Comments Made in 1955!

I’ll tell you one thing, if things keep going the way they are, it’s going to be impossible to buy a week’s groceries for $10.00! 

Have you seen the new cars coming out next year? It won’t   be long before $1,000.00 will only buy a used one.

If cigarettes keep going up in price, I’m going to quit; 20 cents a pack is ridiculous. 

Did you hear the post office is thinking about charging 7 cents just to mail a letter. 

 
If they raise the minimum wage to $1.00, nobody will be able to hire outside help at the store. 

 






When I first started driving, who would have thought gas would someday cost 25 cents a gallon. Guess we’d be better off leaving the car in the garage. 
  
I’m afraid to send my kids to the movies any more. Ever since they let Clark Gable get by with saying DAMN in ‘GONE WITH THE WIND’, it seems every new movie has either HELL or DAMN in it. 

 
I read the other day where some scientist thinks it’s possible to put a man on the moon by the end of the century. They even have some fellows they call astronauts preparing for it down in Texas .
 
Did you see where some baseball player just signed a contract for $50,000 a year just to play ball? It wouldn’t surprise me if someday they’ll be making more than the President.  
I never thought I’d see the day all our kitchen appliances would be electric. They're even making electric typewriters now.
 
It’s too bad things are so tough nowadays. I see where a few married women are having to work to make ends meet.
  
It won’t be long before young couples are going to have to hire someone to watch their kids so they can both work.
 





I’m afraid the Volkswagen car is going to open the door to a whole lot of foreign business.
 
Thank goodness I won’t live to see the day when the Government takes half our income in taxes. I sometimes wonder if we are electing the best people to government.
The fast food restaurant is convenient for a quick meal, but I seriously doubt they will ever catch on.
 

There is no sense going on short trips anymore for a weekend. It costs nearly $2.00 a night to stay in a hotel.
 
No one can afford to be sick anymore. At $15.00 a day in the hospital, it’s too rich for my blood.
 




If they think I’ll pay 30 cents for a haircut, forget it. 


Your kids and grandkids will get a kick out of these!

How To Get Through Life

 

Sleep as much as you can... 

 Read books that you enjoy...

Play with simple things... 

Do whatever you want

Whenever you want... 

 Look for affection

when you need it...

Get serious once in a while... 

 Forget about diets... 

Show some affection...  

Get angry once in a while...

 Change your looks... 

Above all, be happy,
Regardless of what   
Your challenges may be...
Have a great life!

May your troubles be less,
Your blessings more,
And may  nothing but happiness
Come through your door.

Observations on Growing Older

~Your kids are becoming you...and you don't like them...but your grandchildren are perfect!

~Going out is good…Coming home is better!

~When people say you look "Great"...they add "for your age!"

~When you needed the discount, you paid full price. Now you get discounts on everything...movies, hotels, flights, but you're too tired to use them.

~You forget names....but it's OK because other people forgot they even knew you!!!

~The 5 pounds you wanted to lose is now 15 and you have a better chance of losing your keys than the 15 pounds.

~You realize you're never going to be really good at anything....especially golf. 

~Your spouse is counting on you to remember things you don't remember.

~The things you used to care to do, you no longer care to do, but you really do care that you don't care to do them anymore.

~Your husband sleeps better on a lounge chair with the TV blaring than he does in bed.  It's called his "pre-sleep".

~Remember when your mother said, 
"Wear clean underwear in case you GET in an accident"? Now you bring clean underwear in case you HAVE an accident!

~You used to say, "I hope my kids GET married...Now, "I hope they STAY married!"

~You miss the days when everything worked with just an "ON" and "OFF" switch.

~When GOOGLE, iPod, email, modem....
were unheard of, and a mouse was something that made you climb on a table.

~You used to use more 4 letter words...
"what?"..."when?"... ???

~Now that you can afford  expensive jewelry, it's not safe to wear it anywhere.

~Your husband has a night out with the guys, but he's home by 9:00 P.M. Next week it will be 8:30 P.M.

~You read 100 pages into a book before you realize you've read it.

~Notice everything they sell in stores is "sleeveless"?!!!

~What used to be freckles are now liver spots.

~Everybody whispers. 

 

~Now that your husband has retired...
you'd give anything if he'd find a job!

~You have 3 sizes of clothes in your closet...2 of which you will never wear. 


~But old is good in some things: old songs, 
old movies, And best of all, OLD FRIENDS!! 

Love you, "OLD FRIEND!" 

Share this with other "Old Friends!" and let them laugh in AGREEMENT!!! 

It's Not What You Gather, But What You Scatter That Tells What Kind Of Life You Have Lived

The Seasons of Life

"Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to Do, and you've done it."

Margaret Thatcher

Former British Prime Minister

 

Did you know just as many people suffer from a fear of success as suffer from a fear of failure?

Seasons of Life

The Seasons Of Life:

 

Life is about constant, predictable patterns of change.  For The six thousand years of recorded history, as humans have entered this World, received parental instruction, classroom instruction, and gathered the experience of life; many have set for themselves ambitious goals, and dreamed lofty dreams. As the wheel of life continues its constant turning, all human emotions appear, disappear, and appear once again.

 

A major challenge faced by us all is that we must learn to experience the Changing of life's cycles without being changed by them; to make a constant and conscious effort to improve ourselves in the face of changing circumstances.

 

That is why I believe in the power and value of attitude. As I read, ponder and speculate about people, their deeds and their destiny, I become more deeply convinced that it is our natural destiny to grow, to succeed, to prosper, and to find happiness while we are here.

 

By our attitude, we decide to read, or not to read.  By our attitude, we decide to try or give up.  By our attitude, we blame ourselves for our failure, or we blame others. Our attitude determines whether we tell the truth or lie, act or procrastinate, advance or recede, and by our own attitude we and we alone actually decide whether to succeed or fail.