In my day ...

[BrickHouse]

In my day



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I remember the many "gimmick" goods for sale in quite a few publications.

 

[lunatic59]

I remember the many "gimmick" goods for sale in quite a few publications.

Let's see ... there were do-it-yourself lasers, custom dog tags, some type of "switch blade" and the ubiquitous x-ray glasses.

 

[olbriar]

Back in my day my friend and I answered an ad in the back of some cartoon or magazine to sell personalized Christmas cards. We promptly received order forms and we set out selling these expensive but cool Christmas cards. We were to make like a buck per order or something. We turned our order and money in before the deadline and we had around thirty orders to be printed. We were so excited to be in the big bucks. A couple of weeks before Christmas our customers started calling... where are our cards??? They did arrive before February. Needless to say we had some irate customers.
One of our disgruntled customers was our gym instructor. We ran laps and did pushups the rest of the school year.

 

[Unforgiven]

Not so much funny, but nostalgic. I stumbled across this auction listing and figured some of you folks may appreciate it.
https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1965-dodge-dodge-d300-chassis-w-caveman-camper/

 

[Davdi]

You could live in that full time.

 

[Unforgiven]

 

[BrickHouse]

That's a cigarette lighter. It's the original use for what is now the power port in cars.

 

[Davdi]

Surprisingly my 2001 Honda Civic still has the lighter in the glovebox.

 

[BrickHouse]

Surprisingly my 2001 Honda Civic still has the lighter in the glovebox.

WOW, I'm amazed.

 

[BrickHouse]

It's also what we used when someone came storming up to the car boiling over with road rage. Amazing how effective a well placed hot item can cool a person off.

 

[olbriar]

Back in my day, my buddy and I spent an afternoon trying to find the battery drain in his mother's 1959 Caddy. It was a cigarette lighter. passenger side, rear seat that wouldn't spring back after getting hot.
It's a wonder it didn't catch that pink beast on fire.

 

[Milo Williamson]

I do not remember much in my day.
Maybe common sense and about everything, and we did not need any snowflake out there.
In the criminals out the chances, and maybe it is even fowards on..

 

[BrickHouse]

I do not remember much in my day.
Maybe common sense and about everything, and we did not need any snowflake out there.
In the criminals out the chances, and maybe it is even fowards on..

???
No such thing as "common sense" ...
What is common for one, may be entirely foreign to another.

 

[Milo Williamson]

???
No such thing as "common sense" ...
What is common for one, may be entirely foreign to another.

That is okay, no one understands my humor when they first meet me .

 

[olbriar]

Back in my day, fast food was a rabbit.

 

[Davdi]

Rabbit, that's one meat I really miss now we've veggie.

 

[Milo Williamson]

Space seem so small, but someone blew it up.

 

[Davdi]

It's really just another inflation problem

 

[olbriar]

 

[Clementine_3]

I do! Lots of trips to the basement as a kid, we all knew how to change them!

 

[olbriar]

My cabin still had them a few years ago.

 

[BrickHouse]

Fuses can still be purchased. Most hardware stores carry them. These are just one of may types.

Yes I remember changing them as a child.

 

[rootabaga]

The furnace in our home has one.

 

[olbriar]

I'm so old but managed to still have mine. Do you know what it is?

 

[BrickHouse]

I'm so old but managed to still have mine. Do you know what it is?

Man, I thought I’d likely never see a skate key again.