curtains?..... bah we dreamed of curtains!

We had to hang toilet paper in streams for curtains

Curtains?? You had curtains?

We had metal rods we hung and when the dogs shed we braided their hair and tied it on the rod to cover the window.

damn slow posting

you had a dog?

We pretended the rats were dogs!

You had Rats??? We had to glue hair to four-legged cockroaches and pretend they were rats.

You had glue?

If we wanted to stick things together we had to spit on them and then hold them together until it dried.

You had Spit??? We had drink to 'recycled' water to whet our whistles... then we lick a stamp for food to stick to our palates.

You had stamps?.....we had to get cousin Tommy to draw in the corner of our letters before we posted 'em.....he got so good....started doin' cheques an' all......doin' 12 to 15 now...... :NOTSURE: 

  

You posted 'em?

...all we had were homing budgies ...damned letters kept being Returned To Sender!

When I was a lad, When going to school, I had to carry a hot potato to keep my hands warm on the uphill walk 50 miles thru 6 Feet of snow, with my brother on my back, seeing as I had the only pair of shoes. When I got ta school I ate half the potato for breakfast and that other half for lunch. After school it was another 50 mile walk up hill to get back home.

So you were poor?? Well we were so poor the first thing laundered was the toilet paper, and even our tinned food was grown in the back yard cos we couldn't afford the supermarket stuff.

And toys??? We had no toys... had to put our hands in our pockets so we could at least play pocket billiards.

At X-mas time, we had no tree decorations... couldn't afford 'em. Instead we had to get grandpa to sneeze on it.... that's when we had a tree... most years all we had was the memory of one we'd seen from outside a store (couldn't afford to go in).

Worse still, when the nothing we had got repossessed, they wouldn't even let us walk past the store cos we were so poor. Then all we had were the distant memories of the nothing we had and cherished because it was better than something else.

Things eventually got better... about fifty years later... and with a lot of hard work we got the nothing we had back. Trouble is, we're fifty years closer to that something else, and then we'll be back to having less than nothing again.

well....we aussies all had to walk backwards to Burke...blindfolded...over broken bottles......  

Hah!!! Is that ALL?? When I was a teen, I had to walk across the Nullabor from Fremantle to Melbourne in 60 C heat every day, as well as backwards and over broken Swan Lager stubbies, wearing a blindfold fashioned from a live Western Taipan.... on my hands... without gloves.

The question, Zubaz, is what did ODNT make the Logic Piano look like?

Folks, I don't think anything could possibly beat that.

      

You could walk!?!?  We had to harness dingos and have them drag us to school

Harness? We had to hold on to their ears! And some only had one ear to begin with!




bah! Luxury

I got one written on used toilet paper! (:(

Yeah.... and ain't it a bugger, going around in constant but ever decreasing circles.

Happened to me once... eventually I'd drilled a hole to China and had my dingo confiscated by a chop suey restaraunt.

y'all had dingos?   

we had to sneak over and steal the Smedleys' body sweat, mix it with dirt and make our own mud puppies.. (:( 

Y'all had Smedleys body sweat???

All I had was a browser\thread close button   

You had toilet paper! We had to use the same Sears catalog for four years strait.

You had the Sears catalogue???? Bah!!! We had to go next door and steal their junk mail cos we were too poor to get it.

You had people next door? We had such a crappy place, no one would live next to us!