I’m so old I remember…

[UKSilverFox]

Oh look I have a goldfish.2,3! Oh look I have a goldfish.2,3.! Oh look I have a goldfish.2,3! Oh look I have a goldfish...........

 

[Saltfountain]

"Snickers" bars being called "Marathon" bars. One for the UK members, still have all your teeth?

Yes. I keep them in a box beside my bed. Thank you Opal Fruits...

 

[Noor]

Oh look I have a goldfish.2,3! Oh look I have a goldfish.2,3.! Oh look I have a goldfish.2,3! Oh look I have a goldfish...........

What’s this from?

 

[Mrmphilll2]

Yahoo Messenger

 

[EctoJohn]

Yahoo Messenger

That program was excellent before everyone used phones to chat with friends.
If I was on my computer, I was always on YIM.

 

[Dearelliot]

I was on a group tour, so it was probably covered in some fee I wasn’t aware of. When in “West” Berlin, they gave us the opportunity to walk into East Berlin, but warned us we’d have to exchange a minimum of 10 or 20 marks (don’t recall exactly, maybe that’s an even better indicator of age) into Östmark, and that you had to spend it or surrender it upon coming back (and there was really nothing much available to spend it on, so I passed)

ISOLIRW in Berlin, I was stationed there in the mid 50s occupation troops they called us. I stood guard at Spandau prison with Hess Speer and Von Shirach there.
Visited people in East Berlin, via the S bahn, parents of ladies I was dating.

 

[chame1eon]

I can remember calling the time number to set the clocks.

 

[Strixaluco]

Visiting Estonia when it was still part of the USSR.

 

[lliicckkss]

skip-it

 

[CuriousRick]

I am so old, I remember when all the big boxing matches were on free TV

 

[joclfc]

I remember the old coins before decimalisation

 

[CuriousRick]

I remember when soda came in glass bottles. You kept them to trade back in for money

 

[Strixaluco]

I remember when soda came in glass bottles. You kept them to trade back in for money

Me too. Well these days cans and plastic bottles are traded back for money just as well, but they don't wash and reuse the bottles, it all goes via material recycling...

And you also got money from trading back the crate.

 

[Misshotndeep]

Underroos

 

[Mo_Bandy]

I looked forward to something besides just coffee.

 

[CuriousRick]

Me too. Well these days cans and plastic bottles are traded back for money just as well, but they don't wash and reuse the bottles, it all goes via material recycling...

And you also got money from trading back the crate.

We would save up for 6 month or so. Then it was a nice little bit of pocket money! I remember sorting them because they had different resale value.

 

[joclfc]

We would save up for 6 month or so. Then it was a nice little bit of pocket money! I remember sorting them because they had different resale value.

We had a recycling skip up our local Tesco about 10 years ago, remember you could put glass and aluminium cans in and get Tesco club card points, 1 point for 2 cans or bottles. I used to take bin bags full and get 50 to 100 points at a time from there

 

[CuriousRick]

I am old enough to remember when you bought toys to play with. Not to keep in a box and hope you could make money years later!

 

[Misshotndeep]

When Pebbles was born.

 

[CuriousRick]

When cartoons were only on one day a week! Getting up early. Sitting in front of the tv with my bowl of cereal waiting for the first one at 7 am! With the tv guide deciding which ones I would watch.

 

[Khadaji2002]

I remember when soda came in glass bottles. You kept them to trade back in for money

I remember my first job was sorting cans and bottles to the various soda companies back before that was automated.

 

[easyoff]

When Pebbles was born.

Pebbles is a little kinky nowadays

 

[joclfc]

I am old enough to remember when you bought toys to play with. Not to keep in a box and hope you could make money years later!

We do it now though, I've got a load of Lego Star Wars that I collect, all built but I've kept the boxes too

 

[Strixaluco]

We would save up for 6 month or so. Then it was a nice little bit of pocket money! I remember sorting them because they had different resale value.

Here the return robot did that already back in my childhood. No sorting at home.

 

[Whynotyeahwhynot]

Building the Millennium Falcon with my son, and now I find out it could be worth 20000 if I'd left it sealed in the box.