Flash Back-Baby Boomers' Memories

If you are a baby boomer , like me (I am on the late end of the group), you will remember these things and maybe have a little smile upon your face. A friend sent me an email with these images and the text at the end of this post that I will type in orange.

S&H Green Stamps

My brother and I always argued over who would put these little postage stamp-like stickers in the booklets. After the taste of licking them got too yucky,

we would get a wet rag or just give up.

I remember going to the redemption store and getting free stuff when the booklets were full.

Over the years, we got a toaster oven (which was VERY modern then), some lamps, pillows, log holder for the hearth, and some other stuff that lasted, as I recall, for years and years.

metal ice cube trays
I always hated how the handle was so hard to lift, and by the time it finally broke loose you usually lost some skin off your knuckles.

popcorn on top of the stove

The saddest thing is that my kids didn't even realize you COULD make popcorn other than in the microwave!

45 rpm record centers for the turntable/record player
One of my kids found one of these in my box of random stuff from high school days and said, "What the heck is this thingy?"

flash bubs for the camera

I actually made ornaments out of some of these for the Christmas tree and A. thinks they're pretty neat looking.

hand made gum wrapper chains

My friend and I had a competition going in school days- who could make one to go all the way around their bedroom! It helped with the litter problem when we were looking on the ground in search of more wrappers everywhere we went. This method was put into use when Mom wouldn't budget more gum again this week into the grocery bill!!

good ol' family friendly TV shows

My brother (a lot older than I) used to tease me saying, "Tonight, this is the episode when Lassie dies, you know!!"

I would cry and Mom would yell at him.

Here's the text that was sent to me in an email...

1. We were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered with bright colored lead-base paints.

2. We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, locks on doors or cabinets
3. As infants & children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, seat belts or airbags.
4. We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle.

5.We ate cupcakes, white bread, real butter and bacon. We drank Kool-aid made with real white sugar. We weren't overweight, WHY? Because we were always outside, playing...that's why!

6. We would leave home in the morning and play all day
7. We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's and X-boxes. There were no video games, no 150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVD's, no surround-sound or CD's, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet
8. WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!

9. We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.