You Know You Are Old When

[Oaktree]

I probably have 2-300 graphic t-shirts since high school. Most are vacuum bagged, but I can't bear to part with them. Heck, I have a pair of flannel pajamas my mom made for me as a kid out of the cloth I bought for a grade school science fair experiment.

Are you and Ultrarunner in some sort of competition to see who can hang on to the most obsolete stuff the longest?
Dunno about you, but it's been a looong time since I've fit into anything from my high school years.

 

[deserteagle71]

Are you and Ultrarunner in some sort of competition to see who can hang on to the most obsolete stuff the longest?
Dunno about you, but it's been a looong time since I've fit into anything from my high school years.

No such thing as obsolete clothes! If they are not worn full of holes and torn they are still wearable and should be worn!

I can still fit into my Navy uniforms from back in the 60s! But that's genetics. Other than being bald and grey haired and wrinkled my siblings and I haven't changed much body-wise in the past 60 years.

 

[Jstpssng]

Are you and Ultrarunner in some sort of competition to see who can hang on to the most obsolete stuff the longest?
Dunno about you, but it's been a looong time since I've fit into anything from my high school years.

I wondered the same thing.
Then realized that when we were cleaning out my parent's house we discovered a ziplock bag containing a blanket or something from when I was a baby.
I now have it at my house until I figure out what to do with it. I found my original birth certificate, which I thought had been in the safe when it was stolen.*
She also saved all of my old report cards... I look at them and it doesn't seem right to throw them out.

*
From that same theft, in 1976; in the desk we also found a quarter and a dime taped to a piece of cardboard. Along with a note "These were in the safe after it was recovered."

WHY did she feel the need to save them???

 

[masscity]

I'm 79, before I went into the USAF in 1964 my mother bought me a Fuller back brush, I still have and use it.

 

[MossRoad]

Are you and Ultrarunner in some sort of competition to see who can hang on to the most obsolete stuff the longest?
Dunno about you, but it's been a looong time since I've fit into anything from my high school years.

Oh I'm sure he'd win that contest.

As for the jammies... call it sentimental. They are something my mom made for me with her hands. One of the few things I have left that she made specifically for me. She mostly sewed women's clothing. Hardly anything for my dad or me. Dad and I DID NOT KEEP THE LEISURE SUITS she made for us!

I still have my teddy bear I got for Christmas two months before I turned 2 years old. That would have been Christmas of 1962. I remember my mom carrying me into the living room and seeing all the stuff under the tree. She pointed at the teddy bear and asked "Do you see that?" and I replied "His name is George". That's one of the earliest memories I have.

He sits right next to my pinewood derby cars and other keepsakes.

 

[MossRoad]

No such thing as obsolete clothes! If they are not worn full of holes and torn they are still wearable and should be worn!

I can still fit into my Navy uniforms from back in the 60s! But that's genetics. Other than being bald and grey haired and wrinkled my siblings and I haven't changed much body-wise in the past 60 years.

I was 4'9" tall when I graduated from 8th grade. I think it was a 6th grade science fair project, so I was probably shorter than that at the time the jammies were made. I was 6' tall and 135# when I graduated high school. I'm now 6' tall and 235# at almost 65 yeas old. For about 5-6 years after high school my shoulders and chest kept getting wider. About 10 years ago, my belly followed suit!

 

[MossRoad]

I wondered the same thing.
Then realized that when we were cleaning out my parent's house we discovered a ziplock bag containing a blanket or something from when I was a baby.
I now have it at my house until I figure out what to do with it. I found my original birth certificate, which I thought had been in the safe when it was stolen.*
She also saved all of my old report cards... I look at them and it doesn't seem right to throw them out.

*
From that same theft, in 1976; in the desk we also found a quarter and a dime taped to a piece of cardboard. Along with a note "These were in the safe after it was recovered."

WHY did she feel the need to save them???

I've got my baby blanket folded up on the top shelf of my closet. On top of that is the American flag we were given at my dad's funeral for his service in the army during WWII. I'd like to get a nice flagpole in the front yard and fly it for him a few times a year.

 

[Alan46]

On top of that is the American flag we were given at my dad's funeral for his service in the army during WWII. I'd like to get a nice flagpole in the front yard and fly it fo

Great idea!!! When you do that we would love to see a photo!!!

 

[ultrarunner]

Are you and Ultrarunner in some sort of competition to see who can hang on to the most obsolete stuff the longest?
Dunno about you, but it's been a looong time since I've fit into anything from my high school years.

Obsolescence is a choice…

What’s old is new again is often the case in fashion.

Duesenberg and Packards were once sold for scrap…

And with some of the computers on wheels In dealing with today it’s good for business as long as I’m not paying.

Can’t tell you how many LG upscale refrigerators only lasted a few years…

 

[ultrarunner]

When I was born my godmother gave me a small stuffed tiger and Godfather a Beam decanter for when I turned 21…

Still have both in pristine shape but the Beam decanter is a little lighter… evaporation is my story.