A few weeks ago, I went to a village where my distant grandmother lives, and I found some old old equipment there, why the old lady doesn't throw them away beats me, old record players, telephones etc, we had such a great time talking about the olden days, boy am I glad that times have changed!
The world has surely changed, and I am not complaining, we talked about some horrible demanding tasks you had to endure as a girl or a boy; I shook my head in dismay and wondered how on earth did they survive?
Red robot visits
from this -------> to this ----------> now this --------> thank God for this
Koko told me that they used cloths for their periods and put a layer of plastic underneath, they had to wash the cloth for the next use, I cant stand my own blood, imagine having to wash a cloth full of blood, eww! I am really glad that there are tampons nowadays. Obviously people who had a little bit of money used to buy the clip ons and they look much better than the cloth, I don’t even want to comment on the first pad, it makes me itchy just by looking at it…it is screaming to me, “thrush…thrush…thrush” . Although i think the cloth pads can be environmentaly friendly, they wouldn't be soooo bad.
The Music systems
Radios were one of those that you had to put in different corners in the house so as to get the radio stations. Record players very nice I must say, I still think records are better than our compact disks though; they didn’t scratch that easily, although having to wind the record player for it to play some music was hard work. who still remembers Technics music system. If you had one of these o ne o le bozza! we still have it at home,now we have sorround sounds and ipods. I don't know if i can live without my ipod
Telephones
nommer asseblief--------> phone ya monwana ------------> my dad had these
Oh, they had to wind that phone so that the operator on the other line can pick up and dial a number for them, they would say “nommer asseblief” the operator will link them to the appropriate recipient, what a drag. I remember having one of those ones at home, where you had to put in your finger in the hole when you dialled, wasn’t that bad though, and that big cellphone! I remember my dad had one of those, lol!
Hair
how did they use this?----- di rots---------------------> tongs rescued the day,looks otherwys lol
My gran told me that they used to stretch their hair with a stone, I wonder what they did yazi, how on earth did they manage? . Who can forget “dirots”, or hair rollers, sho those things were painful, I had the joy of having those hair rollers on my hair, you had to sleep on wearing them for hair to be curled, and damn! Sleeping with those things was a mini-hell.
Bloggers, what is it that you cant see yourself without that was not there in the olden days?, what is it that still makes you wonder how people survived in the olden days? what still amazes you from the olden days? thank God for technology