How to feel old!

Hi all! Getting ready for a yard sale this weekend and decided to get rid of some old vinyl records. My DD said, "Mom, can I look at one to see what it looks like?" She did, and commented "Weird!" She's 17. The times, they are a-changin'.

Eanders, I can relate! I have hung onto my old vinyls for far too long, thinking that they might be valuable one day -- but so far, their chief value is as curios!

Our 14 year old grandson who lives with us and I got out some old 45s & 72s several weeks ago and played them. He thought some were way out and others something he liked. Admittedly he has different tastes in music than most boys his age. He LOVED the classical we have. Fell in love with some new composers that day.

I, too, am getting ready for a yard sale... actually a pre-moving sale. I decided to keep all the vinyl records and someday, run them through my computer and put the music on cd's. Some of it is too obscure to be available commercially.

In sorting out my piles of junk, I found an old rotary dial telephone. eanders2, I guess your daughter would have the same reaction to the telephone as she did to the vinyl, LOL.

Darius, she'd be amazed to see one with the receiver attached to the phone by a cord! I have an old ten-key adding machine with a pull handle - she thought that was wild too!

I have 3 or 4 big boxes of albums that I have been carrying around for years. Like Darius, I'd like to put them on cd too. I know I am showing my age, but that "mood music" still warms my heart. To make it worse, I think I still remember my childhood phone number on the dial phone, Ontario7 - 1756. Now that I've cleaned out more brain fluff, I remember when we went to a department store so we could hear what a touch tone phone sounded like, and saw an exhibit on picture phones. Oh my!

Carol... a funny story. When I was 14, I moved to my grandfather's in Miami. Later that year a male cousin (16) from Kansas came to visit. I clearly remember seeing him in front of the dial telephone; he wiped his hands and licked his lips in preparation, and then dialed the number without lifting the handset! Apparently, that's how the party lines back home worked. I about fell off my chair laughing at him because I thought he was ignorant, when he really was just uninformed, LOL.

ohmigosh, I've kept all of my vinyl's. 70's and 80's hair bands! Can't part with em! .....don't know why since I no longer have a turntable! LOL! They sit in a special box in my garage.......probably over a hundred of them. Funny, the things I can't part with!