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Things Kids of Today Wouldn't Recognize

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    Easier to drink em' both DOWN............................ If you try to drink em' both up, you'll end up wearing them..................................:rofl: :lol::rofl: :lol::rofl: :lol:
     
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    May or may not have already been mentioned, but add this one to the list.

    Flipping through the Sears Christmas catalogue.... (Thanks to Holland Dell for mentioning it)
     
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    The Sears catalog, had everything in it. What a wish book for sure. Thinking the other day another thing kids won't know about due to the LED bulbs, holding a thermometer over a light bulb so it showed a fever (if you didn't take it to far up!) and got a free day off of school.
     
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    Don't forget the copy you kept up in your room under the bed too...................................:rofl: :lol::rofl: :lol::rofl: :lol::rofl: :lol:
     
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    Reading the old Sears catalog? Many times it was used for something else... Probably not many remember that though.
     
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    Thought those were the National Geographics!! Or the underwear section of Sears (so spicy)!

    Read it, crinkle it all up, use it, dispose of it. That what you thinking of?
     
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    Until I was about 14 or so, I thought the Sears catolog contained everything that was available in the world! My mother was a hard core Sears shopper through the local outlet-place an order pick up the next week. School clothes, Christmas presents-everything came from Sears.
     
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    There are houses I have seen here in the U.P. that were ordered out of the sears catalog and all parts shipped to destination via rail car!
     
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    Strange as it seems, the UP is the only place where I found any of those houses.
     
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    I wonder if the catalogue had houses in one section and brides in another??? :jaw:
     
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    Our original house was bought from a Sears 1941 catalog.
     
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    There are some in northern VT.
     
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    There was one for sure but maybe two in my hometown in central Nebraska
     
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    Eaton's was the big mail-order outfit in Canada. There must be some Eaton's houses around here, but I don't know exactly which ones are. There is a barn nearby that cost $1900 in 1919. It's a big one, a lot bigger than Granddad's 24 x 40 foot barn.
     
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    Testing 1 2 3
     
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    You talkin' to me??? :D
     
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