The World is Ever Turning (my personal strangnes)

[jc2721]

Never really though about it that way, but the OP is right--computers are the new wish books/catalogs/whatever you want to call them.

Now that I'm definitely older and fortunate enough to afford what ever I want (but too cheap to be be a spendthrift), I'm blessed with just enough common sense not to blow my paychecks on toys or showing off.

I wonder if kids now days even know what spendthrift means?

 

[mmb617]

This thread brought up some long ago memories of Christmas when I was a kid. My mother who never had a driver's license did all her Christmas shopping by mail. Some time around Thanksgiving two catalogs would come to our house, Spiegels and Aldens. We kids would go through them marking off what we'd like to have for Christmas and my mother would place an order.

She'd give us a dollar limit and we'd agonize over which items would make the cut. Then one day several big boxes would arrive and be stashed in the attic till Christmas eve.

It was kind of funny how they'd try to keep the legend alive for the younger kids who still believed in Santa, because with 9 kids the older ones always clued the younger ones in pretty early.

I can remember lying in bed on Christmas eve and hearing my parents bringing the presents down from the attic. They tried to be quiet I'm sure but my dad usually had enough Christmas cheer in him by then that quiet wasn't going to happen.

Those were the day.

 

[CAJUNLAWYER]

I remember those big catalogues, My brothers and I pretty much wore out the women's underware section of the Sears Catalogue

 

[CAJUNLAWYER]

Excellent post illustrating a two edged sword. I think a fair number of us here have reached the age that we may have acquired most of our "wants". I know I have and am busy trying to relieve myself of the burden of many of them.

One of those paradoxes of life.......problem is that the young'uns just will not listen to us old'uns which I suspect is NOT a new problem