Countrymouse Posted November 2018
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Replacing the much lamented 'On My Mind' profile option, this thread is for musings, jottings, whimsies, preoccupations and the rest of the thesaurus for anyone to jot down anything they please.
I can't remember what the maximum character count was before, can anyone else? But anyway it wasn't very many so let's keep to that.
We never locked the doors in the daytime where I grew up. No one did and I still have to make sure I do. I don't think we have had more than one theft here in 40 years. It was great excitement as the police brought a police dog to track the young man through the bush across the way. The kids got after me to lock the doors here.
When in Montreal in an apartment, of course, everything was locked. One apartment I was in was burgled and I lost my pearls and some family jewelry.
SO I NEED SOME LAUGHS PLEASE .
And the DIAPER thread IS FULL so I CHANGED to this thread .
How about BRAS ??
I’ll start .
In the 1970’s , Two of my sisters at times would ditch the bra.
I was younger than them , but I would never ditch my bra anyway because I was a late bloomer and need(ed) the (now slightly) padded ones so I didn’t look like I was 10. ( look proportioned)
DH calls that False Advertising . 🙄😬
OK ladies ( or gentlemen) GO !
I begged for a bra in the sixth grade because all of my friends wore them. I was still wearing an undershirt under my Catholic school uniform.
Mom said, “No, I am not going to buy a bra for you. You have absolutely nothing to put in one.”
I didn’t give up! I told her that I just had to have a bra like my friends.
She relented and took me to the department store where the sales women said to my mom, “I have just the thing for your daughter. It’s a ‘training’ bra. It was a size 28AAA! LOL 😆 I was flat as a pancake!
I got my bra and proudly wore it to school the very next day!
Lol.
Yeah , my daughter is build small like me.
I bought her training bras too when she had to start changing into gym clothes in the locker room at school . So she would blend in .
DH asked me where the small training wheels were on them .🙄🙄😭
Your husband is cute!
When did you start shaving your legs? Wearing makeup?
I was 12 when I started shaving my legs. Mom told me, “No, you’re too young!” I snuck my dad’s razor and sliced my leg from my ankle to my knee. Oh, that really hurt!
I took my allowance and bought lip gloss and blush at 12 also.
I guess 12 years old was a rebellious time for me. I wanted my independence! LOL 😆
Need - Ouch!!!!
My dd when she was 10 took some birthday money, went to the nearby mall and bought an orange bikini. That was the beginning of the end of me having much influence on what she wore.
Same , 12 was the age of “experimentation”,
I stole a razor at home too and peeled
the skin off my shins like a banana .
Yep , a set of lip gloss too , sticky roll ons in multiple flavors .
And bikini panties with the days of the week embroidered on them .
I started babysitting for the neighbors for money at that age . And I spent it as fast as I made it that first summer on clothes . After all 13 was around the corner , I had to keep up with the other teenagers .
My first bikini was turquoise. I loved that bathing suit.
Did your daughter wear mini skirts or gogo boots. I thought that I was hot stuff wearing mine!
I wanted to be like Nancy Sinatra who had white gogo boots. It was when she had the hit song out, ‘These Boots Are Made For Walkin,’ Remember that song?
They still sell white gogo boots! LOL I just checked on Google.
Oh, halter tops were in fashion then too! I made mine out of a scarf. The scarf was folded into a triangle and then made into a halter top.
I used to split my jeans up the middle and sew floral fabric in it so I had the long maxi skirt too. I went through my flower child stage.
My mom wasn’t really strict about that stuff at all.
Look at fashion now. Girls have pink, blue and purple hair! I never fought with my daughters about their taste in clothes.
The trends in wedding fashion are very interesting to see. Occasionally, I will watch, Say Yes to the Dress to see what brides are wearing. Some are beautiful and some are hideous!
I remember those panties. I had those too! But I never paid attention to what day of the week that I was wearing! 😆
I got paid 50 cents an hour to babysit! I thought that I was rich! Hey, back then you could buy stuff cheap!
Remember body oils in those little vials? I loved those. I always bought vanilla. I hated patchouli! 🤮 Yuck, that one smelled nasty. Sandalwood was my second favorite choice.
I loved buying candles, records to play on my stereo and makeup! And of course, junk food like candy and chips. I burned off any calories because of cycling, plus we had physical education every single day in school. I never gained an ounce. I stayed thin. I think I weighed about 96 lbs in high school.
Bubble gum was a penny! A popsicle from the ice cream truck was 7 cents.
(BTW I say no way often which is one reason I put Way in my AC handle)
Need…I can’t believe you didn’t wear the day of week panties on the correct day !! I always did.
My sassy sister, she was the trouble maker , and still is. She had a brown crochet bikini bathing suit. My mother hated that thing . Shortly before high school graduation , my Mom got a phone call from the high school because my sister decided to walk down the hall with the top to that bathing suit as her shirt that day . I guess sassy sister was feeling like a prison term was almost over just before graduation and didn’t care . Oh boy do I remember how mad my mother was ! My mother didn’t even tell my father for fear that it would give him a stroke .
I was too young for the Gogo boots but I had the long jean skirt with floral appliqués . And later I had the long jean ( duster) coat .
My daughter has a whole Pinterest board with wedding dresses , flowers , hair styles etc . They haven’t set a date yet . You are right Need. Some of the wedding dresses are tragically hideous. But it is nice that there are so many styles to choose , so there is something for everyones’ taste. But I could also see that getting overwhelming and confusing as well .
My daughter is also currently growing out her hair color. She’s been coloring her blonde locks dark since she graduated college because she felt she needed something to make her look older than 16 in order to be taken seriously at work . She’s barely 5 feet tall . Then Covid hit and she worked from home anyway in a bathrobe and never went on camera in meetings 🙄.
need - no gogo boots, dd dyed her hair burgundy once and also teal. Both suited her well. Heck, I love(d) long jeans skirts. I had a pair of jeans as a kid with a red inset down each side and wore them till they fell apart. In our household we pretty well wore what we were given but those were different.
way - I fell out of a tube top gardening once. Does that count as a bra story? I never wore one again! Love long duster coats!!!
As for shaving, hate to admit this, but it wasn't until I was a senior in high school when I "borrowed" my Mom electric razor. I was tired of wearing knee socks and saddle shoes to school when the other girls were wearing stockings and Mary Janes. Our skirts were at knee level. I figured my Mom wouldn't know I had taken her razor but she did, because I didn't know after use one has to empty it out... oops.
Back then, we didn't have panty hose, so if one wore stocking one needed a full size girdle with stocking tabs. How I hate wearing that girdle in hot weather [no air conditioning in school back then].
My younger daughter had pink hair once and my older daughter did blue and purple. My favorite was the blue!
I think I wore my maxi skirt till it fell apart too.
Forgot about the tube top. I had those too.
You didn’t shave your legs until high school! I would have died of embarrassment! LOL 😆
I told my mom that I just had to shave my legs because I looked like a gorilla!
At least you had something to fall out of your tube top.
I couldn’t even get one to stay up !!
It just ended up being a wide belt .
ff.
I think a man designed bras . If it was a woman the hook would have been in the front from the start. I wish they were all in the front .
Me too . 😂
My best friend in high school was called Boom boom behind her back by the guys.
The reason I know that is because my DH told me. And yes none of the guys noticed she has beautiful green eyes.
I felt bad for her .
I talked to the nicest lady who told me to wait 6 weeks and call back if there had been no "development ".
I never needed to call her back. I think so fondly of her.
So, having big boobs isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be!
I guess I'll stop waiting then?
I'll just have to be content to be a member of the itty bitty titty club. :)
The chuckles were good therapy .
Just got home . Have been going to the hospital to sit with my sister and best friend. She is in hospice. When she was awake , I read her the bra posts. She appreciated them.
I am glad that you and your sister were able to find some comic relief during this difficult time.
Wishing you and your sister peace. Sending you many hugs.
My very first serious boyfriend was extremely vain. Oh, he was a handsome guy but I got sick of how often he combed his hair!
We would go to the movies on the weekends.
When we got there I would want to touch up my makeup before getting out of the car.
He would see me putting on my lipgloss and would abruptly turn the rear view mirror towards him so he could comb his hair! LOL
Lol.
I wonder if he’s bald now , he wouldn’t be turning the mirror to brush his hair anymore!! 😜
I’ve been with DH since we were almost 18. At first we were only supposed to go to senior prom together . It’s been the longest prom ever , 40 years . ( Almost 36 of them married ).
Soon after we started “ dating”, he went to Mexico with his parents during Easter break from school. He came home with the most hideous boots that his mother helped pick out. I would not let him wear them out with me.
His mother bought all his clothes and I HATED them . And she bought his pants too tight 😬😬. She thought and bragged that she had DH looking so stylish .
So after we started dating, I would go clothes shopping with DH when he needed to replace worn clothing . Slowly, most of his wardrobe was replaced . His mother did not like his new clothes . I think she got offended that we changed his style . But too bad , he was too old to have his mother pick out his clothes . But then again she is the ultimate control freak .
To this day she eyes us up and down to see what we are wearing .🙄