You know you're getting old when...

[Jeff Boudman]

Yes, I remember doing that!

I have some baseball cards I cut off of cereal boxes.

 

[Dwain Pannell]

You still trim the hedges with a set of hedge trimmers you got with S&H Green Stamps.

 

[Mark Silver]

 

[timothy]

You remember TV guide.

 

[Bruno]

YOU were your moms remote control.

 

[LMichaels]

And antenna

 

[Joan]

You know you are getting old when Chris has to move most of your posts to where they belong

 

[Andy Kaminski]

I remember having just 3 channels on the Telly.
I think my first remote had a cord and it made loud click sounds each time it was used.

I lived in “West” Germany on and off when I was young.
We could buy just smaller than m-80 type firecrackers and other stuff any time we wanted from the drug store.
There was also beer vending machines bolted onto the sides of buildings that sold good beer for 50p per bottle to anyone.
It was acceptable to have a beer or a glass of wine with your lunch at school.

Germany at this time also only had just 3 channels on the Telly but one was X rated after supper time.

Growing up in the Lafayette Hills of California in the early 70’s we were allowed to hunt/shoot pests and vermin in the neighborhood orchards.
No one ever gave us any grief for having firearms at a young age.

I’m now paranoid just bringing a firearm from my car into my house at our California property.
Yes times have changed.

 

[Rusty James]

Hell in our day we could bring a rifle to school for after school rifle club. No one gave it a sideways glance

My cousin pulled a small caliber pistol out of his back pocket in class one day, but no one freaked out. I must admit, I was a little taken back when I saw it however.

 

[Ed P]

I remember watching the bullfights (and Jai Alai) from Mexico on UHF TV. Listening to Wolfman Jack on XERB (both at night, if the atmospheric conditions were right).

 

[timothy]

You remember filling these up at the sink and the slow walk to the fridge.

 

[BFletcher]

Replacing a heater core was an under-the-hood project.

And you inverted your air cleaner cover

 

[Ed P]

I remember when the Magnavox console was the entertainment center and centerpiece of the living room and the 19" B&W GE TV was relegated to the den. HiFi stereo was state of the art. AM radio was king. Ours was very similar to this one...it was 5' across, as I remember.

 

[John_NJ]

I am old enough to remember when the television had seven channels and there was actual programming worth watching…

Remember when there wasn’t all the gadgets, machines and electronics designed to “save time” but having more “free time”…

Remember most everyone having less material possessions and expressing they were doing okay…

Remember sharing my thoughts and opinions to a select few instead of broadcasting to the World Wide Web…

Remember listening to some old folks going on and on about how things used to be better…obviously some things never change.

 

[Bill T]

when you remember when gasoline was 29 cents a gallon!

I pumped 25 cent gas and of course cleaned the windows, checked the oil, tires, and radiator. Radial tires were a new thing, bought smokes for 25 cents, but quit when they raised the price to 35 cents. Took auto shop at summer school with a buddy, learned everything I ever wanted to know about a '53 flathead Ford engine.

 

[Bill T]

I remember doing Windows 1

Same here. In '85 I got a job at a PC store (no really, they existed). Sold IBM PC's w/256k of RAM, 5 MB hard drives were in the $1,000s. Sold Apple Lisas, Macs, Apple IIs.

 

[Mark Silver]

Remember when we all got computers and the claim we would all be paper free?

 

[LMichaels]

Wow, 7 channels on TV! Yeah, back in the day we still had party line (in Chicago no less), and at the time only 4 channels on TV. 2, 5, 7, 9. Even PBS didn't exist

 

[Bob Bass]

Bill... Bought my second "home computer" directly from Big Blue. An 8080 (pre XT) without HD, just a 5 1/4" drive.
First one was a TI 99/4A. Expanded with PEB, tractor feed wide carriage Okidata impact printer, and a whole 300 baud phone cup modem.
ahhh... The simpler days

 

[John_NJ]

Wow, 7 channels on TV! Yeah, back in the day we still had party line (in Chicago no less), and at the time only 4 channels on TV. 2, 5, 7, 9. Even PBS didn't exist

The Big Apple- media center of the world baby.

2-CBS
4-NBC
5-WNEW
7-ABC
9-WOR
11-WPIX
13-PBS

All beamed into your five borough living room absolutely free of charge by the giant antenna on top of the Empire State Building.

WOR had a radio station too, I would quietly listen to Gene Shepherd every night at 9, when my parents thought I was sleeping…

Good times