tlcquiltnut

Amen to the God providing statement. As for me, hummm, family gatherings that were more than once a year. We would have family picnics often as we were growing up. We actually knew our cousins and aunts and uncles. I cherrish them all and still keep in touch too. But families today don't seem to do that much.

Momma_K

Sarahrachel, you sound like you're a very sweet and humble person. THIS is the kind of people I'd love to meet more of. Unfortunately, todays upbeat world has spoiled a lot of people....thus the longing for the "Good Old Days". And I would like to have a clothes line like Mom had, a long pole with the slit in the middle to hold the line up. A wood stove?! Sounds so nice, I live in a basement apt with One heating and A/C duct, we freeze in the winter and fry in the summer!!

sarahrachel

don't worry, I fry in the summer as well as we don't have central air and my bedroom is on the third floor. and I have my parents to thank for how I am as they don't like my generation. and thank you for the compliment :)

Yrnstr

:thumbup:

I wish we'd once again have Constitutional freedom and a total reversal of all the havoc the Red Diaper Doper babies have wrought in all areas of life.

Endora

Gee-whiz, naming off just one or two is such a tease. Not even fair.

Rotary telephone (wall-mounted). I loved our old phone!
Party-lines (anyone else remember the days)?
Wringer washing machine and clothesline drying (I still hang laundry on the line to dry)
Cloth diapers and rubber pants (my kids always had fresh clean diapers for their bottoms)

cashs_mom

I have one. It does have it's advantages.

I'm not joined at the hip to my electronics. I wish people could just put them away and pay attention to what is actually going on around them. I'm so tired of having to watch out for driver's who are too busy texting or talking to drive and people in the stores and supermarkets who are on their phones and run into you or block aisles and have no idea there are others around.

Endora

I am sop with you on the electronic gadgetry today! It's completely overrun people's lives. Sitting in a restaurant and watching people, they sit down and don't even converse with one another, because they're too busy on their devices.

Faintly Artistic

Yes to all of the above! Plus having neighbors I know and who help each other. Don't know or trust most around here. Porch swings, folks out in the evening...

bearisgray

I had a wringer washer for many many years - as did my mother and my mother-in-law.

By the time the dirty farm clothes were put in the washer, the water was getting very murky - in some cases it was close to thin mud and there was a layer of dirt in the bottom of the machine that had to be flushed out.
So - were clothes cleaner? I don't know how one can get clean clothes out of dirty water. They were less dirty after going through murky rinses than they were before they were washed - but not nearly as clean as if these filthy garments had been the first batch of items washed.

The guys would wear their work/farm/barn/mecahnic clothes/coveralls until they were very very dirty - my mom described it as "being able to stand up by themselves".

bearisgray

When one carried water to the washing machine and carried water out - it made one very conscious of water usage.