Funny And Relatable Posts By People Who Just Realized That They're Old Now

[Bayard]

Who Is Old Enough To Remember All Of These?












Does Anyone Remember This Movie?
(I loved it!)





If You Can Tell What This Is, You Might Be Old






How Many Of You ‘70s Kids Can Feel This Picture?












Who Else Made Their Own Popsicles? (We did!)









Remember When You Opened A Band Aid By Pulling A String?












Who Remembers Changing A Channel By Turning The Knob?



I Loved These And Used To Read Them At The Dentist's Office. It Was Standard Waiting Room Stuff For Kids



Did Anyone Else Sleep In One Of These? I Think I Would Have To Be Helped Out Of It Today












Could This Movie Be Made Today?






The Older I Get, The More I Identify With These Men















I guess I am old as dirt. I did/had just about all of these.

[MLAA]

1. We must be the same age!

[WestMichRad]

2. Yup, all of the above!

Still have some, including a pickup truck with window cranks, Pyrex dishes exactly like those pictured, and a pencil sharpener.

I remember using a phone much older than the one pictured. Oy.

[yellowdogintexas]

74. I still have a few pieces of Corning Ware and they still come in handy

I recognized every single one of these and did most of them!

Child of the 50s. I actually used a telephone on a stand.

Forgot to add: I still sleep on water. I have a tall one on a pedestal, otherwise it would present some difficulties

[Biophilic]

3. Well, at 78 I figured I was old, but good grief I recognized everything.

I feel like I should win a prize or something.

[MiKenMi33]

4. I'm old too.

I loved my Spirograph and I have that exact Corning Ware now. I remember all but a couple of these.

[NJCher]

51. I found a Spirograph

At a thrift shop and bought it. I play around with it just for fun. In fact , I may just get it out later and play with it. So much fun for $1!

[MiKenMi33]

66. What a great find!

Good for you. I’m always on the lookout for anything considered vintage.

[yellowdogintexas]

75. I gave my 5 yr old granddaughter a Jr Spirograph for her birthday.

LOL her mother has an Amazon list for her which includes lots of toys as well as a good assortment of educational things.
She knows I will send the educational stuff, and that the inlaws will take care of the toys and new clothes.

[Ocelot II]

5. Every one of those things is familiar to me.

I am older than dirt.

[Kali]

6. EVERY single one

although I never had that particular camera and flash and our wall phone was beige/bandaid colored.

and still have too much of that stuff

[Delmette2.0]

67. We had a rotary phone

My sister wore out 4 of the numbers.
She must have called her friend a dozen times a day until the contacts were worn down.

[ms liberty]

7. I know all of these, and have comments or anecdotes about all of them

And I really want to pick up that receiver and stretch that cord out more evenly. There's another three or four feet in those tight new coils of phone cord, says the telephone man's daughter!

[LoisB]

8. Good gravy, I'm old!

[Karadeniz]

9. I didnt recognize three, but that was FUN !!!!

[pat_k]

10. Didn't know 64 was so old

I didn't recognize the glue (used goggle lens), but should have. We did use those in crafts when I was a kid.

The cigarette lighter took a minute.

Yikes! I'm old.

[some_of_us_are_sane]

11. Yep. Every one of 'em!

Looking through this group of images is like one of those marvelous old movies that begin with a calendar fanning the months backward to show the story is in the past, and particularly, when

Thanks. I smiled BIG on this one.

[Charlie Chapulin]

12. Yep

And I’m almost, but not quite retirement age. I remember it all. Had that Spirograph, have a crank pencil sharpener and that Corning Ware, too. Did the Silly Putty and have an inactive phone like the one shown, but beige.
And, no. Blazing Saddles couldn’t be made today. Which is too bad.

[oldfart73]

13. You're old when the rebellious songs of your youth are played in the elevator - on the pan flute.

[birdographer]

14. Got all of them!

You didn't just flip through the records, if you were interested in one, you went into a little room and listened to it (John Wade records, Cleveland, Ohio)! And I actually have one of those coin holders now! They are still handy!

[sinkingfeeling]

15. Remember all of them and both my cars still have wind down windows and 5 on the floor transmissions.

I still have my blue flower Corning Ware and a manual pencil sharpener.

[Just Jerome]

16. Okay, ACED IT

Now where’s my Tip Top Lucky Cake ?


Sorry, not too swift at cut & paste.

[kimbutgar]

17. Looking at these pictures brought back a bunch of forgotten stuff in my life!

The writing the sentences was the standard punishment in my grade school!

And today I saw an old Princess phone on a job where I was moving a woman into a senior center and I remembered my blue one that I had in high school,

I never liked the Spirograph just couldn’t get it to work!

Blazing Saddles could never be made today!

I had a boyfriend that had a waterbed and I didn’t like being on it, let alone sleeping on it!

[NJCher]

52. Waterbeds were hard to get out of

Even at age 25!

[Ferrets are Cool]

18. Every last one of these takes me down a memory hole.

[BoomaofBandM]

19. I am old. Lots of memories there. Thank you.

[wendyb-NC]

20. I remember all of them

I had to write, I will bring my beanie to wear at Mass on every First Friday. I always lost, misplaced, or forgot stuff, the beanie, or the yellow clip on tie, that was part of my Catholic school uniform.

I enjoyed the Spy vs. Spy, in the Mad magazines, and the movie, "The gods must be crazy".

Fun stroll down memory lane.

[highplainsdem]

21. Waterbeds. :)

[sorcrow]

22. Damn.

I was just thinking about Bandaid strings the other day. "Sterile unless opened" was like a magical mantra to six-year-old me.

Best regards,
Sorghum Crow

[sueh]

23. I remember all of these. Come on! Being old is FUN?

[niyad]

24. I must be reallllly old. I remember all of them.

[mountain grammy]

25. The Gods Must Be Crazy

My mom’s favorite.
Hysterical movie.

[NH Ethylene]

43. I wanted to watch this with my grandchildren but it was nowhere to be found.

It was really funny, but also illuminating.

[markodochartaigh]

79. The video quality isn't great, but it is on

Youtube.

?si=WOLiDRMivaVWzYNN

[NH Ethylene]

85. Thanks! I never think of YouTube.

[OAITW r.2.0]

26. I will always be able to drive a manual transmission

Sadly, my kids never made the grade....

[PatrickforB]

27. I remember all of these things. Especially the window crank. Well...all of them...n/t

[Enter stage left]

28. Kids, I was doing DOS before windows 95 came along.

[happybird]

30. I loved 3.1 with the little lines of file folders

and hated fancy-ass ‘95. It took a while to adjust.

[Enter stage left]

31. Windows 7 was the last iteration I ever liked.

[Picaro]

62. I was there for Windows I

But Windows II was renowned for crashing with the blue screen of death.

You could hear the screams of horror and outrage echo across the floor as people lost all their work.

[EverHopeful]

48. Apologize if off topic but early Windows OS-s weren't really GUI

As always, MS let Apple do their R&D then "Created" barely functional knock offs.

Yes, I'm so old that I'm shouting at clouds.

P.S. How do you write the plural of OS?

[NJCher]

54. I can even remember

A “computer consultant” coming to our offices to tell us about what “Windows” was!

There was one other thing he said that has stuck with me all these years. He said (explaining what his job was about), “if you’ve got a computer, you’ve got a problem.”

Little did we know ….

[happybird]

29. 49 and I remember all of them

We made coin purses in Shop in middle school, and I can still taste the zappy-tingle end of the flash cube stick on my tongue, and hear the satisfying crinkle when squeezing the rubber top of the glue.

Guess I’m old now. Yay.

[Bristlecone]

32. I felt like we needed one more

And this is the “modern” unit.

[happybird]

36. What I wouldn't give to watch Grandma narrate a slide show

of her and Grandpa’s latest trip. As a kid I was bored to tears. But I would give anything now to hear Grandma tell us about some dusty cathedral, Grandpa interrupting with some correction or extra fact about the stained glass work and a description of whatever ice cream or gelato he had in that town. I miss them.

[KPN]

42. Still have mine ... and hundreds of old slides. Winder if

AThe slides are any good anymore?

[Picaro]

33. Yeah, I'm old

There isn’t one these that I don’t recognize. Silly Putty lifting up an image of the Sunday funnies? Check. Manually changing channels? Check? Wallphone with manual dial? Check. Won’t go on and on. But I can still drive a stick.

Oh, I still have a Corningware covered baking dish. Not sure how old it is, but it has been moved at least 6 times.

Ah memories

[Kittycatkat]

34. Thanks for the blast from the past!

I miss all of the above and didn’t even know it.

[DFW]

35. I remember all BUT the Spirograph. No idea what that was.

And since my daughters were born here in Germany, I taught both of them (born 1983 and 1985) to drive a stick shift. I don’t know if they remember! I even taught my wife, who is my age, to drive a stick shift, and she’s German. They were already using automatics for driver’s ed here in 1969. My car (year 2013) is a stick shift. I had to order it! The brand we drive doesn’t hardly make them any more.

[femmedem]

53. Here's a spirograph video for you:

?si=OpLcoPHfhDKfIXAP

I had a spirograph as a kid.

[NJCher]

55. That was fun!

I laughed at the part where he said they had overcome the problem with the Spirograph, and that was that it doesn’t work!

[DFW]

64. Looks like a discovery rating just behind electricity, antibiotics and the wheel

I don’t know how I missed it.

[dchill]

37. I remember ALL of that ...

...but I haven't thought about most of it in years! So yeah. I'm that old!

[LudwigPastorius]

38. I never had a waterbed, but...

everything else rings true.

[NJCher]

56. You can't get one now

Cuz you have a kitty! You would end up in a puddle on the floor.

[highplainsdem]

68. Try two kittens playing on a waterbed mattress during the seconds it's uncovered while you're

changing the sheets.

Been there, done that, no t-shirt about it and there was no puddle on the floor, thanks to the liner. But I gave up on kingsize waterbeds after that.

[niyad]

82. I had three kitties, and they LOVED my waterbed. One of them used to

sleep under the covers tucked in at the foot of the bed. I had that bed for over ten years, and they never put a hole in it (thick mattress pad). The bicycle-type repair patch cracked me up, but was never needed.

[FuzzyRabbit]

39. I remember them all.

I never had a Spirograph, and we didn't have to write "I will not . . . "

I still have a rotary phone but the phone company is all digital now, so I can't use it. Cell phones are definitely not an improvement. Not everything new is an improvement.

And stay off my lawn you whippersnappers.

[NJCher]

57. We mixed it up

We should have gotten rid of the lawns and kept the phone lines!

[hvn_nbr_2]

40. Oh, c'mon Windows 98 isn't even old. (And more stuff too)

Windows 3 is kind of old.
DOS 3.0 is old.
The Osborne 1 is old
TRS-80 and Commodore Pet are really old.

I still have (and use) those blue and white Corning casseroles.

I remember living in two houses with phones that didn't even have rotary dialers. You picked up the receiver and an operator came on the line and asked, "Number please?" When our town got rotary dials and 7-character phone numbers (BEachwood 45789), we had classes in school to learn how to use them.

Stick shift: I always drove stick shifts until recently. I once left a car salesman speechless when his company didn't even have any stick shift models. I said, "When I'm on a steep and twisty one-lane dirt and gravel road on the edge of a 3000 foot cliff in the middle of a rain, wind, fog, and hail storm, I don't want a machine deciding to shift gears for me." (A real experience I had had.) The salesman just looked at me with his mouth open.

Fun thread.

[hvn_nbr_2]

41. Oops. Forgot to mention: The road with the 3000 foot cliff had no guardrail. nt

[NJCher]

58. What an interesting life you must lead

Twisty, windy, hail …

[NBachers]

61. Yup- On a twisty mountain California road last summer, I was downshifting into first on coastal hairpin turns. You'd be

going downhill, hit the hairpin, the road would start a steep incline, and you'd need to clutch into first to negotiate the uphill. I was glad i had a synchro 5-speed.

Later on, we hit some coastal pea-soup fog and decided it's saner to abandon the Coast Highway and head inland instead of hanging our wheels over the drop-off to the Pacific.

[electric_blue68]

44. I remember, and used most of these. Never did a "will not talk in class" type punishment...

Loved the Spirograph!
Ugh, that ?musilage stuff.
The band aid string? 😄 Waaaaaay back!

Going to the record store! 🥰
Balsa glider planes!

What is that crank for - a piece of furniture?

[Ocelot II]

46. The crank is part of a pencil sharpener.

[3catwoman3]

47. The crank is for rolling down the windows...

…in your car.

[bamagal62]

45. Well, I'm officially old.

[EverHopeful]

49. The Gods Must Be Crazy is one of my favorites

I even have it on DVD and, apparently, DVDs are now also on the list of "Old stuff."

Realized some years back that pretty much everything I liked was either vintage, classic, or retro.

[TommieMommy]

50. Yes yes yes I'm 73 I remember all those 👍😁

[Think. Again.]

59. Every now and then, it dawns on me....

...that there is, and always will be, only one group of humans, throughout all of our human history, who will have known life through both an "analog", non-digital experience of the world, and the digital human experience that has now erased that prior life.

And it is us, who are the only group who will ever know both sides of that bridge.

[Phoenix61]

60. Too funny. I still have mine.

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[NBachers]

63. To get ice cubes, there was actually this chrome crowbar-type thing that was used to dig & pry the ice trays out of the

thick frosted-over little freezer compartment. In my family, we called it the ice kretcher. Then you had to manipulate the lever on top of the ice cube trays to loosen them to get them out. It was quite a procedure. Frost-free freezers were way off in the Space Age future.

And then, there were these:

[hunter]

65. I was using Windows 98 when I first signed onto DU.

Upgraded to Linux soon after.

[highplainsdem]

69. I had an Osborne for my first computer, was using it when I first ran on online forum on politics and tech in

the mid-1980s.

[Prairie_Seagull]

70. Every freekin one.

This trip down memory lane may not even come with a seat belt.

Hold on, it may leave a mark. Thanks Bayard.

[Aristus]

71. I didn't think fifty-five was old.

I still feel seventeen…

[Duppers]

72. How did I miss this thread ❓

Thank you for all these!

[petronius]

73. We flipped through casette tapes in the big plastic cases, not records, and I only recognize two

of the grumpy TV guys (no TV in my house growing up), but yes to everything else...

[yellowdogintexas]

76. A local live theater has converted the cigarette machine into an art dispenser

Put in a quarter and you get a cigarette sized box with a drawing or some thing else arty.

By the way this theater was founded by Wendy Davis's father. Stage West if you are ever in Fort Worth

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

77. I still drive one of these.

I'm currently 76. I consider automatics to be unsafe. I mean, really, you take your foot off the brake and the car starts moving?

When I can no longer drive a stick it will clearly be time to stop driving.

[sheshe2]

78. I remember them all.

I still remember that phone #

[duncang]

80. How about using a xt computer

Without a hard drive but had two 5 1/4 inch drives.

[SamKnause]

81. I remember all of them.

[bamagal62]

83. OMG.

Every. Single. One.

[yellowdogintexas]

84. All your health care providers are younger than you

and some of them are younger than your child(ren)