Name a chore you did when you were little that kids nowadays have never done...

[Madge Bumstead]

My Mum used to do that as well but I don't know the name of it. I would say it was full of nasty, artificial stuff. Frowned upon now because the egg in the mix isn't cooked. On this one I just shake my head.

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Oh yes, a page right out of my own childhood!

Cookie batter and whipped cream, always the job of us kids to lick the beaters afterwards!

 

[Madge Bumstead]

I still hang laundry on a clothesline summer time .


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Oh yes, Jacqueline, me, too!!!

Here is a page straight out of the past when my kids were babies/little! Taken in the early 90's!

Diapers and rubber pants on the clothesline! I remember this from babysitting, too! All the moms I babysat for used cloth diapers, and all home-laundered their diapers and hung them to dry on the clothesline!

And... my baby brother was still in diapers in 1977, so this was the sight at our house, too, and across town an aunt of mine was doing the same!

 

[Milly Robertson]

Chimney Sweeps (thank goodness that job has gone for children)

 

[Madge Bumstead]

Name a chore or something you did when you were little that kids nowadays have never done...

Changed my baby siblings baby cribs using flannelette and rubber crib sheets! Did the same when I babysat, too, for neighbourhood moms!

 

[Milly Robertson]

A job the boys did in school was bring in wood to the classroom for the wood heater.

 

[Madge Bumstead]

Delivered Telephone Directories

 

[Milly Robertson]

Writing out a cheque. Cheques are now obsolete in Australia.

 

[Madge Bumstead]

Writing out a cheque. Cheques are now obsolete in Australia.

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Still love how we could post-date a check into the future!

 

[Milly Robertson]

Are cheques still used in Canada, Madge?

 

[Milly Robertson]

The classroom ink monitor who filled up the ink wells every day.

 

[Madge Bumstead]

Are cheques still used in Canada, Madge?

They are, Milly, but I haven't come across one in ages, and I know of no one that still uses them.

 

[Milly Robertson]

Using a washing machine with a mangle.

 

[Milly Robertson]

 

[Madge Bumstead]

Warmed baby's bottles on the stove!

 

[Milly Robertson]

 

[Madge Bumstead]

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Boy, talk about a walk down memory lane for me, Milly!

Every penny saved, staring at my bank book, adding my babysitting money to it and slowly watching it grow!

 

[Milly Robertson]

Did you have a bank account through your school Madge? In primary school you would take your bank book and a couple of shillings to school and the bank representative would stamp the bank book and take the money.

 

[Madge Bumstead]

I did, Milly, but never heard of such a thing related to taking one's bank book to school for a payment or anything.

I do remember pretty much emptying out my bank book one year to buy a bike. It was such a bitter-sweet moment for me, I wanted the bike so bad, but was heartbroken to see all of my money gone.

 

[Milly Robertson]

A big learning curve Madge.

 

[Madge Bumstead]

A big learning curve Madge.

I'll bet!