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    Old 07-24-2011, 05:43 PM
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    Uh oh...I scored 15 out of 15!!! But as to being older than dirt? Not really. My DH is a geologist and i happen to know that dirt is considerably older than 54 :lol: :lol:
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    Old 07-24-2011, 05:49 PM
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    Older than dirt.
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    Old 07-24-2011, 05:51 PM
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    Originally Posted by MissM
    I know all of these, and in addition since I grew up on a farm I knew a few more. Like separating our own cream, making homemade cottage cheese, home made sour kraut, making our clothes out of feed sacks, etc.
    We did all these things and we had an ICE BOX.
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    Old 07-24-2011, 06:01 PM
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    guess I am older than dirt but as I was reading it made me think of pant stretchers anyone else remember them? Mom would put the went jeans and mens panta in tthem before hanging on the line to make creases inthe pants and help them dry with less wrinkles.

    My grandmother even ironed everyones socks
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    Old 07-24-2011, 06:04 PM
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    I was a real sucker for the candy and chocolate cigarettes, but never smoked so much as one real one.
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    Old 07-24-2011, 06:08 PM
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    I am also older than dirt and I OWNED a Studebaker. Golden Hawk probably worth a bundle now if I still owned it.. It was salmon colors...it wasn't a mustang, but I appreciated the fact that I got a car for graduation...Hard working parents bought it for me. And we Didn't have money for those kinds of things. Awww memories
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    Old 07-24-2011, 06:10 PM
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    Originally Posted by akrogirl
    I was a real sucker for the candy and chocolate cigarettes, but never smoked so much as one real one.
    Oh wow..this comment made me stop and think. I hated the candy cigs..and I turned out to be a smoker. I guess I can not say ex-smoker yet...as it is only 15 weeks smoke free.
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    Old 07-24-2011, 06:11 PM
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    I remember them all and am glad I do. Older than dirt here. Granddaughter can't even imagine lots of what I tell her, she has no idea of what some are. She is 24. She can't fathom the parts about being dirt poor and not having enough food to last a month. Thank God none of my Grandkids have had to do without anything they really need and most take for granted. Growing up in the 50s was not all great and wonderful. I will gladly stay where I am.
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    Old 07-24-2011, 06:11 PM
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    I'm older than dirt! (13 out of 15!)

    My daughter (19) sent me a picture yesterday. She and her friend had found something, but didn't know what it was. After questioning her, and finally asking where they found it (should have asked that first! - it was in Grandma's sewing basket) I figured out it was a darning egg, the kind with a handle on it.

    DD's response? "What's darning?" !! :lol: :lol: :lol:

    I had to explain that it's what our parents used to do when their socks got holes in them! No throwing them out and going to WalMart to get new ones! We REPAIRED clothes instead of pitching them!
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    Old 07-24-2011, 06:16 PM
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    Oh man, older than dirt here. I remember my grandmother going to BINGO and bringing home boxes of food, not money. I remember when oleo came on the market and the little yellow pill we used to squish in what I now assume was lard to make it yellow. I remember when pork and beans had a HUGE hunk of pork in them, no matter the size of the can. They invented the ball point pen the year I was born.
    Life was sure good back then...and it was easier to keep the house clean....didn't have nearly as much STUFF. And to give credit to my folks, I never knew we were poor. That part wouldn't pass muster today.
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