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Navigated with a Thomas guide.
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Made your crush a mix tape.
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Returned a milk bottle for a deposit.
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Worn white tube socks with a single stripe near the top.
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Hung out all day at the mall with your friends just walking in circles.
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Checked out books from a public library.
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Ridden in the bed of a pickup (with no seatbelt).
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Shared a family sized ice cream sunday.
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slapped the side of a tv set to fix it.
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Eaten at an all you can eat salad bar.
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Used an abacus.
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Seen someone riding on a horse drawn buckboard on a public road.
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Played a playground game with a soccer ball called “smear the queer”, or jokingly call your friend a “fag”.
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Ridden in a wood paneled station wagon.
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Used a typewriter.
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Balanced your checkbook.
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Burned your trash.
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mailed someone a letter as a form of communication.
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gotten a busy signal when trying to call someone.
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Used black and white film.
Instead of posting this as a reply you should make it a new shit post. I like your list.
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This is basically a “are you old” questionaire.
Can confirm.
Am old.
Scored a zero.
3 points. 90s kid. The early 2000s still had remnants of a lot of this stuff.
Older Gen X’er here.
This list was basically a Tuesday for me back in the day.
Millennial with a big fat 0 over here
My only point was I never listened to a boom box outside.
Mine might be that we didn’t own an encyclopedia; I can’t remember if we did or not. But… I think we did.
My parents bought a set of Encyclopedias, they didn’t get much use tbh. Took up whole shelf on this antique cabinet they had.
You an elder millennial by chance?
2 points cause we lived a couple blocks from the library so we never felt the need to own a dictionary or encyclopedia. Though really like 1.5 since my sister did have a CD from world book program that was like an encyclopedia for kids
1, We never had blockbuster in NL. But 0 if any other VHS rental store counts.
I even have an old rotary phone on my desk.
I even have a walkman in my eurorack setup.
I get zero points. Elder millennials rally at the landline we’ll have two drinks and fall asleep at 10pm!
Zeeeero!
Same, seems like these are all from the 70s/80s/90s era basically.
I’m with you there! So surprised at people being proud of having any points.
I am proudly batting zero.
Vintage Enthusiasts getting absolutely fucking roasted by this.
I’m a zoomer and only got three points hahaha
0
I have 1 point.
I never owned an encyclopedia.
If I had the money then I definitely would have owned one.
As kids my sister and I found a set of old 1950’s World Book Encyclopedias that a family in our neighborhood was throwing out. We brought them home on a wagon. We used them for years. They were definitely kinda dated–like, in the article about guinea pigs, it claimed they were the perfect animal for scientific research because they don’t feel pain, which is obviously bullshit and/or propaganda. But that was actually kind of eye-opening for me at the time, because I didn’t have a lot of experience of seemingly authoritative things that were also in error. It still had a lot of useful info, too.
1 because despite being born in the early 80s, paper checks are for old people and Americans
Born in the mid 90s in Canada. You guys should’ve seen the state of book fairs in Canada. It was easier to pay via cheque than credit card.
I had to start paying my rent by check again landlord trying to dodge taxes by cashing checks instead of depositing them.
Two because #13 and #20 weren’t a thing in my country.
