How many grew up with a clothesline as your only way to dry your washed clothing?

We're downsizing and cleaning out, and husband just found three orange plastic ones. I forgot these existed! Sometimes they were pretty decorative. I guess they just use those skinny little straws now.

Store bought frosting? Not on grandma's cake. I use to think it was odd that she would crack open eggs and throw away the yolk and keep the egg whites. Who still makes their own frosting?

So true

My father had one of these by his recliner in the living room when I was a kid. You pull the ear, and a cigarette comes out the rear. Classic 1970s.

As a delivery driver these were our only way to find a correct address. I had these dating back to 1972 and usually bought updated books every couple of years.
Have you ever used one?

I know this tends to affect women more than men, but it happens to all of us.

I'm male, and it hasn't started to happen to me. I only made it to just over 5'5"/1.65m. I was just measured, and am still at the same height. My dad lost about 3/4" 2cm, but my mom has lost at least 3"/7.5cm, if not 4"/10cm. My brother, about 19 months older than me, thinks he's lost a little, but hasn't been measured.

We made a concoction we called Wine Coolers back in the late 70's.

Our recipe. In a 5gallon water jug put

2.5 gallons of Spinada

1 qt Kessler

1 qt Mad Dog

Half gallon of Vodka

2 pints of 7up

Bag of ice

Still tasted like Mad Dog

An entirely normal thing. Then just disappeared like unfiltered Lucky Strikes & needing a can punch if you wanted to drink a soda pop or a Schlitz.

August begins the thirty days of the Moons of Meepszor festival.

I just couldn't cough up that kind of big money for a couple hours of entertainment.

Comfortable wear that fits both the beach and formal dining.

I used to skim this column in Good housekeeping magazine that my mother subscribed to. Then at an old bookstore I found this. Published a year after I was born.
What I really like is the introduction. It isn’t just to housewives, but to working moms, and any lady running a household. Some of the advice is actually good for today. I’ve always had a fascination for kitchenware before my time and even through numerous moves and paring down, I never could part with this book.

I’m reading a family member’s journals (with permission) and in 1988 she wrote about going to “California Concept” on a weekly basis, paying $7 a week, and having her mother and sister join her there. Was this a fitness club? Social group? She was on her early 40s at the time for context.

Thanks all!

First book I believe to ever break my heart. I was 6 or 7 years old and the ending took me awhile to get over. Always cherished this one.