Those things that today's young people would have no idea how to do/appreciate

[DaveinSC]

Things that those of us who have achieved "a certain age" used to take for granted, like:

Dialing a rotary telephone

Making a collect telephone call with operator assist

Placing a stack of records on a phonograph's auto changer (remember those?)

Changing the tracks on an 8-track player

Typing a paper on a manual typewriter, using carbon paper and then correcting a mistake using an eraser with the brush on the end!

Clapping chalkboard erasers

Smelling freshly run-off ditto forms (remember that wonderful smell of duplicating fluid?!)

I could go on forever, but someone else chime in!

[Imhotrodcrazy]

Telephone "party" lines where you heard your neighbors talking, so you had to wait to use the phone.

Growing up "without" TV, and just listening to the radio.

Playing "stick" ball.

School desks with "ink wells".

Fountain pens, you had to fill them with ink.

Making home made ice cream. 

Buying my first used car at the age of 16 for $150.

Going to the movies for 15 cents. 

[llecs]

Turning the knobs on the TV to change the channel and getting yelled at if you turned it too fast.

Waiting for the TV to warm up...some had that high-pitched squeal like a jet engine warming up or something.

Ditto on the old copiers. My classmates would take the sheet and sniff it. They suffered drain bamage.

Sleeping just above the back row seats in your family's car on long trips. And trying to hold on for dear life when they brake.

Manual car windows.

Chasing the mosquito-spraying trucks and inhaling the chemical fog that came out of them.

Bringing your own drinks and food to the movie theaters, and not needing to conceal them.

Playing Pong and later graduating to the Atari 2600 with radical graphics.

[Anonymous]

Having no internet!

HBO was an extra box and only came on at 7 and 10

No cellphones

Buying cigarrettes for my mom at age 10

not having to use a car seat/seatbelt (I am for both of these by the way, amazed we all lived)

No hand sanitizers

Drinking out of the hose and swimming wherever

Candy bars were three times as big and cost 10 cents

potato chips came two bags to one big bag and cost a third of what they cost now

A loaf of bread was 32 cents

[haulingthescoreup]

Raking leaves.

With one of these:

[fused]

getting off of the sofa to change the channel on the TV

[haulingthescoreup]

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@fused wrote:

getting off of the sofa to change the channel on the TV

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Your dad making you get off of the sofa to change the channel on the TV. 

[LIGHTNIN]

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@haulingthescoreup wrote:

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@fused wrote:

getting off of the sofa to change the channel on the TV

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Your dad making you get off of the sofa to change the channel on the TV. 

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Your parents yelling at you..... to come from your bedroom to change the channel.

[fused]

Nah! Luckily, my dad never watched much TV.

[Mekitcat]

How about dish detergent bottles as super soakers squeeze once and ran to fill it back up. Playing jump rope, chalk on the side walk, Jax. Hitch hiking. 78 records 45's.

Waiting by the radio with a tape recorder for one of your favorite songs.