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60 Things Literally Everyone Used To Have In Their Home 30 Years Ago That I Am 100% Positive NO ONE Has Anymore
This article made me do a photo walk down Memory Lane!!
A big, giant TV that weighed about three tons
That TV! My sister!
A kitchen with this kind of floor: small photos are from the linked article above.
And a kitchen table that looked exactly like this
I wish I had that kitchen table! Mom and Dad in Montreal.
This alarm clock - Mom and Dad
This grill that made everything taste just a little bit better
I miss my electric frying pan! I received it as a (1st) wedding present and used it all the time! Especially for Hamburger Helper!
This type of furniture in a room that probably smelled a bit like cigarette smoke:
That couch that did smell of cigarette smoke! Mom and Dad.
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A big huge can opener the size of an air fryer:
Definitely!
These exact salt and pepper shakers:
And all the other Tupperware items that were bought/ordered at Tupperware parties!
A set of these ancient coasters that you'd get yelled at for not using:
This dish that was perfect for any food:
One of these right next to your phone:
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The peak in furniture and music technology:
One of these chairs that always seemed to get stickier the hotter it got outside...
Those lawn chairs!
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...and a hallway that probably looked like this:
A phone you'd have to come barreling down the stairs to answer in time:
Phone Jackie
Built in phone - no. But we had a built in ironing board that my mother turned into a spice rack.
And in our old house this was originally also for an ironing board.
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Those walls!
This washing machine that absolutely destroyed fingers that got too close:
I still have the ring that got mangled by the wringer in Baie Comeau!
This gorgeous end table right in the living room:
A literal book you'd have to bring to the bank with you:
A container that could only be opened with a knife or a spoon:
These things that could class up any dish served on a paper plate:
One set of these around the holidays:
I still have part of my mother's!
One of these to fix wear and tear:
My mother's was the best machine ever, to sew on!
ViewMaster!
Not in the article but we had!!
Pinky Stamps
Pinky Stamps were a popular 1950s-1960s customer loyalty program at Steinberg's supermarkets in Quebec and Ontario, similar to S&H Green Stamps. Customers received small, pink, self-adhesive stamps based on purchase amounts, which they pasted into books to redeem for gifts, often at dedicated Pinky Stamp redemption centres.
Groceries
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You could go outside at the airport to watch the planes take off!
Montreal Dorval Airport - now known as Pierre Elliot Trudeau Airport
Window fans
The Charga-Plate was a 2 1/2" x 1 1/4" metal plate—often called a "credit coin" or "charge token"—used from the 1930s to the 1960s as a precursor to the modern plastic credit card. Developed in 1928 by Farrington Manufacturing Co., it allowed department store customers to make purchases on credit without the time-consuming process of manual bookkeeping.
Ashtrays!
No, we didn't have saddle shoes, mercurochrome, lemonade cooler, Moo box (??), water bed, chair (although I do still have one that flips 3 ways (including an ironing board).
I don't remember Mom having a Crockpot, although I do now have one.
No to the bathroom mirror, sifter, bottle caps,
As you would guess, me being of a certain age, I know about most of these things, and I could comment away for an hour. But to save your eyes, while I hate airports, having just picked someone up from one today, the good thing about them was going outside to watch and hear the planes take off and land. And just like that, it was taken away from us. Security, I suppose.
ReplyDeleteYes, what a trip down Memory Lane! I remember most of those things too, either from our own house or someone else's. And my mother "cured" everything with mercurochrome -- EVERYTHING! My sister and I still laugh about it.
ReplyDelete...I remember them all, but we had Green Stamps.
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