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Do you remember?

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Ah, the good old days…

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When we moved into this house in 2002 it had an almond Montgomery Ward refrigerator just like that. It was probably the original from when the house was built in 1974. Old and ugly… it had to go, even though it worked perfectly.

In hindsight I should have kept it. We’re on our fourth new refrigerator now.

They don’t make them like they used to.

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Almost every house I entered when I was young had one of these. My parents didn’t because they weren’t big tv people…. but my husband brought one home from a yard sale years ago and stuck it in the basement.

Aren’t I lucky?

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Harvest gold, burnt orange and olive green are the colors of my childhood.

But carpet in the bathroom? Eeewww!

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Been there, done that!

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I still have some of my old 8 track mixed tapes. Awful things, but we loved them.

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39 thoughts on “Do you remember?”

  2. I bought a used Maytag washer and Speed Queen dryer in 1994. Both were already 20 years old. I still use them both. There’s a load in there right now. (I have a turntable and speakers that I bought new in 1971-2.)

    You know the Kelly Blue Book, that tells you the value of a used car? In the 1950’s there were a Radio & TV Blue Book and an Appliance Blue Book to tell you their used values. (I know that because my father worked for the publisher.) There was that great a market for used stuff back then.

    If you had a lot of recipes or cassettes (and a big house), a card catalog would make a great addition. They were usually well-made from white oak.

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  4. I had one of those 8 track players, mine was red. My parents had an entertainment system similar to that one, it had a radio and turn table. Now my son is looking for the cabinet so he can store his vinyl collection, oh the irony…🤣.

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  6. My parents bought the same Montgomery Wards refrigerator in 1973, except in a dark brown shade, “Mahogany,” I think? Mom reasoned she wouldn’t have to wipe off sticky handprints as often as on a white refrigerator. (She hated housework, and it frequently showed in our 1960s ranch house.) They still had it when I came back to look after them in 2010: before I cleaned out the freezer, they still had loaves of bread, vegetables, and foil wrapped pieces of ham, turkey, whatever was leftover from family dinners—in the 1970s. They didn’t ever throw things away, which meant the refrigerator was stuffed with mysterious Tupperware containers and fuzzy pink things that reminded me of Tribbles. But I give that appliance credit: it kept everything frosty cold, no matter if it was beer Uncle Bill left ten Christmases ago or a box of takeout fried rice from last month. Cleaning it was a major undertaking, but it was still running when my parents finally passed in the 2010s. It literally outlasted them!

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  7. Yeah, the Missus keeps saying we should look for vintage appliances. The modern stuff is designed to need replacing after a few years. I had to replace a dish washer and a dryer within a couple months of each other. Ouch.

    And the fridge? The fridge … looks tired.

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      3. I had a fireball come out of an old gas oven years ago. Ran to the bathroom to douse my head and check if I still had eyebrows.

        Slightly singed hair, but otherwise, no damage.

        The gas company came out and repaired it. For free.

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  10. Both my bathroom and closets were fully carpeted. Not fun when, years later, I realized the toilet could rock and the carpet around it was damp. Leaking toilet seal = destroyed subfloor… and learning there are a lot of layers to my bathroom floor (?? covered by linoleum, covered by pressboard, covered by 2 more layers of linoleum, and then padding & carpet. The padding and carpet are gone, the rest of the floor is various exposed layers, and the new subfloor around my toilet is probably the most secure floorin my entire house!

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  11. I once had a robot called 2XL which essentially was an 8track player pretending to be a robot. We eventually had a console tv in the early 80’s, I had a friend whose parents had one with a built in record player.

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  12. Shag carpet (anybody over 50 had some) only looks good if it butts against wood paneling and had three different color bean bag chairs lounging in front of the freaking heavy console TV…..with rabbit ears covered in aluminum foil.

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  14. Carpet in the bathroom is absolute cringe!

    We had a TV like that, but we also had a record player in one of those big old cabinets; it was huge. And to think, now I get my music out of a tiny little thing….

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