Do You Remember?

[Stone]

When children in LA played outside.

When children anywhere played outside.

I remember the day that my parents gave my sister and me house keys because they realized they had to start locking the door when no one was home.

[The Scream]

When children in LA played outside.

When children anywhere played outside.

I remember the day that my parents gave my sister and me house keys because they realized they had to start locking the door when no one was home.

 

I remember when my parents did the same thing. For years everybody we knew kept a spare key under a potted plant on the front porch or under the doormat.

 

There was a time when folks left their cars running to dash into a store for a quick errand.

[ghostrider]

 

There was a time when folks left their cars running to dash into a store for a quick errand.

They still do that too here in Jersey.

 

Of course sometimes the cars aren't there when they dash back out.

[rancho_gordo]

I line dry 90% of my clothes. It smells better, they last longer and it's a waste of electricity. I have a folding rack for winter and it holds about a load and a half and the clothes are always dry by morning.

 

Of course this isn't practical in the city, is it?

 

Edited to add: Martha-type tip = pillow cases are set out to dry on the lavender bushes.

[omnivorette]

I do that sometimes up at the house in the non-winter months. And up there we have a drying rack in the basement which we also use sometimes.

[Wilfrid1]

I certainly remember pegging out the washing, first on a washing line and later on those racks which were supposed to spin gently in the wind. Know what I mean?

 

This was back in the days of gardens.

[StephanieL]

My friend in Melbourne air-dries all her clothes. I think that's very common in Australia and NZ.

[SLBunge]

I certainly remember pegging out the washing, first on a washing line and later on those racks which were supposed to spin gently in the wind. Know what I mean?

 

This was back in the days of gardens.

Like this? Grandma had one of them.

[Wilfrid1]

Dat's it.

[lovelynugget]

remember when we took class notes by hand in notebooks? Who buys notebooks anymore?

 

Oh yes, notebooks--I had one for each class. In high school and earlier, I had a "denim" looseleaf ring binder with separate tabs.

 

Yes! Trapper Keepers and PeeChees. Doodling "Mrs. Ricky DeFazio" all over them.

[lovelynugget]

I line dry 90% of my clothes. It smells better, they last longer and it's a waste of electricity. I have a folding rack for winter and it holds about a load and a half and the clothes are always dry by morning.

 

Of course this isn't practical in the city, is it?

 

Edited to add: Martha-type tip = pillow cases are set out to dry on the lavender bushes.

I see it sometimes from my back window in Brooklyn. Old-school Italian neighborhood.

[elyse]

 

The pecular, redolant, memorable smell from that ironing.

 

We had a hard plastic 'sprinkler.' It was the shape of a lighthouse which flared out at the top, with wide yellow and white stripes. We sprinkled the clothing and left them for five or ten minutes so the water could redistribute.

[Abbylovi]

Is Slip N Slide still around or is that just a lawsuit waiting to happen?

[rancho_gordo]

I was just remembering my mother coming home from work and changing clothes and seeing the girdle marks that made an impression in her skin.

[Rebecca]

What the hell were you doing in your mother's bedroom when she changed clothes? Oh, my.

Interesting direction the thread is moving. Wash Day was Monday, ironing was Tuesday. But $200 for a clothesline today? They are outlawed in most new neighborhoods here in California. I think I did see a Slip 'n' Slide for sale recently. The most sore I have ever been in my life, multiple muscle stretches, muscles I didn't know I had, was after my first afternoon slippin and slidin with the neighborhood kids when I was about 25-27. Fantastic exercise.