lifeinlarkhall

Yep and when you bought software it was a one off payment and not a bloody subscription. You could choose if you wanted to buy the newest version or stick with what you already OWNED!

Haha I have a typewriter! In my goals for the year I actually wrote get the damn typewriter to work lol because it's just display at the moment.

Lol yeah and my mum being like if someone knocks/rings when we're out just say "my mum is in the shower but she will be RIGHT back". I think to stop us getting kidnapped 😂 then people wonder why we've grown up to avoid people knocking on our doors 😂

Good one here. Garage sales were just fun to look through and you could find cool stuff you wanted for the want (not the resale value) for a few bucks. They were happy to make a few bucks and you were happy with your new thing.

Now stuff seems to either be dumped (in the bins or outside donation places in a rubbish heap) or sold because it has become valuable over time (RIP finding cool pokemon cards for a bargain 😭)

Garage sales were also just a cool community thing, depending where you live of course. You could be going for a little walk and just wander into a garage sale and chat to people from your neighborhood or strangers. Marketplace is just "my cousin's dogs friend will pick it up" 🤑

Yeah I think when it's a bunch of adults brigading against a 15 year old who did some dumb shit and it got caught on video it's gone way too far. Let the parents, teachers whoever is actually involved with the situation deal with the kid.

I've seen some ridiculous stuff on reddit with people vying for kids to be beat up over, honestly, stupid stuff but not dissimilar to crap I did at that age. When I got caught I was just disciplined by my folks, grounded or something.

Some of that stuff IS funny to look back on - because it wasn't caught on video and you can choose your audience to reminisce with like jfc what was I thinking, funny but damn that was a dumb/dangerous thing to do. In my 30s and still finding silly stories to tell my folks about shit I did they never know about. We roll our eyes, have a laugh or a omg, and thank god that I grew up alright 😅

Yes - the thing about being free to be stupid! I honestly feel sorry for kids these days getting torn apart for doing yes, stupid, sometimes even rude/dangerous shit because it's caught on video and posted to a forum of (often) adults who were apparently all really well behaved in the 90s and before as teenagers lol.

I did some pretty shitty stuff too as a kid, silly pranks and being a public nuisance that I can just remember when I catch up with an old friend and be like fuck what were we thinking when we did that man 😅 thank god we didn't get hurt/get caught/nobody got hurt, etc.

These days, kids don't just get disciplined by their folks, if someone posts it online they get all the damn internet calling for them to be beat around and all kinds of stuff. It's weird.

Spending time with my brain and coming up with creative ways to stimulate it. Didn't have a little device to do it with. Books, writing, daydreaming, drawing, bugging my old sister but also those nice bonding moments.

Hell, I used to write essays for fun 😂

Conversations where people didn't pull out their phone to Google something neither of you could recall and the conversation just went on until hours went by and you were "ah, it was Daniel Radcliffe in that movie!" "Oh yeah!" and then you get to circle back around to it. Idk, just letting the brain naturally rejig it's own memory!

Lol I'm here because reddit banned me because I mentioned a murder-suicide case that was another commenter was trying to recall. Apparently I "threatened violence" 🤷‍♀️ is lemmy as as easily triggered? 🤔