I'm so old I Remember when:

[Rick589]

Not in the 1970s

So, $30.00.

 

[sdm111]

Back in the day, the males version of aquanet lol. It was my gateway gel.

 

[MROO]

Back in the day, the males version of aquanet lol. It was my gateway gel. View attachment 4022150

It started out pink, but the guys wouldn't touch the stuff. My mom put so much in our hair that it hardened around those hard, plastic curlers we had to sleep in all Saturday night. We hated them, but we sure did like the pretty curls we ended up with for Sunday School the next day. My sister and I were ecstatic when the pink, spongy ones came out!

 

[LaurenRitz]

Back in the day, the males version of aquanet lol. It was my gateway gel. View attachment 4022150

Earworm!

 

[Rick589]

Back in the day, the males version of aquanet lol. It was my gateway gel. View attachment 4022150

Never used it but I do remember it.

 

[Sally PB]

When I was in 6th grade, I had hair down to my waist. My sister had gotten a set of heated rollers for Christmas, the kind with all those spikes. She "set my hair," and almost couldn't get the rollers out, because my hair was tangled in the spikes. That was the last time she set my hair.

My hair didn't hold curl worth a hoot anyway. It might be curly in the morning, but by noon, it wasn't anymore.

I wanted curls... oh, my, I wanted curls. When I was in my mid-20s, I went to get a perm and said I wanted curls, but my hair didn't hold curl at all. (My hair was a bit below shoulder length then.) Did the stylist say, here are some pictures, what kind of curls are you thinking? No. She sat me down and put about 50-60 rods the size of her pinky finger in my hair. When it was done, she turned me around to face the mirror...

I looked like a poodle. I chopped it all off about 2 months later.

The difference between a good haircut and a bad haircut is about two weeks. The difference between a good perm and a bad perm is about two years.

 

[jxp]

I'm Henry the eighth, I am
Henry the eighth, I am, I am
I got married to the widow next door
She's been married seven times before

 

[Sally PB]

And everyone was an Henry!
She wouldn't have a Willie or a Sam.
I'm her eighth old man, I'm Henry,
Henry the Eighth I am!

Or, "'Enery," as the Herman's Hermits sang it.

 

[Rick589]

Yup, WE are the reason there are so many "safety restrictions" these days ... too many close calls for somebody's comfort!

Remove the risk, remove the thrill. Our generation had great childhoods because we weren't risk adverse.

 

[Rick589]

Who remembers sailing down a snowy hill on one of these?