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My parents are just the opposite. They resisted getting an answering machine until I bough one for them 15 years after the device had been invented.
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I tend to be like this. I held on to my 8 tracks when cassettes came along, then would only buy cassettes when cd's came out. I only gave in and bought the newer media when they stopped putting out new music on the older ones. I never had a pager when they became popular, and have only had a cell phone for a few years. I've never had an e-reader, tablet or iphone.
I'm not giving up my VCR until I have to. It is getting more difficult to find blank tapes. But I have enough with old stuff on them to keep me going for awhile.
I do love new technology for the most part, though.
I do love new technology for the most part, though.
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My dad bought a ton of blank tapes when he still could. When I went through the house after the funeral I found them all, and my mom said I could have them. I could send you some.
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13 brands that ruled yesteryear
I was raised on Prell shampoo. I remember the TV commercials that showed a pearl being dropped into Prell and watching it sink to the bottom verrrrry slowly. I switched to Clairol's Herbal Essence in the 1970's (back then Essence wasn't pluralized) and never looked back.
I've been inside a Woolworth's. There used to be one on the Third Street Mall in downtown Santa Monica, now called the Third Street Promenade, because the fancy name change was part of the gentrification of the whole area. I don't remember ever buying anything, although I might have bought a couple small items. I don't have any nostalgic memories of the place because nobody in my family ever shopped there on a regular basis, although I was kinda sad to see them go anyway.
I've drunk Tab and Diet Rite and eaten Necco Wafers. Bleh. I don't miss them at all.
Beyond that, I've managed to escape completely all the other brands listed.
I was raised on Prell shampoo. I remember the TV commercials that showed a pearl being dropped into Prell and watching it sink to the bottom verrrrry slowly. I switched to Clairol's Herbal Essence in the 1970's (back then Essence wasn't pluralized) and never looked back.
I've been inside a Woolworth's. There used to be one on the Third Street Mall in downtown Santa Monica, now called the Third Street Promenade, because the fancy name change was part of the gentrification of the whole area. I don't remember ever buying anything, although I might have bought a couple small items. I don't have any nostalgic memories of the place because nobody in my family ever shopped there on a regular basis, although I was kinda sad to see them go anyway.
I've drunk Tab and Diet Rite and eaten Necco Wafers. Bleh. I don't miss them at all.
Beyond that, I've managed to escape completely all the other brands listed.
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Big Boy sucks. I never understood the Big Boy craze.
I never drank Tab. I was a kid who enjoyed flavored sodas and hated pepsi and coke.
I liked Alpha Bits.
I haven't used Prell in years. Amy, have you really been using the same shampoo brand since the 70s?
I remember going to a Woolworth's when I was younger also.
I loved Necco Wafers. I haven't had them in years though, but I always see them in stores. I loved getting them in my Christmas stocking and Easter basket every year.
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Big Boy sucks. I never understood the Big Boy craze.
I never drank Tab. I was a kid who enjoyed flavored sodas and hated pepsi and coke.
I liked Alpha Bits.
I haven't used Prell in years. Amy, have you really been using the same shampoo brand since the 70s?
I remember going to a Woolworth's when I was younger also.
I loved Necco Wafers. I haven't had them in years though, but I always see them in stores. I loved getting them in my Christmas stocking and Easter basket every year.
Haha no! What I meant was, once I switched to Herbal Essence, I never went back to Prell. I've tried a lot of other different shampoo brands since the 1970's, but never used Prell ever again. Yuck.
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Hated Big Boy, and Necco wafers taste like soap. I grew up with a Woolworth's (my mom called it the "Five and Dime") on Main Street in my town. They had lunch counter with a real soda fountain with all the flavors to add, and root beer floats. I loved the "Notions" section of Woolworths, with the buttons and glittery threads and clasps.
Tab gave me a headache (sugar substitutes usually do for some reason) but my sister loved it and Fresca as well. Prell dried out my hair so I used V05. I did like herbal essences when it came out. Their tv commercials were a riot (for the 70's lol).
Tab gave me a headache (sugar substitutes usually do for some reason) but my sister loved it and Fresca as well. Prell dried out my hair so I used V05. I did like herbal essences when it came out. Their tv commercials were a riot (for the 70's lol).
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I was terribly addicted to Dungeons and Dragons. Funny how we all thought the graphics were so good/cool then, lol.
My kids were young then, so I used to wait until they went to bed then played for hours.
My kids were young then, so I used to wait until they went to bed then played for hours.
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It's funny because I never really experienced those consoles as a kid, way before my time. My nostalgia is the N64 mostly.
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My son likes the old consoles and games, too; he's 20. He has every old nintendo game ever made on a hard drive that he uses with the wii. I've played some games with him that I hadn't seen in many years!
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My son likes the old consoles and games, too; he's 20. He has every old nintendo game ever made on a hard drive that he uses with the wii. I've played some games with him that I hadn't seen in many years!
I've got every major console from the past 30 years, so I understand the want to have all this old stuff.
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Sad to see an icon go, but the roads may smell just a teeny bit better for it.
Heh, we had Prell as well but then at some point my mom switch to V05. I suspect it was cheaper
.I still love Necco's, though I haven't had them in years, as I'm not sure if they are vegan. I was a total Tab addict in college. I regularly ate the Nestle's 100K bar, too.
And we lived a couple of miles from a Woolworth's when I was a kid. We mostly bought candy and little junky toys there.Every time I see Fresca in the store I think of Caddyshack, when Judge Smails says to Danny: How 'bout a Fresca???
