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This made me laugh this morning. Being born in the late sixties I can really relate to this. What do you think?

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This made me laugh too.I was born in the late 1940s and I remember as a small child that there were still food shortages around then.

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Love it. I remember my mother making yogurt in the latest healthy kitchen gadget , it was awful.

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Yes this is so true lol I don't ever remember having pasta or a curry as a kid, apart from curry from the chippy

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martinlufc5637 my mum would treat us to a Vesta curry, always seemed exotic back then. It was a dehydrated meal.

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Pjran They always had raisins in them P making them sweet

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Pjran I still eat Vesta's, only the chow main one though, since new owners took over the company they have changed, there not the same

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martinlufc5637 wow I didn’t know those dry vesta packets were still available to buy.

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martinlufc5637 I remember spaghetti appeared at some point in my childhood. My mum had one those long spaghetti glass containers.

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Pjran yes you can still get them, they are not the same taste wise, another company took over and started producing them, packaging in still the same though

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Not a good image and can't remember where I found it but took a photo. Very similar to yours which I also saw on fb a while back.

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Lynibis That was really lovely to read especially when I found out it had been written by a 93 year old, he got it so right.

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I found another similar one for you here

Don’t know if anyone has seen this before, but If you were born in the 40s 50s 60s you should read this, It’s very long but God how it hits home.

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank sherry while they carried us and lived in houses made of Asbestos.

They took aspirin, ate blue cheese, bread and dripping, raw egg products, loads of bacon and processed meat and didn't get tested for diabetes or cervical cancer.

Then, after that trauma, our cots were covered with lead-based paints. We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles or locks on doors or cabinets and when we rode bikes we had no helmets or shoes, not to mention the risks we took hitchhiking. We would ride in cars with no seatbelts or airbags.

We drank water from the garden hose, not a bottle. Takeaway food was limited to fish and chips, there were no pizza shops, or McDonald's, KFC, Subway or Nando's.

Even though all the shops closed at 6pm and didn't open on a Sunday, somehow we didn't starve to death!

We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle, and no one died from this. We could collect old drink bottles and cash them in at the corner store and buy toffees, gobstoppers and bubble gum.

We ate white bread and real butter, drank cow's milk and soft drinks with sugar, but we weren't overweight because we were always outside playing!

We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.

No one was able to reach us all day but we were OK. We would spend hours building go-karts out of old prams then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes.

We built tree houses and dens and played in riverbeds with Matchbox cars. We did not have PlayStation, Nintendo Wii and Xbox or video games, DVDs or colour TV. There were no mobiles, computers, internet or chat rooms.

We had friends and we went outside and found them! We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents. We ate worms and mud pies, too.

Only girls had pierced ears.

You could buy Easter eggs and hot-cross buns only at Easter time. We were given airguns and catapults for our tenth birthdays, we rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or just yelled for them.

Not everyone made the school rugby, football, cricket or netball teams. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that. Getting into the team was based on merit.

Our teachers hit us with canes and gym shoes and threw the blackboard rubber at us if they thought we weren't concentrating.

We can string sentences together, spell and have proper conversations now because of a solid three Rs education.

Our parents would tell us to ask a stranger to help us cross the road.

Mum didn't have to go to work to help Dad make ends meet because we didn't need to keep up with the Joneses!

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!

Parents didn't invent stupid names for kids like Kiora, Blade, Ridge and Vanilla.

We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility and learned to deal with it all.

You might want to share this with others who grew up in an era before lawyers and government regulated lives.

And while you are at it, forward it to your children, so they know how brave their parents were.

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tumblespots Loving this one, was it a simpler life without all the technology? The tradition of the dad going to work and mum staying at home. This was how I was with my family but unfortunately my parents divorced when I was three so my mum had to work.

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eyeballkerry I think it was a better life all round when I was young, I would hate to be born into today's world. We seem to be creating new, and worse, problems with each generation that comes along.....

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tumblespots I totally agree with you. Social media has caused many problems for people. Not saying all technology is bad.

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tumblespots when life was so much better, and more fun. So different to now 😞

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LyndaSarrington Absolutely!

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eyeballkerry...That's why our 26 year old daughter has NEVER bothered with FB,Instagram, etc..

Daughter has WhatsApp & that's to keep in touch with her family & friends,she's more interested learning about the world around her than posing for photos & getting likes..

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janphoenix51 I have three adult children and the only one who uses social media is the one who has a pub so uses it for promotions etc.

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I came off fb last month and feel it’s been a really good move for my mental health

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