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post 1679121523 03-17-2023, 11:09 AM
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I think furniture made in the 80s was better quality.
post 1679121823 03-17-2023, 11:16 AM
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Originally Posted By Issobolic28⏩
I think furniture made in the 80s was better quality.
You can still get well made furniture these days but it costs waaaaay more money.
post 1679121843 03-17-2023, 11:17 AM
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Originally Posted By litljay⏩
LOL, all of it.

Our "arcade" was either Pizza Hut (had a video game room) or the 7-eleven (had 2 video games).
Head Bangers Ball, then Yo MTV Raps

God, at 16 I was broke (parents too) and wanted so badly to buy this '67 Camaro ($3500). I lost...mom got a new car and I got the hand me down '74 MGB.
we had a mall and Aladdin's Castle close by.

literally 1st day with license took parents car around the corner to play hockey and someone backed into the side of it.
not my fault at all.
but it was the last time i touched their car's. lol!

I ended up with a buick skyhawk some old lady drove.
rusted to chit but only had 54k miles on it.
$400 baby!
needed a new clutch and pressure plate and brakes and gas line. lol!
but my friends helped me do it and i helped them work on their POS's.

good times.
post 1679122803 03-17-2023, 11:36 AM
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Originally Posted By Issobolic28⏩
I think furniture made in the 80s was better quality.
Not gonna lie my folks bought a bunch of Ikea furniture in '89 and it was pretty solid, literally. Not like the particle board stuff they make now. Lasted a good 20 years, and we continued to use their old dining room table at my house for about 10 more years.
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post 1679125553 03-17-2023, 12:32 PM
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I was a kid during the late 80s and early 90s so it seemed great since I didn't have to deal with the bullchit adults did. Getting the most basic life tasks done or even basic things like accessing information was a massive headache which people put up with but knowing how easy it could be would drive me insane. For the curious person and someone who likes to learn, the internet is a godsend.
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post 1679126243 03-17-2023, 12:47 PM
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Originally Posted By saltypits⏩
Only thing that really sucked were the horrible interest rates.
It only sucked if you were borrowing (plus the necessary tough medicine it was for the economy). I had a paper route in jr. high (born 1968) that paid $13/week and didn't know what to do with it all, so I started putting it into CDs. I ended up with 4 that paid between 11% and 16%. Literally some of the down payment for my first house after I got married came from that paper route.
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post 1679135413 03-17-2023, 03:36 PM
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Originally Posted By crupiea⏩
The internet has certainly made stuff much easier no doubt about it.

back in the 1980s if you wanted to figure something out you asked your dad or a teacher or someone you looked up to or went to the library. That or you just figured it out yourself.

It was basically very similar to today except you never had internet. You didnt miss it as it wasnt invented yet. Same with regular computers. They didnt exist so you didnt miss them.

People were the same but the one thing that really has changed is that if you were nuts like you wanted to chop off your nuts, you were looked down on as the oddball that you are. You werent glorified for being crazy. That and people just minded their own business and if they got their feelings hurt, tough ****, deal with it. You were probably a pussy to begin with and overly sensitive.

Women were actually feminine yet it was easy to get laid. There were some sleazy types but it wasnt a dating strategy like it seems today. There was only cold approaching but that was just fine because again, no internet so both sides understood the game.

They acted demure and like women should. On the down side it was the hairy bush ear too so shaving down there was only for like porn stars and such.

The internet for all its great uses had basically become a tool for busybodies and karens to have some sort of power over the discussion. it has given the microphone to the losers who otherwise shouldnt have it. You can clearly see what this has caused. Its basically like the new platform for the drama club to express their strange views on everyone. back in the day they would have just been looked at like the weirdos they are.
When I was real young like 4-6 we were the only ones around with a computer (my father was a exec at ***)
He had a DOS computer I was allowed to use. I would play hangman, wheel of fortune and jeopardy on it
I remember them having multiple floppy discs and him showing me how to type in the commands to get the computer going
I remember typing for hours from books of code to "write" games (this memory is fuzzy but I think you could buy a book and it had code for a game and you just typed it all in to have it on your computer)
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post 1679135503 03-17-2023, 03:38 PM
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Originally Posted By stevebec⏩
It only sucked if you were borrowing (plus the necessary tough medicine it was for the economy). I had a paper route in jr. high (born 1968) that paid $13/week and didn't know what to do with it all, so I started putting it into CDs. I ended up with 4 that paid between 11% and 16%. Literally some of the down payment for my first house after I got married came from that paper route.
I had a paper route and I made $120 a week with 70 houses
You would get paid a minimal amount from the paper plus tips
I bought a $8000 first car with that.
The thing with the paper route is it was EVERY day. Weekend in the morning and after school
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post 1679160633 03-18-2023, 05:31 AM
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Originally Posted By helpmee⏩
I had a paper route and I made $120 a week with 70 houses
You would get paid a minimal amount from the paper plus tips
I bought a $8000 first car with that.
The thing with the paper route is it was EVERY day. Weekend in the morning and after school
That's what was cool about this route - once a week and it was a small town so small papers. Get the papers on Wednesday and throw them on Thursday.
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