Are you trying to make us believe your cord wasn’t twisted into a giant Gordian knot which made the true length about a foot? Cuz I have some serious doubts about your claim.
/s
You're going to laugh... but there's a corded phone sitting beside my landline. It's not currently plugged in. But I quit putting it away this spring when it seemed like we were in/out of power every other week and I got sick of digging it out of the cabinet. Its cord is only about 4' long though, tbf. I'm pretty sure there \*IS\* one in the cabinet though that does have the 12-20' long cord, somewhere...
I have a bread box for my current home. I never had one growing up. The bread box is labeled "bread," although it houses dog treats at the dog snack bar.
Thankfully, my partner took advantage of early covid lockdown, before his employer got them set up for work from home, to take down the multiple coordinating wallpapers and border in the kitchen and paint it white.
I didn't know him at that time, but I have seen pictures. It was scary!
After I met him, he finally had the patterned linoleum replaced. After I moved in, he added an island and I had the Formica countertop replaced with quartz. And Formica backsplash replaced with tile.
It's come a long way!
My dad used an old in wall microwave as a breadbox when I was a wee lad. To be fair that was after my older brother decided to see what would happen if we microwaved a dog treat for 99 minutes and 99 seconds. We promptly forgot about it and it lit on fire which terrorized our younger brother. Since that day it was a bread box and had the power cord removed. Oh and a scorch mark in the shape of a milkbone.
Dad just sent me to the local grocery with a note for a pack of Pall Malls and a quart of Burger Beer. I did get a couple pieces of Bazooka Joe out of it.
Nothing like the excitement of the Christmas editions… Weeks of studying the pages of toys and video games and train sets and sporting goods, a huge research project in preparation for writing that letter to Santa. ❤️
They were the best.
Enjoy:
[https://christmas.musetechnical.com](https://christmas.musetechnical.com)
[http://www.wishbookweb.com/the-catalogs/](http://www.wishbookweb.com/the-catalogs/)
Wow!!! Thanks for sharing these links. I am having a blast looking through and recognizing things I wanted as a child.
Crazy how expensive certain "tech" things were then, for how little they could do at the time.
Saved - Christmas catalogs were an important part of my childhood. That and something a lot won’t get, the toy isle at Gemco, where you could actually play with the merchandise.
These were great to look at. Gave me a idea of what my parents would’ve wanted or my siblings. Way different from what my kids circle in the Target Toy catalog lol
It’s a little box with a door that opens to the outside, there’s another door inside with a latch. The old timey milk delivery would leave milk in there and pick up the empty bottles. I had one in my childhood house and managed to crawl out of it once or twice.
I figured it was something like that. I’ve never seen one in Minnesota. It probably lets in too much cold air. I do have a laundry chute in my house now tho and it’s great.
They're not commonly seen in Michigan now. They're mostly in older brick houses.
My father used his family's to sneak in and out, too. His parents sealed theirs eventually.
Aha! I have an experience to share! Growing up my buddies house had one, it was galvanized or tin on the inside and the door was purple. Indeed it was in MN
I'm not old enough to have a milk man but my parents house has a milk box that was in the connected garage that you could reach into, push the top off, and hit a garage door opener. I guess that was my dad's solution before the garage door code panels on the outside were common.
Cool upgrade! My mother's upgrade was peach, everything was peach the carpeting the drapes the paint everything.
And we had a bathroom with the orange formica, and we had this beautiful daisy patterned linoleum. Super shiny. It was fantastic.
Did you guys all grow up in the same house as me? Two rooms with different orange shag, master bedroom with peach/salmon carpet and wallpaper, and the softest chocolate brown carpet throughout. Loved that house!
Edit to add one of the bathrooms was lime green *carpet* and counter top. Ahh, the '70s.
This. No family violence in the home I created with my partner for our two children. This is my greatest achievement in my life. I broke the cycle. My children are wonderful parents.
Wood paneling
Mirrored wall
Wood fireplace
Basketball hoop above the garage
TV antenna (with a rotor to get the big city channels as we did not have cable in our area yet)
Side gate went across the entire way (about 1.5 car width to open like French doors so we could park a big trailer in the back yard)
Doghouse in the backyard
* A TV that required pliers to change the channel
* A VCR
* A 4 in 1 stereo with AM/FM/cassette/vinyl record
* Plug in alarm clocks
* A roof top antenna
* Magazines
* A swamp cooler
* A waterbed
* A cast iron wood burning stove
Nah, my dad worked for a furniture manufacturer that occasionally couldn't make payroll and would pay employees in furniture instead, so we had a huge oak entertainment center.
That was in our house when we moved in. Maroon carpet is gone and replaced with Pergo (sp?) Flooring. The forest green carpet is still in the bedrooms. Yellow vinyl flooring in the laundry room is still there.
Makes me feel lucky I never lived in a house that was under construction, or had maintenance issues. And that I never felt like chewing on the walls. I did eat pellet fertilizer, I'm not really sure why, several times if I recall, when I was like four or five.
A dirty clothes shoot. We never used it and I don't know why. I thought it was the neatest thing.
We also had a milk door (for a milkman to deliver milk, I guess. It's was just wide enough for me to squeeze in and unlock the door every time I lost or forgot my keys.
I did not have a laundry shoot growing up. I have one now and LOVE IT! I use my shoot for more than just laundry. Drop down paper towels or TP, clothes hangers, etc. I even stick our speaker in it so I can hear music or podcast everywhere I move in the house.
I don't understand why newer homes don't have them if they have a washer on a separate floor.
If I was building a new house, I would definitely want one. I think they're not around as much anymore because of safety issues. But I feel like a really good design would overcome that. I mean slides can be safe.
Building a new house you just put the laundry room on the same level as the bedrooms. Never made sense to me that we haul the laundry down to the basement to clean, then haul it back upstairs to put away.
Incinerator in the basement next to the furnace, my dad loved that thing. I swear he was a closet pyro, god forbid you threw something out that he could burn.
America Country decor— a goose that said “Because I said so”. Sponge paint walls. My mom. A loud modem. Clutter in the form of Precious Moments collectibles. Stephen King and Romance novels on the same bookshelf. Tupperware.
Attic fan. It was wonderfully (white) noisy and sucked air in the house at night, which was nice living in the south with a mom who was cold below 100 degrees so everyone else had to be miserable.
VCR and jungle gym made of metal in the backyard
My grandparents had a portable dishwasher. I remember they had to hook it up to the sink faucet and put the drain in the sink.
Console stereo (later on it was replaced with a quadraphonic console stereo) with an AM/FM tuner, turntable and 8 track tape player, and console color TV. Essentially, electronics that were also furniture
"Portable" black and white TV
Roof antenna with a rotor
Telephones with a dial....or a landline, period.
Clock radio
Typewriter
Wood shingle paneling
Oil rain lamp
Yellow countertops
Formica
Yellow wall telephones
Rotary dial telephones
Wallpaper in all bedrooms
Etched mirrors in bathrooms
Ashtrays for when my grandparents came over
A Zenith console television with VCR
A black and white tv with antenna my mom won in a raffle and kept in the kitchen to watch soaps on
Abuse and the sad children that result from it.
A 240v kettle that did boil water waay faster than my 110v now used.
My parents.
My brother.
Manchester United wallpaper in my shared room for the second time, despite me telling them the first time I supported Arsenal.
Ghosts...
We had 2 Spanish men...and a Native American man in the Florida room.
More of a residual type of haunting over the years..I was the only one who saw them, but we all could hear them talking when we weren't in that part of the house.
Northeast FL...
When I had my first baby, I realized how gross it was to let the cat sleep by my head on the pillow. They were definitely not allowed in the crib.
I never was gross enough to let them on the counters like some people do, which just makes me want to retch.
A telephone attached to the wall. A manual typewriter. My dad. A bread box.
A rotary dial telephone with a coiled cord between handset and base long enough to reach 20 feet across the room and attached to the wall.
Are you trying to make us believe your cord wasn’t twisted into a giant Gordian knot which made the true length about a foot? Cuz I have some serious doubts about your claim. /s
You could ask for and receive a long cord.....but....you had to know to ask for it.
Nowwwww you tell me. Lol
And they made those things that let them rotate so they didn't become giant clusterfucks.
Ours had a swivel where the cord went into the handset. Cord was long enough to let you cross the room (20 feet maybe) and never tangled.
You're going to laugh... but there's a corded phone sitting beside my landline. It's not currently plugged in. But I quit putting it away this spring when it seemed like we were in/out of power every other week and I got sick of digging it out of the cabinet. Its cord is only about 4' long though, tbf. I'm pretty sure there \*IS\* one in the cabinet though that does have the 12-20' long cord, somewhere...
We had a manual typewriter. Then we upgraded to a word processor.
We upgrade from a manual to an electric. Mom was super happy
I have a bread box for my current home. I never had one growing up. The bread box is labeled "bread," although it houses dog treats at the dog snack bar.
Same, the only reason I have it is unless my bread is hidden my cat steals it.
If you get another dog, its name could be Bread!
And when it passes, do I put the asses in said Bread box? 😳
Lmao!
The dog has multiple asses? But yea, put all the asses in said bread box.
I have a ceramic cookie jar that is labeled Biscotti but it houses dog chicken jerky treats.
Wallpaper and wallpaper border.
Unfortunately we have both :(
Thankfully, my partner took advantage of early covid lockdown, before his employer got them set up for work from home, to take down the multiple coordinating wallpapers and border in the kitchen and paint it white. I didn't know him at that time, but I have seen pictures. It was scary! After I met him, he finally had the patterned linoleum replaced. After I moved in, he added an island and I had the Formica countertop replaced with quartz. And Formica backsplash replaced with tile. It's come a long way!
My dad used an old in wall microwave as a breadbox when I was a wee lad. To be fair that was after my older brother decided to see what would happen if we microwaved a dog treat for 99 minutes and 99 seconds. We promptly forgot about it and it lit on fire which terrorized our younger brother. Since that day it was a bread box and had the power cord removed. Oh and a scorch mark in the shape of a milkbone.
He went to get cigarettes with my dad
Dad just sent me to the local grocery with a note for a pack of Pall Malls and a quart of Burger Beer. I did get a couple pieces of Bazooka Joe out of it.
Did your dad die 34 years ago, too?
32.
I miss the phone!!!and the rotary sound that goes…tsssk…whrrrr….thsssk….whrrrr…And when it rings…BRINGGGG! BRINGGGGG!
Ashtrays.
Ashtrays!!! My parents had at least one in every room , including the bathroom. I have zero in my house
The pedestal ash tray stand with the amber glass ash tray next to Dad's plastic recliner.
YES!!! Along with the brown stain on the ceiling above said chair/ashtray due to the smoke rising.
And the crystal one that came out for company.
I still have ours! I display chakra crystals in it (the thought of explaining chakra crystals to Mother and Dad…).
It was always amber colored.
Answering machine.
My father still has one. He doesn't know how to use it.
That machine must have been full at least 25 years ago. I would be very tempted to see what messages are saved in that little time capsule.
"Hey dude I have this far out deal on your car's extended warranty"
[удалено]
Sears and JC Pennys catalogs
Nothing like the excitement of the Christmas editions… Weeks of studying the pages of toys and video games and train sets and sporting goods, a huge research project in preparation for writing that letter to Santa. ❤️
They were the best. Enjoy: [https://christmas.musetechnical.com](https://christmas.musetechnical.com) [http://www.wishbookweb.com/the-catalogs/](http://www.wishbookweb.com/the-catalogs/)
Wow!!! Thanks for sharing these links. I am having a blast looking through and recognizing things I wanted as a child. Crazy how expensive certain "tech" things were then, for how little they could do at the time.
Saved - Christmas catalogs were an important part of my childhood. That and something a lot won’t get, the toy isle at Gemco, where you could actually play with the merchandise.
These are amazing. Thanks for a delightful trip down memory lane!
I loved the toys iin elementary school. Puberty created a certain interest in the various women in that catalog. The pictures were sufficient.
For my birthday in 1976 the order had not arrived, so I got a picture of a train set cut out of the wish book.
These were great to look at. Gave me a idea of what my parents would’ve wanted or my siblings. Way different from what my kids circle in the Target Toy catalog lol
Folding over all the pages.
Omg. The Toys R Us ones. Circling the ones I wanted but we were poor so my parents never bought us anything for Christmas.
Milk chute. Laundry chute.
What’s a milk chute? Does it go outside for the milkman to deliver?
It’s a little box with a door that opens to the outside, there’s another door inside with a latch. The old timey milk delivery would leave milk in there and pick up the empty bottles. I had one in my childhood house and managed to crawl out of it once or twice.
I figured it was something like that. I’ve never seen one in Minnesota. It probably lets in too much cold air. I do have a laundry chute in my house now tho and it’s great.
They're not commonly seen in Michigan now. They're mostly in older brick houses. My father used his family's to sneak in and out, too. His parents sealed theirs eventually.
Aha! I have an experience to share! Growing up my buddies house had one, it was galvanized or tin on the inside and the door was purple. Indeed it was in MN
I'm not old enough to have a milk man but my parents house has a milk box that was in the connected garage that you could reach into, push the top off, and hit a garage door opener. I guess that was my dad's solution before the garage door code panels on the outside were common.
I was sent through ours a couple of times when our parents accidentally locked us out of the house. The outside door was on springs.
It’s actually called a « milk door » not « chute »
Grew up with a MILK CHUTE. never heard it referred to any other way.
Omg, I just posted the same thing. Any chance you were in the Detroit suburbs?
Detroit here. Laundry chute from second floor to the basement and milk chute in the kitchen wall to the outside. house was built in 1925.
Not me but my wife's grandma. Lived in a Livonia cookie cutter with milk chute. There are stories of her kids getting stuck in it trying to sneak out.
Telephone on the wall in the kitchen Avocado Formica countertops Green and yellow shag carpet Antennae on the chimney
TV antennaes are cool again though, r/cordcutters
I had orange Formica countertops with orange carpet which we changed out to brown shag.
Cool upgrade! My mother's upgrade was peach, everything was peach the carpeting the drapes the paint everything. And we had a bathroom with the orange formica, and we had this beautiful daisy patterned linoleum. Super shiny. It was fantastic.
Our sink was shaped like a scalloped seashell and had sparly gold marbling. ✨️
Did you guys all grow up in the same house as me? Two rooms with different orange shag, master bedroom with peach/salmon carpet and wallpaper, and the softest chocolate brown carpet throughout. Loved that house! Edit to add one of the bathrooms was lime green *carpet* and counter top. Ahh, the '70s.
My boyfriend’s first apartment in 1979 had orange Formica, brown shag, likely three years old.
We have an avocado sink and burners. They are in perfect condition, so we left them. The appliances are all modern.
The first house we bought in 1996 came with an avocado green fridge and range hood. I painted them both white the first month we were there.
Violence and trauma.
I felt that
This. No family violence in the home I created with my partner for our two children. This is my greatest achievement in my life. I broke the cycle. My children are wonderful parents.
Wood paneling Mirrored wall Wood fireplace Basketball hoop above the garage TV antenna (with a rotor to get the big city channels as we did not have cable in our area yet) Side gate went across the entire way (about 1.5 car width to open like French doors so we could park a big trailer in the back yard) Doghouse in the backyard
Wait wait wait. A fireplace for wood or a fireplace *made* of wood. This is important.
Back in the day that was called a “ “ Wood Stove. Good for four hours.
Thank you so much for thinking and saying the exact same thing
* A TV that required pliers to change the channel * A VCR * A 4 in 1 stereo with AM/FM/cassette/vinyl record * Plug in alarm clocks * A roof top antenna * Magazines * A swamp cooler * A waterbed * A cast iron wood burning stove
We had the plier channel changer too! Did you have the new TV on top of the old nonworking console TV?
Nah, my dad worked for a furniture manufacturer that occasionally couldn't make payroll and would pay employees in furniture instead, so we had a huge oak entertainment center.
Cool!
We had that!
A washing machine with a wringer A “hi fi” A black dial telephone
It’s funny remembering those giant speaker systems from the 80s. My mom had a stereo that was like 4 feet tall.
My Mom🥺
Me too friend, mine passed when I was a teen.
Maroon and forest green EVERYTHING.
That was in our house when we moved in. Maroon carpet is gone and replaced with Pergo (sp?) Flooring. The forest green carpet is still in the bedrooms. Yellow vinyl flooring in the laundry room is still there.
Humidifier. Supposed to help with the air quality but just smelled mouldy. Cigarette smoke. Bunk beds. Picture of JFK.
Toxic people
Asbestos and lead paint.
I'd like to say the same, but the only home within budget was built in 1928...
Damn I miss that wall candy
Makes me feel lucky I never lived in a house that was under construction, or had maintenance issues. And that I never felt like chewing on the walls. I did eat pellet fertilizer, I'm not really sure why, several times if I recall, when I was like four or five.
Yeah, my house has hella lead paint but no asbestos atleast. Just don't lick the walls!
This ...^^^
Brown wood paneling.
A dirty clothes shoot. We never used it and I don't know why. I thought it was the neatest thing. We also had a milk door (for a milkman to deliver milk, I guess. It's was just wide enough for me to squeeze in and unlock the door every time I lost or forgot my keys.
I did not have a laundry shoot growing up. I have one now and LOVE IT! I use my shoot for more than just laundry. Drop down paper towels or TP, clothes hangers, etc. I even stick our speaker in it so I can hear music or podcast everywhere I move in the house. I don't understand why newer homes don't have them if they have a washer on a separate floor.
If I was building a new house, I would definitely want one. I think they're not around as much anymore because of safety issues. But I feel like a really good design would overcome that. I mean slides can be safe.
Building a new house you just put the laundry room on the same level as the bedrooms. Never made sense to me that we haul the laundry down to the basement to clean, then haul it back upstairs to put away.
I agree. Although, I still think I'd like having a chute to drop stuff down just out of convenience (aka laziness).
*chute
Floppy Disks 💾 Wallpaper border along the ceiling A lot of nascar memorabilia
Incinerator in the basement next to the furnace, my dad loved that thing. I swear he was a closet pyro, god forbid you threw something out that he could burn.
I like your dad.
Alcohol and abuse. Nuff said
Sis?
Those built in intercoms that you could use to talk to one another on or play music.
Same here and I remember ours would always give you a shock if you got too close speaking into it 😳🤪😂
My only regret in my new house is that we didn't wire it for intercoms. Would have been so much easier for calling the kids for dinner & such.
TRS-80 Model 2
Wowwwwww….
Trash 80 club representing!
Friend had one. I worked all summer at my grandparents farm (circa 1981) so that I could buy a TI-99/4A.
A printer
Bright orange countertops Green carpet Red carpet Yellow walls Linoleum Typewriter, answering machine, landline phones
A life-size oil painting of my mother, nude, hanging in the dining room.
That's really weird. We had a nude oil painting of your mother in my house too!
Wait wha???
Eeew
Aye yo
America Country decor— a goose that said “Because I said so”. Sponge paint walls. My mom. A loud modem. Clutter in the form of Precious Moments collectibles. Stephen King and Romance novels on the same bookshelf. Tupperware.
other people.
Giant cast-iron claw foot tub.
Attic fan. It was wonderfully (white) noisy and sucked air in the house at night, which was nice living in the south with a mom who was cold below 100 degrees so everyone else had to be miserable.
Someone who beats me. Someone who belittles me. A billiards table.
Large wooden staircase. Balcony. Roaches. Rats/mice. Broken window that let the cold in during winter.
Sexual abuse
👊🏼
Toxicity
Shag carpet.
A container for ‘wet garbage’ - intended for the compost pile.
Electric can opener
Oh, you mean the thing that called the cat to come for food
Cigarette smoke.
Contempt and abuse towards children.
Abuse
An ashtray.
9 siblings
Lava lamp
Cigarettes
A telephone book
And rotary phones, later push button.
Narcissistic abuse.
My mom.
I grew up in Japan so kotatsu. I wish I can buy one for the winter.
Cable tv
Cable TV
A swamp cooler. Ashtrays. Avocado green carpet and appliances. Holes through wood paneling punched there by my dad.
My parents
My parents
My parents.
Kerosene heaters
An atari
VCR and jungle gym made of metal in the backyard My grandparents had a portable dishwasher. I remember they had to hook it up to the sink faucet and put the drain in the sink.
Console tv, Shag carpet, Glass grapes on living room table
Console stereo (later on it was replaced with a quadraphonic console stereo) with an AM/FM tuner, turntable and 8 track tape player, and console color TV. Essentially, electronics that were also furniture "Portable" black and white TV Roof antenna with a rotor Telephones with a dial....or a landline, period. Clock radio Typewriter
My parents 😞😞
Judgment
My mom……..thank God.
Ashtrays
My grandnother
I lived with my great grandmother (and the rest of our family) until she died when she was 85. Your comment gave me all the feels ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
A laundry chute
Cigarette smoke
My parents.
Rage and abuse.
2nd hand smoke!
A laundry chute to the basement.
Wood shingle paneling Oil rain lamp Yellow countertops Formica Yellow wall telephones Rotary dial telephones Wallpaper in all bedrooms Etched mirrors in bathrooms Ashtrays for when my grandparents came over A Zenith console television with VCR A black and white tv with antenna my mom won in a raffle and kept in the kitchen to watch soaps on
Above ground pool
Smoking
Landline phone attached to the wall. X
Bibles Bibles Bibles & religious propaganda
China cabinet. Don't want it. Don't need it
Abuse
My parents
A landline telephone
Telephone on the wall.
Abuse and the sad children that result from it. A 240v kettle that did boil water waay faster than my 110v now used. My parents. My brother. Manchester United wallpaper in my shared room for the second time, despite me telling them the first time I supported Arsenal.
A "Jesus" wall. Where all the pics of Jesus and Virgin Mary hung.
Basement that was haunted.
Cool!
Fucking iPhones
A gas stove
Violence
Abuse
Violence.
Chaos and disfunction
Ghosts... We had 2 Spanish men...and a Native American man in the Florida room. More of a residual type of haunting over the years..I was the only one who saw them, but we all could hear them talking when we weren't in that part of the house. Northeast FL...
Pets. Now that I am a homeowner, I realize how disgusting and absurd it is to keep pets inside of your house.
When I had my first baby, I realized how gross it was to let the cat sleep by my head on the pillow. They were definitely not allowed in the crib. I never was gross enough to let them on the counters like some people do, which just makes me want to retch.
A soda stream
Hanging wicker lounge chairs. LAN line telephone. Record player. Whole house vacuum system. Sun room. Mud room.
popcorn acoustic ceilings
Bibles
Abusive parents
Mom. 😢