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Things You Miss About The Old Days

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  • Joannah700
    Joannah700 Posts: 2,665 Member
    Weekday dinners.

    I have 4 sarcastic, witty, incredibly intelligent (not to mention beautiful) sisters and the 5 of us were born within 7 years of one another.

    Growing up, we would have dinner everyday around our 6 foot round table and while the food would be gone within 15 minutes - we would often sit there for an hour and a half or two hours just talking and exchanging barbs. My Dad, known throughout the community for being outspoken would be able to barely fit a word in edgewise. We laughed so much.

    While I like my life now, I miss being connected like that every day. I still get it - but it's now on holidays and via text.

  • seltzermint555
    seltzermint555 Posts: 10,740 Member
    cwolfman13 wrote: »
    seltzermint wrote: »
    how old are these days we're talking about?

    I vaguely miss coming home from work or a party and checking my answering machine for new messages.

    "old days" for me means 20+ years ago...

    Oh yeah, me too. I just wasn't sure if this was about those old days or pre-MFP days (like some have answered about not being aware or caring about calories...that sort of thing).

    Even though it was inconvenient, I miss going on vacation and scouring bookstores and music shops for books I wanted to read or tapes & cds of bands I'd only heard about. Now that stuff is so easily found, for the teenage me Amazon/Google would have been like a dream come true.

  • KGRebelRanch
    KGRebelRanch Posts: 109 Member
    climbing trees/doing backflips on the trampoline/ramping my bicycle across the railroad tracks WITHOUT having to pause and say, "Hmm. I could get hurt. Do I really want to wake up and haul hay if I fall and land on my shoulder? It will take weeks to feel right again....hmm...better not."
  • Feistycat
    Feistycat Posts: 12,868 Member
    I miss The Wonderful World of Disney on Sunday nights, followed by Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom.
  • FabulousFantasticFifty
    FabulousFantasticFifty Posts: 195,832 Member
    I miss when everybody took time to actually talk to each other instead of texting and messaging every thing they want to say!
  • Slacker16
    Slacker16 Posts: 1,184 Member
    Gladiator fights were fun, even though people said they were staged.
  • EveFlowergirl
    EveFlowergirl Posts: 1,491 Member
    FabulousFantasticFifty wrote: »
    I miss when everybody took time to actually talk to each other instead of texting and messaging every thing they want to say!

    me, too.

  • Benjinkan
    Benjinkan Posts: 1,107 Member
    When it was WWF not WWE. When people didn't look at me weird when I said I like WWE. When 'Curse of Sherwood' was the best video game I'd ever played and it was on cassette.
  • JackKopCh
    JackKopCh Posts: 8,042 Member
    I miss when the most important thing I had to think about was if I should wear my Thomas the Tank Engine undies or my Fireman Sam ones :(
  • rock127
    rock127 Posts: 369 Member
    Many... going to park very early in the morning when 99.9% of the people were sleeping(now it's opposite) and some rock/music concerts etc to name a few.Those were the best days of my life... lalala.
  • qxana1969
    qxana1969 Posts: 9,330 Member
    Making mixed cassette tapes and my turn table (got the albums just no means to play them).
  • SwashBlogger
    SwashBlogger Posts: 395 Member
    Joannah700 wrote: »
    Weekday dinners.

    I have 4 sarcastic, witty, incredibly intelligent (not to mention beautiful) sisters and the 5 of us were born within 7 years of one another.

    Growing up, we would have dinner everyday around our 6 foot round table and while the food would be gone within 15 minutes - we would often sit there for an hour and a half or two hours just talking and exchanging barbs. My Dad, known throughout the community for being outspoken would be able to barely fit a word in edgewise. We laughed so much.

    While I like my life now, I miss being connected like that every day. I still get it - but it's now on holidays and via text.

    Sounds heavenly. I would love to have even ONE sister!

  • CooperSprings
    CooperSprings Posts: 754 Member
    Playing street hockey with all of the other kids.
    I don't think I've heard a kid yell "Car!" in over a decade.
  • EveFlowergirl
    EveFlowergirl Posts: 1,491 Member
    field day at school- a whole day of relay races and food
  • ChrisHoffman72
    ChrisHoffman72 Posts: 708 Member
    The respect everyone used to have towards each other....and themselves for that matter
  • Nicolee_2014
    Nicolee_2014 Posts: 1,572 Member
    When kids could be kids
  • CharlieBeansmomTracey
    CharlieBeansmomTracey Posts: 7,682 Member
    being able to eat what I want without gaining any weight and not having to be active lol. I miss my old metabolism.
  • GreenGoddess22
    GreenGoddess22 Posts: 3,818 Member
    Thinking I was fat, but I was really damn thin!
    Eating and drinking what I wanted without regret.
    Music from my HS days (always brings back good memories).
    Saturday morning cartoons.
    Childhood friends.
    My dad (he passed away in 2007)
  • carfanman
    carfanman Posts: 271 Member
    neighborhood ice cream truck
  • 4homer
    4homer Posts: 457 Member
    Saturday morning cartoons. Staying up all night playing board games or Nintendo
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