[marguerite2]

Buzzfeed has pictures of 25 (oops 35) items.
The title is If You Recognize Any Of These 35 Pictures, I'm Sorry, You're Officially Old
I recognize 24 of them. #19 I have no idea.

#1 - I used that today
#5 - I use all the time

I don’t think recognizing any of them makes you officially old. But, recognizing 24 (oops 34) probably does.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/how-...l-if-youre-old

Adding
You are old if you type 25 when you mean 35, and don’t see the difference.
You are old if you use the word type.

[Cassyree]

#19 is Velveeta, I think.

[dee]

#19
Velveeta I believe

[1956BD]

I recognized 32 of the items. I am proud to be old.

[Sam5]

I must be really old. I knew and had experience with all of them.

[KyTeach3]

I recognize or have used many of these myself. I believe #19 is some kind of cheese. Maybe Rationed cheese.

"But, recognizing 24 probably does."

I knew all 24, still have some of them, and a few I just got rid of.

[WalkDontRun]

There were 35 items and I recognized 33 of them. Does that make me ancient? Some great memories—many that I haven’t thought of for years!

[amiga13]

I must be a dinosaur because I know them all except #19. I have no clue what that is.
Ancient amiga (who used to pay attention to the world around her).

[GreyhoundGirl]

I recognized most of them. There were a few that I had no idea what they were.

[PoohBear]

I knew all but 10 (what is it??) I LOVED making jiffy pop, the expanding foil was just as fun as eating the popcorn!

[wildflowerz]

I am officially old! I know them all. #19 was too fancy for us and my mom would never buy it.

My families old kitchen table is still in my mom’s house!

I used #5 today and a few days ago.

[KeyKid]

I knew all of them.

[KeyKid]

Car cigarette lighter

[PoohBear]

Thanks KeyKid....no one I knew smoked so I guess I never paid any attention to them.

[Claire]

So people don't mash potatoes or tenderize meat anymore? Am I living in some kind of time warp? And I crock pot all the time.

[Keltikmom]

I not only recognized but actually used every item on the list.

[letsgomets]

All of the above.

[twinmom95]

Except for Ding Dongs wrapped in foil, every other item I either still have, had/ used as a kid, or my grandmother had one in her house when I was a kid. Her kitchen table set was red glittery formica with chrome
Great trip down memory lane!

[PPCDTeacher]

I knew all of them

[all41]

OMG The only one I didn't know was #4. Please share if you know what those boxes are for.

[GreenBunny]

I knew most of them except 16 (I don't know the store with the whirling light), 19 (halva?), and 29 (makeup mirror?). I'm also not sure of 25, the button on the floor of the car.

Last year, I did a pro-d Play Day event at a local community centre. One of the toys I had was a view master. The kids LOVED playing with it.

ETA. In my heart, I'm only about 35 but in reality, I'm an old boot. ;D

[Ally]

That was fun! I also did not know the cheese, the person or #25...it is some sort of knob on the floor of a car. What is that? Everything else I knew.

[neanea]

Guess I am old, I knew everyone of those items. A few, I (or family) didn't use specifically though.

[all41]

The button on the car floor was for turning the high beam bright headlights on and off

What are the boxes in #4?

[Lynnteach2]

I am ancient as I knew every single one of them! May not have used them all but I recognized them all.

[sevenplus]

Yep. I can totally relate to this list.

[TchrFvr]

I easily identified them all, have used every one of them at one time, and still use some of them.
I'm officially old...

[emeraldcity]

I know them all, have used most and own several.
I believe the "boxes" are for a row of public telephones.



Dorothy

[Haley23]

Well, I guess I am super young . I don't recognize the majority of these. Claire, the mashed potato and meat things were among the only ones I DID know...I had the same thought! People still make those things, yes?

All41, I assumed the boxes were for pay phones. I could be way off base though.

[JanetL]

Those booths had pay phones in them.

[Cat woman]

That light would be from KMart— their blue light specials.


I have an afghan like the one shown except it is harvest gold, avocado green, and cream. It is the coziest. DH thinks it is the ugliest thing ever!

What is #30?

[Keltikmom]

It’s the speaker at a drive in movie theater.

[Teacherbee_4]

I knew 16 of them...I'm 32, but people say I'm an old soul.

Side note: do they not have those shoe size things anymore? Or are they different?

[all41]

Thanks...
I can see the phones now.

#30 is a speaker from a drive in movie theater.

[tctrojan]

I am old, I knew all of them.

[4leaves]

Number 10 and 16. I am old and I knew all the rest - I have several of the kitchen items still. 😊

[klarabelle]

I knew 34/35, I didn't know the high beams button.

My sister-in-law & I were just talking about DingDongs the other day. These were by Drake, but she bought some over the weekend by Hostess. Good memory.

[Gromit]

I recognized all of them except 19 & 25 but I haven't used all of them.

[GraceKrispy]

Um, i could say yes to 33 of those. Does that make me old???
Some fun memories there!

And i say type, too. And videotape instead of record.

[linda2671]

But I don’t remember the ding dongs being wrapped in foil.

[Song of Joy]

Yep, know them all. The address file thing is actually quicker for me to use than scrolling through the contacts on my phone.

[momteach310]

Ancient here! I knew all but 2. I’m going to show this to my kids and see what they know just for fun .😂

[happygal]

I recognize all but the row of boxes, that's gonna bother me

I am glad to have had 56 years. Changes in how we live are interesting.

[lisa53]

I am Really Old. I recognized all of them.

I never had one of those mesh Christmas stockings, though. We were definitely more OG than that...we hung up one of our own socks for Santa to fill, and somehow he managed to personalize the gifts in each kid's stocking. I remember when thigh high knit stockings were "in" (just before pantyhose and tights became a thing for adult women)...my brothers rebelled and told Mom that it wasn't fair that the girls got to hang bigger stockings than they had! So we had to make a rule that knee highs were the largest stocking permissable for the girls. .

I wish I had one of those address things. My mom always had one. I wonder if you can still buy one somewhere?

[Cat woman]

Don’t know why I didn’t recognize that. I used them a lot!

[chalkdusty]

#10 cars used to have ashtrays and cigarette lighters. That is the end is a cigarette lighter that is not hot. You would push the lighter in and it would get red hot on the end. Then you could light a cigarette with it.

I remembered every single one of them.

[Tawaki]

I've used 29 of the items.

Don't know...

Car thingy?
Alphabet thingy?

Never used a percolator, or wash board, chalk line maker, or mercuochrome.

[anna]

I remembered most of them and especially loved the ding dong pic. Those were a rare treat in my childhood. I have the meat cleaver and mash potato tools in my kitchen .

[Coopsgrammy]

100% here! 19 is either Velveta or Government cheese. My grandparents used to stand in line for the cheese, and pass it on to DH and I when we were really broke.

[cvt]

Yep. I'm old. I knew them all except #19.

[word girl]

Same as many of you, I knew them all except for #19 which must be some sort of cheese product.

As for the high beams button on the floor, I had a few cars that had that, and I still miss it. I wish they still had that feature!

[deb603]

What are they doing to the sneaker in number 17?
I also didn't know #19, but I knew the rest of them

[cvt]

What are they doing to the sneaker in number 17?

It's a whitener that you rub on the canvas of the sneaker so it will be back to pristine white.

[Ima Spedtcher]

That table! My grandma had one just like it. I wish I could have a table like that, but I don’t think it would go with my house.

[all41]

As for the high beams button on the floor, I had a few cars that had that, and I still miss it. I wish they still had that feature!

Me too word girl!

[BioAdoptMom3]

I must be older than you! I recognized 29!

Nancy

[DiamondGirl]

I know them all!

I still play with jacks.

#26 brings back memories.

#31 I wonder if I can buy one off Amazon.