https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Fri, 10 Apr 2026 22:19:33 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/lets-assemble-a-list-of-things-oure-kids-will-never-experience#post-248104 Sat, 04 Aug 2012 16:20:35 +0000 SAHM0811 248104@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>in cars, manual windows... yeah, they didn't always go down with a button, but with a crank! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/lets-assemble-a-list-of-things-oure-kids-will-never-experience#post-248092 Sat, 04 Aug 2012 16:02:12 +0000 Mrs. Jump Rope 248092@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>A VCR! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/lets-assemble-a-list-of-things-oure-kids-will-never-experience#post-247636 Fri, 03 Aug 2012 20:29:41 +0000 Mrs. Cowgirl 247636@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Running Elley: i know, right! crazy!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/lets-assemble-a-list-of-things-oure-kids-will-never-experience#post-247531 Fri, 03 Aug 2012 18:15:25 +0000 Mrs. Tricycle 247531@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Tidybee: but card catalogs make awesome coffee tables now :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/lets-assemble-a-list-of-things-oure-kids-will-never-experience#post-247419 Fri, 03 Aug 2012 16:42:41 +0000 Running Elley 247419@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Cowgirl: That list just completely blew my mind!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/lets-assemble-a-list-of-things-oure-kids-will-never-experience#post-247418 Fri, 03 Aug 2012 16:41:49 +0000 bpcmarj 247418@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@jessiejo17: totally forgot about listening in on a landline call! Or two people answering on different phones and saying "hang up! I got it!" </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/lets-assemble-a-list-of-things-oure-kids-will-never-experience#post-247414 Fri, 03 Aug 2012 16:34:13 +0000 sorrycharlie 247414@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Jacks: we had a tv that would go rainbow in color across the screen...and we'd have to get up and slam our fists down on the top of it to fix it!</p> <p>this list makes me so sad :( </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/lets-assemble-a-list-of-things-oure-kids-will-never-experience#post-247372 Fri, 03 Aug 2012 15:35:16 +0000 Mrs. Blue 247372@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>What it's like to try and convince your parents that an answering machine is really important and useful... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/lets-assemble-a-list-of-things-oure-kids-will-never-experience#post-247351 Fri, 03 Aug 2012 15:05:41 +0000 Mrsbells 247351@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>yeah they will never understand recording songs from the radio on to a casetter or manually rewinding a casette tape with a pen when the battery on your walkman goes low. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/lets-assemble-a-list-of-things-oure-kids-will-never-experience#post-247336 Fri, 03 Aug 2012 14:51:19 +0000 chopsuey 247336@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrbee: shopping in a department store? because everything's done online? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/lets-assemble-a-list-of-things-oure-kids-will-never-experience#post-247209 Fri, 03 Aug 2012 13:20:33 +0000 Pipers Mommy 247209@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MamaMoose: we got one delivered yesterday, such a waste of money. I immediately recycled it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/lets-assemble-a-list-of-things-oure-kids-will-never-experience#post-247185 Fri, 03 Aug 2012 12:58:56 +0000 LuLu Mom 247185@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>1) Having siblings evesdropping in on landline phone conversations<br /> 2) Knowing what a phone card is<br /> 3) Picking out a movie at the movie store<br /> 4) Writing a check /balance a checkbook </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/lets-assemble-a-list-of-things-oure-kids-will-never-experience#post-247016 Fri, 03 Aug 2012 11:06:03 +0000 Meridian 247016@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I just want to say how I love this list; it's so nostalgic!! But it makes me sad to think how quickly the world is changing... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/lets-assemble-a-list-of-things-oure-kids-will-never-experience#post-246998 Fri, 03 Aug 2012 10:53:52 +0000 bpcmarj 246998@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Calling a radio station to request to hear your favorite song, a busy signal when calling someone, answering the phone without knowing who is calling, buying several disposable camers before a big event, and waiting a year for the movie you love to come out on VHS! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/lets-assemble-a-list-of-things-oure-kids-will-never-experience#post-246991 Fri, 03 Aug 2012 10:48:17 +0000 ladyfingers 246991@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Listening to the radio (I think I'm the only person that does this anymore)<br /> Having to wait to remember the answer to something or look it up at the library (like, who was that actor... now you just look it up on Google instantly)<br /> Card catalogs<br /> Making mix tapes<br /> Not knowing the news until you read it in the newspaper<br /> Renting videos<br /> Dial-up Internet<br /> Paying for long-distance phone calls </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/lets-assemble-a-list-of-things-oure-kids-will-never-experience#post-246562 Fri, 03 Aug 2012 02:10:54 +0000 sunny 246562@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Pop music without auto tune (I guess there is *some* out there, but its not the majority of what's on the radio)<br /> Magazine photos/ads with no PhotoShopped photos<br /> Life without GPS<br /> Listening to 1 album at a time in a Walkman/Discman</p> <p>I saw a picture of a cassette tape and a pencil next to it and the caption said something like "Kids these days don't understand the connection between these two items". </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/lets-assemble-a-list-of-things-oure-kids-will-never-experience#post-246550 Fri, 03 Aug 2012 00:26:33 +0000 mediagirl 246550@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Encyclopedia Britannica. :-( </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/lets-assemble-a-list-of-things-oure-kids-will-never-experience#post-246530 Thu, 02 Aug 2012 23:23:46 +0000 Mrs. Jacks 246530@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@HabesBabe: I loved my Thomas guide! I guess they are obsolete now! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/lets-assemble-a-list-of-things-oure-kids-will-never-experience#post-246528 Thu, 02 Aug 2012 23:21:59 +0000 HabesBabe 246528@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Jacks: I find it hilarious that the little "Save" icon on Word is a drawing of a floppy disc... most kids don't even know what it is that they're clicking on!</p> <p>Using a Thomas Guide<br /> Having "12:00" blinking on the VCR </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/lets-assemble-a-list-of-things-oure-kids-will-never-experience#post-246464 Thu, 02 Aug 2012 22:26:39 +0000 Mrs. Jacks 246464@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Did anyone have a TV that would go out of alignment (I think it was the vertical hold) that they had to "tune in" in the back. Ugh, we'd take turns about who would get up and do it. Our TV was so old! My parents got it for their wedding and we were still using it 20+ years later. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/lets-assemble-a-list-of-things-oure-kids-will-never-experience#post-246443 Thu, 02 Aug 2012 22:15:18 +0000 DigAPony 246443@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Using a pay phone.</p> <p>TVs with no remotes. (My parents had an old one in the basement when I was growing up.) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/lets-assemble-a-list-of-things-oure-kids-will-never-experience#post-246406 Thu, 02 Aug 2012 21:47:06 +0000 Mrs. Jacks 246406@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Cowgirl: I think I was already old when all those things were going on, because I thought they were too "kiddish" back then (except Cobain). God I'm old! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/lets-assemble-a-list-of-things-oure-kids-will-never-experience#post-246388 Thu, 02 Aug 2012 21:39:02 +0000 Tidybee 246388@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>The card catalog. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/lets-assemble-a-list-of-things-oure-kids-will-never-experience#post-246370 Thu, 02 Aug 2012 21:33:47 +0000 Mrs. Sunglasses 246370@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Wow, this makes me sad. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/lets-assemble-a-list-of-things-oure-kids-will-never-experience#post-246365 Thu, 02 Aug 2012 21:31:48 +0000 Mrs. Pickle 246365@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Huge satellite dishes in the yard! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/lets-assemble-a-list-of-things-oure-kids-will-never-experience#post-246352 Thu, 02 Aug 2012 21:20:30 +0000 Mrs. Cowgirl 246352@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>-carefully and selectively taking pictures because there are only 24 exposures on your roll of film<br /> -paying under $2/gallon for gas :(<br /> -the anticipation of saturday morning cartoons</p> <p>have you seen this list? simultaneously cracks me up and makes me sad: <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/40-things-that-will-make-you-feel-old" rel="nofollow">http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/40-things-that-will-make-you-feel-old</a> </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/lets-assemble-a-list-of-things-oure-kids-will-never-experience#post-246349 Thu, 02 Aug 2012 21:19:04 +0000 autumnlove 246349@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Seedy watermelon, dial up internet, encyclopedias, blowing on Nintendo games.... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/lets-assemble-a-list-of-things-oure-kids-will-never-experience#post-246344 Thu, 02 Aug 2012 21:16:12 +0000 mrs. bird 246344@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Cords on pretty much anything!<br /> Film in cameras<br /> Calling 411<br /> Crank windows<br /> Phone numbers that don't need an area code dialed first<br /> Cursive </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/lets-assemble-a-list-of-things-oure-kids-will-never-experience#post-246339 Thu, 02 Aug 2012 21:14:27 +0000 Mrs. Jacks 246339@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Floppy disks, cassette tapes, eight track and records! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/lets-assemble-a-list-of-things-oure-kids-will-never-experience#post-246323 Thu, 02 Aug 2012 21:09:20 +0000 Meridian 246323@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>- Life without a cell phone<br /> - home land lines<br /> - paper maps<br /> - dial up Internet<br /> There are so many more I can't think of right now!! Can't wait to see everyone else's list! </p>