Yes!!!
Hated it with a passion. Hated that Singer. But then Dad came home with a sewing machine. A Riccvar, 75.00 and a lot of money in those days. Figured in my then ninth grade brain .Mmmmmm! Mom will let me buy fabric a lot more readily than the clothes I wanted in the dept. store.
I had clothes galore after that! Became quite skilled,, bound button holes, outfits copied from Seventeen magazine. Even 2 piece bathing suits! Had hardly a stick of anything from the department store beyond sweaters and shoes all through high school.
Later, in my own digs,it was a bedrooms outfitted/custom in a weekend....then it was more. Painting furniture, walls. Eventually a career in interior design and a long one: ) I still love.
Don't knock HOME EC.
It's adorable on her.
I think the "teen queen" look favored by insecure males makes women over forty feel they need a teenage mane that is NOT well suited to every face, and simply drags a face down, or lacks any style whatsoever.
She doesn't look like "she's about to cry" - she looks happy and she SHOULD. It looks great.
Candies that didn’t survive the 1980’s. I know some of these are still around that shouldn’t be on the list.
Which one surprised you? I totally forgot about the Gatorade gum!
Don't remember feeling deprived of anything back then. You can't miss what didn't exist. My Imac is a love affair, my I phone is an absolute love/ hate relationship, and weirdly, I seem to have a lot less time now, than in the '70's
It was great. The phone rang, nobody home, and it rang until the dope on the other end muttered......"nobody home, I guess."
Entire weekends spent having fun, NO phone wherever you went, or whatever you did. Johnny Carson watched to the end, despite you needed multiple alarms to get up in the morning. Ahhhhhh : )
I would go back to the 70's in a heartbeat! Life was simpler, and less stressful. I remember my mom buying groceries at the A&P because they gave S&H Green Stamps. She would get home, unpack the groceries, and sit down at the kitchen table while we licked the stamps and placed them in the books. I remember she traded them in for a toaster once. I miss those days😢
@washghost1 I sooooooooooo miss that model. !!!!
You could open the door and not get snow or rain on your head. The table was great for tailgating.
Apparently, the spare tire that rode on the back of the door was an insurance issue, and now........long gone is that model.
🚨 This is the FLUFFIEST garlic cheese “bread” you’ll ever make — and it’s basically 0 carbs! 🧄🧀☁️
Watch how it comes together:
Start with egg whites whipped to stiff peaks
Fold in shredded cheese + garlic powder + your favorite spices
Scoop onto parchment, bake until golden & puffy
Pull-apart cheesy heaven with insane cheese pulls! 🔥
Why you’ll obsess over it:
🔥Super light & airy like a cloud ☁️.
🔥Zero gluten.
🔥High protein, low carb — perfect keto or healthier swap for regular bread 🍞.
🔥Ready in minutes and tastes BETTER than the real thing.
I refuse to believe that there is a better sandwich than the BLT. Perfectly balanced. Salty and savory. Crunchy, yet soft.
Paired with an ice cold soda after doing yard work, you may have the most American sandwich created.
My mom had one , actually TWO. The last was sourced in Iowa....
She had a "modern set", my dad jammed it down her tonsils in the bowels of out basement : she finally decided to concede - but using only the spin on the washer, and the dryer for towels.
She had the whitest wash on earth, and she could get a stain out of anything and everything. Nothing today has agitation like that. Nothing: )
Doing laundry with her 1953 Maytag in 2026.
This thing is an absolute legend.
They really don’t make ’em like they used to! 🔥
Who else still has a vintage appliance that just won’t die?