You Know You Are Old When

[Williy]

We had a 8 place setting of Rosenthal china with all
the serving pieces, a marbel table 8 chairs and a
china hutch. Wife sold the works people were afraid
to eat from the plates or they would break the crystal
glasses or plates etc. Besides the hutch was 8 foot
long and table was 6 ft and one solid piece she said
it takes up too much room

willy

 

[masseyrider]

We had a 8 place setting of Rosenthal china with all
the serving pieces, a marbel table 8 chairs and a
china hutch. Wife sold the works people were afraid
to eat from the plates or they would break the crystal
glasses or plates etc. Besides the hutch was 8 foot
long and table was 6 ft and one solid piece she said
it takes up too much room

willy

My mother had all that.
Good dishes that never got used but for Christmas, New Years and maybe another time during the year.
Glorified dust collectors.
Huge hutch to.
Got rid of it too.
Kept the silver as it is solid silver.
It hasn't seen the light of day in years.

 

[MossRoad]

I'm still using Corelle dishes I bought in the mid 70s, and they still look brand new. Never have broken one either.

Our old power washer dishwasher ate the edges of our Corelle dishes. We still see our pattern in 2nd had stores.

 

[MossRoad]

Ours was the wildflower pattern.

 

[MoKelly]

Seeing all those plates - I guess you are old if you remember sitting down as a family EVERY NIGHT for dinner. Same time, same place.

Not so much anymore it seems.

 

[seville009]

Seeing all those plates - I guess you are old if you remember sitting down as a family EVERY NIGHT for dinner. Same time, same place.

Not so much anymore it seems.

We weren’t allowed to even bring anything resembling food into the living room when I was growing up. Nowadays, the living room is the defacto dining room.

 

[JethroB]

Back in the 60’s,Piggly Wiggly gave out individual pieces of flatware with grocery purchases.My mom collected them and accumulated about a serving of 12 including all the serving pieces and a beautiful solid wood storage box. I inherited the and still use them daily.

My dad had a similar flatware promo in his drugstore in the 60s or early 70s. I‘ve still got a tremendous assortment.

I recall the Loony Tunes glasses coming filled with jelly. We didn’t have but a few as my mom made her own jelly. Wild grapes & blackberry.

 

[MossRoad]

Seeing all those plates - I guess you are old if you remember sitting down as a family EVERY NIGHT for dinner. Same time, same place.

Not so much anymore it seems.

We always ate dinner at the dining room table. Now that the kids are out of the house, my wife and I eat together in the living room, or still at the table if it's got gravy!

When the kids come home, we still eat dinner at the table.

Only exception is pizza. Gotta eat pizza in the living room while watching bad movies.

 

[MoKelly]

Do you guys remember being kids in the summer and after dinner the only rule was “to be home when the street lights came on”?

 

[BravoXray]

Our old power washer dishwasher ate the edges of our Corelle dishes. We still see our pattern in 2nd had stores.

After the wife and kids left, and it was only me eating at home most of the time, and the dishwasher broke, I have washed everything by hand.

 

[ultrarunner]

Gold design around the perimeter?

Platinum… it’s the good China.

No time is the everyday.

I did take a blue pattern trim to Austria.

 

[WinterDeere]

Do you guys remember being kids in the summer and after dinner the only rule was “to be home when the street lights came on”?

That was our rule… pretty much year-round, if I recall.

 

[MossRoad]

Do you guys remember being kids in the summer and after dinner the only rule was “to be home when the street lights came on”?

Nope. I've heard many had that rule. We stayed out well after dark most nights in the summer. Ghost in the graveyard. Kick the can. Hide and seek. Lightning bugs. Night swims in the lake.... we lived on kind of an isolated block surrounded by a highway, a large cemetery, a lake, and the County Farm (old folks farm). There were around 20 kids of varying ages. It was a magnificent place to grow up.

 

[zzvyb6]

... when you stop buying green bananas.

 

[ultrarunner]

Home when the 5 o’clock whistle from the new college that was being built nearby… it lasted for years

 

[MoKelly]

I have another - when you were kids what was your Dad’s “go to” punishment for bad behavior?

For us, we had to kneel down on the floor by the stairs. Hardwood floor.

Try that for 15 minutes!!

My kids had it easy —- time out in their bedroom.

 

[scootr]

It was the belt

 

[MossRoad]

I have another - when you were kids what was your Dad’s “go to” punishment for bad behavior?

For us, we had to kneel down on the floor by the stairs. Hardwood floor.

Try that for 15 minutes!!

My kids had it easy —- time out in their bedroom.

Dad was a WWII 6' 3" combat engineering veteran... the imposing appearance was enough to deter most crimes.

 

[sixdogs]

Salad bowls from gas stations!

I worked in a gas station as a kid and we had lots of different dishes, glasses, silverware and I think sharp knives. The 76 company gave out small cans of household oil and think I still have mine. The best promo was the woven wood strip salad bowls.

 

[sixdogs]

Have a trading stamp blender and card table…

When I was 18, the kids I knew all saved S&H Green Stamps for free stuff. I had their big catalog and went in an S&H store once to get my free hairdryer. It was wonderful and decades later I found a partial book of S&H stamps in a drawer.