You might be an Atavist.

[Amy Jeanne]

If you feel "improper" if your skirt is a bit above the knee.

If you can't go a single night without setting your hair.

If you actually know how to do a fingerwave.

If you feel it's important to keep up with the latest 1930s movie gossip and actually get excited and surprised by what you find out.

 

[Speedbird]

Probably a good idea to keep the "what should the name be" posts in the other thread. This is, or was, a lighthearted fun thread, so why not keep it that way.

sorry... I did post my shoes and coats line but that got lost in the row ...

 

[Lady Day]

If you feel "improper" if your skirt is a bit above the knee.

Thats a good one.

LD

 

[LizzieMaine]

If you feel it's important to keep up with the latest 1930s movie gossip and actually get excited and surprised by what you find out.

I wish they'd stop saying all those rotten things about Alice White.

 

[Foofoogal]

If you think a bed doesn't look right without a chennile bedspread on it...

most definitely. :eusa_clap

 

[vitanola]

"If you've ever cleaned out your rain gutters in a housedress..."

If I ever cleaned out my rain gutters whilst wearing a house dress, ATAVIST would not be the most descriptive term.

 

[Shangas]

If "I forgot to wind the alarm clock" is a legitimate excuse for oversleeping...

I can legitimately put up my hand and say "Yes" to that one. lol

Until my alarm clock's bell-spring broke, and I switched it for a battery-powered alarm-clock (of the same, twin-bell style).

 

[Amy Jeanne]

Thats a good one.

LD

lol
Yesterday I was wearing a dress that I shortened just a touch too much and I felt really strange all day. Like I should have been on the boardwalk or something.

 

[Zombie_61]

Ahhh, Gold's on pastrami is sublime.

You, my good woman, are wise beyond your years. :essen:

I believe (genuine true fact) empty Durkee's bottles were found scattered in the wake of the Donner Party expedition, which suggests it goes well with anything.

Well done! :eusa_clap

Wait...maybe that was a poor choice of words...moving right along...

If you call your wife "Toots" as a term of endearment.

If you use a glass soda bottle (Bubble Up, in our case) with a tin sprinkler shoved into the neck to moisten your clothes before you iron them because that's the best way to do it.

If you had your 1951 house remodeled but insisted on keeping the original brown and yellow tile, sink basin, and cabinets in the half-bath, even though they don't match anything else in the house.

Okay, so they're weak. Been up all night, and it's all I got.

 

[LizzieMaine]

If you use a glass soda bottle (Bubble Up, in our case) with a tin sprinkler shoved into the neck to moisten your clothes before you iron them because that's the best way to do it.

Hires Root Beer here. I used to use a Coke bottle, but it doesn't hold enough water and I got tired of refilling it.

(It also comes in handy when using the electric mangle for sheets and tablecloths!)

 

[jamespowers]

If you know what a wire recorder is
Better yet, if you own a wire recorder and know how to use it.

 

[Lusti Weather]

...if you know your own stocking size
...if your cultural references go too far back for people twice your age
...if you feel a compulsive urge to scream obscenities when you hear about someone ripping out a perfectly fine vintage kitchen or bathroom because it's just so "outdated"

 

[Warbaby]

If you know what a wire recorder is
Better yet, if you own a wire recorder and know how to use it.

Yes and yes.

 

[Warbaby]

(It also comes in handy when using the electric mangle for sheets and tablecloths!)

If you know what a mangle is.
If you own a mangle.
If you actually use it.

 

[Warbaby]

If you've never turned a noun into a verb and cringe when people do. Especially if they say 'gifted' when they mean 'gave'.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

If you pretreat clothing stains while not using a sotre bought pretreater.

 

[vitanola]

If you've ever wanted to wrap the poker around the neck of someone who insists on stirring the coals.

If instead you decide to feed them the clinkers that they made for luncheon one day.

If you know how to bank the fire in a coal furnace for the night.

If you HAVE to bank the fire in YOUR coal furnace for the night.