Things My Kids Will Never Know....

@cindiowens (5120)

• North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

5 Dec 15

And there was still better stuff on tv than there is now, lol.

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Namelesss

@Namelesss (3365)

• United States

2 Dec 15

LOL, having to go outside and hang off the edge of the porch to adjust the antenna!

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AnjaP

@Rollo1 (16679)

• Boston, Massachusetts

2 Dec 15

Wringer washers, reel to reel tape recorders... They do know real hardwood floors because they were throughout my parents' house and in the house we live in now (because it's old). But I really miss the old days of television. Three channels and so much to watch. Nowadays there are hundreds of channels and nothing worth watching on TV.

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Arthur Chappell

@arthurchappell (44998)

• Preston, England

2 Dec 15

@Rollo1 actual cassette tape recorders too and using a microphone to tape your own records off the radio,

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Marie

@Tampa_girl7 (50250)

• United States

4 Dec 15

I have my fathers reel to reel and tapes.

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dorianna

@dorianna (509)

• United States

2 Dec 15

Isn't that the truth about tv. I don't even have a tv. When I did and had cable I never could find anything worth watching except an occasional movie, even then the new ones have little substance. It is a shame they will never know what joy we had with all the great shows.

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AbbyGreenhill

@AbbyGreenhill (45494)

• United States

2 Dec 15

Send them to my house - I have a telephone cord and real hardwood floors (I wouldn't have laminate)

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@cindiowens (5120)

• North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

2 Dec 15

I meant the kind in old cabins and such. I will send them to see your phone cord though. Be prepared for the monkeys!

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AbbyGreenhill

@AbbyGreenhill (45494)

• United States

2 Dec 15

@cindiowens Maybe I need to rethink this....

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@cindiowens (5120)

• North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

2 Dec 15

@AbbyGreenhill lol, too late, they're on the bus headed for TN

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PaintsOnSlate

@PainsOnSlate (21852)

• Canada

2 Dec 15

Slide shows of photos, clothes lines and close pins, an out house, a radio that was taller then they were, sitting in front of the radio listening like we they sat in front of the TV. My kids were children before cell phones and computers.

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Jabo

@jaboUK (64354)

• United Kingdom

5 Dec 15

What - you don't use clothes lines any more? I do.

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PaintsOnSlate

@PainsOnSlate (21852)

• Canada

5 Dec 15

@jaboUK I have one but I rarely use it, Sometimes sheets, mostly for big things.

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@cindiowens (5120)

• North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

5 Dec 15

My grandmother had an outhouse. That is one thing I don't get too nostalgic about, lol.

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Valerie J. Routhieaux

@just4him (317041)

• Green Bay, Wisconsin

2 Dec 15

Typewriters, dial phones, phones plugged into the wall, roller skates with skate keys, playing outside. I don't see kids outside anymore, they are all hooked to their video games. Gas under a dollar. Drive-in movies. The list is long and I can see other answers below.

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Valerie J. Routhieaux

@just4him (317041)

• Green Bay, Wisconsin

5 Dec 15

@cindiowens They were. Too bad they're no longer around.

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@cindiowens (5120)

• North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

5 Dec 15

Weren't drive-ins the greatest?

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Mary Guice

@Elizaby (6902)

• Pensacola, Florida

5 Dec 15

Typewriters will soon soon be a thing of the past though I still see some being sold but the tape you need is even harder to find. Makes me wonder what the old manual typewriter out in the garage is worth?

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Sherry

@norcal (4889)

• Franklinton, North Carolina

2 Dec 15

Kids might know about these things, but I don't think so: Hula hoops, marbles, hopscotch, freeze tag, Red Rover,

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@cindiowens (5120)

• North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

2 Dec 15

OMG! Red Rover Red Rover Send Sherry right over!

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slund2041

@slund2041 (3314)

• United States

5 Dec 15

Rotary Dial Phones pagers Big Cell Phone with the cord hooked to it. You could not remove it from your car to talk. It had a huge case that the cell sat in. Jacks

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@cindiowens (5120)

• North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

5 Dec 15

I forgot about pagers.

Anna

@LadyDuck (471500)

• Switzerland

2 Dec 15

We still have real hard wood floor in our country, as we have washboards (even if everybody owns a washing machine) and most of us do not own a microwave, because we still prefer a conventional oven.

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@cindiowens (5120)

• North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

5 Dec 15

I too prefer the conventional oven.

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Jabo

@jaboUK (64354)

• United Kingdom

5 Dec 15

What about having to go to the end of the garden to a little hut that housed the toilet, which was basically just a hole in the ground with a wooden seat over it. Oh yes - progress is GOOD.

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@cindiowens (5120)

• North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

5 Dec 15

OMG yes!

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Marie

@Tampa_girl7 (50250)

• United States

4 Dec 15

How about records, record players, cassettes and cassette players and eight tracks.

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@cindiowens (5120)

• North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

5 Dec 15

All good ones.

The Horse

@TheHorse (218828)

• Walnut Creek, California

4 Dec 15

Riding a bicycle with the wind in my hair (no helmet).

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@cindiowens (5120)

• North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

5 Dec 15

Yep, helmets required now.

BirDan

@birjudanak (14320)

• India

2 Dec 15

artificial telephone made from thin rope at both end thermocol glass and we cant talk like telephone. leafe dish,tv antenna

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BirDan

@birjudanak (14320)

• India

6 Dec 15

@cindiowens but kids never know hot to make even whats that things,electronics gadgets take place of child outdoor activities.

@cindiowens (5120)

• North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

5 Dec 15

I remember making those "phones" with strings and cans.

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Mary Guice

@Elizaby (6902)

• Pensacola, Florida

2 Dec 15

Cassette players, records, reel to reel film,

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@cindiowens (5120)

• North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

5 Dec 15

One of my sons saw some records in a nostalgic eating establishment and said "Mommy! Look at those HUGE CD's", lol.

Joseph Ruita

@jbaraka (252)

• Nairobi, Kenya

2 Dec 15

They surely miss the 'real action.'

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@cindiowens (5120)

• North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

5 Dec 15

I wonder if our parents said the same thing?

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Joseph Ruita

@jbaraka (252)

• Nairobi, Kenya

6 Dec 15

@cindiowens must have been alot before us.

Always smiling

@allknowing (136403)

• India

5 Dec 15

I can think of lots. Cooking using fire wood, studying under a kerosene lamp, havinging toilets outside the house, no pressure cookers................the list is endless.

Arthur Chappell

@arthurchappell (44998)

• Preston, England

2 Dec 15

actual children's TV rather than teatime soap operas for adults, family listening to the radio together, Computer games that only worked if you plugged them into the TV set, not worrying about perverts and abandoned parcels,

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