I'm so old I Remember when:

[rockethoe]

I remember when you only got 5 songs a side (and that's if you bought the LP), and you'd have to get up and go and turn it over.

 

[Meg22]

There were no calculators, you had to do your math homework in your head or on paper.

We had calculators but weren't allowed to use them because "you'll never carry a calculator around with you."

 

[RoyalChick]

Oh yes. That describes my mom's oven and refrigerator when I was growing up. The counter top was orange and we had orange flecked carpet in the dining room! (And brown carpet with orange flecks in the living room that went perfectly with the orange plaid sofa)

(I had some relatives with avocado green appliances!)

Avocado green bath, with matching toilet and sink.

 

[21hens-incharge]

We had calculators but weren't allowed to use them because "you'll never carry a calculator around with you."

** looks at my phone **
I carry a calculator, calendar, rolodex, games, shopping lists, and the entire library around now it seems.
No wonder I am always tired!

 

[Debbie292d]

 

[5Australorpasaures]

Pin Ball machines 5 balls for a nickel, gas when I started driving 23 cents a gal. Working after school and Saturday would have money for room and board for Mom and Dad, Car insurance, $87.00 a year, fun money and still was able to save.

 

[21hens-incharge]

Star Wars hit theaters and was cutting edge.

 

[SmiYa0126]

I am sitting here in my parents' cellar wearing my school skirt. Y'all know that I am a teenaged girl.

You signed up here as an infant?.

 

[LTAY1946]

I remember when many families had wood burning stoves as space heaters to heat their houses.

 

[Sammster]

Not old enough to remember party lines, but I know what they are!

My grandma had one when I was little