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Wife won't see this post. NiceYou know you're old when your camping gear cost as much as your house,,,,,,,,,cause it is a house.
It's a random pic. Mine has a barn with it. Horse trailer with living quarters, lol.
You remember TV shows like:
Columbo, Happy Days, M.A.S.H, Starsky & Hutch, The Love Boat, Kojak, The Six Million Dollar Man.
Columbo, Happy Days, M.A.S.H, Starsky & Hutch, The Love Boat, Kojak, The Six Million Dollar Man.
Oh, rub it in why don't ya'. Still better than mine, still sitting on the lot.
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S&H green stamps at the grocery store, to save and then trade for excellent housewares. Also, saving stamps in books at school, to buy savings bonds -- 4 of those bonds bought the violin I played in school!
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And I'm sure a lot of us recall... 50 cents a pk cigarettes. I actually remember when they were 35 cents a pk, but that was some years before I started smoking. They were 50 cents a pk in GA in 1975. I could go by the 7/11 on my way to school with a dollar, and come out with a pk of smokes, a pepsi, and a nickel in change.
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Shit... I'm 26 and have no clue what the hell they say... like "thot", what the fuck is that shit?
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The one I just cannot, and refuse to, wrap my head around is "sick"... I'm sorry, but anything "sick" I don't want anywhere near me!!!!!
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Cracker Jacks are in a smaller box now, and not near as many peanuts - which is good for me because I hate peanuts. And the "prize" is always a small sticker of some sort, no toys anymore.
Everything seems to have gotten smaller - no more half gallons of ice cream, Whitman's candies are half the size they were, but twice the price...just about anything is more money, less product.
My Daddy's favorite tv show as a kid was The Rifleman. I've been watching those lately on the public tv channel here "Alabama Public Broadcasting". My only regret is that I'll never be able to watch it with him. He died in 2008. 
I've watched episode from nearly every tv show y'all mentioned. I know just about everything you all mentioned, too.
How about telephone hanging from the wall with a springy cord attached? How about listening in on your neighbors phone convo's because y'all were on the same line?
Talk about gossip central? Oh and telephones with the rotor dial? we still have a working one here some where. 
I've watched episode from nearly every tv show y'all mentioned. I know just about everything you all mentioned, too.
How about telephone hanging from the wall with a springy cord attached? How about listening in on your neighbors phone convo's because y'all were on the same line?
Talk about gossip central? Oh and telephones with the rotor dial? we still have a working one here some where. 
you have to listen to them there, because you can't find anywhere to play your Casette Tapes.
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What a co-winky-dink, I'm wholeheartedly into not giving a shit as we speak...
Constipation? Yeah, we covered bowel movements a while back.
You know you're getting old when you spend a lot of your time on vaping forums visiting a thread called "you know you're getting old when..."
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Half the time I feel like that kid from the movie 'blast from the past' where he's clueless, having lived in a fallout shelter for like 35yrs. I recall having b&w tv, tv's without remotes where the 'good' channels were on uhf. They weren't the shows of the day but I grew up watching ozzie and harriet, donna reed, mash, lost in space, mr. ed, i love lucy and a bunch of others.
Missed my chance to see Britney Spears (back when she was hot and not all tweaked out), but did manage to go see Johnny Mathis live in concert. Oh and Lionel Hampton. When I got to listen to Diana Krall play piano and had the chance to meet her, she was in her mid 20's. Back when she was just playing local concerts and well before she married Elvis Costello, had kids or had won any grammy's. Basically a nobody.
Despite being kind of a tech geek my 'media' shelves are full of a few dvd's (no bluray) and vhs tapes. I grew up with rotary phones and getting an answering machine was a big deal. Floppy discs were common. Mc Hammer and Vanilla Ice weren't the butt of jokes and those parachute pants were actually cool. lol.
I'd still rather watch Johnny Carson than Johnny Knoxville. When playing music trivia games with friends and I'm stumped trying to match artists with 90's and newer songs but ace matching jazz and big band leaders with their songs from the 40's lol. My roller skates didn't have wheels all in a line. Though to be fair it's not like the really old ones you hooked to your shoes so I guess I'm not that old
Kids these days bitching because the battery on their smartphone goes dead while playing virtual pokemon go. Or pissed when the battery on their hoverboard is dead. Thinking yea, I played with a board too. It had wheels, no motor, you had to push your own fat ass along. Or I played with a big hoop you wrapped around your waist. A length of rope with handles was considered a toy.
Missed my chance to see Britney Spears (back when she was hot and not all tweaked out), but did manage to go see Johnny Mathis live in concert. Oh and Lionel Hampton. When I got to listen to Diana Krall play piano and had the chance to meet her, she was in her mid 20's. Back when she was just playing local concerts and well before she married Elvis Costello, had kids or had won any grammy's. Basically a nobody.
Despite being kind of a tech geek my 'media' shelves are full of a few dvd's (no bluray) and vhs tapes. I grew up with rotary phones and getting an answering machine was a big deal. Floppy discs were common. Mc Hammer and Vanilla Ice weren't the butt of jokes and those parachute pants were actually cool. lol.
I'd still rather watch Johnny Carson than Johnny Knoxville. When playing music trivia games with friends and I'm stumped trying to match artists with 90's and newer songs but ace matching jazz and big band leaders with their songs from the 40's lol. My roller skates didn't have wheels all in a line. Though to be fair it's not like the really old ones you hooked to your shoes so I guess I'm not that old
Kids these days bitching because the battery on their smartphone goes dead while playing virtual pokemon go. Or pissed when the battery on their hoverboard is dead. Thinking yea, I played with a board too. It had wheels, no motor, you had to push your own fat ass along. Or I played with a big hoop you wrapped around your waist. A length of rope with handles was considered a toy.
When you switch from trying to change the world, to trying to stop them from changing your world.
If you find them, hang onto them and attach the to 8.5x11 paper and send them to greedpoints they will give you face value towards gift cards.
When you go on a hot date with a 20yo and then you wake up.
Bikes did not have motors... those things today are people too "hip" or not douche enough to ride a moped.
Using anything for fun that doesn't have batteries in it does not compute for young people, well besides dildos.
When you see unlaced shoes and jackasses sagging skinny jeans it the thought you have is 1. step on laces 2. shove jackass over 3. laugh and run.
It's not ok for a guy to show his underwear or crack unless he's a plumber.
Or how about when you find out that girl at the store you were checking out was born in 1998.. and you start to feel all nasty, then you do the math and you're just pissed cause you realize she's legal.. and just how old you really are. (I've only had 2 cars that 'new' lmfao)
The girls that were born back when we were worried about the Y2K bug (that doesn't seem so long ago) are almost legal now.
Best moment ever was telling my dad over the phone that I had a son. He was happy, congratulated me. Then the conversation rambled for a few minutes and it sunk in. I get "aww shit, you bastard, you just made me a grandpa!" hahaha.
Definitely scary, kinda glad I moved away from the town I went to high school in. Some of the people I went to high school with have daughters that are legal and legal drinking age. Imagine that level of awkward. Oh come and meet my parents!.. awww shit, gotta go, bye. lol
Definitely scary, kinda glad I moved away from the town I went to high school in. Some of the people I went to high school with have daughters that are legal and legal drinking age. Imagine that level of awkward. Oh come and meet my parents!.. awww shit, gotta go, bye. lol
I was at an open-air concert. This was when I still smoked. I was smoking a pipe at the time, I think it was probably Captain Black or some other vanilla cavendish. A young lady, quite fetching, kept inching closer to me and I, trying to be polite, kept inching away so as not to smoke her out. Finally, she said quit moving, I like it. I thought a-ha, and begin to flirt. Then she said "You remind me of my grandpa."
Total let down...
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Dating the daughter of that bully from school or the daughter of that cheerleader you could never get, sounds pretty sweet to me.