Yay! This! It’s like Stranger Things

Trawling through the library index first to find the right encyclopedia / reference publication then building your footnotes / bibliography to support your submission. Roughly 30 minutes for per reference...

well then...

We made those for our dads, for mom we made potholders.

Lol, if you didn't smoke it was a change holder

guess some mom's smokin'

My mom STILL has the pencil holder I made. (I'm 48 now) Gawd that thing was ugly. Emphasis on the UGH!! LOL

We made ashtrays from aluminum in shop - never asked if either of our parents smoked.

I still have the ashtray my daughter made in kindergarten … and she's 60.

oh yayuh, ash trays!! and prettyuch once or twice a year, any time the clay got dragged out

Remember that well.

Almost everyone smoked so, it was a pretty safe gift. I remember my father smoking in the car.

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And we loved them even if we didn't smoke.

Okay for me that kinda cool

Oh I remembered doing that in elementary school lol

My mom used the ashtray to put clipped threads and such while sewing.

Didn't matter if anyone smoked. Ashtrays could be used as utensil rests, or jewelry holders.

Oh yes we did!

I remember when there was only BBC and ITV

This was "normal" in the UK in the 80s and 90s. Uniform was a skirt for the girls. In winter they simply wore woolly tights, which was also part of the uniform and had to be a certain colour. Boys wore trousers and it was only if it was really hot we could wear shorts and very occasionally it would be declared a "no tie" day.

You think that's bad. When I was a university, I didn't have a phone and used the public call boxes at the end of the street. Doesn't sound too bad until I say that I lived in the red light district and got propositioned whilst on the phone to my mother! LOL

The amount of times I would burn my hands on the monkey bars from the hot Aussie sun 😤 the blisters! But my god was it fun!!!

My English teacher could have thrown a board rubber for the olympics

Ha. There was one bus stop in the entire village. Apart from the one and only school bus, the remainder of the bus service flipped between one an hour to two busses a week! I walked to primary school, including on my own from about aged 7 or 8, and cycled to secondary school which was 3 miles away in the nearest town. This is probably why I have such little patience with the Chelsea tractors (SUVs) doing the "school run".

Smoking “sections” on airplanes!!

Exploring outside for hours on end was the best.

The one I remember was mostly a toy: molded plastic seat, one inch plastic strap with a buckle, and a plastic steering wheel with a squeeky horn button.

That was a student prank. Our chemistry teacher had some mercury in a beaker and we stuck our hands in it. Not sure that touching it is a big deal, but you don't want to ingest it.

Thank god!

Hamburger jail was awesome!

AND you could pick up the phone and listen in on their conversations!

Probably because they were hunting rifles, used for hunting and not assault rifles, used for God knows what.

Whiskey on teething baby’s gums

Omg the warning notice is full on

Wow! Look at the leg room.

" I Thought He/She Was With YOU ! "

There is one of these near my sisters, in a park, it is 3 feet wide. Spin on that fast and you will vomit and feel ill for the rest of the day.

Fortunately, the jet injectors do no use a needle, but instead use a high pressure spray that penetrates the top layers of skin to deliver the vaccine. They used to be used for mass vaccinations, but now only a fraction of people in the States use it for insulin.

Well at least the nurse tried to calm her down, though a newborn should not be near smoking!

Buying smokes for my grandpa. 43 cents a pack! Now almost $20 here.

"most" :-(

We had Nitty Nora the head explorer. You were treated then and there. The shame of going back to class was dreadful.

I'm also from Raleigh. My second grade teacher's wooden paddle was made by her husband and he'd even done fancy burn in lettering to put her name on it. Good times