Originally posted by sirrahbed
gum wrapper ropes?
OMG - I didn't think anybody else remembered those! My sister (born in '57) had one that had to be about 20 feet long - we went through a lot of Wrigley's to help her make that chain! Somehow you folded the gum wrappers really small and intertwined them so they zig-zagged. I'll have to ask her if she remembers making that rope!

Dialing a rotary phone - I distinctly remember arguing with my husband when we were first married (in 1983) that we didn't NEED to spend extra on a push button phone and "touch-tone service", just because we were too lazy to dial a number!
We actually have one old rotary phone downstairs that we keep just for the fun of it - it still works, amazingly!

There's some Tom Jones and Engelbert Humperdinck songs I still like to listen to once in a while - what the heck, I'm over 40 (hee hee). Remember this one?: "so I sing you to sleep - after the lovin' " HAHAHAHA what a cheesy song!