department stores where the aisles are straight up and down and the clerks come up to you and ask "may I help you?" I hate it when the clothes are on circular racks and hanging to the ceiling, and I go around and around and I get so lost in malls and little specialty stores that sell tiny little clothes for tiny little people. UGH! Where are the clothing stores for real people with the clothes hanging in an orderly system so that I can find them?

Double Ditto... Just about everything needs editing now a days!

I miss quality goods - and not always thinking an item will be on "sale" next week! Everything seems to be made to last only a few years - and clothes are styled for the young - real cute but not at my age!

My favorite thing was just being a kid, playing outside all day until dark and no worries of kidnappings, strangers etc...

Also remember never locking our doors even at night while sleeping and we lived in an apt bldg...Now everyone locks themselves in even during the day.

I agree, most kids today are at the computer or cell phones, Tv games, so on. When I ask the GK to go outside and play they look at me like I'm crazy??

There was a wringer washer for sale in our classifieds today! I remember when we had one. And the day my mother somehow got her arm caught in the wringer! I had to run next door and get my uncle to get her out!!! We used to hang clothes on the line. I liked doing that.

I absolutely love all of these posts. Makes one long for the good old days....Oh and a wooden swing on the porch or under the tree.

I absolutely love all of these posts. Makes one long for the good old days....Oh and a wooden swing on the porch or under the tree.

I know things were tuff back than but there was so much more love, caring and feelings for others. My mom had 13 of us and sometimes I'd love to go back to the good old days.

It seems like everyone is constantly using their cell phone to check the Internet, text or talk to someone.

You go to a restaurant and everyone is looking at a little screen.

We have lost the warmth of personal communication.

Elise

I agree! This goes for all the txting, messaging and talking on the phone while you're driving, or just walking down the street.

Oh I agree, I get so upset at dinner when my 24 yr olds phone goes off. I told him we really don't need them at the dinner table, he just gives me one of those looks.
My two GD can't go to bed without the cell phones in there hands and there only 14 &15??

Big Ditto, this one!

Would like to keep the income of today and go back to the prices of the early 1960s.............

I think this might be my choice, too.

My MIL(Bless her Heart!) had a square Maytag that did about twenty loads a week for about 20 years. Around that area (MO) many people washed on the back porch during the good weather. Just love the idea.

I should add...My first washer was a "EASY SPINDRYER". Love that machine but could not fit it into our next house. Had to go Automatic in the basement. Now my W/D are on the 2nd floor where all laundry starts.